William J King

The Truth Be Told William J King

I try to keep my writing technique unique by researching genres, and the styles that go with them, so that I can make sure my product is as different as it could possibly be. When I decided to write a Philosophy book, I most certainly had to step up my game to meet the challenge. My first step was to read a few other philosophy books with the hopes of finding out what makes the philosophers great and the books that they write great reads. Truth be told, I failed miserably! I had no idea why anyone other than another philosopher would want to read such a book. I started with the "top ten greatest hits". "The Republic" by Plato... "Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle... "Lao Tsu: Tao Te Ching" by Laozi... "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky... "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius... "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer... "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" by Robert M Pirsig... "Beyond God and Evil" by Friedrich Nietzsche... "A History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell and... "Meditations on First Philosophy" by Rene Descartes. I ended with "are you kidding me!?". After not being able to hold enough interest to make it through the first three pages of any of these books, I concluded that one must be a great reader to read such a book, a great writer to write such a book work, and obviously have a great mind to understand such a book. Because I have yet to reach any level of greatness, my research came to an abrupt halt. I was puzzled by how good could a book be if even Cliff didn't make any notes, but how bad could it be if it sold millions of copies and people have been reading it for "millions" of years. My challenge was to write something for the mind that is not so great. Something relative to what is going on in today's world, but fun and easy to read. Trash talk has an impact on all of us, and "Truth Be Told" breaks it down in a way that we can all understand, including the great minds.