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Karen Hao: Empire of AI (Hardcover, 2025, Penguin Publishing Group)

When AI expert and investigative journalist Karen Hao first began covering OpenAI in 2019, she …

Chanced on a review of Karen Hao's book yesterday and mentioned it as an idea for my non-fiction book club. Turns out at least one of the other guys has already read it and gave a glowing endorsement. Looking forward to have a go.

Daniel Chapman: 100 Years of Leeds United (Paperback, 2020, Icon Books, Limited) No rating

100 Years of Leeds United is a 472 page hardback or 640 page paperback book …

What better time to finally pick up my signed copy of Leeds United writer, podcaster and connoisseur Daniel Chapman's essential book on this fantastic club, than the week in which it again won promotion back to the Premier League after two remarkable seasons under Daniel Farke? MOT.

David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (2022, Allen Lane)

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

Third chapter on seasonality was better, and contains interesting stuff. Still, can't help but feel the sharp dismissals of other models are so far contrasted by some pretty vague language for their own observations. It's also really wordy. I'd have liked this on 40-50% the number of words.

David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (2022, Allen Lane)

A breathtakingly ambitious retelling of the earliest human societies offers a new understanding of world …

The accounts of Native American views on European societies are interesting but the style is grating and confusing and overall the text feels more like a highly political Twitter thread than an intellectual narrative. I hope this changes or it's going to be a long read.