After a recent snafu with Google, we’ve moved to Amazon ads to fund the site. In addition to making ends meet, I’m hoping this will also let us recommend books to each other.
I’ve added a few of my recent favorites, but if you have any you’d like to add, post them below. By default, I’ll include the username of the recommender and any comments they include, but if you’d rather not be attributed just say so.
We have a paypal account connected to admin@ilovephilosophy.com, but it’s not listed anywhere because I’m in law school and haven’t made the time (when I’ve had time I’ve prefered discussing philosophy to mucking about on the server).
And do share your reading list; I get the impression that people here are readers, so I hope for this to be useful to users as well as offsetting costs.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations. I’ve added them with attribution. W.C., including links was very helpful. SIATD, if any of the versions I added is not the one you meant, let me know and I’ll swap it out.
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas
Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse
On Having No Head: Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious, by Douglas Harding
Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
I only just now noticed the ads because I’m at work where there’s no ad block. The site looks a lot cleaner but would it be possible to have it use less real estate on the screen, or maybe put it in a sidebar?
That book is superb but may I suggest if you are new to that Russian you start with Crime and Punishment, it’ll not ease you in gently but Brothers is a magnup opus of his work that needs context.
Herman Melviles: Moby Dick, old but good, I read it far later than I should and I so got carried away on the rolling sea of peaks and troughs that carries this book.
Don Quixote: Cervantes, it’s funny and stupid and just wonderful.