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I am begging you to read some fiction bro.
→ Not because it makes you look smart.
→ Because fiction teaches things that bullet points can’t.
→ A self-help book tells you to be resilient.
→ The Count of Monte Cristo makes you live through resilience for 1,000+ pages.
→ A self-help book tells you to understand people.
→ Dostoevsky puts you inside minds you’d never otherwise understand.
→ Information is easy to forget.
→ Experience isn’t.
Read fiction.
Your attention span, empathy, vocabulary, and understanding of human nature will improve.
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Favourite books of Cillian Murphy:
1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Don Quixote
3. The Ginger Man
4. The Butcher Boy
5. Eclipse
6. The Sportswriter
7. Rabbit Angstrom
8. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
9. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
10. The Grass Arena
11. Appointment in Samarra
12. Foster
13. Small Things Like These
14. Brian
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Favourite books of Cillian Murphy
Favourite books of Cillian Murphy:
1. The Old Man and the Sea
2. Don Quixote
3. The Ginger Man
4. The Butcher Boy
5. Eclipse
6. The Sportswriter
7. Rabbit Angstrom
8. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
9. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
10. The Grass Arena
11. Appointment in Samarra
12. Foster
13. Small Things Like These
14. Brian
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“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”
- Saint Augustine
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The Greatest Books Ever Written in History
1. The Count of Monte Cristo
2. The Divine Comedy
3. Don Quixote
4. The Iliad
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My 5 desert island books:
1. The Holy Bible (KJV)
2. The Count of Monte Cristo
3. Don Quixote
4. The Divine Comedy
5. Treasure Island
My 5 desert island books:
The Holy Bible (KJV)
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare's Complete Works
Eliot's Collected Poems
The Brothers Karamazov
What are yours?
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Data centers that deserve our protection.
These 15 books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today.
It is now normal to go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Shakespeare. This is a civilizational failure.
Our book club exists to fight back. It's time to form our own, independent reading circles to study the Great Conversation of the West. That's what we're doing at Athenaeum, in dialogue with each other.
We are just starting Augustine's City of God — possibly the greatest work of Christian thought ever written.
Join our group and study it with us. This is one of our most significant and foundational reads thus far.
Take out a paid subscription to support our mission and join the discussions directly; it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate.
All paid book club members get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
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Of course, you can also read along with us for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make City of God our biggest read-along yet...
Welcome!
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"In my misery I kept crying - How long shall I go on saying tomorrow, tomorrow? Why now? Why not make an end of all my ugly sins at this moment?"
- Saint Augustine, Confessions
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The Count of Monte Cristo explores the psychological toll of loneliness and the ways in which it can shape an individual's character and motivations.
Dantes' journey is not only a tale of revenge but also a poignant exploration of the human condition.
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Books for the lost and lonely:
1. Stoner - John Williams
2. Frankenstein- Mary Sherley
3. The Trial - Franz Kafka
4. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
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“By believing passionately in something that does not exist, we create it.”
- Franz Kafka
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The three pillars of Western classic literature:
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Aeneid - Virgil
These 15 books will give you a better education than almost any school curriculum in the West today.
It is now normal to go from Pre-K to PhD without reading a word of Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Augustine, Dante, or Shakespeare. This is a civilizational failure.
Our book club exists to fight back. It's time to form our own, independent reading circles to study the Great Conversation of the West. That's what we're doing at Athenaeum, in dialogue with each other.
We are just starting Augustine's City of God — possibly the greatest work of Christian thought ever written.
Join our group and study it with us. This is one of our most significant and foundational reads thus far.
Take out a paid subscription to support our mission and join the discussions directly; it makes a HUGE difference to the time and resources we can dedicate.
All paid book club members get:
- Live book club discussions (biweekly)
- Access to our incredible community chat
- Essays to guide you through the Great Books
- All past recordings, essays, and podcasts
- Ability to vote on what we read next
athenaeumbooks.com/welcome
Of course, you can also read along with us for free and tune into the live broadcasts. Let's make City of God our biggest read-along yet...
Welcome!
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