Post Modern


The Crying of Lot 49
White Noise
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Gravity’s Rainbow
Infinite Jest
Slaughterhouse-Five
House of Leaves
Cloud Atlas
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
Cat’s Cradle
The Three Pigs
V.
Invisible Cities
Breakfast of Champions
Voices in the Park
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. ...more
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Haruki Murakami
Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match. ...more
Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance

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