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My general rule is: if the book is in Barnes & Nobles its not worth reading. If you want true enlightening from reading branch out from what everyone else reads. The best books I have ever read in my life didn't even get published. Check out Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Lady. Which was rejected my 5 publishers
My general rule is: if the book is in Barnes & Nobles its not worth reading. If you want true enlightening from reading branch out from what everyone else reads. The best books I have ever read in my life didn't even get published. Check out Thomas Hardy: The Poor Man and the Lady. Which was rejected my 5 publishers
I finally got around to reading Dune. I burned though it pretty quickly and loved it. For some reason I can't get into the other books in the series. For now they mock me from their spot on my bookshelf...
Dune, followed by a 1-5 year pause, followed by Dune. Repeat until death.
You may, if you wish, throw in the first hundred pages of a different Dune novel every ten years or so, just to remind you of the correct sequence.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- A Briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- The Industries of the Future by Alec Ross
- Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- Start with No by Jim Camp
- How Google Works by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
- The Everything Store by Brad Stone
- The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
It's a really lucid and eye opening introduction to moral psychology, and as a left-leaning person politically has made me understand my right-leaning friends more than anything else. Truly enlightening.
1. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: great advice that I had never seen anywhere else (except his video that started the whole thing).
2. The Vital Question: good overview of origin of life research.
3. Fragment: hard science fiction (is that the term?) that delved into evolution and dovetailed with some of the reading I had been doing around that subject.
4. The Science of Navigation: delved into the wonder of current navigational technology and how we got to here.
5. The Lost City of the Monkey God: bought on a lark, made me realize that archaeology can still find new things nowadays.
6. Island of the Lost: historical account of two shipwrecks on the same island at the same time that knew nothing of each other.
7. Protecting the Gift: another eye-opener about being more aware of the ways people _can_ prey on children.
8. Wondrous Contrivances: how people reacted to new techologies in the past.
9. Rig Ship for Ultra Quiet: submariner's account of life during a Cold War operation.
I finally got around to reading Dune. I burned though it pretty quickly and loved it. For some reason I can't get into the other books in the series. For now they mock me from their spot on my bookshelf...
I think the quality starts to drop off after the first couple of books.
* The Unconsoled (Kazuo Ishiguro) * Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro) * Influx (Daniel Suarex) * Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami) * Apex (Ramez Naam) * One Second After (William R. Forstchen) * Anna Karanina (Leo Tolstoy) * Neuromancer (William Gibson) * A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway) * Crux (Ramez Naam) * A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway) * Hardboiled Wonderland and The End of the World (Haruki Murakami)