How about The Siege of Krishnapur? Or (less literary) Bernard Cornwell’s The Winter King. Both cracking reads and the second much smarter than you might expect.
Theo has some good options, but as I'm experiencing in this other book club I'm in, its really hard to stick with it for complicated smart-people books like Strategy of Conflict.
Maybe do something like the first Vorkosigan book? Its light, its easy, its fun, and I already own it.
This is AMAZING. So, the default is that the book would be non-fic, but super-classic stuff is on the table?
Mutual friend was telling me about "Moby Dick;" I don't think there are enough people besides me who love to read but have not yet read it (and of THAT cohort, who would finish the whole thing) to justify that one... but I'm thinking that's the category that is like "super-classic stuff."
First thing that comes to mind is, "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," by Jon Ronson. That book/author has issues, but what one doesnt?
(I should think of one or more thats "like but unlike The Benedict Option." I feel like "has Christian stuff but is of wider interest" might be somewhere relevant.)
> "I try to do some of this by being 24/7 available in the RC Advice section and by replying to most-or-all of the comments..."
The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Would like to be notified too!
no suggestions but interested!
If you are interested in philosophy, A Guide to the Good Life was a decent book on stoicism.
How about The Siege of Krishnapur? Or (less literary) Bernard Cornwell’s The Winter King. Both cracking reads and the second much smarter than you might expect.
Czesław Miłosz's "The Captive Mind" is a worthwhile read, book club or no.
Greaber and Wengrow - Dawn of Everything
Ligotti- Conspiracy Against the Human Race
Pink - Power of Regret
Theo has some good options, but as I'm experiencing in this other book club I'm in, its really hard to stick with it for complicated smart-people books like Strategy of Conflict.
Maybe do something like the first Vorkosigan book? Its light, its easy, its fun, and I already own it.
Also, have you thought about doing an RC discord?
This is AMAZING. So, the default is that the book would be non-fic, but super-classic stuff is on the table?
Mutual friend was telling me about "Moby Dick;" I don't think there are enough people besides me who love to read but have not yet read it (and of THAT cohort, who would finish the whole thing) to justify that one... but I'm thinking that's the category that is like "super-classic stuff."
First thing that comes to mind is, "So You've Been Publicly Shamed," by Jon Ronson. That book/author has issues, but what one doesnt?
(I should think of one or more thats "like but unlike The Benedict Option." I feel like "has Christian stuff but is of wider interest" might be somewhere relevant.)
> "I try to do some of this by being 24/7 available in the RC Advice section and by replying to most-or-all of the comments..."
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