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The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally

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Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain

Pete Egoscue and Roger Gittines

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Covid: Why most of what you know is wrong

Sebastian Rushworth

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The Expectant Father: The Ultimate Guide for Dads-to-Be

Armin A. Brott and Jennifer Ash Rudick

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Inner Engineering: A Yogi's Guide to Joy

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru), et al.

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Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and Diet Dictocrats

Sally Fallon , Mary G. Enig , et al.

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Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

Kamal Ravikant and HarperAudio

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Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events

Robert J. Shiller

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On Becoming Babywise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep "2019 edition"- Interactive Support

Robert Bucknam M.D. and Gary Ezzo

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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know (The ParentData Series)

Emily Oster

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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure

Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Siegfried Engelmann , Phyllis Haddox , et al.

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Don't Shoot the Dog!: The New Art of Teaching and Training

Karen Pryor

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The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles

Terry Wahls M.D.

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The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

Dr. Edith Eva Eger

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BrotkrumenonNov 19, 2015

History would disagree with you. You need an easy-to-carry, hard-to-replicate and non-spoiling unit of exchange. You also cant sell 1/7th of a cow for a new shoe.

Read "the gift" if you are interested. Barter is much rarer than adam smith thought and serious commerce was never based on it.

andreilysonDec 16, 2019

Well here are the books I’m currently reading (physical, kindle, and audible). I bounce around a lot. Sometimes it takes me a week to finish a book, other times I take a few months. Sometimes I never finish. But these are the ones I have some progress on so far:

1. Faust by goethe

2. I am That

3. Book of why

4. The gift by hafiz

5. Simulacra and simulation

6. Candide by Voltaire

7. Meeting the shadow: the hidden power of the dark side of human nature

8. Nonviolent communication

9. After the ecstasy, the laundry

10. Watchmen

11. Noble heart by Pena chodron

12. Developer hegemony

13. Brothers karamazov

sonnymonMar 29, 2010

As much as I enjoyed both Pale Fire and Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, I cannot, in good conscience, let these be the only Nabokov books to be mentioned here. Having read all his nonfiction and his autobiography over the past three years, I must warn against starting with either of these, two of his most difficult, novels.

You see, Nabokov toys with his readers - he leaves puzzles throughout his books; he writes in defiance of literary criticism (part of his impetus in Pale Fire); he foreshadows with a trail of anagrams. To throw someone in media res of two of his most complex tales (perhaps only surpassed by Lolita and The Gift), might give a premature distaste for Nabokov's heady style.

What I would personally recommend for someone new to Nabokov would be any of Despair, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, or Transparent Things.

If you like Nabokov, you may also want to try:

Rushdie, Salman - The Satanic Verses

Pynchon, Thomas - The Crying of Lot 49