Justin Lee Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidJustin LeeI began writing a novel in 2020 w/ a premise similar to Mohsin Hamid's just-released "The Last White Man." I even open it, as does Hamid, w/ a crass nod to Kafka. I'm deep into the 2nd draft & don't plan on quitting. Melvin Van Peebles beat us both to the idea in 1970, anyway.
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Myth of Religious Violence: Secular Ideology and the Roots of Modern Conflict
William T. CavanaughJustin Lee@ConceptualJames “The Myth of Religious Violence” by William Cavanaugh is necessary reading for anyone who wants to debate this intelligently. https://t.co/wPIhvrNT4p
Hardcover, 2009
$98.00$73.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
René GirardJustin Lee@primalpoly Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, René Girard
Paperback, 1987
$38.00$19.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightmares & Dreamscapes: Stories
Stephen KingJustin Lee"[Kubrick] said, 'Is this Stephen King?' I said, 'Yes it is, Mr. Kubrick.' He said, 'Ghost stories are basically optimistic, aren't they?' It's 7:00, I'm hungover, & all of a sudden we're trying to have this philosophical discussion... I said, 'What do you mean?'
Paperback, 2017
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos
Sohrab AhmariJustin Lee"The surest means of resisting Gnosticism is to embrace openly and joyfully the order of being as it is given to us—by God, by the dead. @SohrabAhmari has done us a service in The Unbroken Thread by modeling just such an embrace." My latest @ArcDigi: https://books.arcdigital.media/p/the-fellowship-of-the-dead?r=k31m8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy
Hardcover, 2021
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Scapegoat
René GirardJustin Lee"We never hesitate between the Bible & mythology. We are classicists first, romantics second, & primitives when necessary, modernists with a fury, neoprimitives when we are disgusted with modernism, gnostics always, but biblical never." —René Girard, The Scapegoat
Paperback, 1989
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyJustin LeeI wrote on Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger for @RealClearBooks. The piece is, um, unorthodox. 1/ https://t.co/MF3jC9yQWt
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Troop
Nick CutterJustin LeeHad an epic nightmare last night about my body being infested by tiny metallic worms. It was a combination of Guillermo del Toro's tv series The Strain & Nick Cutter's terrifying novel The Troop, which is about weaponized tape worms. https://t.co/FtfqsjmtdK
Paperback, 2016
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Three Clerks. By: Anthony Trollope: Novel
Anthony TrollopeJustin Lee“The novelist Anthony Trollope suffered a stroke while laughing at a comic novel, a misfortune by which few of his own readers are likely to be afflicted.” —Terry Eagleton, “Humour”
Paperback, 2017
$17.47$8.73 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
Giorgio AgambenJustin Lee"...in modern European languages, 'people' also always indicates the poor, the disinherited, & the excluded. One term thus names both the constitutive political subject & the class that is, de facto if not de jure, excluded from politics."—Giorgio Agamben, "Homo Sacer"
Hardcover, 1998
$100.00$75.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)