Quote:
Originally Posted by Konstantin
Definitely look into "Letters from a Stoic" and, if you can get your hands on it, "On the shortness of life" by Seneca. The former, especially, is an amazing book.
|
I love Seneca's "De Vita Beata" (= "On the happy life"). I really admire the stoic philosophy, although I highly doubt I'll ever be able to put it into practice myself. I've been meaning to read Marcus Aurelius, I really have to get to it one of these days.
I'm currently reading "The end of Mr Y" by Scarlett Thomas. I've only read the first couple of chapters, but so far it seems promising. I've also almost finished Gregory Maguire's "Wicked". It's going quite slowly though, it's not as interesting as I thought it would be.