Crime and Punishment ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

Review: I am not worthy of giving a review yet.

Quotes:

• “Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?" Marmeladov’s question came suddenly into his mind "for every man must have somewhere to turn...”
• “There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless. ”

Anna Karenina ~ Leo Tolstoy

Review: I am not worthy of giving a review yet.

Quotes:

• 'formerly a freethinker was a man brought up with the ideas of religion, law, and morality, who himself, through struggle and pain, had attained freedom of thought; but now a new type of born freethinkers has appeared. These grow up without so much as hearing that there used to be laws of morality and religion, and there was once authority in these things; they grow up simply with the idea of negation - that is, as heathens. (Part V, Chapter IX)
• He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.(Chp:9)
• She was a thin, sallow, nervous, ailing woman with shining black eyes. She was fond of Kitty, and her affection showed itself as the affection of a married woman for an unmarried one generally does, in a desire to get Kitty married according to her own ideal of conjugal bliss.(Chp:14)

War and Peace ~ Leo Tolstoy

Quotes:

• "He stormed fortresses with thirty thousand men. It's not hard to take a fortress, it's hard to win a campaign. And for that there's no need to storm and attack, there's need for patience and time. Kamesnky sent soldiers to Rushchuck, but I, with just those two(patience and time), took more fotresses than Kamensky and made the Turks eat horse-flesh." He shook his head. "And the French will, too! Take my word for it". Kutuzov said, becoming animated and beating his chest, "they'll eat horseflesh"
• He won't have anything of his own. He won't invent, won't undertake anything. But he'll listen to everything, remeber everything, put everything in its place, won't hinder anything useful or allow anything harmful. He understands that there is something stronger and more significant than his will - the inevitable course of events - and he's able to see them, able to understand their significance, and, in view of that significance, is able to renounce participating in those events, renounce his personal will and direct it elsewhere.
• All evening Nikolai paid most attention to blue-eyed, plump and sweet-looking blonde, the wife of one of the provinvial officials. With the naive convtion of young men making merry, that other men's wives were created for them, Rostov never left this lady's side.

The Alchemist ~ Paulo Coelho

Review: Neat and Innocent

Quotes:

• If you start out by promising what you don't have yet, you'll lose the desire to work toward getting it.
• Whoever has money is never really alone

The Tao of Jeet Kune Do ~ Bruce Lee

Review: This book had and has a special meaning in my life. It was the first book I consciously read. It catapulted me into great forays of philosophy. The impact of it was such that I still assume Lomachenko Stance.

The Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand

Review: Relatable and Realistic, unlike Atlas Shrugged.

Atlas Shrugged ~ Ayn Rand

Review: Dagny Taggart

The 48 Laws of Power ~ Robert Greene

Review: It's Alright.

Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess ~ Bobby Fischer

Review: The concept of "programmed instruction" is beautiful, and it should be used by all tutorial books. The arrangement of chess problems in "frames", and having the solution on the next page instead of on the same page was very thoughtful. The book solely concentrates on 1-3 move checkmates, back rank mates, back rank-mates defense.

The Simple Science of Flight: From Insects to Jumbo Jets ~ Henk Tennekes

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life ~ Mark Manson

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ~ Douglas R. Hofstadter