The World, The Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
Recommended by Jia Tolentino
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
No one burned hotter than Eve Babitz. Possessing skin that radiated ?its own kind of moral laws,? spectacular teeth, and a figure that was the stuff of legend, she seduced seemingly everyone who was anyone in Los Angeles for a long stretch of the 1960s and ?70s. One man proved elusive, however, and so Babitz did what she did best, she wrote him a b...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Jia Tolentino
“At some level I'll spend my whole life wishing that I'd ever really lived, if just for a little while, the way Babitz did in Los Angeles in the 1960s and '70s. No one writes about pleasure, recklessness, and evanescence better. This book is like a night with perfect velocity; a lavender sunrise; a pharmacological whisper that you can do this forever and never die.”
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Consider The Republic by Plato. Recommended by 13 sources.
“Plato stages an extended Socratic conversation that moves from concrete questions about justice into broad proposals about an ideal city, the structure of the soul, and what counts as reality and knowledge. Reading alternates brisk question-and-answer snippets with long, cumulative demonstrations that reward careful attention and annotation. Main value: a wealth of thought experiments for testing political and ethical intuitions. Main limitation: repetitive refutations, long policy sketches and dense metaphysical passages can feel abstruse and slow; patience and some philosophical background help.”
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