Interesting. Though a little pretentious I found.
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Joshua Byrd rated Tao Te Ching: 5 stars
Tao Te Ching by Laozi, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, and 2 others
For nearly two generations, Gia-fu Feng and Jane English's bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard …
Joshua Byrd rated Tuesdays with Morrie: 4 stars
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teachen Someone older, wiser, who understood you when you were young and searching, …
Joshua Byrd rated On the Origin of Species: 5 stars
Joshua Byrd rated Helter skelter: 5 stars
Helter skelter by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Prosecuting Attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one of the most baffling and …
Joshua Byrd rated Cosmos: 5 stars
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …
Joshua Byrd rated Walden: 5 stars
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is considered, along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as one …
Joshua Byrd rated The Old Man and the Sea: 3 stars
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and …
Joshua Byrd rated Status anxiety: 4 stars
Status anxiety by Alain de Botton
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think …
Joshua Byrd reviewed The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart
The Dice Man is a 1971 novel by American novelist George Cockcroft, writing under the …
Review of 'The Dice Man' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Joshua Byrd rated The Picture of Dorian Gray: 4 stars
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July …
American Gods (en español): American Gods (Brainstorming) by Neil Gaiman
American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, …
Joshua Byrd reviewed 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
1Q84 (いちきゅうはちよん, Ichi-Kyū-Hachi-Yon, stylized in the Japanese cover as "ichi-kew-hachi-yon") is a novel written by …
Review of '1Q84' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A work of brilliance.
Joshua Byrd rated Frankenstein: 5 stars
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
Joshua Byrd rated The myth of freedom and the way of meditation: 4 stars
The myth of freedom and the way of meditation by Chögyam Trungpa
Freedom is generally thought of as the ability to achieve goals and satisfy desires. But what are the sources of …