FischerKing Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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For those grieving loss of loved one, now or in past, CS Lewis book ‘A Grief Observed’ is best around. Not intellectual distancing exercise. An earthy description of how it feels. Interesting point - it was first published by Faber/Faber - and TS Eliot gave the green light.

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@L0m3z If you’ve never read Stefan Zweig’s Schachnovelle, I’m fairly certain you would love it.

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Houellebecq wrote short book discussing Schopenhauer, influence his philosophy had on him. Sheds light on somewhat gloomy tone of his middle-aged male characters w/out financial worries. Lead character in Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks is similar under influence of Schopenhauer.

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@Cernovich There were some good books that came out at the centennial in 1914. The one I typically recommend is Christopher Clark's book "The Sleepwalkers," which discusses how the various powers stumbled into war. Somewhat revisionist take on traditional "Germany did it" narrative.

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This is a very early, unpublished poem of TS Eliot called Silence. You can read it now in Inventions of the March Hare, which collects and discusses his unpublished work, and links it to his later preoccupations. His turn toward religion is here foreshadowed. https://t.co/lPnFqedMqb

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Great space on Plato’s Symposium by two great teachers. @DarrenJBeattie @M_Millerman https://t.co/agpJ3k9s5v

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@annakhachiyan Read book called ‘Empire of Illusion’ by Chris Hedges, which had a chapter on porn describing in minute detail - in erudite prose - a film called ‘65 Guy Creampie.’ The contrast b/w prose and what he was describing was hilarious. He described something very like this image.

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Nothing new under the sun. A 'fishing weir' is device set up in a river to trap large numbers of fish. Modern image below. If overused, can deplete stocks. You hear about overfishing a lot today, but problem is very old. Removal of King John's weirs are mandated in Magna Carta. https://t.co/l9M38ZskjF

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There are very good satirical novels to be written about Hunter Biden and George Santos. Something on the order of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair or Maupassant’s Bel Ami.

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‘Sexual intercourse for me is like steel wool in my face.’ - Patricia Highsmith in her private journal. Maybe you have to be this sort of person to develop the Tom Ripley character, or write Strangers on a Train.