29 May 2023

Short books for an inquisitive young fella

I do not simply endorse everything in these books — not by a long shot — but they are the kind of provocations which were powerful for me when I was a young bloke


  • Kieth Johnstone, Impro
  • James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
  • George Leonard, Mastery
  • Robert Anton Wilson, Prometheus Rising
  • Lao Tzu, Tao te Ching
  • Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
  • Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body
  • Alan Watts, The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
  • Harry G. Frankfurt, On Bullshit
  • Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
  • John Whiteside Parsons, Freedom is a Two Edged Sword
  • George Orwell, Why I Write
  • David Deida, Instant Enlightenment
  • John Stewart Mill, On Liberty
  • Daniel C. Dennett, Intuition Pumps

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