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1. Art of war by Sun Tzu (5/10)
2. 48 laws of power by Robert Greene (7/10)
3. how to influence people and make friends by Dale Carnegie (6/10)
4. the power of now by Eckhart Tolle (8/10)
5. think and grow rich by Napolean Hill (7/10)
6. the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (8/10)
7. outliers by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
8. the power of the subconscious mind by Joseph Murphy (6/10)
9. Animal Farm (8/10)
10. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (8/10)
11. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (9/10)
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (10/10)
13. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by Douglas adams (9/10)
14. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (9/10)
15. 11/22/63 by Stephen King (10/10)
16. The Stand by Stephen King (10/10)
17. The power of the dog by Don Winslow (10/10)
18. Astrophysics for people in a hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson (10/10)
19. The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (10/10)
20. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (6/10)
21. What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People by Joe Navarro (7/10)
22. Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday (7/10)
23. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Robert Moore and Douglass Gillette (10/10)
24. Modern man in search of a soul by Carl Jung (8/10)
25. IT by Stephen King (10/10)
26. The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (6/10)
27. The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker (10/10)
28. Marley and Me by John Grogan (8/10)
29. The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo (7/10)
30. The Social Animal by Elliot Aronson (10/10)
31. The subtle art of not giving a **** by Mark Manson (6/10)
32. Freakonomics by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner (8/10)
33. David and Galiath by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
34. American Gods by Neil Gaiman (8/10)
35. Blink by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
36. The Holy Bible (NIV) (10/10)
37. Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson (10/10)
38. The Book of 5 Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (7/10)
39. Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (6/10)
40. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Stephen pinker (9/10)
41. Thinking Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman (9/10)
42. so you've been publicly shamed by Jon Ronson (6/10)
43. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (7/10)
44. what the dog saw by Malcom Gladwell (8/10)
45. A Brief History of time by Stephen Hawking (10/10)
46. Psychological Types by Carl Jung (10/10)
47. The Force by Don Winslow (7/10)
48. Narconomics, how to run a drug cartel by Tom Wainwright (9/10)
49. Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly (9/10)
50. The Hyperbole House by James Murphy
51. Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess by Bobby Fischer, Stuart Margulies, Don Mosenfelder (8/10)
52. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (7/10)
53. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt (10/10)
54. Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (8/10)
55. Guns, Germs & Steel by Jared Diamond (7/10)
56. The Cartel by Don Winslow (7/10)
57. Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson (7/10)
58. As a man Thinketh by James Allen (7/10)
59. Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik (9/10)
60. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (10/10)
61. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami (10/10)
62. Undeniable: Evolution and the science of creation by Bill Nye (8/10)


shit was cool. basically the evolution version of NDT's astrophysics for people in a hurry. his obnoxious ranting against creationists at times was off-putting and felt unnecessary but wasn't a huge detractor. I mean hawkings takes shots at creationists in his books but almost rarely and subtly when he does.....the work speaks for itself....too much acknowledgement towards the opposition reeks of insecurity to me.

anyhow I dug this a lot, chapters on GMO's, human cloning, evolution in medicine, viruses & bacteria, stem cell research were FIRE. also chapters about dinosaurs with feathers recently discovered and transitional creatures (sea and land.......think like the fish evolving into a lizard....but whatever the creature between them was during the evolutionary transition stage) was COOL.

genesis vs evolution comes back to geology for me tho and I cant say he fully sold me. either way the information was highly accessible and bill nye reads the audio jawn himself and is mad entertaining lol.
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My dad once had like 4 beers at a family reunion, and drove us home better than my mom usually drives.
Not saying being drunk doesn’t mess up you reasoning. I’m turning 20 soon so I haven’t had a drink ever.
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