grindy

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver Sacks.
It's so good. When contemplating reading it several years ago, I couldn't keep myself from reading up on the various disorders and cases described in the book on wikipedia. This made me think reading it wouldn't add much. I was so wrong.
It's beautifully written, the cases are fascinating, the little details make even known cases highly interesting, it's touching and often humorous, but doesn't feel dumbed down or sappy at all.
It's not only interesting from a medical point of view, it also makes one think about the very nature of consciousness and identity. Highly recommended to pretty much everyone.

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Rockette Morton

The cases are very interesting and the book in general is great. But i found the philosophical parts not so good and deep as many people describe them.

grindy

Agreed.
The book's real depth comes from the description of the cases themselves.

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Rockette Morton

Guy de Maupassant - Black tales, white tales, tales of madness

MizukiiMoon

Various Sonic the Hedgehog fan fiction on FanFiction.net. Oh the joys.

Pet_Sounds

I've been a huge fan of the James Bond movies ever since I watched Skyfall, and after seeing Spectre a couple times, I started reading the books--on Dr. No now (first movie, sixth book). So far, I'm enjoying them more than the films, which surprised me. There's less sex, violence, and humour in general, but the plots are more realistic and the character of James Bond is much more interesting than any portrayal on the screen. I might have to watch the Timothy Dalton movies again, though, since he was apparently closest to Ian Fleming's version.

From Russia With Love is my favourite book so far, which didn't surprise me, given that it's also my favourite of the movies. Casino Royale was absolutely gut-wrenching. A book has never reduced me to tears, but damn, that one came close.

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Chula Vista

Try reading The Road or On the Beach. Both of those books didn't just make me well up, they made me cry. Tears streaming down my face cry.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Unheard Masterpiece

Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

innerspaceboy

Enjoying J.M.R. Higgs' newly-published The 20th Century: An Alternative History - an analysis of 20th century art, culture, and philosophy. Highly engaging, wonderful stuff.

I'm also surveying Chomsky's writings. I'd wished to read material more relevant to the mobile media era and was delighted to find Chomsky.info packed with recent interviews and articles discussing Occupy, Charlie Hebdo, the Paris attacks, Israel, Hamas, and Gaza, the US surveillance state, and American terrorism.

Next I plan to further explore anarchro-syndicalism and democratic socialism as post-capitalist systems of a more participatory government.

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The Batlord

Are there any good histories of metalcore? And not about the post-2000 melodic metalcore-influenced ****. The original sound is so forgotten and undocumented that it's hard to know its history without probably having to take years to piece together pieces of dubious internet blog posts.

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