title: Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
author:  David Weeks 
description: This book summarizes findings from the first systematic study of "eccentrics": highly talented and unusual people who are somewhere between "normal" and "nuts". This is a domain occupied by genuine geniuses and charming crackpots whose common feature is that they refuse to hold commonly held beliefs or refuse to act in accordance with the norms of society. Although the book would have been a more compelling read if it treated each individual in more depth, and its conclusions more convincing if there were more tables of data, it is nonetheless a delightful book that will give you either more respect for the eccentric (if you believe that you are "normal") or greater confidence in yourself (if you suspect--or know--that <i>you</i> are eccentric). Recommended.
zlib_text: SALLY ROONEY
  Normal People
  
  It is one of the secrets in that change of mental poise which has been fitly named conversion,
  that to many among us neither heaven nor earth has any revelation till some personality
  touches theirs with a peculiar influence, subduing them into receptiveness.
   
  George Eliot, Daniel Deronda
  
  Contents
   
  1. Title Page
  2. Epigraph
  3.  
  4. January 2011
  5. Three Weeks Later (February 2011)
  6. One Month Later (March 2011)
  7. Six Weeks Later (April 2011)
  8. Two Days Later (April 2011)
  9. Four Months Later (August 2011)
  10. Three Months Later (November 2011)
  11. Three Months Later (February 2012)
  12. Two Months Later (April 2012)
  13. Three Months Later (July 2012)
  14. Six Weeks Later (September 2012)
  15. Four Months Later (January 2013)
  16. Six Months Later (July 2013)
  17. Five Months Later (December 2013)
  18. Three Months Later (March 2014)
  19. Four Months Later (July 2014)
  20. Five Minutes Later (July 2014)
  21. Seven Months Later (February 2015)
  22.  
  23. Acknowledg