What are the top 5 books that any literate self-erudite must read in 2018? @MimeticValue @normonics @ThouArtThat @PereGrimmer @derek_j_morris thoughts are appreciated.
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Replying to @dopaminendreams @MimeticValue and
“Brothers Karamazov” - Dostoevsky “The Empire of Value” - Orlean “Experiments w/ the truth” - Gandhi “Human Action” - Mises “Blood Meridian” - McCarthy
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @dopaminendreams and
Anything by Cormac McCarthy. Some of the most beautiful and savage fiction ever produced...
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Replying to @cognazor @dopaminendreams and
As a warning he can be very hard to read. He is in like the top 0.01% in verbal IQ probably. Mindblowingly beautiful of course.
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @dopaminendreams and
Yes, read slowly and look up words often. It's not about getting through the plot, but about absorbing the beauty and terror.
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Replying to @cognazor @Ahimsa_Satya_ and
There are some books your enjoy reading, and others you enjoy having read. This sounds like both.
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Replying to @dopaminendreams @cognazor and
“A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or biblical or wardrobed out of a fevered dream with the skins of animals and silk finery and pieces of uniform still tracked with the blood of prior owners, coats of slain dragoon’s, frogged and
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @dopaminendreams and
braided cavalry jackets, one in a stovepipe hat and one with an umbrella and one in white stockings and a bloodstained wedding veil and some in headgear of cranefeathers or rawhide helmets that bore the horns of buffalo and one in the armor of a spanish conquistador, the
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @dopaminendreams and
breastplate and pauldrons deeply dented with old blows of mace or sabre done in another country by men whose very bones were dust and many with their braids spliced up with the hair of other beasts until they trailed upon the ground and their horses’ ears and tails worked with
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Replying to @Ahimsa_Satya_ @dopaminendreams and
bits of brightly colored cloth and one whose horse’s whole head was painted crimson red and all the horseman’s faces gaudy and grotesque with daubings like a company of mounted clowns, death hilarious, all howling in a barbarous tongue and riding down upon them like a horde from
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a hell more horrible yet than the brimstone land of christian reckoning, screeching and hammering and clothed in smoke like those vaporous beings in regions beyond right knowing where the eye wanders and the lip jerks and drools. Oh my god, said the sergeant.
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