Blood Meridian (or The Evening Redness in the West) by Cormac McCarthy. Quickly became my favorite book after reading it a second time. I've never read a book with more effective language.
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#22Walter Isaacson's The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Reading about how the Crispr and mRNA vaccine development happened was gripping.
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#23Started reading r/fantasy’s top self published fantasy list. Loved the Cradle series by Will Wight.
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#24Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.
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#25Children of Time and the sequel Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Best sci-fi I’ve read in a while.
Really liked the first one. How is the second one? Sort of been avoiding it because of how much I liked the first, and not wanting to be disappointed.
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#26Started reading r/fantasy’s top self published fantasy list. Loved the Cradle series by Will Wight.
If you like that, you might like r/progressionfantasy. They really drill down on the hero’s journey genre.
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#27Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl (1946).
A close runner up might be Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis (1989).
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#28I read the foundation series by Asimov. Its title of the best sci-fi series of all times isn’t a hyperbole.
read it for the 3rd time this year and it was just as good if not better. wow!
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#29Images of Organization by Garth Morgan.
I went in expecting a somewhat fluffy business book, but it is nothing of the sort. Every page is full of interesting anecdotes, analogies, and insights around not just corporate life, but life in general.
It was way more thorough and academic than I expected, very highly recommend it.
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#30Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson presents a best case scenario for our future.
Really love this book too. Feel like some of the ideas outlined here could make a difference for the climate future. Hard to see them being politically palatable though.