Colin ☀️ Barrett Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Colin ☀️ Barrett

@ChrisSturr He’s read Charles Murray’s “The Bell Curve” 10 times. That counts as like 20 books right?

Colin ☀️ Barrett

I think it might be time to re-read Jennifer Egan’s second novel “Look At Me.” One of my favorites, written before 9/11 but released just weeks after, it was startlingly prescient in its own time, and remains potent as a mirror in which to view ours

Colin ☀️ Barrett

“As soon as one puts one’s faith in reason and reasoning, as opposed to intuition mediated through music, one has forfeited the possibility of genuine knowledge, which must always be tragic.” —Michael Tanner, Introduction to “Birth of Tragedy” by Nietzsche (Penguin Classics) https://t.co/pAGxvEJqjU

Colin ☀️ Barrett

@matthiasellis More of an in-the-trenches work, but “The Soul of a New Machine” by Tracy Kidder

Colin ☀️ Barrett

Just read the short novel "Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) by Nathanael West. Fantastic and depressing book about a newspaperman who writes an advice column. It's on the Internet Archive and a quick read. Go now! https://t.co/vcM3eYvyKo

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I finished "Molloy" by Samuel Beckett yesterday. Now that's how you write a novel, goddamn

Colin ☀️ Barrett

For more on Roald Dahl’s life as a WW2 spy, read “The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington” by Jennet Conant

Colin ☀️ Barrett

@buttpraxis I dont recall exactly but this sounds like something that would haven been touched on in "California: A History" by Kevin Starr