#greatbooks — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greatbooks, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K86uKcbc__E
In this deep dive, AI breaks down the "Physics of Opposites" that drives the narrative of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. At its heart, the novel is a collision between the Christ-like innocence of Prince Myshkin and the destructive, earthly passions of Rogozhin and Nastasya Filippovna.
#Dostoevsky #TheIdiot #ClassicLiterature #BookAnalysis #RussianLit #Philosophy #PrinceMyshkin #LiteraryCriticism #BookTube #GreatBooks #Existentialism #LiteratureDeepDive
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25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading. -
"If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity. So blow your nose."
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A Sense of Doubt blog post-4040 - Did Alzheimer's Affect Terry Pratchett's Discworld? https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-4040-did.html #Discworld #Alzheimers #writing #GreatBooks #TerryPratchett
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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If It’s Such Great Literature, Why Does It Only Have 3.5 Stars?
"Do “mediocre” Goodreads ratings represent a lukewarm response to some titles, or reflect a readership passionately divided into polarised factions?"
#Literature #ClassicLit #GreatBooks #LiteraryCriticism #GoodReads #Ratings #Books https://grrlscientist.medium.com/about-those-3-star-books-that-are-considered-to-be-great-literature-4a9c1119b563
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>> The notion that students should mainly be acquiring “skills” or “competencies,” so prevalent in high-level discussions of education policy and in ranking school systems, rings hollow to anyone who has ever cared enough to become a teacher: one teaches because one has fallen in love and, like any lover, one wants to shout it from the rooftops, because in loving something we come to see that it is good, that it is something a person should want for themselves. <<
https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-left-case-for-great-books/
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#GreatBooks Road to Reality written by Roger Penrose bit.ly/2J92N5X?utm_ca… #Mathematics #Semantics #BrainFunction #HumanReasoning #SharedFacts
The Road to Reality - Wikipedi... -
'He turned in the doorway. "What, son?"
"How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it - seems like only the children weep. Good night."'
--Author Harper Lee as Atticus Finch talking to his son Jem about the conviction of Tom Robinson in "To Kill a Mockingbird" -
I'm reading @juergen_hubert 's books, starting with "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles". His translation of German folklore to English, complete with commentary and footnotes, is utterly fabulous.
As someone who's read a lot of folklore books, across multiple cultures, I highly recommend "Sunken Castles" for writers and lovers of folklore alike. Solid research, notes on where the story is set in modern geography, great context, witty asides all make for a very engaging, inspiring read. The stories come to life from his carefully light, detailed approach.
This book is helping me create myths and folktales for my own fictional world. I'm having a blast reading it!
Print:
https://thescribblinglion.com/product/sunken-castles-evil-poodles-jurgen-hubert/
Ebook:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B08CL2HS28/
#folklore #GermanToEnglish #translations #selfpublished #folklore_translations #writing #history #GhostStories #GreatBooks #BookRecs
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Thomas Jefferson thought of policing in terms of “constables.” Now police are bristling with military technology and are a standing army that occupies the United States. The irony: consider that Jefferson thought that even a national military was unnecessary. #Jefferson #GreatBooks
There is no “low” hometown. There is HSAC. The sirens you hear off in the distance are an agent’s yapping dog that is just staring around to take a bite out of our kids! Starving people are called criminals while jackboot Responders collect tax as comfortably protected military child-molesters. They get all the tech; we get all the poverty. What we need is not Federal slimming so much as a reduction in the predatory and wasteful spending that goes to abusive local departments.
Tangles, WebLoc, #geofencing #FusionCenters
Carpenter V. United States (2018)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeland_Security_Advisory_Council
(DHS site)
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/dhs-8th-anniversary-fact-sheet.pdfbanks more dangerous than "standing armies" as if that was a given
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-10-02-0053 -
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12/20
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
#20BookChallenge
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Love, Sex and the Alien Apocalypse launches this Friday! Order your copy now! #greatreads #scifi #sciencefiction #greatbooks #funreads https://www.amazon.com/Love-Alien-Apocalypse-First-Contact-ebook/dp/B0DML9FCHZ
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I'm on a winning streak; 70% of my book choices have been in the "wow, would recommend" category over the last two months
Normally this hovers in the 33-45% range.
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@kdnyhan @ProfSimonFisher
This was a great book on eels!
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-book-of-eels-patrik-svensson
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Author Elizabeth C. Bunce wins Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Award for In Myrtle Peril
In 2021 her novel Premeditated Myrtle won the Edgar Award at the 75th annual honors (awarded by the Mystery Writers of America. That year she was also a finalist for both the Agatha Award... #bookstodon #mystery #awardwinningnovel #greatbooks #literature #ecbunce @ecbunce #KillerNashville #SilverFalchionAward #2023BookAwards @KillerNashville
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My favorite quote for today:
“Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that. You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always a price.”
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While I think the gravitational force to #RightWing extremism is powerful, there are some who I think are persuadable. Minds do change. How? A great book to read is “How Minds Change” by David McRaney. I’d say it was the most meaningful book I read last year
I’ll check out “The Wave”. I’m not familiar with Morton Rhue
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It's time for #PrideMonth and great #reads! Check out these #scifi, #fantasy, #urbanfantasy, #spaceopera, #dystopian, and #superhero #books!
#LGBTQIA
#readerscommunity
#greatbooks
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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "You're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932
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Who is smart, by the way?
To me, you are smart if you are open, adventurous, and curious — if you bond with others quickly and have a great sense of humor — if you can analyze difficult situations quickly and act accordingly — if you are self-aware, confident, and always have a positive mindset — and of course, if you are good with money.
https://medium.com/mind-cafe/4-books-so-brilliant-they-can-make-you-insanely-smart-3d46e015469
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Someone hold my hand. My senior got into #StJohnsCollege and it's her first choice and I want it for her but it's financially draining on both her and us before she even gets to grad school. If she just did a standard #liberalArts degree and not the #greatBooks program, we have another college acceptance that would get her through undergrad debt free. Yes, I grasp the extent of our #privilege but we still have to choose. #johnnies perspective would be welcome
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I'm aware it's not how many books or how fast, and that many of the texts are questionable, but they are a big feeder of Western culture, and it's been a big dream for me for years to actually sit down and read them.
#SelfEducation #GreatBooks #Reading Projects #Autodidact #ABookishLife
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Pushed post on two posts I've been picking at since November:
1: https://www.tlinwright.com/self-education-project-great-books-reading-plan/
2: https://www.tlinwright.com/self-education-project-part-two-the-extended-lifetime-great-books-reading-plan/#SelfEducation #GreatBooks #ReadingProjects #Autodidact #ABookishLife
