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[Consigliere]

Abandoned 3Body - series and book do not link up and I was lost

The 3BP book/show difference almost as profound as in GoT. But in the case of 3BP, the changes make the show better. Will take book two to the beach next week with high hopes.

More in this year of the Sci Fi hits:

- just finished Fall of Hyperion (not as good as book 1 and I will not read more in this series)

- started Red Rising but it did not hold my attention, too young-adulty.

- halfway through Long Way To A Small Angry Planet (nice but too cute, a little too sci-fi-written-by-a-woman not that there's anything wrong with that).

 

[Bleu Raeder]

- halfway through Long Way To A Small Angry Planet (nice but too cute, a little too sci-fi-written-by-a-woman not that there's anything wrong with that).

I really enjoyed that series. Yes, a bit cute but we could all use a little more cute sometimes.

 

[Bayouboy]

Looking for nonfiction recommendations. Interests include spy/counterintelligence, psychology, true crime/investigative techniques, science (general), biographies of interesting people, historical events.

 

[bonnjer]

If anyone wants to get a decent idea of what teaching is like, read this book:

The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, …

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring …

www.goodreads.com

I'm reading it now and I can tell you that after 25 years of teaching, pretty much everything in it is spot on.

 

[Tapxe]

The Four Agreements — don Miguel Ruiz

The Four Agreements have sold over 10 million copies in the United States, and have been published in 40 languages worldwide. The Four Agreements are: Be impeccable with your word. Don't take anything personally. Don't make assumptions. Always do your best.

www.miguelruiz.com

 

[Bayouboy]

I don't know how to embed the pretty box with the book title in it like the two posts above (BTW, how do you do that?).....so I'll post a link below. Just read the book Outlive by Peter Attia. It got a little technical in spots, but was a great read. Anyone concerned about their overall health and living longer should give it a read/listen. I would have needed to read this 10-15 years ago and maybe I wouldn't have some of the health issues currently plaguing me.

https://peterattiamd.com/outlive/

 

[bonnjer]

The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I am now re-reading Atlas Shrugged. I last read it when I was a teenager.

 

[Tapxe]

The Ape that Understood the Universe is the story of the strangest animal in the world: the human animal. It opens with a question: How would an alien scientist view our species? What would it make of our sex differences, our sexual behavior, our altruistic tendencies, and our culture? The book tackles these issues by drawing on two major schools of thought: evolutionary psychology and cultural evolutionary theory. The guiding assumption is that humans are animals, and that like all animals, we evolved to pass on our genes. At some point, however, we also evolved the capacity for culture - and from that moment, culture began evolving in its own right. This transformed us from a mere ape into an ape capable of reshaping the planet, travelling to other worlds, and understanding the vast universe of which we're but a tiny, fleeting fragment.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/psychology/biological-psychology/ape-understood-universe-how-mind-and-culture-evolve-1

 

[soupcan dan]

absolutely fascinating book about peter freuchen------ monster of a man who explored Greenland while the race for the poles were underway. His survival stories and compassion as well as his documentation of the native people put the history of this part of the planet into a new light.


the book is out on the patio and i'm 4 beeers in----lok it up yerself

 

[Cage1]

I am now re-reading Atlas Shrugged. I last read it when I was a teenager.

I started it when I was a teenager and am just about nearing the end.

 

[Maxp]

Looking for nonfiction recommendations. Interests include spy/counterintelligence, psychology, true crime/investigative techniques, science (general), biographies of interesting people, historical events.

The Mastermind is a fantastic read that pefectly fits the description above.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0399590439/?tag=associatessrp-20

 

[Bayouboy]

The Mastermind is a fantastic read that pefectly fits the description above.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0399590439/?tag=associatessrp-20

Thanks for the recommendation! Will cue it up now.

I just finished Exposure by Robert Billot. Great read. Tells about Dupont poisoning the drinking water and its cover up. Sort of like a big tobacco story.

 

[Consigliere]

I am now re-reading Atlas Shrugged. I last read it when I was a teenager.

I didn't think anybody ever actually reads Rand. They just quote her a lot.

 

[Bleu Raeder]

I didn't think anybody ever actually read Rand. They just quote her a lot.

I actually read The Fountainhead when I was a teenager too.

I get what you're saying though - most of Rand's writing is quite "wordy". Many people ditch reading beyond the first couple of chapters (in discussions I have had) because Rand often uses a whole paragraph (or more) to describe something like a feeling, other authors cut to the chase, so to speak. I think I understand why she does this even though her actual grasp of the thing she is trying to describe is beyond her.