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Bartek wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 08:29 20+ years too late, but at last:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Bartek wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 08:29 20+ years too late, but at last:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wyrd Sister wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 17:46

Bartek wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 08:29 20+ years too late, but at last:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oooo, update when you've finished? Curious how it holds up for people getting into it later.

Wyrd Sister wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 17:46

Bartek wrote: ↑12 Apr 2022, 08:29 20+ years too late, but at last:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Oooo, update when you've finished? Curious how it holds up for people getting into it later.

sultan2075 wrote: ↑01 Jun 2023, 22:59 Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire. Given my interests it’s something that’s been on my radar for almost two decades. It’s shameful that I’m only getting round to it now. It’s good so far.

Rantz Hoseley wrote: ↑01 Jun 2023, 17:40 Recommendations from the last month's reading...

Joan Didion's THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING is just goddamn heartbreaking and brilliant.

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman is a modern fable that has a HORRIBLE cover (so bad I refused to read it at first) but contains one of those magic stories where you are crying and laughing at the same time over the last four chapters. Cannot recommend it enough.

THE SHELL COLLECTOR is Anthony Doerr's first book... a collection of short stories... and there's some interesting things going on within the pages.

sultan2075 wrote: ↑14 Apr 2023, 14:03 For pleasure: The Táin Bó Cúailnge translated by Thomas Kinsella.

For work, I guess, but also for pleasure: Christopher Lasch's 1979 The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. I'm barely into it, but it strikes me as startlingly prophetic thus far.

Incoming! wrote: ↑22 Jun 2023, 16:22

sultan2075 wrote: ↑14 Apr 2023, 14:03 For pleasure: The Táin Bó Cúailnge translated by Thomas Kinsella.

For work, I guess, but also for pleasure: Christopher Lasch's 1979 The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. I'm barely into it, but it strikes me as startlingly prophetic thus far.

Gotta ask the question. What is the man's pedigree? Historian, psychologist, sociologist.... You don't have to have one to write a book about culture, BUT you should have a high understanding via years of study to write about narcissistic personality disorder - which is what he argues is happening versus pure narcissism.

I would argue that this book defines the current generation - of all cultures and countries.

But I digress.

sultan2075 wrote: ↑23 Jun 2023, 14:00

Incoming! wrote: ↑22 Jun 2023, 16:22

sultan2075 wrote: ↑14 Apr 2023, 14:03 For pleasure: The Táin Bó Cúailnge translated by Thomas Kinsella.

For work, I guess, but also for pleasure: Christopher Lasch's 1979 The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. I'm barely into it, but it strikes me as startlingly prophetic thus far.

Gotta ask the question. What is the man's pedigree? Historian, psychologist, sociologist.... You don't have to have one to write a book about culture, BUT you should have a high understanding via years of study to write about narcissistic personality disorder - which is what he argues is happening versus pure narcissism.

I would argue that this book defines the current generation - of all cultures and countries.

But I digress.

BA from Harvard, PhD from Columbia. Taught history at Rochester, died in the early 1990’s.

Incoming! wrote: ↑24 Jun 2023, 17:40

sultan2075 wrote: ↑23 Jun 2023, 14:00

Incoming! wrote: ↑22 Jun 2023, 16:22

Gotta ask the question. What is the man's pedigree? Historian, psychologist, sociologist.... You don't have to have one to write a book about culture, BUT you should have a high understanding via years of study to write about narcissistic personality disorder - which is what he argues is happening versus pure narcissism.

I would argue that this book defines the current generation - of all cultures and countries.

But I digress.

BA from Harvard, PhD from Columbia. Taught history at Rochester, died in the early 1990’s.

Since he doesn't have an MD, he's not a psychiatrist. His PHd seems to be in history as he studied under Hofstader. Nice that. He read psychology books, then wrote reviews about them. Just getting my stuff from Encylopedia.com. He was a social historian. At the beginning of revisionist history. I'm a conservatist historian.

Sounds like a great and interesting book. If you do that for work; that is cool. BUT to talk about "narcissistic personality disorder" only by reading about it but not seeing and treating it in the field is dangerous. When it comes to identified psychological/psychiatric disorders I become defensive. It is hard for professionals to properly identify them. Patients suffer as a result. For years. I know from personal experience. I'm not a narcissist, maybe narcissitic tendencies. We all do.

Long story short. Cool to have a job where you get to read history books.