Alrighty, NONfiction books! What are your favorites?

[hijoshiki]

I read reviews about the book "The Gospel According to Dog: The Good News of Ancient Cynicism." They are very different, from good and neutral to negative. I think I'll read it myself and draw my own conclusions. Thanks for the recommendation.

There were a long list of cynics until about 240 CE. None of them up to the standards of Diogenes.

That said Nietzsche is the modern cynic. He's not outlandish except in his ideas that are obsessed with a self perfection, a hardening of the body and mind that nature produces when all comforts are denied. And of course his uncompromising attack on popular doctrine which was labeled nihilism. Obviously a cynic could be labeled a nihilist as they purposely never attach to a set of ideas based on a location, triteness or hidden agendas. Nietzsche is perhaps the greatest writer that ever lived to expose the great lie without proposing an alternative system, he's simply pointing to the truth that most work hard to hide.

 

[MFAAS]

by who?

I think I got the title wrong because I can't find it now. It was a paperback book I read in early college that I felt really helped me with some stuff i was working through. I think the book I was thinking of is actually Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman I would need to read a section of it to see if that is correct or not though.

 

[MR_Midas]

There were a long list of cynics until about 240 CE. None of them up to the standards of Diogenes.

That said Nietzsche is the modern cynic. He's not outlandish except in his ideas that are obsessed with a self perfection, a hardening of the body and mind that nature produces when all comforts are denied. And of course his uncompromising attack on popular doctrine which was labeled nihilism. Obviously a cynic could be labeled a nihilist as they purposely never attach to a set of ideas based on a location, triteness or hidden agendas. Nietzsche is perhaps the greatest writer that ever lived to expose the great lie without proposing an alternative system, he's simply pointing to the truth that most work hard to hide.

This is a very interesting idea. I didn’t think from this side, but after reading your message I thought differently.

 

[MR_Midas]

I read a lot of non-fiction and not surprisingly mostly books on topics of steroids, doping, sports, bodybuilding, physical culture. For now, I'll share my favorites on topic of competitive bodybuilding:

Muscle Wars: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of Competitive Bodybuilding by Rick Wayne
Muscle: A Writer's Trip Through a Sport with No Boundaries by Jon Hotten

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These are great books I've read them. Then again and again to take a closer look.