Read More on Amazon “Nice comfortable people just don’t have any idea what the world is like.” Will Farnaby is a cynical, depressed, neurotic but witty journalist who works for a rich man he despises (the average westerner, basically).   His worldview changes drastically when he is shipwrecked on the forbidden island of Pala.   According to […]

Read More on Amazon “While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been. But on this Cretan coast I was experiencing happiness and knew I was happy.” […]

Read More on Amazon What a sad book. Serotonin makes Dostoyevsky seem like Friday night standup comedy. Despite the sadness, the themes that Houellebecq covers are crucial. Our atomization, “Paris: like all cities, Paris was made to generate loneliness,”. Our sexual liberation, which in theory should have opened us boundless joy, yet it brings us […]

  Read More on Amazon Our Culture, What’s Left of It poses a controversial question. What if liberal policies are harming us? Theodore Dalrymple is the psychiatrist of the British underclass. After spending years treating drug addicts, convicts, victims, and perpetrators of abuse he concluded that the main cause of their behavior is culture.  The […]

Read to learn the fundamentals of building wealth.  Read More on Amazon The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason is one of my favorite personal finance books. An American hustler in his 50s, who looks like Jason Momoa from Texas, recommended it to me when I was 18. The book opened my eyes […]

Read to learn how a shy, timid, weak, and sickly child went to become the most powerful man in the world.  How can a book capture a man who is larger than life? You can write thousands of pages and there will be something missing. But The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris comes […]

Proverbs is one of my favorite books of the Holy Bible. It is filled with Godly wisdom that will improve your life.  The “original self-improvement” is nourishing and useful for believers and non-believers alike.  The Lessons in Proverbs contain the Biblical staples of wisdom, discipline, moderation, long-term thinking, hard work, and abstinence.  Memorable verses from […]