Books
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@Tago-Mago unless you disliked Neuromancer, I would highly recommend completing the Sprawl trilogy by tackling Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive next. The biography of the… nontraditional main characters is excellent and resolves across all 3 books.
The books are somewhat loosely coupled relative to most fantasy and sci fi series and human characters and settings come and go but all in the same world and with interesting evolution of the characters that do persist.
I’m a fan of all his work and have read the Sprawl trilogy 3 or more times over the past several decades and enjoyed it and taken more from it each time.
Think it, be it.
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I’m currently reading Dark Money by Jane Mayer which is a disturbing and disheartening book on political influence. I will leave it at that.
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@mclaincausey I'm going to have to go head first into this rabbit hole
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Made a Midjourney of Case from Neuromancer
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@mclaincausey They're on the list. I have to say it's not an easy read for me, I read by the chapter pretty much. A lot to digest and think about though
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Currently reading Mistborn Trilogy book 1. It’s a slow go…not boring but a bit bland for good stretches. It seems to be picking up now.
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Read Outlive by Peter Attia and thank me in a couple or few decades.
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Guillermo Arriaga - "The Untamable", "El Salvaje", "Der Wilde" or what ever, choose your language (original in Spanish). Hell of a ride through a gang-type of childhood in Mexico City in the 60s. Reminded me sometimes a bit of the places in 'Roma' (by Alfonso Cuaron, one of my favourite films), but totally different atmosphere, and a side-story in an Inuit world that needs time to develop and be incorporated into the main story. Absolutely recommendable.
I actually read this months ago, but saw a documentary about a Mexican artist today, and the architecture of that city (where I have never been, unfortunately) reminded me of this fantastic story. Like in 'Roma' a lot happens on roof tops and in patios.
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Currently reading The Power of One
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Been on a Stephen King kick of late and have reread a couple from my youth…Salem’s Lot and The Stand. Really enjoyed both. Strange how prescient some of The Stand was in light of what Covid was like (or could have been like).
Now reading All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy. Love it so far and can’t believe I haven’t read it sooner.
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@SKT you’re gonna wanna read The Crossing and Cities of the Plain to complete the Border Trilogy.
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@mclaincausey in the queue!
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Behave by Robert Sapolsky (Determined is in queue)
And The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Are great books to understand how our brains are structured and our minds work. Our minds are really good at deceiving us about our level of self-knowledge and control.
I’m currently reading What’s Our Problem? by Tim Urban, who writes the fantastic long-form blog “Waitbutwhy?” this book seems like it is going to address these topics at a societal level. We will see how it goes, but I have the most respect in terms of subject matter expertise for Kahneman and Sapolsky of all these writers.
