mattdsteele rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 3 stars
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
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mattdsteele rated The Plot Against America: 4 stars
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
When the renowned aviation hero and rabid isolationist Charles A. Lindbergh defeated Franklin Roosevelt by a landslide in the 1940 …
mattdsteele rated Code Girls: 3 stars
mattdsteele rated The Righteous Mind: 3 stars
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas …
mattdsteele rated Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches: 4 stars
mattdsteele rated The Caves of Steel: 4 stars
The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov (Robot, #1)
A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and …
mattdsteele rated Talking to Strangers: 4 stars
mattdsteele rated Planet funny: 4 stars
Ken Jennings: Planet funny (2018)
Planet funny by Ken Jennings
Presents a history of humor, from fart jokes on clay Sumerian tablets all the way up to the latest Twitter …
mattdsteele rated The Testaments: 3 stars
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic--and now she brings the iconinc story to a …
mattdsteele rated World War Z: 3 stars
mattdsteele rated The Three-Body Problem: 4 stars
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1)
1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China's Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape …
mattdsteele rated The Dark Forest: 4 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2)
In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The …
mattdsteele rated Death's End: 3 stars
Death's End by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #3)
Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is …
mattdsteele rated Packing for Mars: 4 stars
Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, Mary Roach
The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is …