Critics


Relentless
Chronic City
Brimstone (Pendergast, #5; Diogenes, #1)
Concrete
Motherless Brooklyn
The Turn of the Screw
Animal Farm
Crime and Punishment
A Room of One’s Own
The Remains of the Day
Alias Grace
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Aesop’s Fables
The Bell Jar
Dale Carnegie
The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener— a listener who will be silent while the irate fault-finder dilates like a king cobra and spews the poison out of his system.
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

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