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Combing the shelves for most excellent reads.

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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by Irvine, William B (2009) Hardcover
William B. Irvine
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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January
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January 2018
16
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I read this book on recommendation from a friend that I respect and found it to be a fascinating corrective to various notion...
The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire - David Deida
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January 2018
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December 2017
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December 2017
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December 2015
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I'd always been fascinated by the story of John Lydon's appearance on Capital Radio in 1977, where he played a whole brace of...
Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 - Simon Reynolds
November 2015
30
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October 2015
28
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There was a time when this was my favorite book in the world. As a youth, I was captivated by Axel's evocative descriptions ...
Journey to the Center of the Earth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) - Ursula Heise, Jules Verne
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October 2015
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February 2015
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January 2015
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This is a solid introduction to techno music, its trappings and origins, penned by Dan Sicko at the turn of the century as a ...
Techno Rebels: The Renegades of Electronic Funk - Dan Sicko
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December 2014
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Ground zero for cyberpunk culture, or what we now call "daily life". I read this for the first time in high school circa 199...
Neuromancer - William  Gibson
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November 2014
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This is a fascinating read for anyone interested in the origins of that arcane practice of diving to the bottom of a computer...
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
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