history

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

- by Edward Gibbon

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

- by Rebecca West

- A Journey Through Yugoslavia is a travel book written by Dame Rebecca West, published in 1941 in two volumes

The Lessons of History

- by Will Durant

(on marmite as solution to Middle East crises - not marmalade?)

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/edward-de-bono-obituary-lateral-thinker-who-proposed-marmite-as-solution-to-arab-israeli-conflict-1.4590539

- Edward de Bono

biography

 

Go Tell It on the Mountain

- James Baldwin

Jacobo Timerman: Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number

Julius Caesar and the Roman People

Book by Robert Morstein-Marx

Spanish Classics (espanol)

 

https://youtu.be/XURU-AffUWc?si=OS1b4X5-QCq_Mavi

gothic - Stoker, M R James, H P Lovecraft, Shelley, Zofloya...

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Victorian Horror

Dracula's Brood: Neglected Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, Et. Al

- richard dalby

the black reaper - Bernard Capes

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Lafcadio hearn

done - Japanese Ghost Stories [Penguin]

out of the east

in ghostly japan 

kokoro

shadowings

japanese goblin poetry

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Le Fanu - 
Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter
Uncle Silas
The House by the Churchyard
done - Carmilla

[have] Tess of d'ubervilles

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Bram Stoker

[historical but not fully factual][inspired Bram Stoker] Foxe's Book of Martyrs

Something in the Blood - David J Skal (bio of Stoker)

Texts:

- The Lair of the White Worm [Bram Stoker, last book]

- The Jewel of the Seven Stars [Bram Stoker, his best written aside from Dracula]
- Under the Sunset - Book by Bram Stoker (for children?)

Best films:

1922 - Nosferatu

1933 - Bela Lugosi

1959 - Christopher Lee

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[have] Bleak House (Dickens)


Arthur Conan Doyle - gothic tales

[mostly done] M R James:http://www.thin-ghost.org/

H P Lovecraft:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/fiction/   

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Halloween Books:


Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake https://bit.ly/2SqaYQW
Veniss Underground by Jeff VanderMeer http://tinyurl.com/yydzbocp
A Peculiar Peril by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3lbLR0M
In the Woods by Tana French https://bit.ly/3ndqEp1
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman https://bit.ly/36t2FMD
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire https://bit.ly/3jnMiEF
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi https://bit.ly/2GyTPC9
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson https://bit.ly/3cXaJXi
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://bit.ly/3laiThB
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury https://bit.ly/2GmLFgj
Perfume by Patrick Süskind https://bit.ly/2Gq0778
I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid https://bit.ly/3n8nW3Y
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter https://bit.ly/36vENrE
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson https://bit.ly/3cW9He7
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins https://bit.ly/2Suv3Wd
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley https://bit.ly/2HThldI
Dracula by Bram Stoker https://bit.ly/30tT7x9
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James https://bit.ly/3imgpLq
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier https://bit.ly/2EY2y0f
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov https://bit.ly/2Snhqs1
The Overstory by Richard Powers https://bit.ly/3nfKmQY
Solar Bones by Mike McCormack https://bit.ly/3lbu6hW
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner https://bit.ly/33wtuxH
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters https://bit.ly/3cUsGpf
The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin https://bit.ly/36w50Xc
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke https://bit.ly/30wGUrs
The Secret History by Donna Tartt https://bit.ly/34nrXJq
City of Saints & Madmen by Jeff VanderMeer https://bit.ly/3io8rkN

Rebecca Review: https://bit.ly/36vHjOM
Solar Bones Review: https://bit.ly/36qAePr
Fingersmith Review: https://bit.ly/30vphIG
The Fifth Season Review: https://bit.ly/3lnfCMj (BLOG)/ https://bit.ly/34omUbw (YT)
City of Saints and Madmen Review: https://bit.ly/34lMSML

World View & Economics

 

xx Enlightenment Now (steven pinker)

xx The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (steven pinker)

xx Factfulness (Swedish guy)

xx Anti fragile (also above)

xx facts don’t care about your feelings by Ben Shapiro

(Machiavellian crap) - The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)

xx - Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- remove everything that is fragile - likely to fail, or toxic...

k ... The Rational Optimist (Matt Ridley)

It's Getting Better all the Time
- Julian Simon and Stephen Moore

- the tyranny of convenience- Tim Wu

the great demographic reversal

- Manoj Pradhan

The Economy of Cities

- Book by Jane Jacobs

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Self-help books - resilience ...

The Art of Living a Meaningless Existence: Ideas from Philosophy That Change the Way You Think- Robert Pantano - kindle

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Book by Carol Dweck

Resilience: Live healthier, perform better https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42443659-resilience
- Paul Donders

Yes to life - Viktor Frankl

xx - Go for No ! Yes is the Destination. No is how You Get There!
Book by Andrea Waltz and Richard Fenton
- set bigger goals, seek challenges likely to fail and be rejected -> grow! -> eventually, succeed

The Slight Edge - Jeff Olson [from YT Nischa]

xx - The Power of Habit

—- 5 top books
the happiness hypothesis - jonathan haidt
atomic habits
i will teach you to be rich
your journal
subtle art of not giving a fuck
breaking the art of being yourself
—-

[only ok]
(Healthy risk taking) = The Third Door
https://www.bol.com/nl/f/third-door/9200000084337146/

[mental models!]
The Great Mental Models Volume 1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P79P8ST

xxx
When I say no - (assertiveness)
https://www.bol.com/nl/f/when-i-say-no-i-feel-guilty/36509574/

No more mr nice guy
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/no-more-mr-nice-guy/1001004001873304/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008O-G-86290587743-S-854532343178-1001004001873304&gclid=Cj0KCQjwsuP5BRCoARIsAPtX_wHDzZJjZFYR-2vSvE4m_2bdoXlf-ackOE19HBTpl_uFXyI7O-8a8yoaAkp3EALw_wcB

Negotiating
https://www.bol.com/nl/p/Never-Split-the-Difference/9200000070795242/?Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008M-2JCGNENQKG5CA-246027592286&gclsrc=aw.ds&ds_rl=1263476&Referrer=ADVNLGOO002008M-2JCGNENQKG5CA-246027592286&gclid=Cj0KCQjw7Nj5BRCZARIsABwxDKJZZrfuAo0NlZfQmYU1IJWcnmFcob3MPOut7-FxQqpXB0qqNRwqfgEaArVoEALw_wcB

Journaling (from Nischa)

- law of attraction planner

- the artists way (becoming more creative) (stream of consciousness writing, 3 pages)

- 5 year one line journal (reuse same page for that day of the year)

Atomic Habits

(productivity, change, time)

Psycho-Cybernetics
Book by Maxwell Maltz

Psychology

The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity--And Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

 - eric fromm:

- The Heart of Man

- Escape from Freedom.

(the art of loving)

- freud: group psychology and the analysis of the ego

k RDPD Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman

The End of Mental Illness - by Daniel Amen

good - Surrounded By Idiots - Thomas Erikson

Emotions of Normal People 

- Marston

Dominance, Influence, Submission/Steadiness, and Compliance/Conscientiousness

(DISM) - covered by "Surrounded by Idiots"