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[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Read X times Title

2 Everybody Lies

3 Storyworthy

3 The Design of Everyday Things

3 Think Again

2 Beyond Command and Control

3 Good Strategy/Bad Strategy

2 First Break All the Rules

3 Never Split the Difference

2 Antifragile

2 Fooled by Randomness

2 Skin in the Game

2 Black Swan

2 Talking To Strangers

3 Call Center Management on Fast Forward

4 The Effective Manager

2 Atomic Habits

2 Never Eat Alone

2 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel

2 The Tipping Point

3 Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes

7 Powerful

3 Effective Hiring Manager

7 The Total Money Makeover

2 Dare to Lead

4 Great at Work

7 The 4 Disciplines of Execution

5 Unlearn

2 The Hard Thing About Hard Things

2 The Best Service is No Service

9 The Effective Executive

5 Financial Intelligence

2 Understanding Complexity

2 How to be an Antiracist

2 Deep Work

2 Happier Now

2 The Fearless Organization

3 Algorithms to Live By

3 Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals

3 Thinking in Systems

2 Multipliers

2 The Scout Mindset

2 High Conflict

2 The Prince

2 Not Nice

2 The Value of Everything

2 Born a Crime

2 Freakonimics

2 Human Sigma

2 Getting Things Done

3 Rework

2 Linchpin

2 White Fragility

2 Complexity

2 Parenting with Love and Logic

2 The Five Temptations of a CEO

2 21 Laws of Leadership

2 Failing Forward

2 Our Iceberg is Melting

2 TNIV Bible

2 Graveyard Shift and Other Stories

2 The Dictators Handbook

2 The First 90 Days

2 Where the red fern grows.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Well that formatted like shit... But the number before the title is how many times I've read it.

[–] Syndic@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Next time use two line breaks after each line and it will work.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Syndic@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

No worries, it's quite an odd behaviour. It was the same back on Reddit. No idea if there is a good reason for it or if they copied it to be the same as with Reddit.

[–] Quintus@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Les Misérables is easily the best book I've ever read in my entire life. A few years ago I read a shorthened version of it and even then I was fascinated by it. I finished reading the full text two months ago and oh my fucking god this book is the best thing ever written.

I'm Turkish so I read the Turkish translation (will read the full text in English and French when I learn it) and on the back of it, it says something along these lines:

"... Les Misérables is the third and the most majestic collumn of the author's novel trilogy that tells of the society..."

And I completely agree with that. This book is simply timeless. The characters, situations, unjustice, inequalities, all the suffering in it could be applied to any society. This book is real.

The messages that it sends are solutions to topics that seemingly anybody with a functioning brain should be capable of thinking and realizing. And yet, these solutions are ignored and refused because of greed, revenge, bloodlust and most important of all, ignorance.

The main character of the book, Jean Valjean is the embodiment of redemption. His entire arc teaches us how to treat criminals. Some countries today are taking these lessons and applying them. The lessons being; treat them as human, rehabilitate them. The result? They actually do heal and return to society as normal human beings.

And yet you see people against this practice. Those kinds of people are blinded by bloodlust and revenge. They are the same kind of people that were racist, sexist and much more back in the day. The arguments that these people bring don't hold up either. The most common one I see (at least from my perspective) is this:

"You wouldn't react this way if they hurt one of your loved ones!"

The fact that these people don't know anything about me aside, this argument is pointless as it implies that I would be blind to fact and logic when I'm in pain. And while that is true, me being angry over an apple falling onto my head won't make gravity any less real. In other words, so what?

The biggest victims of this mentality are pedofiles. Not the ones that do engage in action. But rather the ones that don't harm anybody are aware of their issue. For instance, if a non-engaging pedo went to a therapist and told them of their issue, what would the therapist do? Call the police of course. And what would that do? Their life would be pretty screwed from that point forward. Assuming they are the non-engaging type, of course. I don't believe this to be the correct attitude towards these kind of cases.

I would also like to dive into other topics that the book covers (and perhaps extend on this one) but it would be way too long for a comment. Thank you anyone reading this far. I would like to hear your opinions on the matter and discuss even!

[–] somenonewho@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

I've seen the musical a bunch of times and when I finally managed to read it last year it was a revelation. While I still love the musical the book is so much more intriguing and interesting and just manages to much more perfectly capture the main theme.

Night need to re-read this one soon ;)

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The Martian, by Andy Weir

That being said, why are you using camelcase with "re-read"? That's what the hyphen is for.

[–] somenonewho@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago

This. So much.

The Martian was the first and to this date only book that I've read and, when I was finished, decided to re-read right away.

Love all Andy Weirs stuff. I've read the Martian four to five times now (lost count) I've also read Artemis twice and am currently re-reading Project Hail Mary.

Even when you know the ending the way there is still always fun another time.

Also I've re-read the Dirk Gently books since I just love Douglas Adams

[–] Kazumara@feddit.de 0 points 8 months ago