List of books he recommended: . Black box thinking - Matthew Syed . Atomic Habits - James Clear . The Happy Brain - Dean Burnett . Notes on a nervous Planet - Matt Haig . Scary Smart - Mo Gawdat.
I only read fiction. I'm fed up of all the nonfiction out there and everyone out there writing a book telling you how to live. I have a very stressful job as a Pharmacist and life is very stressful with all that's going on in the world plus the struggles of daily life. Fiction is the only joy I have. I love cracking open a book that takes me away into a fun, mysterious, exciting story 😀
All that man is by David Szalay is great, a bunch of short stories about men in different situations in life. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig I really enjoyed as I like his writing around mental health generally and this was a great fictional twist on that. About to move onto Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow which I’ve heard great things about. Admittedly, I’m still expanding my fictional arsenal but hope that’s a useful start!
Fake if you read allat bestsellers you are just roting your brain. You must have a good quality selection such as the harvard classics (that are for free on the web) or anything before the 19th century (the complete works of thomas jefferson are for free on the web for example, and anything before the 19th century is for free on the web legally.
This is a really good video, Ollie. You are doing great, keep up the good work and good luck for 2025. One of our goals is to read 30 books this year and you have helped us reflect more on that.
Actually useful. Its funny how most of us started reading from self help, like litearally everyone I know started with Self Help LOL. Anyways, then I found my kind of books - The Silent Patient, Six Of Crows, The Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy, Man called Ove, Good Girls Guide To Murder, etc. Recently got into some books like Meeting The Shadow. You're right. You've to read the things that you find interesting. At first I was overhwhelmed by the list of book I HAD TO READ like Oh God, so much. Now it's the opposite whenever I find some interesting book and add to to my list I'm excited like - OMG I've so much to read!! Cheers buddy!
It's amazing how UA-cam can serve you up a video about the exact thing you're thinking about or going through. This is almost exactly my journey through reading almost verbatim (except I'm a little older than the Harry Potter generation). And its taken me longer in life to have this epiphany, but I'm so, so excited to be on the other side of it. Cheers.
Great advice! Harry Potter is one of my favorites as well and I always come back to it for a re-read. One summer in college, I read the entire series in a week and that was my springboard into a lifetime of reading.
Awesome Video man. The similarities between us is quite intriguing. Like you I grew up on the Harry Potter series and was just obsessed. As I aged of course reading wasn't "cool" none of my friends were talking about reading or books period. After a long hiatus from reading I too found my way back with the Harry Potter series and have since rekindled my love for reading and stories in general, being able to explore different worlds and ideas through books is such an incredible experience and one that I hope to pass on to my children. Keep it up man loved the vid.
Great video, and I definitely agree with you! I noticed that when you force yourself to read something it feels more of like a chore and our brain just doesn't like that. Rather, when we read things we enjoy, our brain will be more engaged and that will cause us to want to read even more :D
I’ll usually do a non fiction book and a fiction book at the same time and switch off. What I’ve come to realize with non fiction books especially ones you’d consider self help is to focus on the main points and cut through the fluff. You don’t have to read every word to grasp the authors key concepts. Feel free to skip around and focus on the parts That are meaningful to you.
I don't read much, and I read even less fiction, but I do agree about mixing in some fiction with non-fiction, makes reading feel much lighter sometimes a good story that gets you reading 30 or 50+ pages in a sitting will help you massively with the non-fiction. I think I learned more about myself from John Niven's Kill Your Friends or Murakami's Men Without Women (Chapter 3) than I did from most non-fiction I've read
I've always read. Having a Kindle helps. Recently, I've read a few books that I've tried to "force" and agreed, it's not easy to finish them. Like you, I've gone back to read a few books that I've read before, such as Maupin's "Tales of The City." I'm reading one a month (they have very short chapters, which helps) and interspersing that with other books! Love biographies!
Pretty good video. What is the point in reading if you don't enjoy it? Reading fiction, no matter what kind, gives us the ability to experience things we never have or never could experience in our own lives. It's such an entertaining way to actually learn new things about ourselves and the world around us. I think books, no matter if fiction or non-fiction, don't always have to teach us useful knowledge. Instead of slogging through a library worth of self help books, entrepreneur biographies and productivity manuals why not just learn something useless for fun? Anything from literary classics, philosophical masterpieces and academic texts to YA, fantasy, sci-fi and knitting manuals are worth a try. The only prerequisite is, like you said, that you actually want to read it. Sometimes it's better to just turn off social media and go to your local library or book store and pick whatever catches your eye.
I have to take my hat off to people that can read while being anywhere? I see someone walking down the high street reading a book or people on a busy bus or metro and im like "how can you be aware of your surroundings while reading?" My brain will not allow me to do this. I need silence and comfort of nobody else or noise to appreciate the book or what im reading.
The cannonic way is to be eclectisist and read as many classic literature as you can (i recommend giving a first read without searching must terms unless you do not understand nothing in books by shakespeare for example, and then re read the boiks again.
We've had a similar journey except I tried to read a lot of history and literature to prepare for teaching (which never happened). Now I read fast or slow, I'll stop something for ages then pick it up again, I'll have 1-20 books going at a time, but most recently I've fallen in love with rereading.
Very good. I read mostly fiction, and probably one self-improvement book every couple of years. I feel they have good value, but I can get most of it out of the articles written about them, e.g. the Power of Habit. We are all different, so we have different paths to self improvement.
I always tried to read in the morning with my coffee or before bed because that's when everyone else reads. And I could NEVER build the habit. Always too sleepy in the morning and always too distracted at night with TV & Video games. So I started reading at 10:30am, and it just started happening every day. I'd had my cup of coffee, got through some admin/tasks for my Job and decided to reward myself with a break, and that break was reading - Instead of going on my phone. And this worked. Im already through 2 books this year by the end of March, which is essentially how many books I've read in the last 5 years of my life...
Great video man. You’re already doing some pretty sweet things here editing-wise and only a matter of time before your videos take off. Happy reading! 📚💪🏻
I’m 45 but I’ve only been reading books for two years, I didn’t know what I wanted to read so I started with self help books but have since moved on to fiction which I also really enjoy reading. I’m also Dyslexic so it can be hard at times pronouncing certain words & understanding what some words even mean. But I’m not going to let that stop me from reading 📚🤓👌
2012 to 2020. I worked in jeffersonville indiana, elkhart indiana , Mishawaka indiana and sheperville kentucy United sates. I would visit used book stores and read my books at Waffle House restaurant “the worst food in America’. I would read my used book from 4am to 8am. I read so much books that today, i am back home Downey California. I continue my reading habbit. I read three books at same time and one chapter from each book. I read psychology, philosophy and science.
the best action we can take is pick up a book or category we enjoy the most, past month I swap philosophy by fantasy now I can read and enjoy actually during my reading time. there are some grammar mistakes, I'm not american.
And by the way, books (the ones that i recommend) are infinites sources of knowledge and therefore one must be obligated to re read them at least three times.
"Like that man prior to modern times or in the early modern period when there was no such thing as the web, cell phones, TV, or even radio. He only had a few books to read, a little bit of paper, and people to talk to and spend time with, or he could engage in physical activity, cook, sleep, or simply exist as well as serve its nation." Me (
Great video! Actually theres where schools fails. In school, at least in portugal, we are obligated to read certain books. I never read them, i got the grades from Abridged versions. Now i read everyday, because i explored what books i like and the ones i dont like, so its just pleasurable
1. Read what you want. Life's too short to be reading anything else. 2. Trying new things can lead you to new favorites. 3. It's not a competition, there's no rush, and no one's keeping score.
Real books recommendations: The harvard classics (50 books selected by an harvard director in the starts of 20 century if im not wrong) Biblioteca clasica gredos (Collection of 400 books of the grecolatin culture, they are all in spanish but you can search each of them on english by translating the titles and searching for other editorials. Anything before the 20th century, be sure to find the erudits and no "postcapitalistic" (i hate marxist terms) books such as the books yall have loosed all your time on.
Glad I found your channel, man. I have recently had the exact same realization of not disregarding fiction, and actively decided to make sure I intertwine non-fiction (mainly ancient Philosophy) and fiction ☺ Currently reading Seneca/Plato and A Court of Thorns and Roses, because why not 😂 great hearing that same mindset from someone else though. Do you use Good Reads?
Glad to hear it mate! I don’t use good reads, I tried it a while ago but it never really clicked as something that I’d use. Admittedly, it’s probably worth giving it another shot now I’m reading more! 👍
Not going to lie, I haven’t even read it. It looked interesting when I was studying economics, but I never got round to it, and the likelihood that I actually read it is low.
Don't be afraid to give up on a book. If it's a chore, or you just cannot get into it, there's no shame in not finishing it. Put it aside, and read another book that's better for you. You might even come back to the abandoned book later, maybe not. It doesn't matter. Time's too precious to waste on a book that isn't doing it for you.
Interesting. I never felt affinity with fiction. I was forced to read fiction. I grew up reading non fiction as rebellion. 😅. People truly have different interests.. now i can enjoy fiction but in the past being forced to read fiction made me even stop reading too.
@@Vuden13 rubicon is great by Tom Holland. He also wrote Persian Fire another I couldn’t put down. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor another one. And Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski and any biography about Napoleon. And I have so much more I could suggest but reading all these should keep you busy for a bit.
Do you know spanish? I recognized the "DeBolsillo" book from Gabriel García Márquez. They're one of the big commonplace publishing houses here in Spain! Nice vid btw
Puedo hablarlo un poco. I had “el coronel no tiene quien le escriba” from when I studied Spanish in school. I want to start learning it again at some point, though, and so I’m going to pick up some more Spanish books soon to try and get a bit better!
Don Quixote de la mancha Iliad and oddysey The works of epictetus, platoo, aristotle, athanasius kirchner, the diaries of da vinci, albert camus, sor juana ines de la cruz, Menendez y Pelayo, Thomas Reid, Machiavelli, Ovid, Proudhon, Marx (even tho that ain working he did a nice critique ofhis reality and he was indeed an arudit), Dante, Garcia Marquez, Cervantez, Lope de Vega, spain golden century literature, shakespeare, the bible. And i forget a lot of wonderfull males and females that would be on theyr tomb angry due to the thinfs that yall read (with good intentious obviously.
Funny enough I remember buying that Elon Musk biography on kindle and having to bring it to a family pool party and just keep reading it because it was so good.
Different interests for different folks! Glad you enjoyed it, it’s more important to find what interests you than to force yourself to like what others do 👍 Thanks for your comment man!
Fake if you read allat bestsellers you are just roting your brain. You must have a good quality selection such as the harvard classics (that are for free on the web) or anything before the 19th century (the complete works of thomas jefferson are for free on the web for example, and anything before the 19th century is for free on the web legally.
Sorry if i commented a lot i just think that not enough people know about this and usually all are nauve because they had never had a gkance at the wonderfullness of classic literature and not the new age t*rds
List of books he recommended:
. Black box thinking - Matthew Syed
. Atomic Habits - James Clear
. The Happy Brain - Dean Burnett
. Notes on a nervous Planet - Matt Haig
. Scary Smart - Mo Gawdat.
The hero we all need 📚🙏
dont forget the way to wealth by Benjamin franklin! @@thisisunitive
I only read fiction. I'm fed up of all the nonfiction out there and everyone out there writing a book telling you how to live. I have a very stressful job as a Pharmacist and life is very stressful with all that's going on in the world plus the struggles of daily life. Fiction is the only joy I have. I love cracking open a book that takes me away into a fun, mysterious, exciting story 😀
Sometimes a good story is all you need! Thanks for watching mate! 👍
Not reading much fiction at all lately, got any recomendations?
All that man is by David Szalay is great, a bunch of short stories about men in different situations in life.
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig I really enjoyed as I like his writing around mental health generally and this was a great fictional twist on that.
About to move onto Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow which I’ve heard great things about.
Admittedly, I’m still expanding my fictional arsenal but hope that’s a useful start!
@@thisisunitive thank you sir!
pharmacists have it rough, now some seem to require a bulletproof vest
Three keys to success:
1. Read
2. Read
3. Read
Fake if you read allat bestsellers you are just roting your brain. You must have a good quality selection such as the harvard classics (that are for free on the web) or anything before the 19th century (the complete works of thomas jefferson are for free on the web for example, and anything before the 19th century is for free on the web legally.
There is only like 0.00001% of 21 century books that can tell you something useful and usually is only scientific research.
@@PhilipposIII So?
@@PhilipposIIIhis point still stands. And you're correct too
Amendment: challenge yourself a little in what you choose
This is a really good video, Ollie. You are doing great, keep up the good work and good luck for 2025. One of our goals is to read 30 books this year and you have helped us reflect more on that.
Actually useful. Its funny how most of us started reading from self help, like litearally everyone I know started with Self Help LOL. Anyways, then I found my kind of books - The Silent Patient, Six Of Crows, The Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy, Man called Ove, Good Girls Guide To Murder, etc. Recently got into some books like Meeting The Shadow. You're right. You've to read the things that you find interesting. At first I was overhwhelmed by the list of book I HAD TO READ like Oh God, so much. Now it's the opposite whenever I find some interesting book and add to to my list I'm excited like - OMG I've so much to read!! Cheers buddy!
Thanks mate! Finding your kind of books is the best feeling, glad you found it!
It's amazing how UA-cam can serve you up a video about the exact thing you're thinking about or going through. This is almost exactly my journey through reading almost verbatim (except I'm a little older than the Harry Potter generation). And its taken me longer in life to have this epiphany, but I'm so, so excited to be on the other side of it. Cheers.
This is great to hear mate, in this case the grass is certainly greener on the other side.
Great advice! Harry Potter is one of my favorites as well and I always come back to it for a re-read. One summer in college, I read the entire series in a week and that was my springboard into a lifetime of reading.
Sounds like an excellent week!
Awesome Video man. The similarities between us is quite intriguing. Like you I grew up on the Harry Potter series and was just obsessed. As I aged of course reading wasn't "cool" none of my friends were talking about reading or books period. After a long hiatus from reading I too found my way back with the Harry Potter series and have since rekindled my love for reading and stories in general, being able to explore different worlds and ideas through books is such an incredible experience and one that I hope to pass on to my children. Keep it up man loved the vid.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed! Very similar stories! Nothing better than a bit of HP 😂
Self improvement will have you try Harding reading instead of just picking up a book you find interesting and enjoying it.
Love the way you story tell, thanks for the tip , definitely keeping that in mind while I go shopping for books today :)
Thank you :) glad you enjoyed!
Great video, and I definitely agree with you! I noticed that when you force yourself to read something it feels more of like a chore and our brain just doesn't like that. Rather, when we read things we enjoy, our brain will be more engaged and that will cause us to want to read even more :D
Thanks! And totally agree, engaging stories are what I need! 👍
I’ll usually do a non fiction book and a fiction book at the same time and switch off. What I’ve come to realize with non fiction books especially ones you’d consider self help is to focus on the main points and cut through the fluff. You don’t have to read every word to grasp the authors key concepts. Feel free to skip around and focus on the parts That are meaningful to you.
Great shout!
Good stuff, I usually don't watch videos like these, but I really enjoyed this one. Also thanks for the recommendations!
Cheers mate! Glad you enjoyed
I don't read much, and I read even less fiction, but I do agree about mixing in some fiction with non-fiction, makes reading feel much lighter sometimes a good story that gets you reading 30 or 50+ pages in a sitting will help you massively with the non-fiction.
I think I learned more about myself from John Niven's Kill Your Friends or Murakami's Men Without Women (Chapter 3) than I did from most non-fiction I've read
Same with me for “All that man is” by David Szalay, sped through it and probably took more away than any non-fiction book I’ve read.
Yep, couldn't agree more! Listening to this was like you just slapped me in my face and vocalised a long repressed feeling!
I’m glad it resonated with you! Thanks for watching! 👍
I've always read. Having a Kindle helps. Recently, I've read a few books that I've tried to "force" and agreed, it's not easy to finish them. Like you, I've gone back to read a few books that I've read before, such as Maupin's "Tales of The City." I'm reading one a month (they have very short chapters, which helps) and interspersing that with other books! Love biographies!
Great ideas,and dont worry about stopping a book you dont like.
Life is more about saying no to stuff than saying yes.
Fantastic video. I don’t sub to new channels I find often but you got one off the bat. Love the insights
Cheers Luke, appreciate it mate!
Pretty good video. What is the point in reading if you don't enjoy it? Reading fiction, no matter what kind, gives us the ability to experience things we never have or never could experience in our own lives. It's such an entertaining way to actually learn new things about ourselves and the world around us. I think books, no matter if fiction or non-fiction, don't always have to teach us useful knowledge. Instead of slogging through a library worth of self help books, entrepreneur biographies and productivity manuals why not just learn something useless for fun? Anything from literary classics, philosophical masterpieces and academic texts to YA, fantasy, sci-fi and knitting manuals are worth a try. The only prerequisite is, like you said, that you actually want to read it. Sometimes it's better to just turn off social media and go to your local library or book store and pick whatever catches your eye.
💯 The self-development obsession is a toxic disease. It’s all over social media and it’s terribly unhealthy.
Thank you for those advices
I have to take my hat off to people that can read while being anywhere? I see someone walking down the high street reading a book or people on a busy bus or metro and im like "how can you be aware of your surroundings while reading?" My brain will not allow me to do this. I need silence and comfort of nobody else or noise to appreciate the book or what im reading.
I frequently walk into things when trying to read out and about. It’s part of the lifestyle 😎
Omg this is so trueeee. I can’t either!!
The cannonic way is to be eclectisist and read as many classic literature as you can (i recommend giving a first read without searching must terms unless you do not understand nothing in books by shakespeare for example, and then re read the boiks again.
Such a wonderful way of making a video ! Keep it up brother, more power to you :)
Thanks mate! Appreciate it!
Great video! Thank You for your advice man, I will now definitely follow Your journey!
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed mate!
Fitting the habit into the daily routine is the best thing that I did. Cuz reading is a part of my life
Bang on! Completely agree 👍
We've had a similar journey except I tried to read a lot of history and literature to prepare for teaching (which never happened). Now I read fast or slow, I'll stop something for ages then pick it up again, I'll have 1-20 books going at a time, but most recently I've fallen in love with rereading.
Great video. I'm definitely gonna binge all of your content now. Keep it up ❤
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks, brother! I read two or three books at a time, and I mix fiction with non-fiction.
Good to hear bro! Hope you enjoyed the video 👌
Very good. I read mostly fiction, and probably one self-improvement book every couple of years. I feel they have good value, but I can get most of it out of the articles written about them, e.g. the Power of Habit. We are all different, so we have different paths to self improvement.
Sometimes synthesising a book into more short form is the best way, especially with non-fiction! It’s something I’m exploring at the moment!
I always tried to read in the morning with my coffee or before bed because that's when everyone else reads. And I could NEVER build the habit. Always too sleepy in the morning and always too distracted at night with TV & Video games. So I started reading at 10:30am, and it just started happening every day. I'd had my cup of coffee, got through some admin/tasks for my Job and decided to reward myself with a break, and that break was reading - Instead of going on my phone. And this worked. Im already through 2 books this year by the end of March, which is essentially how many books I've read in the last 5 years of my life...
Respect mate! It’s much more important to find what works for you, than just to follow everyone else blindly, great to hear you’re doing well!
Facts only what your interested in! And your interests change over time so it's cool to see your taste in what you read change as well!
I just turned around a looked at my book shelf. I only have non fiction there! Time to read some stories I think!
Great video man, Keep up the good work
Thanks mate! Appreciate you!
This is actually helpful and to the point. Thanks for making this video 🙌
Thank you 🙏
Great video man. You’re already doing some pretty sweet things here editing-wise and only a matter of time before your videos take off. Happy reading! 📚💪🏻
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed!📚
I’m 45 but I’ve only been reading books for two years, I didn’t know what I wanted to read so I started with self help books but have since moved on to fiction which I also really enjoy reading. I’m also Dyslexic so it can be hard at times pronouncing certain words & understanding what some words even mean. But I’m not going to let that stop me from reading 📚🤓👌
Respect man! Keep cracking on with it! 📚
@@thisisunitive ❤️
Cloud Cuckoo Land reminded me of why I love books. Truly a book lover's book ❤
I’ll add it to my list!
@@thisisunitive please let me know your thoughts! 🙂
2012 to 2020. I worked in jeffersonville indiana, elkhart indiana , Mishawaka indiana and sheperville kentucy United sates. I would visit used book stores and read my books at Waffle House restaurant “the worst food in America’. I would read my used book from 4am to 8am. I read so much books that today, i am back home Downey California. I continue my reading habbit. I read three books at same time and one chapter from each book. I read psychology, philosophy and science.
the best action we can take is pick up a book or category we enjoy the most, past month I swap philosophy by fantasy now I can read and enjoy actually during my reading time.
there are some grammar mistakes, I'm not american.
Enter the recent comments tab and read my books recommendations.
And by the way, books (the ones that i recommend) are infinites sources of knowledge and therefore one must be obligated to re read them at least three times.
I recommend the essay On Books and Reading by Arthur Schopenhauer.
Beautiful work.
"Like that man prior to modern times or in the early modern period when there was no such thing as the web, cell phones, TV, or even radio. He only had a few books to read, a little bit of paper, and people to talk to and spend time with, or he could engage in physical activity, cook, sleep, or simply exist as well as serve its nation."
Me (
Congrats on going full circle.
Thanks!
I hope you see this. I recommend the book Plato's Republic. Just give it a try. It changed my life, and I'm willing to bet it'll change yours as well.
I’ll check it out!
Great video!
Actually theres where schools fails. In school, at least in portugal, we are obligated to read certain books.
I never read them, i got the grades from Abridged versions.
Now i read everyday, because i explored what books i like and the ones i dont like, so its just pleasurable
Thanks man! I always thought the books at school took far too long to read, turned out, they just weren’t my kind of books! So totally agree 👍
1. Read what you want. Life's too short to be reading anything else.
2. Trying new things can lead you to new favorites.
3. It's not a competition, there's no rush, and no one's keeping score.
Great points!
Fake, read the recent taps colments i think i expressed my thoughts enough good of what and why anyone should read only classical literature.
Real books recommendations:
The harvard classics (50 books selected by an harvard director in the starts of 20 century if im not wrong)
Biblioteca clasica gredos (Collection of 400 books of the grecolatin culture, they are all in spanish but you can search each of them on english by translating the titles and searching for other editorials.
Anything before the 20th century, be sure to find the erudits and no "postcapitalistic" (i hate marxist terms) books such as the books yall have loosed all your time on.
Thanks for the video!
Self-help books are so shit. It's mostly just one person's opinion and I feel they can never truly be generalised to everyone's life.
Glad I found your channel, man. I have recently had the exact same realization of not disregarding fiction, and actively decided to make sure I intertwine non-fiction (mainly ancient Philosophy) and fiction ☺ Currently reading Seneca/Plato and A Court of Thorns and Roses, because why not 😂 great hearing that same mindset from someone else though. Do you use Good Reads?
Glad to hear it mate! I don’t use good reads, I tried it a while ago but it never really clicked as something that I’d use. Admittedly, it’s probably worth giving it another shot now I’m reading more! 👍
lol - The shaky hand grabbing fir coffee ( Me every morning )
So creative. Had to subscribe 🤍
Thanks so much!
1:40 I'm an economics major but I've never heard of quantum economics. What is that? Is it worth reading?
Probably not, regular economics isn't even a real science lol
Not going to lie, I haven’t even read it. It looked interesting when I was studying economics, but I never got round to it, and the likelihood that I actually read it is low.
Thank you for this video! 🐧
Glad you enjoyed!
Don't be afraid to give up on a book. If it's a chore, or you just cannot get into it, there's no shame in not finishing it. Put it aside, and read another book that's better for you. You might even come back to the abandoned book later, maybe not. It doesn't matter. Time's too precious to waste on a book that isn't doing it for you.
Remember the quote by Borges: Is not that you are not prepared for the book, is that the book is not prepared for you
Interesting. I never felt affinity with fiction. I was forced to read fiction. I grew up reading non fiction as rebellion. 😅. People truly have different interests.. now i can enjoy fiction but in the past being forced to read fiction made me even stop reading too.
I think it just comes down to preference and environment! Thanks for watching!
I like this video because my reading habit is not very good. I am willing to work on it with your advice
Glad to hear it! Thanks for watching! 👍
I love reading history. A lot of it is really stranger than fiction.
What history books do you recommend
@@Vuden13 rubicon is great by Tom Holland. He also wrote Persian Fire another I couldn’t put down. Stalingrad by Antony Beevor another one. And Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. Moscow 1812 by Adam Zamoyski and any biography about Napoleon. And I have so much more I could suggest but reading all these should keep you busy for a bit.
I read One Day, it's an amazing book 📖
It’s great!
Do you know spanish? I recognized the "DeBolsillo" book from Gabriel García Márquez. They're one of the big commonplace publishing houses here in Spain! Nice vid btw
Puedo hablarlo un poco. I had “el coronel no tiene quien le escriba” from when I studied Spanish in school. I want to start learning it again at some point, though, and so I’m going to pick up some more Spanish books soon to try and get a bit better!
Why don't buy kindle?
I do have one! But I love physical books, can’t explain it!
What you listening to while u read in the train?
I listen to binaural beats. Enough to block out the distractions on the train, but not enough to distract me from what I’m reading 📖
@@thisisunitive Appreciate the response! I'll try that out!
Thank u! Subbed
Appreciate it mate!
Good video. You won a new sub.
Did you read Song of ice and fire? The books of Game of thrones
I’ve never read or watched Game of Thrones, not gonna lie! So never got into that really
I hope you can give it a chance soon. You'll love it
Great video.
Thanks!
Don Quixote de la mancha
Iliad and oddysey
The works of epictetus, platoo, aristotle, athanasius kirchner, the diaries of da vinci, albert camus, sor juana ines de la cruz, Menendez y Pelayo, Thomas Reid, Machiavelli, Ovid, Proudhon, Marx (even tho that ain working he did a nice critique ofhis reality and he was indeed an arudit), Dante, Garcia Marquez, Cervantez, Lope de Vega, spain golden century literature, shakespeare, the bible. And i forget a lot of wonderfull males and females that would be on theyr tomb angry due to the thinfs that yall read (with good intentious obviously.
I think people who look down on people who read something that isn’t “literature” probably don’t do very much reading at all.
is it normal for brits to read yank literature ?
I appreciated your comments on reading more. I also made a video about reading more: ua-cam.com/video/6h8r32Gfq10/v-deo.html
Funny enough I remember buying that Elon Musk biography on kindle and having to bring it to a family pool party and just keep reading it because it was so good.
Different interests for different folks! Glad you enjoyed it, it’s more important to find what interests you than to force yourself to like what others do 👍 Thanks for your comment man!
Fake if you read allat bestsellers you are just roting your brain. You must have a good quality selection such as the harvard classics (that are for free on the web) or anything before the 19th century (the complete works of thomas jefferson are for free on the web for example, and anything before the 19th century is for free on the web legally.
Sorry if i commented a lot i just think that not enough people know about this and usually all are nauve because they had never had a gkance at the wonderfullness of classic literature and not the new age t*rds
Does reading Littler Books count? lol
Read whatever makes you happy! However long the books are 📚
Stop wasting your life dude nice content, uh and i forgot about Antonio Escohotado and his books "enemies of commerce" and "general history of drugs".
Reading books is freedom? Nah not for me.
lol @ Musk, that was your biggest mistake right there. Throw that in the trash.