Jarek

About me

Gender Male
Location Budapest, Hungary
Interests Books, movies, wine, food, politics, skiing, traveling
Favorite Music John Coltrane, The White Stripes, Miles Davis, Chris Potter, Dave Holand, Krzysztof Komeda, Tomasz Stanko, Sonny Stitt, Oliver Nelson, Led Zeppelin, Bad Plus, The Shins, Beck
Favorite Books Fiction: Disgrace by JM Coetzee, Atomised by Michel Houellebecq, Human Stain, Portoy's Complaint, Plot Against America, American Pastoral all by Philip Roth, Rabbit books by John Updike In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The House for Mr. Biswas by VS Naipaul, The Power and the Glory by Graham Green, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, Kevin Baker's City on Fire Trilogy, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Living to Tell the Tale by GG Marquez, Amsterdam by Ian McEwan, Non-Fiction: Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski, History of American People by Howard Zinn, The Metaphysial Club by Louis Menand, When Work Dissapears by WJ Wilson, Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper, Why I am not a Christian by Bertrand Rusell, The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki, Guns Germs and Steel and Collapse by Jared Diamond, Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber, Madness and Civilization : A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason by Michel Foucault