What Are You Reading?
I've gotten many great literary recommendations in random HN comments.
Wondering what the community at large is currently interested in!
Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, by Jeremy Utley
Currently: Moby-Dick and Termination Shock. (That the former gets brought up a lot in the latter is a coincidence.)
“How Can I Help” by Linda Hand
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy D. Snyder
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre (1923)
I read The Whispering Mountain by Joan Aiken and was struck by similarities to Pratchett, for instance the part where the main character heroically defeats monsters in a wood by using knowledge gleaned from an old encyclopedia that he carries everywhere, and how he ſpeakſ like thiſ when reading aloud from it, and the part about underground camels in Wales. It references The Far-Distant Oxus at one point, which I want to read (a pony adventure story written in 1937 by teenagers).
(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)
Post Soviet Britain by Abby Innes. Excellent so far (70 pages in).
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.
Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy. As with some of his other work, the punctuation can be a challenge and the prose can sometimes border on the ponderous, but I'm enjoying it. Currently about half way through.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
"Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History", about our first civilisations.
Rereading Bliss by Peter Carey after opening a 45 year old box o' books from a back shelf in the shed.
It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).
Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y
Just finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
I'm reading The Inner Citadel by Pierre Hadot for the second time. It's full of gems.
A Reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Quentin Lauer
Augustine's Confessions
Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge