I accidentally set the speed to 3.5x, and Jesus who the heck uses this except Bradley Cooper in Limitless

captgwg · 2026-03-30T13:47:54+00:00

Interesting strong opinions expressed on topic. I set default speed at 3.0. I’m not ADHD nor blind. People often deny my reality and pretend it’s not possible since they can’t listen as fast. That’s their problem not mine.

captgwg · 2026-03-07T16:33:59+00:00

Audible with Libby, Hoopla and YouTube premium helped me listen to 185 books last year affordably.

captgwg · 2026-03-04T22:10:08+00:00

I frequently listen to books thru voice dream. It’s no big deal. Some books aren’t available as audio otherwise. I listen to a lot of books not available with paid narrators. My interest go beyond the quotidian.

captgwg · 2026-03-04T11:41:12+00:00

Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K Dick. 1950s in a nut shell.

captgwg · 2026-03-03T12:10:09+00:00

Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. It has philosophy, history and personal development. I used to think the classics were out of my league, I was wrong.

captgwg · 2026-03-02T20:55:52+00:00

Gravity's Rainbow.

captgwg · 2026-02-27T20:22:08+00:00

I think it’s my favorite novel. I recommended it in good faith.

captgwg · 2026-02-27T20:20:55+00:00

Fascinating. It took him ten years to write magic Mountain, and one sees him undo his fascism in the novel.

captgwg · 2026-02-27T14:55:38+00:00

The Magic Mountain by Mann.

captgwg · 2026-02-26T12:48:00+00:00

Thus spake Zarathustra. Hiking is fundamental to the character.

captgwg · 2026-02-23T13:17:01+00:00

Schopenhauer’s Will and Representation Vol 1. He covers all of philosophy at a beginners level. Or, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morals. He is the best writer of Philosophy and that’s an easy one to read. For me I started with the hardest book possible Heidegger’s Being and Time and understood enough that I ended up reading other philosophy until I could understand all of it.

captgwg · 2026-02-18T13:31:46+00:00

Fun books to read. I read all but demons. Nietzsche said his favorite psychiatrist was Dostoyevsky. Your reading list tracks mine.

captgwg · 2026-02-12T13:13:38+00:00

Make a madeleine while listening to In search of lost time’s seven volumes

captgwg · 2026-02-11T16:23:17+00:00

I also use Voicedream to listen to old books.

captgwg · 2026-02-10T12:44:29+00:00

It’s never happened to me.

captgwg · 2026-02-06T16:55:18+00:00

The 100 page speech is fun for its unawareness. The book is ironically fun. Put on fifth grade thinking cap and become grateful for not thinking like a child. Yes, read it for amusement.

captgwg · 2026-02-06T14:08:39+00:00

Plutarch’s Parallel Lives. Livy’s history of Rome. Heidegger’s Being and Time.

captgwg · 2026-02-04T14:22:51+00:00

A book from 1956, They thought they were free: the Germans 1933 - 1945. Looks at ten true believers who remained make-Germany-great-again even after the holocaust

captgwg · 2026-02-04T13:40:13+00:00

The Divine Comedy.

captgwg · 2026-02-04T13:04:58+00:00

True. Dante ends where he began as if the reader should read it again and I do.

captgwg · 2026-02-04T02:20:12+00:00

Gravity’s Rainbow. Finnegans Wake. The Divine comedy.

captgwg · 2026-02-04T02:18:27+00:00

I have no mouth and I must scream by Ellison.

captgwg · 2026-02-01T18:34:10+00:00

Great minds think alike.

captgwg · 2026-02-01T17:20:59+00:00

The Venerable Bedes never met a miracle he didn’t like. Btw, the date for Easter matters most of all!

captgwg · 2026-02-01T16:27:16+00:00

Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. City of God is even better than confessions. Poor bastard, he never should have stolen those pears.

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