I loved Man's search for meaning and Elie Wiesel's Night has never left me.. they are both totally life-changing books, I think I cried buckets over both those books.. I really want to read the John Hersey one too... good luck with all these rereads, have fun! 📚📚
I read both Man’s Search for Meaning and Hiroshima for a Humanities class in high school. I’ve reread Search at least twice already, but I had already planned to read Hiroshima this month as part of my Kids & YA reread project. I know it’s not YA, but it’s when I read it, as I see you had too. I remember it’s quite brutal in its descriptions. Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to it. I’ve never read Thompson, but I want to add it to next year’s TBR. The term came long after, but it sounds like that work would fit well within the genre of Creative Nonfiction.
Hi Greg - I just picked up The Republic by Plato, will be a reread. I need to finish Sagan's - The Demon Haunted World - good read but just keeps getting put to the side as other books jump ahead.
I remember loving Man's Search for Meaning back in 2021, but I really don't know if it would hold up on a reread. Hiroshima on the other hand is still fresh in my mind and I am glad I read it, it had a really strong impact on me, only comparable to that of the very different experience of watching 'Come and See'. As for Desert Solitaire, I do love going out to experience the wilderness first hand, with all of its discomforts, reading about it is not so exciting for me but I will give this one a try :)
Not read all of these so thanks for the reviews. Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl is excellent. It is difficult to claim we are miserable and have a miserable life when he remains positive while at Auschwitz. I read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance many years ago. I enjoyed chunks of it but also found it progressively depressing. I can forgive many things but not making people depressed. 'm not in a hurry to re-read it.Best wishes with what you are reading. According to Frankl,and who am I to disagree, choosing how we feel about something is our one and only true choice.
Haven't read Hiroshima; sounds like a must-read. Man's Search for Meaning is a powerful meditation on suffering; it's always stuck with me. Another good one is, If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi. I also really liked One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; but Gulag Archipelago really scared the crap out of me. Powerful list, Craig. In Cold Blood is another one that really stuck with me. Whatever his faults, Capote could write.
@@unstopitable I reread If This Is a Man a few years ago, so I picked Night over that. I have the three volumes of Gulag Archipelago on my shelf but I’m too intimidated by the length.
With respect to _Hiroshima_ which I read last year, I can recommend the relevant chapters in Weinberg's _A World AT Arms_, Andrew Robert's _The Storm of War_, and Max Hasting's _All Hell Let Loose_ all single volume histories of WWII. Happy hunting. The film _Rhapsody in August_ is also moving.
Wow some amazing books here, some I’ve read, some not. Critical thinking used (many years ago) be on the curriculum in schools. Maybe if it still was, the world wouldn’t be in such a mess as it is today.
There's really no point in thinking about morality, you know. There are two things that are impossible for anyone to fully comprehend : the passage of time and mortality. Yes, we understand these concepts, but only in an intellectual sense. There's no going any deeper, and a soldier who has just lost his entire platoon to a precision strike or an embalmer working on yet another corpse is as ignorant of it as you and I. Trust me, there's no exercise as futile as morbid contemplation of mortality.
Lots of good picks Greg. Glad to see Plato and especially Edward Abbey in a video!
@@TriumphalReads I don’t think it was you, but someone in the last year or so a video of all time favorite books and Desert Solitaire made the list.
I loved Man's search for meaning and Elie Wiesel's Night has never left me.. they are both totally life-changing books, I think I cried buckets over both those books.. I really want to read the John Hersey one too... good luck with all these rereads, have fun! 📚📚
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I read both Man’s Search for Meaning and Hiroshima for a Humanities class in high school. I’ve reread Search at least twice already, but I had already planned to read Hiroshima this month as part of my Kids & YA reread project. I know it’s not YA, but it’s when I read it, as I see you had too. I remember it’s quite brutal in its descriptions. Nonetheless, I’m looking forward to it.
I’ve never read Thompson, but I want to add it to next year’s TBR. The term came long after, but it sounds like that work would fit well within the genre of Creative Nonfiction.
Hi Greg - I just picked up The Republic by Plato, will be a reread. I need to finish Sagan's - The Demon Haunted World - good read but just keeps getting put to the side as other books jump ahead.
Great selections!
Bought Maus again this year. Gave my old copy away. The father and son relationship is eye-opening, considering his father's experiences.
✅ Nonfiction doesn't get enough air time, so, good on you🙏
@@joelharris4399 Unfortunately, nonfiction will not get the same fanfare.
@@anotherbibliophilereads 😂😅
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger.
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@@Unpotted The Perfect Storm is an excellent suggestion. I read it in 1999. It could have easily made this list.
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I read it in high school and found it fascinatingly gripping.
I remember loving Man's Search for Meaning back in 2021, but I really don't know if it would hold up on a reread. Hiroshima on the other hand is still fresh in my mind and I am glad I read it, it had a really strong impact on me, only comparable to that of the very different experience of watching 'Come and See'. As for Desert Solitaire, I do love going out to experience the wilderness first hand, with all of its discomforts, reading about it is not so exciting for me but I will give this one a try :)
I actually finished my reread of Frankl a few days ago. An important book but probably not needed as a reread.
Not read all of these so thanks for the reviews. Man's Search for meaning by Viktor Frankl is excellent. It is difficult to claim we are miserable and have a miserable life when he remains positive while at Auschwitz. I read Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance many years ago. I enjoyed chunks of it but also found it progressively depressing. I can forgive many things but not making people depressed. 'm not in a hurry to re-read it.Best wishes with what you are reading. According to Frankl,and who am I to disagree, choosing how we feel about something is our one and only true choice.
Haven't read Hiroshima; sounds like a must-read. Man's Search for Meaning is a powerful meditation on suffering; it's always stuck with me. Another good one is, If This Is a Man, by Primo Levi. I also really liked One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; but Gulag Archipelago really scared the crap out of me. Powerful list, Craig. In Cold Blood is another one that really stuck with me. Whatever his faults, Capote could write.
@@unstopitable I reread If This Is a Man a few years ago, so I picked Night over that. I have the three volumes of Gulag Archipelago on my shelf but I’m too intimidated by the length.
With respect to _Hiroshima_ which I read last year, I can recommend the relevant chapters in Weinberg's _A World AT Arms_, Andrew Robert's _The Storm of War_, and Max Hasting's _All Hell Let Loose_ all single volume histories of WWII. Happy hunting. The film _Rhapsody in August_ is also moving.
Wow some amazing books here, some I’ve read, some not. Critical thinking used (many years ago) be on the curriculum in schools. Maybe if it still was, the world wouldn’t be in such a mess as it is today.
There's really no point in thinking about morality, you know.
There are two things that are impossible for anyone to fully comprehend :
the passage of time and mortality.
Yes, we understand these concepts, but only in an intellectual sense. There's no going any deeper, and a soldier who has just lost his entire platoon to a precision strike or an embalmer working on yet another corpse is as ignorant of it as you and I. Trust me, there's no exercise as futile as morbid contemplation of mortality.
Probably pointless, true, but that’s not going to stop people talking and thinking about it.