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Just bought a shit-load of Kindle books that I'd been wanting to read for a while Sports_Gambler Send a noteboard - 25/06/2017 08:32:16 AM

Fiction:

A couple of sci-fi ones by a favourite author of mine, Kim Stanley Robinson:

'2312' (older classic - mystery-thriller set in our solar system) and

'Aurora' (more recent work tackling interstellar travel and colonization of new planets).

Non-Fiction

'How To Create a Mind' (Ray Kurzweil, Cognitive Science)

'Fooled by Randomness' and 'Black Swan' (2 classics on prediction and forecasting by Nassim Nicolas Taleb)

'Superforecasting' (highly cited classic on what makes a genius forecaster, by Philip Tetlock)

'Outliers' and 'Blink' (highly influential psychology classics on the nature of genius and intuition, respectively, by Malcom Gladwell)

'Thinking Fast and Slow' (psychology classic on the 2 main thinking styles, by Daniel Kahneman)

'From Bacteria To Bach and Back' (magnum opus by Dan Dennett, about the biological origins of consciousness)

'Sapiens' and 'Homo Deus' (recent much-talked about books on the history and future of humanity, respectively, by Yuval Noah Harari)

'Other Minds' (interesting marine- biology book on intelligence and consciousness in the Octopus, by Peter-Godfrey Smith)

'Time reborn' (popular physics - argues for the fundamental reality of time, by Lee Smolin)


Lots to get through

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Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now? Larry - 24/06/2017 02:52:02 AM 880 Views
When I'm not reading bar prep materials, I'm reading Russell's HISTORY OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY. Ghavrel - 24/06/2017 04:26:44 AM 479 Views
Such a provincial attitude to have, but sadly a common one back then Larry - 25/06/2017 01:30:48 AM 554 Views
It's a shame. The ERE/Byzantine Empire is criminally underappreciated, even now. Ghavrel - 25/06/2017 02:35:53 AM 483 Views
True Larry - 25/06/2017 02:57:01 AM 544 Views
Other people decide for me, these days (book club) nossy - 24/06/2017 11:50:21 AM 483 Views
Remember when we used to do such things around here? Larry - 25/06/2017 01:32:39 AM 587 Views
Robin Hobb - Assassin's Fate *NM* Simon - 24/06/2017 04:13:58 PM 306 Views
Roth's Radetzky March, Thomas Sowell's Economic Facts & Fallacies; Gav Thorpe's Corax Cannoli - 24/06/2017 04:36:38 PM 531 Views
Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission AgentApple - 24/06/2017 08:25:51 PM 440 Views
Would be interested to hear your take on both of those after you're done. Legolas - 24/06/2017 08:32:54 PM 487 Views
Re: Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens and Michel Houellebecq's Submission Larry - 25/06/2017 01:42:40 AM 520 Views
Keri Hulme - The Bone People. Really enjoying it. Legolas - 24/06/2017 08:35:01 PM 583 Views
That's much more time than I have, it seems Larry - 25/06/2017 01:29:20 AM 582 Views
It's kind of hard to describe. Legolas - 25/06/2017 10:58:46 AM 507 Views
It is such an excellent book. *NM* Rebekah - 29/06/2017 09:32:57 AM 319 Views
Re: Since it's been ages it seems, what are you reading now? gban007 - 24/06/2017 09:41:54 PM 538 Views
Just bought a shit-load of Kindle books that I'd been wanting to read for a while Sports_Gambler - 25/06/2017 08:32:16 AM 550 Views
On the books by Taleb Vodalus - 25/06/2017 09:46:32 AM 560 Views
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Oooh. I plan on reading this too sometime during the summer. *NM* The Shrike - 26/06/2017 01:15:50 PM 302 Views
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His footnotes in that trilogy are amazing. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 01:14:33 PM 491 Views
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I look forward to it. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 08:24:23 PM 480 Views
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A Night Without Stars *NM* random thoughts - 28/06/2017 05:48:13 PM 280 Views
Smutty romance. Rebekah - 29/06/2017 09:31:29 AM 605 Views
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