⭐⭐⭐ The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) by Cixin
| Full Title | The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) |
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| Authors | Liu Cixin, Ken Liu |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Date Read | May 13, 2024 |
| Rating | 3/5 stars |
Poslechl jsem si tak třetinu v Češtině, po té, co jsem se podíval na sérii na Netflixu. Byl jsem mile překvapen, jak blízko pořad je k tomu, co je v knížce. Ale tohle pořadí (první televize, potom kniha) si myslím, že nefunguje dobře. Příště to udělám naopak.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Number Go Up by Faux
| Full Title | Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall |
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| Authors | Zeke Faux |
| Year Published | 2023 |
| Date Read | May 12, 2024 |
| Rating | 4/5 stars |
Pretty happy with this one. Really enjoyed having the author give a bit more background on how he was trying to investigate the story; came away with the impression that this sort of journalism is actually fairly adventurous and ill-defined in terms of what exactly you should do to succeed. The book also gets props for avoiding being as unreasonably effusive as Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. One thing that the book argues for, which I haven’t really thought of previously, is that since so much of the crypto market is used for shady / questionable things, people don’t really care if the “fundamentals” are really what they are represented to be. Of course, if we get overhyped, things have to crash, but there’s always going to be demand from pig butchering, drug dealing, human trafficking, etc. that will provide a floor for Tether et. al.
Would recommend to those with even a passing interest in crypto.
⭐⭐ Atomic Habits by Clear
| Full Title | Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones |
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| Authors | James Clear |
| Year Published | 2018 |
| Date Read | April 19, 2024 |
| Rating | 2/5 stars |
Read in the Czech translation. A collection of a bunch of stuff that’s been out there for a while — feels like more of a amalgamation of a bunch of his blog posts rather than anything too new. Probably decent for folks both new to the area and interested in it, but not too useful otherwise.
⭐⭐⭐ The Wager by Grann
| Full Title | The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder |
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| Authors | David Grann |
| Year Published | 2023 |
| Date Read | March 27, 2024 |
| Rating | 3/5 stars |
Read in part because of the upcoming film. Found it to be a less engaging than Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and had to force myself to finish it — never became a page turner.
⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Body Keeps the Score by Kolk
| Full Title | The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma |
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| Authors | Bessel van der Kolk |
| Year Published | 2014 |
| Date Read | January 16, 2024 |
| Rating | 4/5 stars |
Great book. Paired extremely well with some of the stuff I was doing while reading it (ayahuasca; silent retreat). Constant individual examples not linked to each other get a little tiring, though.
⭐⭐ How to Do Nothing by Odell
| Full Title | How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy |
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| Authors | Jenny Odell |
| Year Published | 2019 |
| Date Read | January 13, 2024 |
| Rating | 2/5 stars |
Very disappointing. Author treats the book more like an art project of random thoughts rather than bothering to actually create a cohesive book.