Greenlights
McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.
2,577-word summary · 11 min read
Tag: philosophy
117 books with this tag.
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Atlas Shrugged
Railroads strain under rules as Dagny fights to keep trains running and find a missing inventor.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Surgeon Tomas loves Tereza yet keeps mistresses, while artist Sabina and professor Franz test freedom around the 1968 Soviet invasion of Prague.
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The Screwtape Letters
A senior devil advises his nephew Wormwood on tempting an ordinary Englishman away from faith and attention.
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The Four Agreements
Don Miguel Ruiz offers four Toltec agreements for personal freedom: impeccable word, detachment, curiosity, and effort.
2,289-word summary · 10 min read
Mere Christianity
C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.
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The Art of War
Sun Tzu's thirteen chapters on winning without fighting: laying plans, knowing ground, using spies, and why the best victory costs least, in the classic Giles…
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When Breath Becomes Air
A neurosurgeon facing terminal cancer asks what makes life meaningful when time runs out.
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The Shack
After his daughter's murder, Mack gets a note to return to the shack and spends a weekend questioning God.
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Siddhartha
A Brahmin son leaves home to find peace beyond teachers and rules.
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Man's Search for Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl survived Auschwitz and argued that humans can endure anything by finding meaning in it.
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Interview with the Vampire
Louis tells a reporter how Lestat made him and how Claudia doomed them all in New Orleans and Paris.
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The Stranger
Meursault buries his mother, kills a man on an Algiers beach, and faces trial for seeming to feel nothing.
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Crime and Punishment
Raskolnikov kills a pawnbroker to prove he is beyond morals, then unravels under Porfiry and Sonya.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray retold: Basil paints, Henry talks, wish holds youth while canvas bears years.
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The Midnight Library
Matt Haig's The Midnight Library retold: Nora between lives, Mrs Elm, regrets tried on, and choosing to live.
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The Little Prince
Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince retold: a pilot, a rose, the fox, and what matters is invisible.
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Brave New World
Huxley's Brave New World retold: hatcheries, soma, Bernard and Lenina, John the Savage, and the lighthouse.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the scientific centuries…
2,145-word summary · 10 min read
The Alchemist
The Alchemist from start to finish: Santiago's dream, the Personal Legend, the crystal merchant, the desert, and the treasure that was never where he thought.…
2,166-word summary · 10 min read