Books
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@Tago-Mago one of, if not THE first book I ever read by him and still one of my favorites. Reread it just last year. Classic
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@tody The Dark Tower is a great ride. The second book, Drawing of the Three and the introduction of Eddie Dean hits a personal soft spot
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I was hanging out with @mclaincausey once and he showed me a book called Musashi. It’s taken me a while to finally get a copy and start reading it…I’m about 2/5ths into it and completely enthralled.
I know this book has been shown some love here before, but damn if I couldn’t add my admiration for it as well.
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@Mizmazzle Look for the Art of War by Sun Tzu if you enjoy that one. There are tons of books out there that also analyze those books that are quite enjoyable as well.
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The subject of Musashi also wrote the Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No Shō), a book on strategy a la Art of War. Great read as well
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After fits and starts, I was finally able to read James by Percival Everett and by sheer luck, I had reread Huckleberry Finn just last year. Reading both so close together made James more powerful I believe. Highly recommend. @popvulture
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“Reading” We Are Legion: We Are Bob by Dennis E Taylor, read by the incomparable Ray Porter, who also breathed incredible life into Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.
This is a similarly nerdy piece of hard sci fi and while the book would read well, the voice performance on Audible is absolutely brilliant.
The premise of this series is a man has his brain cryogenically frozen in today’s time and place to be reawakened as an intelligence to drive a von Neumann machine in the future. It is very funny and an excellent story so far in book 1. A fascinating take on one of the more plausible ways an advanced civilization might colonize the galaxy, with a swarm of self-replicating probes.
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@SKT for sure one of my favorite books I've read this year. Inventive, enlightening, funny, terrifying, and heartbreaking in equal measures. I definitely would recommend that one and Babel by R.F. Kuang for anyone willing to give their perceptions of history a proper wallop.
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@SKT it's a cool one! It's sort of alternate history along the lines of a book like Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, in the sense that it's actual events that are peppered throughout with a bit of fantasy. Overall it's about colonialism, and opened my eyes in a lot of ways.
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@popvulture I put a hold on it…only 13 weeks out, ha! Will give me time to catch up on my list. Currently reading “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt
And @mclaincausey that book sounds interesting . I just skimmed “A City on Mars” by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (there’s a blurb by Andy Weir which reminded me) My son is obsessed with human travel to Mars and I wanted to become more knowledgeable about the subject. After reading this book I think the proposition is dicey at best. Anyway it was a fun skim.
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@SKT The Secret History is one of my very, very favorite books! Absolutely brilliant. The Goldfinch is also beautiful.
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@popvulture ahh…did you recommend it to me? Can’t remember where I heard about it. Enjoying it so far!
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@SKT hm don’t think so but it’s possible!
