"It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic." W. Somerset Maugham, 'Of Human Bondage', 1915 English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
"Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something--an object or ourselves--and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 1, 2009

Free Books at Feedbooks

Checkout this website, if you don't already know about it. It has free books for download, and covers all the e-platform electronic devices (i.e. Kindle, iPhone, other smartphones, etc..). But you can also download in PDF for those who don't use these devices and read it on your computer or print out.

What's great is covers all kinds of popular titles of oldies (books that have gone out of copyright like Jules Verne or Charles Dickens) as well as other books that newer authors have released to the public domain.

The really cool part is discovering authors/books you never knew existed....a good example is Elizabeth Nesbit (which you can find by checking out Authors or Subjects>Young Readers).

Or for those who have seen the movie ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") you can now read the Fitzgerald short story it was based on for free.

Definitely worth checking out for those who love to read.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

A Book You Have To Read

The Nurture Assumption by Judith Rich Harris

At the end, agree or not, this, above any book I've ever read, I recommend. You simply have got to read this. Even if you don't have children, it's great insight into yourself and your peers.

When I first read it, it was like finally discovering the sociological/psychological/biological version of Einstein's Unified Theory. All I had studied and read in both fields finally came together and the discrepancies explained.

I would love for anyone that reads this blog, if anyone does, to read this book, come back and comment and let me know your thoughts.