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Graham Duncan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Compulsively seeking new ways of seeing reality

11 books
Book Cover for: Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success, Phil Jackson

Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success

Phil Jackson
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

I just reread Eleven Rings, when you put @bgurley podcast w/ @patrick_oshag together w/ this one, their shared vibe reminds me of Phil Jackson’s description of Chicago Bulls circa 1995 w/ a mood of “innocent wonder” & the strong belief that “life is great” https://t.co/ZTJYJeQ1SN

Paperback, 2014

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Book Cover for: Outline, Rachel Cusk

Outline

Rachel Cusk
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

@LauraBehrensWu Most of the dialogue in the novel Outline takes place between two passengers on a plane and it's oddly riveting...audiobook also well read. Try the first two pages and see if you get hooked. Outline: A Novel by Rachel Cusk https://t.co/c8HyzuzszH

Paperback, 2016

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Book Cover for: Iberia, James A. Michener

Iberia

James A. Michener
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

“The Japanese have a word which summarizes all the best in Japanese life, yet it has no explanation and cannot be translated. It is the word shibui, and the best approximation to its meaning is 'acerbic good taste.'" -James Michener in his novel Iberia

Paperback, 2015

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Book Cover for: The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds, Michael Lewis

The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

Michael Lewis
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

“Reality is a cloud of possibility, not a point.” - Amos Tversky I was recently skimming The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis and hit a rich vein of Tversky quotes (from him and about him) that capture his unusual way of being in the world:

Paperback, 2017

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Book Cover for: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

David Epstein
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

Good nuance to add to the theme of life as a game: Much of the world is “Martian tennis.” You can see the players on a court with balls & rackets, but nobody has shared the rules. It is up to you to derive them & they are subject to change without notice. - David Epstein, Range

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Hilary Mantel
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

@auren Simon Vance reading Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel is amazing & made me try your proposed strategy since I thought I might listen to him read the phone book. But if the narrator is prolific, as Vance is, it gets random fast. Who did you hear that prompted the question?

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: V., Thomas Pynchon

V.

Thomas Pynchon
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

"Life's single lesson: there is more accident to it than any man can admit to in a lifetime and stay sane." Fausto Majistral, in Thomas Pynchon's V (h/t @mkonnikova The Biggest Bluff)

Paperback, 2005

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Book Cover for: Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation, Bruce Tift

Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation

Bruce Tift
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

@patrick_oshag Already Free by Bruce Tift I like his 4 stages of dissolving self-absorption: Absorption in content Awareness of content Awareness of awareness Absorption in awareness h/t @tferriss

Paperback, 2015

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Book Cover for: The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, George Saunders

The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip

George Saunders
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

@zackkanter The Millionaire Real Estate Agent, actually a model of management, explained by @nikocanner : https://t.co/4vzSFhBRFb The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip by George Saunders, children's book (age 5-10) that's the best thing on Gappers I've seen😃, then also autonomy vs community.

Hardcover, 2015

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mortals, Norman Rush

Mortals

Norman Rush
Graham DuncanGraham Duncan

“His ambition still had a clean smell” is a good line by George Packer re: Richard Holbrooke early in career. Reminds me of a line in Norman Rush’s novel Mortals: “She could be loving a clean heart, the lightness of being that a clean heart gives the voice, the eyes.” https://t.co/seGLkIGwLq

Paperback, 2004

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