The Strange Death of Europe – Douglas Murray
As you read this book you can hear the sound of someone folding tin foil into a hat.
Mandelbrot the Magnificent – Liz Ziemska
A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…
The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk
Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.
Contact – Carl Sagan
This is one of the most rich and complex book I have read in some time.
Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson
At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.
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The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock
Have you ever been so utterly confused by a book that you later became convinced that you didn’t really read it?
What Language is – John McWhorter
John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.
Little Brother – Cory Doctorow
Little Brother deals with some pretty serious topics, but distills them down to a point where even kids will find it all to be a bit silly.
What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman
You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut
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The Refrigerator Monologues – Catherynne M Valente
Did you ever think that there was something missing from a story only to realize that someone part of the narrative has been left out? That’s what this book is about.
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Failures in Polymathy 