Tag: #books
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East of Eden
Tl;Dr: Wow. Just Wow. Read it. East of Eden comes up at a must read routinely. After 50 some odd years, I agree. The prose is very good. Very Well written, and many very good turns of phrase. It’s easy to visualize what he’s describing, very evocative. The characters are interesting, deep and believable. In…
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The Drunkards Walk – Book Review pt 1
I’ve been reading The Drunkards Walk – How Randomness Rules our lives. Really interesting! The main points being: Some examples: ‘ Hot hand’ or streaks in sports (and movie producing, and corporate earnings, and investment returns) are accounted for by random chance, _even though they seem like they aren’t_. Firing the coach or CEO for…
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Book Report: Delta_V & Critical Mass
TL;Dr: Delta-V and Critical Mass were fun in a rather clinical way. Nice work Daniel Suarez I’ve been on a cyber-punk/sci-fi kick recently. Wanting to have some of those Snow Crash/Necromancer vibes. Surely there is a broader genre? Daniel Suarez’s books Delta-V and Critical Mass come up on a fair short list of options. These…