Wants to read Snow Crash
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Rated The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes 10/10
An exemplary biography of a figure that I, like many, have *heard about* more than I've really *known about*. Carter makes an excellent case for the importance of Keynes through the 20th century and in our own time - it's insightful and grapples with Keynes' contradictions and misfires as much as it does the gravitational impact of his work on the world. A lot of this stuff is abstruse and opaque and Carter is a really good popularizer/explainer, putting into sharper definition a lot of ideas and concepts I'd struggled with. In particular, I think the last couple of chapters are really useful as they define the economic policies of the Clinton and Obama administrations as clearly - and harshly - as I've read in any text. Highly recommend!
Rated Anyaföld íze a számban 10/10
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Wants to read The Left Hand of Darkness
Finished reading Rick and Morty: Deluxe Edition, Book One
Finished reading The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the Universe
Rated Walking on the Ceiling 8/10
I like the way this starts out like it’s going to be one thing and then expands out. The narrator’s relationship with an older writer is the structuring device but it’s really about her relationship to her family, Turkey, and her Turkish identity. A little meandery, but a quick and enjoyable read.
Rated The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win 8/10
Really well done. Over the course of researching and writing this book, the writer became a genuinely successful professional poker player, and there's lots about poker in here, but she also achieves her goal of extracting from poker valuable lessons about psychology and decisionmaking. It's well-written and engaging, though with some repetitiveness. When Konnikova gets an insight she really works it over - I definitely found myself highlighting some points only to see them rephrased a few pages later. Highly recommend; admittedly, you may need to already be open to the idea that poker is interesting and that its principles are transferrable. I was already there on both points. <br/><br/>I much preferred this book to the similar [b:Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts|35957157|Thinking in Bets Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts|Annie Duke|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1513351600l/35957157._SY75_.jpg|57513167], which felt much less like memoir or analysis and much more like a business self-help book.
Rated The Rose That Grew From Concrete 10/10
Finished reading Iron Flame - Vasláng
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Finished reading Itt kávéztak ők: Írók, művészek és kávéházaik
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