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Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:45 pm
by DrDonkeyLove
These come to mind first for me:
1) The Essential Marcus Aurelius (Needleman & Piazza)
2) Constructive Living (Reynolds)
3) Gospels
4) A Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich (Solzhenitzyn)
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:56 pm
by Hebrew Hammer
The True Believer, Eric Hoffer.
Denial of Death, Ernest Becker
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:13 pm
by nafod
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:14 pm
by buckethead
Half of one of Gene's posts
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 8:44 pm
by dead man walking
This Be the Verse, Philip Larkin
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178055
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman (ok, not short, so just read the first 125 pages)
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief, Maxine Kumin
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/i ... 2014/02/07
Musee des Beaux Arts, W.H. Auden
http://english.emory.edu/classes/painti ... auden.html
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:53 pm
by Turdacious
Think and Grow Rich-- LieNapoleon Hill
My Name Is Aram-- William Saroyan
The Dead-- James Joyce
Ball of Fat-- Guy du Maupassant
The Chosen-- Chaim Potok
Up From Slavery-- Booker T Washington
Where the Sidewalk Ends-- Shel Silverstein
The Book of Job
Calvin and Hobbes
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:05 am
by I dig big chicks
Tithonus, Alfred Lord Tennyson
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174656
The Stranger, Albert Camus
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood, William Wordsworth
http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/ode- ... -childhood
Plato, Allegory of the Cave
Beowulf
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:15 am
by louburr
How to Know God: The Soul's Journey Into the Mystery of Mysteries . Chopra, Deepak (2007-12-18). Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
A mans search for meaning Viktor E Frankl the first half of the book.
Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice Thich Nhat Hanh
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:21 am
by The Crawdaddy
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Psalms
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Getting Things Done
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:22 am
by Fat Cat
Go Fuck Yourself by Fat Cat
"A modern classic." -Tim Cahill, author of Dicked to Death by Cocks
"A synthesis of the wit of Twain and the insight of the Buddha, all with the Christlike stamp of the divine that can only be called 'Fat Cat'." -Buckethead
"A road map for world peace." -Pope Francis I
"I jacked!" -Ed Zachary
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 12:47 am
by Herv100
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 1:18 am
by Grandpa's Spells
*clappies*
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:41 am
by Hebrew Hammer
Give and Take, Adam Grant
How to Make Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People, Steven Covey
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:44 am
by Protobuilder
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Peace is Every Step -or- The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Getting Things Done by David Allen
Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
My Next Door Neighbor by some anonymous writing in Penthouse about 30 years ago
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:59 am
by ccrow
Kenyon College Commencement Address - David Foster Wallace, May 2005
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZG6 ... QITmH0/pub
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:26 pm
by Shapecharge
I found that to be a very interesting read. Sadly, this highly educated and enlightened fellow who spoke of the power of being "well adjusted" committed suicide by hanging at age 46.
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 5:09 pm
by nafod
Borges has tons of short stuff that are "way-homers", and probably need to all be read to get the pattern. But this one remains my favorite.
Everything and Nothing.
http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2008/07/3 ... hing-edit/
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:21 pm
by tough old man
Dianetics - L.Ron Hubbard
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:45 pm
by nafod
Shapecharge wrote:
I found that to be a very interesting read. Sadly, this highly educated and enlightened fellow who spoke of the power of being "well adjusted" committed suicide by hanging at age 46.
Yeah, not sure how to evaluate the quality of his advice. The lesson learned may well be that ignorance of your own condition is bliss.
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:56 pm
by Tuco
Chuang Tzu
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 10:39 pm
by dead man walking
nafod wrote:Shapecharge wrote:
I found that to be a very interesting read. Sadly, this highly educated and enlightened fellow who spoke of the power of being "well adjusted" committed suicide by hanging at age 46.
Yeah, not sure how to evaluate the quality of his advice. The lesson learned may well be that ignorance of your own condition is bliss.
"if to do were as easy as to know what 'tis right to do." portia,
merchant of venice
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:04 am
by milosz
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:06 am
by Turdacious
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 1:46 am
by dead man walking
well i read it.
i think i wish i hadn't
Re: Essential SHORT reads for a fuller life
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:28 am
by ccrow
dead man walking wrote:nafod wrote:Shapecharge wrote:
I found that to be a very interesting read. Sadly, this highly educated and enlightened fellow who spoke of the power of being "well adjusted" committed suicide by hanging at age 46.
Yeah, not sure how to evaluate the quality of his advice. The lesson learned may well be that ignorance of your own condition is bliss.
"if to do were as easy as to know what 'tis right to do." portia,
merchant of venice
BOOM!
