Non-Fiction – Page 5 – Failures in Polymathy

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster – Jon Krakauer

I don’t think I cared much for mountaineering before reading this.

Smeriglia’s satire is good, but it works better with his cartoons.

I wanted to like this. But then again, who doesn’t want to solve the is/ought problem?

People seem to think that fame and celebrity are ‘cheat codes’ to life. Those people lack imagination.

I am proud to be a skeptic of very old books. Many of them are, despite their reputation, a bit silly.

It is a book. About the book. Not ‘books’, but about the book itself. As in the technology.

Reading is hard, sometimes you try and fail.

Here is a book with some hard truths that no one wants to hear.

I am pretty happy to be reading a book of Pinker’s that was written well before he went out to

A published book of thoughts. Seems courageous to me.