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Essays and Aphorisms (The Penguin Classics)
Arthur Schopenhauer
Penguin Classics, 1973
with persistance and arrogance, brain and bile ...
+ "No rose without a thorn. But many a thorn without a rose"
+ Sure, the "Buddha of Frankfurt" was no saint, BUT...
+ Schopenhauer!
+ Great little book on Schopenhauer
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Perhaps the best novel ever written in the history of mankind
+ The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
+ A Literary Masterpiece
+ Bothers Karamazov
+ Dark and Beautiful
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About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior
Colonel David H. Hackworth, Julie Sherman
Touchstone, 1990
Excellent Read......... Highly Recommended ... 5 stars
+ One of the "Greats"
+ A life changing book
+ Required Reading for Military Officers
+ Will change your outlook on everything
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The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories (Schocken Kafka Library)
Franz Kafka
Schocken, 1995
The Metamorphosis
+ When an Unlocked Door Remains Closed
+ Still important 100 years later.
+ The definition of a Kafka story
+ refreshing
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The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
Avon, 1980
The First step in the Discovery of the Machinery of the Mind
+ Just what I needed!
+ nice
Freud believed that every dream would reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of latent significance, often beyond the accessibility of normal consciousness. It was in fact belief in this assumption about a hidden psychological structure that eventually led to the discovery of the ...
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
Friedrich Nietzsche
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1978
One of the most challenging works I have ever read
+ brilliant and creative mind
+ Algora pub./T. Wayne trans. edition is best
+ An incredibly misunderstood genius!!
+ Become what thou art!!
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Man's Search For Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Pocket, 1997
How to find happiness in a dismal situation
+ Fascinating; deeply moving...
+ Who has a why to live can bear any how...
+ Reality for today and yesterday
+ A fine, fine book!
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The Schopenhauer Cure: A Novel
Irvin Yalom
HarperCollins, 2005
Existential angst, or Buddism without spirituality
+ A pleasure to read
+ Death and values
+ Yalom on death
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The World As Will and Representation, In Two Volumes: Vol. I
Arthur Schopenhauer
Dover Publications, 1966
Philosophy for independent thinkers
+ How is Hegel held over him?
+ Towering work of genius from the philosopher of gloom
+ More than a precursor to Nietzsche...
+ The Knight calmly facing Death and Devil!
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial, 2003
This should be required reading in our schools
+ History of the U.S. book
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on top. The first 10 pages are ...
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The Future of an Illusion
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, ...
W. W. Norton & Company, 1989
Roger Schmeeckle Misrepresents Freud
+ A must-read for all that are interested in Psychology or just can't get enough of Freud
+ Concise and Hits at the Heart of the Matter
In his 27 Feb 2006 review of Freud's The Future of an Illusion, Roger Schmeeckle misrepresents Freud's explanation (on pages 38-42 of this Norton publication) between Illusion and Delusion.
Roger correctly identified Freud's concept of Delusion as "something that is believed that is not true" -- ...
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The Devils: The Possessed (Penguin Classics)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin Classics, 1954
'Oxford World Classics' delivers again with Devils.
+ A real slog, but a rewarding read
+ one of dostoyevksy's best
+ The Laodiceans
+ Rats with perverted minds
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Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
Jon Lee Anderson
Grove Press, 1997
MY REVOLUTIONARY BROTHA
+ superlative and always relevant
+ One of two essential biographies
+ Tales of Power
+ yes
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
Voltaire
Penguin Classics, 1950
magnum opus
+ Classic of world literature
+ All is for the best in this world
+ More than just satire. A statement about the Human Condition
+ The beginnings of nihilism
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
Friedrich Nietzsche
Vintage, 1974
THE FAVOURITE: JOY THANKS TO LUCIDITY
+ Heraclitus comes to the fore-- Im Fluss:Panta rei
+ Brilliant
+ RE: "God is dead"
+ An Under-rated piece of work?
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