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kate wants to read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front (German: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit. 'Nothing New in the West') is a novel …
kate wants to read Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard P. Feynman
kate wants to read How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff
Both charming and informative about how statistics are misused. Published long ago, but the tricks haven't changed.
Darrell Huff runs …
kate wants to read Shift by Hugh Howey
Shift by Hugh Howey
kate started reading Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch
Because Internet is for anyone who's ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message or wondered where memes come …
kate finished reading Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo trilogy, #1)
Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo trilogy, #1)
They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, …
kate reviewed Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision …
aged very badly
2 stars
Content warning disucssion of mentioned economic concepts
Praises elon musk (I know, the book was published in 2019, before we knew he was a nazi. Still..), it's aged pretty badly. It's sci-fi without the plot. The brief moment it discusses pure policy is towards the end, claiming that UBI can't work because it didn't work one time with a very small amount of money, ignoring all the times it did work when using enough money to live on. It's fine, I guess, maybe as a starting off point to read some of these ideas in more detail somewhere else.
Also, the name of the book on the front cover is printed in some glittery ink that comes off on my fingers...
kate reviewed How to Be Perfect by Mike Schur
i am now a perfect human
4 stars
At the start of the book, I felt it referenced the good place a bit too often and it had me worried, but as the book progresses it settles into itself and builds on its own ideas, and it's definitely more than an addendum to the show. Of course it doesn't tell me how to actually be perfect in every scenario, but it's given me some good ideas on how I can approach things and how I can better understand other people's actions.
I'm not much of a philosophy nerd and if you are you probably won't get much out of this book, but as an introduction for an average person i think it works really well
kate finished reading How to Be Perfect by Mike Schur
kate started reading Wool by Hugh Howey (Silo trilogy, #1)
They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a …
felt like the tv show was moving a bit slowly so wanted to see how the pacing in the book was :) i’m sure i can catch up before season 3 is out too
kate started reading How to Be Perfect by Mike Schur
kate reviewed Radicalized by Cory Doctorow
CW: Homophobic slurs
1 star
Homophobic slurs in the second story, model minority. Haven't seen this labelled anywhere else :/
kate finished reading Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …
kate started reading Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …