TPQ: What are you currently reading?
WC: The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich.
WC: The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich.
TPQ: Best and worst books you have ever read?
WC: Best: The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell Worst: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?
WC: I loved the The Saga of Darren Shan - of young adult Vampire books
WC: Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
TPQ: Any author or book you point blank refuse to read?
WC: I gave my girlfriend the Michelle Obama guided journaling book as a birthday gift.
TPQ: A must-read before you die?
WC: Best: The Myth of Male Power by Warren Farrell Worst: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
TPQ: Book most cherished as a child?
WC: I loved the The Saga of Darren Shan - of young adult Vampire books
TPQ: Favourite childhood author?
WC: Darren Shan.
WC: Darren Shan.
TPQ: First book to really own you?
TPQ: Favourite male and female author?
WC: Male: Charles Buckowski. Female: JK Rowling
TPQ: A preference for fact or fiction?
WC: Fact now. Fiction when I was a child or teenager.
TPQ: Biography, autobiography or memoir that most impressed you?
WC: Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning.
WC: Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning.
WC: I don’t think I’d read any more of Robin DiAngelo’s work but probably will in order to be able to combat the corrosive ideas.
TPQ: A book to share with somebody so that they would more fully understand you?
WC: Robert Wright - The Moral Animal to understand Evolutionary Psychology and how I see the world.
TPQ: Last book you gave as a present?
WC: I gave my girlfriend the Michelle Obama guided journaling book as a birthday gift.
TPQ: Book you would most like to see turned into a movie?
WC: Any Tucker Max book.
WC: Any Tucker Max book.
TPQ: A must-read before you die?
WC: I feel like I ought to read the work of Karl Marx.
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| William Costello is an Irish writer studying Evolutionary Psychology at Brunel University London. William has debated publicly at Universities around the UK about feminism and gender/identity politics. William writes opinion pieces for various publications and you can follow his work on Twitter: @CostelloWilliam and Medium. |
Catcher in the Rye has drawn a bit of discussion across the Booker's slot. Some like it and some haven't. It was a book about which I couldn't understand the attraction.
ReplyDeleteAs for Marx, I very much enjoyed the Frances Wheen work on him.
Thanks for doing this William.
Depends on how old you are when you read it. I was 14 and found it to be the most profound book ever written. Hence why I've never revisited it.
DeleteI was nine years into a jail sentence when I read it, so in my late twenties. A friend used to enthuse about it and I opted to read it and then asked him why the gushing enthusiasm? It never struck me as a stand out novel. Great novels for me that stand out are The Outsider by Camus, The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky - outside of the classic genre were Rivers Of Darkness by Ronald Hardy, The Stand And Pet Sematery by Stephen KIng, The Children of the Arbat by Anatoly Rybakov. Head Hunter by Michael Slade - and a few more. I can remember the deep enjoyment from reading them. Almost makes me think I was happy in the place!!
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