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A spoiled little girl loses her rich parents and is sent away to live with her reclusive heartbroken (rich) relative.
The story is fairly awful to me, though I can see how this was popular at the time. It has definitely aged, not just in its period but in its language and writing style.
I'll class this as "liked", but I only see this as being good for historical reasons and wouldn't recommend it. I'll also class this as child-friendly, except it's child-friendly in its context: A parent reading to their child in the early 1900s.
- http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/17396
- https://archive.org/details/secretgarden00burn
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NOTE - My cover is different - TODO - photograph it
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A tactically-minded man creates an instruction manual for action and understanding in the realm of high-lords of kingdoms.
At under 70 pages, this book may be thin but it's incredibly dense. I found myself reading paragraphs three times before moving on. Although nothing in it surprised me, I can still easily recommend it. It's been, somehow, given a bad name. I only found a slight tinge of "evil" creeping in at about the half-way mark, but nothing inexcusable.
I understood it well enough to add strong commentary, and to give much improved explanation in the latter half which draws from the former. It's interesting to me that the author himself didn't catch on to the trends in his own advice.
Like The Art of War - (~476 BC book), by Sunzi, people have interpreted this text for all manner of uses such as the business world.
- 1910 translation by N. H. Thompson
- Originally published in Volume 36 of The Harvard Classics.
- Niccolò Machiavelli
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A book on Bushido, the old way of the samurai, as created in conversation with an old master-turned-monk.
In a time when the others were softening up, a samurai who had lost his master and left to live in a monastery spoke in hushed tones to a friend about the old ways he grew up in. Although he and others insisted the manuscripts be burned, the promises were broken when they were kept secret. They would be later compiled and published, and even later translated from its original Japanese.
A particularly interesting book. Although most of it is definitely not directly-applicable today, I think anyone who already has a sufficient "wisdom" (whatever that means) will find bits and pieces of insight.
- Properly titled Bushido - The Way of the Samurai
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The author works to sell the notion of propaganda as a skill and service, inventing what is best described as "ethical propaganda". He used this to manufacture his relevancy and sell his career. This book is particularly interesting in that the author and what he writes can itself be understood by what is written. The teaching can be used on itself.
Its first half is boring as hell to me, but I guess it would have been fascinating back then. A little after the half-way point it has grown very dark, talking about leaders instead of elected officials and manipulation instead of representation.
It does show its age in a number of places, but its stories are trivially generalizable.
So far I guess I'd put this on an intellectual's book shelf, though it all seems obvious and not even particularly collectible. I'm not sure if it would "red pill" an everyday person or even be interesting to one.
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Collections of science fiction short stories, curated by.. people I don't know and who have no authority in my mind. They came into being pre-internet and still cling to relevancy.
I was excited to find these, but their stories are hit-and-miss.
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An father takes his kid on a motorcycle road-trip across the United States, and recalls his past life, when he was insane, and the philosophies he had drowned in.
A terrible book, full stop.
- Properly titled Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
- ISBN 9-780688-002305
- See also http://www.robertpirsig.org/
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Earlier I had read ISBN-10 0553277472
TODO - re-read and especially the other essays.
 Not the cover of my edition.
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I'm either stupid or arrogant to say that this isn't particularly good. I'll have to re-read it yet again before I can either give a description or a proper opinion.
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1942 - The Myth of Sisyphus
- First translated into English in 1955.
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(other essays noted below) TODO
- Properly titled The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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A book on a particular aspect of culture and events in the history of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
It glimpses into one aspect of "playful hacking", pranks and practical jokes.
- Properly titled Nightwork - A history of hacks and pranks at MIT
- ISBN 9 780262 661379
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"Institute Historian T. F. Peterson" is likely a play on the MIT cultural acronym "IHTFP".
This may take me quite some time to read through.
 Not the cover of my edition
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A classic work combining classic works.
I bought this because it's considered one of the great works of literature and has survived into common culture. Though I can see why this would have been popular at the time, especially thanks to the forward saying that the brief writing style was rare, I don't yet see why this would appeal to today's person. Perhaps it's just me, but so far I find the writing style rather insulting.
Unabridged:
- 1887 - A Study in Scarlet
- 1890 - The Sign of the Four
- 1892 - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 1893 - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
- 1902 - The Hound of the Baskervilles
- 1904 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- 1908 - The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge
- Sherlock Holmes
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Properly titled The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury - Revised & Expanded
- ISBN 0-517-43614-0
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ISBN 0-517-43614-2 (lib. ed.)
- Library edition?
