The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success by Kevin Dutton

14.12.13 ( Read more... )

08.03.2010

29.11.2011

Coming of Age in Karhide is a story about a Gethenian who’s not secretive like Estraven in The Left Hand of Darkness and tells the story of their life from childhood. They way they “come of age” (ie. Come into sexual maturity and start transforming into a woman or a man during the period each month). This has all the answers ( Read more... )

After Rainbow Boys I thought I'd just give Mr. Sanchez a pass (re-reading what I thought of that book I'm a bit confused as to why I remembered him being so mediocre... XD) But I came accross The God Box and almost without meaning to, found myself caught. I'm glad I did ( Read more... )

18.12.2011


I'm dying to go back to London more than ever, whatever made me imagine it was a good idea to read what is basically a love letter to that city while not in it? This is lovely, the first part reproduces the letters between a New York writer and a London bookshop's stuff in Charing Cross Road. Mainly Frank Doel but also other employees ( Read more... )

7.12.2011

To be perfectly fair, most of the awesome stuff in this essay was said by Samuel Johnson in Rasselas or elsewhere but I found Parker’s interpretation to go quite beyond simple close-reading.
QUOTE:

...a mismatch between the fluid complexities
of experience and the rational categories of the mind, leads naturally to the conviction that ( Read more... )

21.11.11

Half read, half listened. Mixed feelings about it, although it was interesting enough, pretty early sci-fi and different from I'm used to ( Read more... )

First read: 02.10.10

2010, 2010: non-fiction book in english, book-2010, #non-fiction, *author: male, @read in english, +psychology, #audiobook, +philosophy, +postmodern, +social issues,  [quotes], [quotes] book/non-fiction, $quotes to be added

First read(listened to): 27.07.2010

So I don't agree with everything a 100% but mostly? WOW. It's such a smart, methodical approach to happiness!

Mostly I don't think not ever criticizing is a good idea, I think one should aim to limit oneself to constructive criticism (could totally work on this myself <.<), without any criticism, with unlimited ( Read more... )

First read: 11.03.2010

Comments: This is quite boring, I mean, the topic is super interesting but it's quite slow going, like it was written for idiots. I have been reading it since October, that's not the worse of it, I have been wanting to read it for years.

"Understand your Personality" by Patricia Hedges is much clearer, plus all the copy& ( Read more... )

First read: 08.03.2010

"The Matter of Seggri" and "Solitude" are brilliant, "Coming of Age in Karhide", "Unchosen Love", "Mountain Ways" and "Paradises Lost" are interesting, the other two aren't worth it.

Quotes are coloured, they often contain spoilers.
 ( People need a God like a three-year-old needs a chainsaw )