Introduce Yourself: Recommend a book

[jsalbato@cnm.edu]

Start your reply with your name, what you prefer to be called, and then recommend a nerdy book that we should check out.

• This topic was modified 4 years ago by jsalbato@cnm.edu.
• This topic was modified 4 years ago by jsalbato@cnm.edu.

[jsalbato@cnm.edu]

I’m Jeff Salbato (your teacher), but I prefer Jeff. You only need to introduce yourself in one of these sub-topics, but, because I’m the supposed leader here, I’ll post in all of them…

Everyone should read Fromm’s Sane Society, Epictetus’ Encheiridion, Chomsky’s What Uncle Sam Really Wants, Milgram’s Obedience to Authority, Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Holloway’s Godless Morality, …and hundreds of others…go read some books now!

(If you want a fuller list of book recommendations, click the “Propaganda” link in the header above and you’ll find a bunch of categorized lists of my favorite books.
Thanks, Jeff)

• This reply was modified 1 year, 5 months ago by jsalbato@cnm.edu.

[Lindzey Corona]

Hi, I’m Lindzey and that’s what I prefer to be called. I’m 24 years old and majoring in sonography. A book or series I should say I think everything should read is the house maid series. It’s a thriller and each book gets better and better. Definitely will keep you up all night trying to finish it.

[Antonio Michelen Sanchez]

Hi everyone,
My name is Antonio Michelen-Sanchez, but you can just call me Antonio. A book I recommend you to read is the first book of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, namely, Dante’s Inferno. The Divine Comedy was written over 700 years ago by Dante from Florence, Italy. The Divine Comedy is an imaginative epic poem where Dante himself travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise to find his loved one. Although I can’t vouch for the entire epic poem, since I have only traveled slightly further than the entrance of purgatory with Dante, I can certainly say that the Inferno is one of the greatest books I have read! Throughout the entire journey I felt as though I was right beside the characters experiencing the horrors of hell and questioning if the inhabitants of it even deserve to be there.

[Anthony Hilty]

Hi everyone,
My name is Anthony Hilty, but feel free to call me Tony. A book I highly recommend is Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre. Written in 1938, it’s a philosophical novel that follows a man named Antoine Roquentin as he struggles with a growing sense of alienation and meaninglessness in the modern world. At first glance, it might seem bleak, but what makes this book so powerful is how it explores the idea that we are not born with purpose, we have to create it ourselves. Sartre’s existentialism really shines through here, and reading it made me reflect on how freedom and responsibility are deeply connected. It’s not a light read, but it’s one of those books that sticks with you and challenges how you see the world, and yourself.

[jsalbato@cnm.edu]

Great recommendation! The other books that you would probably like if you liked “Nausea” would be Dostoevsky’s “Notes from Underground” (it’s pretty short, like “Nausea”) and Camus’ “The Plague” (It’s pretty long, but it is a novel and a page turner).

[Iliana Portillo]

Hello!
My name is Iliana Portillo, feel free to call me Illy, but Iliana works just fine as well.
A book I strongly, STRONGLY recommend is No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. I was first enlightened to this book when I was in 7th or 8th grade while I was watching Bungo Stray Dogs and realized that the characters were named after authors! I decided to check out some of their books and found No Longer Human. Ever since, Dazai has been one of my favorite authors.
Written in 1948 by Dazai, a Japanese native struggling with post-WW2 disillusionment, No Longer Human (also translating to “A Shameful Life”) serves as Dazai’s autobiography. Dazai puts himself in the role of the unreliable narrator, Yozo, born into a prestigious family he consistently felt alienated by. Through his life he struggles with addiction, perversion, and all the temptations of human existence. Unfortunately, one of his biggest temptation was to end his own being. Yozo (Dazai) spends his intoxicated life chasing the perfect woman to commit double suicide with, finds multiple women who fit the mold, and yet he still survives every time.
This novel is definitely a hard read; you can tell Dazai likes his writing with how much of it there is. It’s also emotionally invoking and quite brutal, but beautiful. If melancholy would be a book, it would be No Longer Human. It speaks to the loneliness we all feel to some extent and, in pointing out that loneliness, it rids us of it.
I read this book once a summer like clockwork. My summary doesn’t even come close to doing it justice, but I tried my best not to spoil it. If you are an enjoyer of existential dread (which I’m assuming most people in this class are) this is an AMAZING book. My favorite fact about it is that this is DAZAI’s life made consumable by creating a character in his place. It makes it almost more sad, knowing that Dazai could not even face his own life under his name.

[Leigh Anne Perdomo]

Hi, my name is Leigh Anne. Some books that I would recommend to people is The Body Keeps Score and Becoming supernatural. A series that I love A Court of Thorns and Roses.

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