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A little fun book. The beggar and the hare. Quite simple and easy and well written with a bunch of good humour. It gets a bit messy near the end, I would have edited it a bit.
 
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Plenty of people have explained those* to us already, haven't they?

FWIW, my take on Monacelli's book is in the corresponding podcast episode (.sig).
*Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Gravity's Rainbow.

However, if one is seriously interested in an exegesis concerning Pynchon's Magnum opus, here are the two best resources I know of.
First:

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven C. Weisenburger is both informative and comprehensible. Many of the lit/crit books on the subject are more difficult to read than the novel and seem to be more about that author's pet theories than the novel. A lot of the "Companion" explains terminology and provides contexts.

The other source I would recommend is the Pynchon Wiki:


This website serves a similar purpose as the Weisenburger book, is accessible to everyone for free.
 
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I'm 52 years old, I have ADHD + a PhD in electrical engineering, and I NEVER read a single book in my entire life! (except for textbooks, of course). My 12-year-old daughter reads about a book a week. I find it extremely boring and exhausting. Why buy and read the book if you could just download and watch the movie? :cool::p
 
I'm 52 years old, I have ADHD + a PhD in electrical engineering, and I NEVER read a single book in my entire life! (except for textbooks, of course). My 12-year-old daughter reads about a book a week. I find it extremely boring and exhausting. Why buy and read the book if you could just download and watch the movie? :cool::p
You probably do not realise what you are losing. I feel sorry for you.
 
I'm 52 years old, I have ADHD + a PhD in electrical engineering, and I NEVER read a single book in my entire life! (except for textbooks, of course). My 12-year-old daughter reads about a book a week. I find it extremely boring and exhausting. Why buy and read the book if you could just download and watch the movie? :cool::p

When I even much younger than your daughter I was reading two books a week. I would sit in the car after Mum picked me up from primary school and just read. I forget. Alistair Mclain, 2001, Heminway whatever. Way over my head. I just did it.

I now know that it was crucial in my personal and cognitive development as a well-adjusted human being, who, like you went forth and received degrees from Uni in Law and Economics. Not PhD, despite being invited - I ran out of puff and money.
 
Interesting book about the demise of one of the music industry's most iconic companies.
 

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I know that Robert Plant was/is a reader of many books - read his many lyrics (a start is Ramble On, or The Battle of Evermore), both from Zep and subsequent solo. He didn't make them up out of thin air. Same with Mick Jagger. He has obviously read the Bible at least once, should you take care to read lyrics.

An Aussie is Nick Cave. Tremendously well read, I think that he has even written a couple books.

Reading is so good. Plonk me on a deserted Pacific Island with not one book but a thousand.

I may miss internet access.
 
Brother gave me this a few days ago, Matt Kennard : The Racket - A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire, a fine read so far but raises my hackles

also re-reading Joe Sacco : Footnotes in Gaza. as if the news wasn’t depressing enough I’m working through this masterpiece

Some I've read along similar lines:




 
Some I've read along similar lines:






Not read the first two but the last two I do own, and they've proved very useful for rebutting bullshit over the past 8 months
 
Crusades through the eyes of arabic historians of that time.
Spoiler: it was an epiphenomenon to them, they were mostly scared by the mongols (rightly so) then the turks.
Hilarious witness statements from arabs watching these barbaric european adventurers with stupefaction.
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Not read the first two but the last two I do own, and they've proved very useful for rebutting bullshit over the past 8 months

The first two books actually cover a lot of the same events, so it probably wasn't really necessary to read both. :)
 
Currently re-reading “The Warmth of Other Suns”, by Isabel Wilkins. It’s a well-researched story of several participants in the Great Migration which lasted for about 60 years in the United States.

 
I had been hoping to pick up the English-language edition of Solitary Gourmet this month, but Amazon is now showing a release date in December, and this is not the first time the date has been changed.
 
Martin Kleppmann: Designing Data-Intensive Applications
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Specifically reading about distributed locking strategies...
 
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