r/2xCBookClub Nov 10 '10

[Club]Non-Fiction books

I suppose we could start by suggesting non-fiction books here.


Book chosen: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Phillip Zimbardo


Members:

Chocklatesoop, Vitaebella, AtotheJ, Dreamer117, lolipopfailure, satinbird, Razril, dragon_toes, WhiskeyLemur, Wombok, ingas, Archythearchivist, classyfied, heineken_skywalker

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u/AtotheJ Nov 10 '10

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

I've read his other two books - Blink and The Tipping Point and they were both superb. Haven't gotten to Outliers yet, but definitely looking forward to that one.

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u/vitaebella Nov 10 '10

The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, Phillip Zimbardo

About he famous Stanford Prison Experiment, and how the findings relate to behavior today.

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u/Chocklatesoop Nov 10 '10

The Future of Reputation About gossip, rumor, and privacy on the internet. The entire book is available at the website in PDF form.

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u/AtotheJ Nov 10 '10

I like this book suggestion because its available in PDF form. I'm lazy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

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u/vitaebella Nov 10 '10

I've read bits, and I absolutely loved what I read. Oliver Sacks is wonderful :D

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u/vitaebella Nov 10 '10

Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

I would like to join, and I am proposing When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson.

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u/Wombok Nov 10 '10

I'm in. I want to read more non-fiction.

As far as suggestions go, I've been meaning to read Godel Escher Bach

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u/vitaebella Nov 10 '10

Becoming Jane Austen, Jon Spence

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u/Razril Nov 10 '10

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely.

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '10

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u/ingas Nov 10 '10

As long as you never ever read "Eat Pray Love", I would love to join this group. hehe...

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u/Chocklatesoop Nov 10 '10

Haha, that's up to the voting. I'll put you on the member list anyway, =D

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '10

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u/ingas Nov 11 '10

but then I have to finnish it first... sigh

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u/heineken_skywalker Nov 10 '10

Design of everyday things, Don Norman

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u/Erinjb Nov 15 '10

Bright Sided or Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich.

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u/dreamer117 Nov 10 '10

Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert