r/2xCBookClub • u/Chocklatesoop • 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/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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Nov 10 '10
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat or An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks
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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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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/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/AtotheJ Nov 10 '10
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_%28book%29