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Originally Posted by MikeUpNorth
For those of you that consider yourselves to be thinkers, I would recommend anything by Albert Camus the French existential philosopher. 'The Myth of Sisyphus' and 'The Outsider' are particularly good. Read them in my teens, but they stand up as good books.
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He was more of a sarcastic commentator on existentialism than existentialist.
"Extreme Cuisine" by Jerry Hopkins is very good. My initial disappointment that I'd eaten about 30% of the unusual things he describes in the books was overwhelmed by my joy at discovering he not only described eating unusual things, but had packed tons of recipes in as well...
Currently reading "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb - one of the best books ever written. It's a bit esoteric and will not appeal to most people, but the author really knows what he's talking about.