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I take in the gift of nature…
I return the gift of nature.

50 books? Here are the Fifty:

1. Ishmael (a second time) – Daniel Quinn (Recommended by zzz3333)
2. The Story of B – Daniel Quinn
3. My Ishmael – Daniel Quinn
4. Siddartha – Herman Hesse
5. The Glass Bead Game – Herman HEsse
6. Longitude – Dava Sobel
7. Creation – Gore Vidal – (Recommended by Dad)
8. Lies My Teacher Told Me –
9. The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
10. Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes (Recommended by Pat Fitzgerald)
11. Plato – The Republic (Recommended by Pat Fitzgerald)
12. Man: An Evolutionary Mistake – Arthur Koestler (Recommended by Pat Fitzgerald)
13. Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre (Recommended by Pat Fitzgerald)
14. Gödel, Escher, Bach – Douglas Hofstader (Recommended by John Wittle)
15. I Am a Strange Loop – Douglas Hofstader (Recommended by John Wittle)
16. Anthem – Ayn Rand (Recommended by John Wittle)
17. Myth Adventures – Robert Asprin (Recommended by Adroit)
18. Consciousness Explained – Daniel Dennett
19. Introduction to Philosophy – Pompian
20. Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer
21. Physics and Philosophy – Sir James Jeans (Gift)
22. Dune – Frank Herbert (Accidentally stolen)
23. Discarded Science – John Grant
24. The Virtue of Selfishness – Ayn Rand
25. An Empire of Wealth – John Steele Gordon
26. The Demon-Haunted World – Carl Sagan
27. Compassion Fatigue – Moeller
28. How Music REALLY Works – Wayne Chase
29. All the Mathematics You Missed- Thomas Garrity
30. Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movie Theater – Richard McKenzie
31. The Pirate’s Dilemma – Matt Mason
32. Lonely Planet. Yes, the whole thing.
33. The Stranger – Albert Camus
34. Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
35. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
36. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
37. Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
38. The Illiad – Homer
39. The Odyssey – Homer
40. Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
41. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
43. The Federalist – Hamilton, Madison, James, and Jay
44. The Chalice and the Blade – Riane Eisler
45. The Cambridge Companion – All of them.
46. Everything is Miscellaneous – David Weinberger
That’s more than 50!

I will become a person who can be responsible for myself, and if I so choose, others. Krav Maga is how one way to cover one side of this.