I wish I read more fiction. I just downloaded a lecture series by Robert Solomon on existentialism and he talked alot about Camus. Maybe I can start there. Having barely looked at the book collection here, I think maybe i'll look at the Cory Doctrow book.

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Insight; Timelessness; Inspiration. "The great thing is to last, and get your work done, and see, and hear, and learn, and understand. And write when there is something that you know; and not before; and not too damned much after. Let those who want to save the world if you can see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it is made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it." (E. Hemingway). Most Recently read: Saramago, Murakami. Favorites: Conrad, Camus,Nietzsche, Hesse, Hugo, Balzac, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck, Andric, London, Bashevis-Zinger, C.S. Lewis, Melville,Classic Russian literature....

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Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Pinker, John D. Barrow, Kurt Vonnegut, Milan Kundera, Thomas Pynchon, Don Dellilo, The Onion, Richard Rhodes, Sarah Michael Hecht, George Orwell, Schopenhaur, Martha Nussbaum, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Sinclair Lewis, Albert Camus, Herman Hess, Phillip Ball, Douglas Hofstadter , Martin Gardner, Daniel C. Dennett, Sarah Vowell and anybody who writes intelligently about 1970s, Cosmology, Ancient World or mind-body problem.

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