Books
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@tody glad they clarified it’s Britain’s female Stephen King, whatever that means
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Again as with 3 Body Problem prompted by an adaptation to pull it forward in my backlog, read Dark Matter. This thing reads like a script and was entertaining and got through it very fast because it was hard to put down. Highly recommended for a quick kind of dark sci fi read as a suspense thriller without a lot of depth. I have more faith in the ability for a successful adaptation here than with 3 Body Problem.
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@mclaincausey finished reading “Outlive” on our vacation. Lots of takeaways but maybe the biggest for me was a reframing of the “why” part of exercise and nutrition. Moving forward I’m going to focus on the simple mantra of “training to be a centenarian”
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@SKT nice! I’m sure not all of it is perfect but there are at least some good key takeaways for me.
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@steelworker adding this to the list
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If I could upvote more than once @goosehd I would
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@Tago-Mago liked Journey into Fear too
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@steelworker will add it to my list. Only read uncommon danger by him and enjoyed it
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@Tago-Mago its much older, around ww2
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Movie out this week, Danny Lyon photos are wonderful. He has another book on the gutting of lower Manhattan for the wtc -
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@steelworker whoa...rad photos
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@steelworker I've been so looking forward to seeing this movie! Such an important book to our culture. I didn't know about his other book you mention, I will need to try and check it out.
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Halfway through listening to The Trolls of Wall Street by Nathaniel Popper. It chronicles the rise of the sub-reddit r/wallstreetbets from a niche forum on people placing bets on the stock market to its users realising that together they are powerful enough to move the markets. It's well written (and the audiobook is well narrated) and I'm enjoying - so far - hearing about how a group of self-described degenerates coalesced and started to screw with the system.
I used to find finance bewildering but books like this which put everything in layman's terms and include the personal stories of the characters involved make it make so much more sense.
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@EdH did you ever see the movie Dumb Money about this?
I was caught up in the whole movement myself, and it perfectly captured the hysteria and generally memery around it all
Lost £500, but it was so worth to be part of history!
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@T4920 No, haven't seen that one. I did watch the Gamestop short squeeze as a curious onlooker, and have seen a couple of documentaries about it since. Basically kicked off my interest in learning more about this whole side to the way things work, so when I saw this book come out a couple of weeks ago it was a no brainer.
Haven't gotten to the part in the book about Gamestop just yet. Where I'm up to the pandemic is just getting started and WSB is going mental because Robin Hood was down for a few days while the markets rallied after central banks said they'd be supporting the economy.
