Everyone hates a long essay, but everyone loves a quick book. This essay-as-book dates from 2013 and is an early exploration into some recognizable Graeber themes: how Enlightenment values such as freedom and equality we not necessarily borne of Western Europe. This book feels like an experimental prequel to the much much longer, and ultimately much more convincing "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity."
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Typically I read two books simultaneously: one fiction, one non fiction. I love audiobooks, and usually follow the same pattern. So two books in text, two books in audio simultaneously. Sometimes, when I want to get through a book quick, I'll do both audio and text.
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The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy by David Graeber
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy is a 2015 book by anthropologist David …
chadkoh finished reading Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
chadkoh started reading Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
chadkoh rated The Hidden Keys: 4 stars
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred …
chadkoh finished reading The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred …
chadkoh started reading The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
The Hidden Keys by André Alexis
Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred …
chadkoh finished reading Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
Wow those final chapters! 🤯
chadkoh started reading Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
chadkoh finished reading The Tempus Project by Antony Johnston
The Tempus Project by Antony Johnston
BRIDGE IS BACK.
In The Exphoria Code, elite MI6 hacker Brigitte Sharp foiled a terror attack on London that used …
chadkoh finished reading Uprooted by Naomi Novik
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside …
There is a lot to like about this book, but the narrated version kinda drags you out of it. When the narrator “drones” in a book that has so much action it is easy to get lost. I had to rewind so many times. I think I will get the next one in text.
