Excellent book and one of my all time favorites.
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âNeither Victims nor Executionersâ Albert Camus (1946)
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The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China by David Eimer.
I like travelogues that blend history - ancient, modern, or preferably both - with first-person observations and sociocultural information. Thus far, the author is revisiting a Uighur town in Xinjiang on the edge of a desert in north-central China. I know very little about that part of the world. The prologue and first chapter have been sufficiently interesting, so Iâll continue reading it.
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Just finished The Big Short by Michael Lewis. Awesome book that does a great job describing the 2008 financial crisis.
Iâm trying to get through Directorate S by Steve Coll. If anyone here has read and liked Ghost Wars I would suggest skipping Directorate S. He doesnât go into the same depth as Ghost wars and the book feels kind of repetitive.
âWhy war?â An exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud with an essay by Isaac Asimov.
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The Bachman Books. Itâs a collection of short stories he wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman.
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I thought the first half was a grind, but did thoroughly enjoy the second
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I just finished both of those books. Itâs been nice to read. Gonna scroll through this thread and find other books that look yummy.
Just started âThis is your Mind on Plantsâ by Michael Pollan.
Just finished Der Nazi & der Friseur by Edgar Hilsenrath.
Starting On Photography by Susan Sontag.
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Part way through The Last Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
Do you read German titles? I know you speak the language. It never really occured to me to use the original titles when posting here. I just always translated or googled if there is an English version, haha.
Yeah, I write the German title if I read the book in German. I donât read that many books in German because my townâs library does not offer much, but I found out recently that my universityâs library has a lot of them, so Iâm starting to take advantage.
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A short but great read! So interesting to see these great minds discuss something as basic and at the same time complex in short abstracts.
Next up: âNo exitâ - Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky, which is the sequel to Children Of Time.
I seldom read sci-fi, but this is on the same level as Dune. Most thought-provoking books Iâve read in years.
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Next: âthe strangerâ - Albert Camus (again).
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Representations of the Intellectual by Edward Said
Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher
And still listening to this
which is super fascinating.
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