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Favorite authorsFernand Braudel, E. M. Cioran, Manuel DeLanda, Carlo Ginzburg, David Hume, C. S. Lewis, Ernst Mayr, William H. McNeill, Robert Young Pelton, Neil Postman, V. S. Ramachandran, Robert M. Sapolsky, Siegfried Sassoon, Stephen Edelston Toulmin, William T. Vollmann (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresAmerican Bookstore, Archives Fine Books, Pulp Fiction

About meI'm a student doing single majors in philosophy, mathematics, and ecology.

I procrastinate often by reading books that I shouldn't be reading during valuable study time.

About my libraryI mostly read nonfiction, but lately I've been reading science fiction as well.

My library, AKA the perpetual pile of ignorance, includes:

Religion: Mainly the natural history of religion a'la Hume. So that would include the psychology of belief, how religion spreads through social networks etc. I'm also interested in millenarianist and apocalyptic movements. Also interested in the influence of religion on world politics. Also interested in heretical and gnostic sects that split off from mainstream Christianity.

Warfare: Interested in small wars and the various groups involved like terrorists, black market dealers, policing, etc. I particularly like the works of Edward Luttwak, Colin Gray, and John Boyd.

Philosophy: Even though I'm majoring along the analytical philosophy side of things I still enjoy reading a lot of ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of art. I don't really enjoy the continental philosophers much, but I do like Deleuze and De Landa. I especially like Deleuze's idea about every reading should bring about a new idea to you personally, rather than just a process of factual regurgitation. I also like reading critical reasoning (informal logic and fallacy theory) over formal logic.

Macrohistory: I really like the works of Braudel, and other related longue duree historians like McNeil.

Other areas I like to read: deception, martial arts, economics, mathematics, evolution.

I also like collecting old school fashion and etiquette books.

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Member sinceAug 16, 2006