Benjamin Carlson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Twilight Zone
Rod SerlingBenjamin CarlsonThe creator of the Twilight Zone, Rod Serling, was an early and outspoken critic of censorship. In 1959, he describes with powerful frankness the insidious practice of “pre-censorship” —and its ultimate cause. To what extent is this still true of creators today? https://t.co/zkOZkrwRWe
Paperback, 2023
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan ZweigBenjamin CarlsonWriting tip of the day: Read old books. They refresh your thought. @patrickc is one of the most innovative minds of today He told WSJ the best book he read in 2022 was The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig Published: 1941 The greats learn from the greats—no matter the era https://t.co/9zA02FToIz
Paperback, 2013
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions: The Madness of Crowds
Charles MacKayBenjamin CarlsonApart from these random crimes, there was no epidemic of poisonings and child murders. In his classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," Charles Mackay describes how humanity tends to flock from one false idea to the next: https://t.co/JkJFbVMIlz
Paperback, 2016
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions
Charles MacKayBenjamin CarlsonApart from these random crimes, there was no epidemic of poisonings and child murders. In his classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," Charles Mackay describes how humanity tends to flock from one false idea to the next: https://t.co/JkJFbVMIlz
Paperback, 2000
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
James Bond: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Ian FlemingBenjamin CarlsonWhether or not it was a strategy, the buzz about bowdlerizing books has paid off. All of a sudden, everyone was talking about Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming's James Bond, and now Agatha Christie. How long before Harry Potter gets snipped?
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Uncle's Dream: "If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself"
Fyodor DostoyevskyBenjamin Carlson“If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
Paperback, 2019
$10.24$5.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mysteries
Knut HamsunBenjamin CarlsonIn Search of Lost Time - Proust Master and Margarita - Bulgakov Mysteries - Knut Hamsun The Castle - Kafka The Invisible Man - Ellison Song of Myself - Walt Whitman Hyperion - Dan Simmons Catch 22 - Heller https://t.co/UqVqlDDpRe
Paperback, 2001
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo CalvinoBenjamin CarlsonPale Fire - Nabokov Jitterbug Perfume - Tom Robbins Dune - Frank Herbert The Giver - Lowry Garden of Forking Paths - Borges If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler - Calvino Shantaram - Roberts Way of Zen - Watts Ender’s Game - Card Little Prince - Exupery https://t.co/rcl020AXHO
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A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design
Frank WilczekBenjamin CarlsonCongrats to '22 @TempletonPrize winner, physicist @FrankWilczek, author of one of most mentally challenging — and stimulating—books I've enjoyed. A Beautiful Question is a mathematical paean to the capital-B Beauty he argues is inherent to physical reality https://www.templetonprize.org/laureate/frank-wilczek/ https://t.co/dwz3nASviG
Paperback, 2016
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Large Print
Charles MacKayBenjamin CarlsonApart from these random crimes, there was no epidemic of poisonings and child murders. In his classic "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," Charles Mackay describes how humanity tends to flock from one false idea to the next: https://t.co/JkJFbVMIlz
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