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by jackhammer2022 3315 days ago
I like - A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William Irvine, provides a good overview of stoicism.
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I was very disappointed in this book after hearing so many positive recommendations. It seemed like a lazy repackaging of famous stoic writings, dumbed down to appeal to a mass pop-science type audience, plus some projection the author’s personal opinions and ideas onto other writers, in a way that felt kind of forced and sloppy.

Just go to the primary sources.