Michael Shindler 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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Ralph Waldo EmersonMichael ShindlerThinking once again about the American Transcendentalists wandering off into the great unconquered wilds of Ralph Waldo Emerson's backyard to confront NATURE with their reading glasses. Love them.
Paperback, 1841
$5.49$2.74 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nature
Ralph Waldo EmersonMichael ShindlerThinking once again about the American Transcendentalists wandering off into the great unconquered wilds of Ralph Waldo Emerson's backyard to confront NATURE with their reading glasses. Love them.
Paperback, 2009
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Plato's Thought: Eight Cardinal Points Of Plato's Philosophy As Treated In The Whole Of His Works
G. M. a. GrubeMichael Shindler[Note: more on this in the chapter, "The Nature of the Soul," in G.M.A. Grube's Plato's Thought]
Paperback, 2011
$35.95$17.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Changing Light at Sandover: With the stage adaptation, Voices from Sandover
James MerrillMichael ShindlerAnyone know of anyone who still champions James Merrill's The Changing Light at Sandover? Feels like it's been relegated to the same bin as Melville's Clarel
Paperback, 2011
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
David Bentley HartMichael ShindlerRadical Orthodoxy is just David Bentley Hart verbally beating the daylights out of Winnie the Pooh in retaliation to a slight objection the latter made in an Amazon review of That All Shall Be Saved, a glorious twelve syllable boot over his fuzzy papist face, forever.
Paperback, 2021
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The City and the Pillar
Gore VidalMichael ShindlerGore Vidal novels that are based on real life (Myra Breckinridge) imply the existence of Gore Vidal novels that are cringe (The City and the Pillar).
Paperback, 2003
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Heavy Lifting: A Boy's Guide to Writing Poetry
Jeffrey BurghauserMichael Shindler🚨HYPE POST🚨: Just got a copy of friend and fellow poet Jeffrey Burghauser's latest book, The Heavy Lifting: A Boy's Guide to Writing Poetry (@NERIconoclast Press). Haven't opened it yet, but looks 💯🔥💯 https://t.co/VHwGEEQ9Ov
Hardcover, 2023
$39.99$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parmenides
PlatoMichael ShindlerReading Plato's Parmenides in freshman year is great because it's like "you think you know what 1 is, right?" and then you think sure, of course, and then Parmenides dunks on you repeatedly for 45 minutes
Paperback, 2016
$11.25$5.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Iron Giant
Ted HughesMichael ShindlerThinking about how in the novel by Ted Hughes that the Iron Giant movie is based on the atomic bomb is actually a "Space-Bat-Angel-Dragon" that engages in a contest of endurance with the giant who upon his defeat, admits he's actually a bored "singer of the music of the spheres"
Paperback, 1999
$7.99$3.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Ralph Waldo EmersonMichael ShindlerThinking once again about the American Transcendentalists wandering off into the great unconquered wilds of Ralph Waldo Emerson's backyard to confront NATURE with their reading glasses. Love them.
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