Really into history now after this. On the lookout for good historical books on Indian subcontinent and central Asia.
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The Book Thread
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smalishah84
The Tiger King
have heard good things about this book. Haven't been able to pick it up though. On the bucket list.
smalishah84
The Tiger King
Currently reading book 1 of the farseer trilogy as well as Musashi. I think farseer book 1 will have to take a backseat. I am loving Musashi, reminds me of James Clavell's shogun.
Teja.
Global Moderator
This was excellent. Dark comedy in the bleakest of situations mixed with whodunnit and psych-thriller. Loved the portrayal of 90s Chennai. The premise is basically a drunk journalist father obsessively researching the life of his 17 yo son who committed suicide.
Really cool to see contemporary Indian fiction in the style of RK Narayan.
Has anybody here read any Kissinger? Thinking of reading one of his geo-politics books.
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Teja.
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This was a very fun book. I want to read his futurism book as well.
Sudeep
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I loved The Stand. I did audiobook though, and it was narrated fairly well. The length of the book didn't bother me; I didn't feel bored at any point. The premise is excellent, and King's character work is brilliant. I started It after reading The Stand, expecting that would be a similar read (in terms of big book, but a breeze to read/listen), but I've gotten bogged down at different points along the story (and still haven't completed it).
Sudeep
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I really liked Sapiens. I did audiobook for that as well. It was actually the first audiobook I ever listened, and it's narrated very well. Same narrator did the Homo Deus book, but I just didn't enjoy it as much, and quit after about the first 10% or so. It's a book along similar lines with A Short History of Nearly Everything, with a slightly smaller scope. Of course Bryson's humor makes his A Short History of Nearly Everything a better read/listen than Sapiens, but the latter was very good too!
SillyCowCorner1
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I'm currently reading The Universe in Your Hand by one of Stephen Hawking's PhD students, Christophe Galfard.
AluminiumBat
Member
I always have three on the go, one on my phone, one upstairs, one downstairs. This is because you can't **** around with hardbacks in the bath.
Mobile: The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen. I'm a Lovecraft obsessive but i've never read this before, somehow, so am looking forward to it. Spooooky.
Donwstairs:Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll. There's always a #1 physicist and he always has a #1 book and this is his I guess. It's good, but he's got one of those chapters where a scientest and her dad discuss many worlds quantum physics, and you know what, gtf with that. Those chapters are always terrible. I don't want to hear about how many olives some kid's dad likes in his martini when I read this type of book. Or any type of book tbh. But he's so strong until he gets on to many worlds, I felt my understanding refreshed. He's married to many worlds though. I think this blinds him a little to the shortfalls.
Upstairs: 30 Second Brain by Amil Seth. This has been a big disappointment. The idea is that each page holds 30 seconds of vital information on a crucial point of the subject matter, in this case, the human brain. I was really stoked to read this but I haven't really had my mind blown tbh. It's not **** - probably my expectations were a little high.
Mobile: The White People and Other Stories by Arthur Machen. I'm a Lovecraft obsessive but i've never read this before, somehow, so am looking forward to it. Spooooky.
Donwstairs:Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll. There's always a #1 physicist and he always has a #1 book and this is his I guess. It's good, but he's got one of those chapters where a scientest and her dad discuss many worlds quantum physics, and you know what, gtf with that. Those chapters are always terrible. I don't want to hear about how many olives some kid's dad likes in his martini when I read this type of book. Or any type of book tbh. But he's so strong until he gets on to many worlds, I felt my understanding refreshed. He's married to many worlds though. I think this blinds him a little to the shortfalls.
Upstairs: 30 Second Brain by Amil Seth. This has been a big disappointment. The idea is that each page holds 30 seconds of vital information on a crucial point of the subject matter, in this case, the human brain. I was really stoked to read this but I haven't really had my mind blown tbh. It's not **** - probably my expectations were a little high.
AluminiumBat
Member
What's this about? Is it good? What are the touchstones for the guy?
Uppercut
Well-known member
Hate it when that happens.
AluminiumBat
Member
wtf brother.
Is that Wizard and Glass?
Did not finish, and did not go near a Dark Tower until the last one. Stood in the shop reading the last chapter and absorbing dirty looks from the staff. Worked in a call centre at the time and no amount of service industry needle could hurt me.
One is the best for me by 100,000 miles and the best thing he wrote, also.
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
got through one out of five, and have since added about 30 that i'm probably never going to read.
i blame the weird cost models of amazon, booksellers, and the death of translated works
Uppercut
Well-known member
Nice, which one did you read?
Pomerantsev's latest is very good too. But it's so densely packed with insight that it takes a bit of time to get through, whereas Nothing is True is if anything hard to put down. You can tell which one was written when he was working as a documentary maker and which one he wrote while working as an academic.
Teja.
Global Moderator
Me and the SO are doing a thing where we read part of a classic book that neither of us has read before everyday and discuss it at the end of the day. We’re starting with Oliver Twist to be read over a period of ten days.
Read the first four chapters today and it was pretty gun.
>Dickens manages to both stick to describing specific scenes in minute detail (with the narrator often relegated to the role of a descriptor as opposed to a standalone storyteller) as well as always advancing the plot at the same time. In the first four chapters, Oliver has changed locations five times yet I know the specifics of his diet, boarding and authority figures in each location in memorable detail.
>love how the narration is fueled by CD’s deeply sarcastic rage against the machine.
>It’s unreal how CD manages to turn the grim reality of an orphan being raised in torturous conditions into the genre of dark comedy.
>There’s a lot of tropes and references that I now get.
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s allowance of gruel!
Read the first four chapters today and it was pretty gun.
>Dickens manages to both stick to describing specific scenes in minute detail (with the narrator often relegated to the role of a descriptor as opposed to a standalone storyteller) as well as always advancing the plot at the same time. In the first four chapters, Oliver has changed locations five times yet I know the specifics of his diet, boarding and authority figures in each location in memorable detail.
>love how the narration is fueled by CD’s deeply sarcastic rage against the machine.
>It’s unreal how CD manages to turn the grim reality of an orphan being raised in torturous conditions into the genre of dark comedy.
>There’s a lot of tropes and references that I now get.
Can’t wait for tomorrow’s allowance of gruel!
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