John Cleese

Lucky Jim

by Kingsley Amis · Classics

“Dixon has wonderfully funny fantasies, and Margaret, his sometime girlfriend, is one of the most awful human beings in fiction. I remember reading this by the side of a swimming pool in Spain, and I was really quite bothering the people around me because I kept bursting into hysterical laughter.” — via Article, February 2017

Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky

Volume 1

by Maurice Nicoll · Nonfiction

“Nicoll, a British psychiatrist, was a pupil of Armenian philosopher and mystic George Gurdjieff. His multi-volume book contains, I think, the best advice on understanding one's own psychology as looked at through the Esoteric Christian tradition.” — via Article, February 2017

The Bonfire of the Vanities

by Tom Wolfe · Classics

“Wolfe's big novel about 1980s New York City is an absolutely superb book. It delighted me, and told me so much about a certain part of American society.” — via Article, February 2017

Popper

by Bryan Magee · 1973 · Nonfiction

“To me, Karl Popper is the best philosopher of science of the last century. This little book taught me more about the philosophy of science than any other.” — via Article, February 2017

The Master and His Emissary

The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

by Iain McGilchrist · Nonfiction

“This is probably the most interesting, most important book I've ever read. McGilchrist is a quite extraordinary man.” — via Article, February 2017