Montaigne does _not_ like apples, right?

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- [How to Live; A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7624457-how-to-live) by Sarah Bakewell.
What a fantastic book---easily the best one I've read so far this year. It convinced me to go back and revisit Montaigne's Essays which I gave up after a rambling about an ancient war I couldn't quite follow a few hundred pages in. Montaigne is my favorite down-to-earth philosopher and like me despises academically ridden rationalism, although Descartes and Hegel's unintelligible texts would come much later. Montaigne is much more interested in the practicalities of life and how to live it. Oh, and he likes apples and prefers sex while laying down. Just so you know.
What a fantastic book---easily the best one I've read so far this year. It convinced me to go back and revisit Montaigne's Essays which I gave up after a rambling about an ancient war I couldn't quite follow a few hundred pages in. Montaigne is my favorite down-to-earth philosopher and like me despises academically ridden rationalism, although Descartes and Hegel's unintelligible texts would come much later. Montaigne is much more interested in the practicalities of life and how to live it. Oh, and he doesn't like green apples and prefers sex while laying down. Just so you know.
Bakewell runs down the history of Montaigne's past and legacy and adds context by other philosophers that would follow him. This is very accessible material that serves as the perfect introduction to Montaigne's seminal work and how to approach it.
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- There's a [DOS Games Club](https://www.dosgameclub.com/), they have a podcast and they're on Mastodon!
- [How is Felix today?](https://howisfelix.today/?), a crazy Quantified Self experiment driven to the extreme.
- Create your own RPG without effort using [RPG in A Box](https://www.rpginabox.com/).
- [Collector's Quest](https://soundcloud.com/collectors-quest), another retro gaming podcast centered on the good and bad parts of collecting I recently discovered. Includes an obligatory amount of swearing.
- [Collector's Quest](https://soundcloud.com/collectors-quest), another retro gaming podcast centered around the good and bad parts of collecting I recently discovered. Includes an obligatory amount of swearing.

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