@sunstone@weirder.earth | he/him | tech worker | USA | 30s | Reading interests: speculative fic, pop-science & history, tech-related & software, social justice, and Buddhism & Hinduism.
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77% complete! sunstone has read 17 of 22 books.
Develops a humane and intuitive design and construction technique applicable to a wide range of …
I skimmed it when I first got the PDF maybe 5 years ago. Today I’m sitting down to read it the way he suggests: in one day, spend 4 hours reading all the section titles and looking at pictures.
I intend later to revisit the parts that seem the most important.
The plot and characters have major problems and I’m sure others have been saying this for years. I can guess that seeing the male character’s backstory can give more complexity, but it also implies kinky people must have some tragic backstory to make them that way.
It’s so many pages with so little going on. There are so many emails. There’s so much description of the meetings and emails about this one corporate project that doesn’t even pay off.
Also: The smut isn’t kinky and it’s repetitive.
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll …
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll find something in here that opens something up in you that you didn’t know was there.
A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in …
I’m not familiar with the Tibetan traditions and this is a great introduction. I listened to the audiobook version which was good but the pronunciations of Tibetan words & Indian locations were bad.
I’m tempted to buy a hard copy to keep in my collection so I can refer back to it in the future.
Master of the Five Magics is a speculative fiction novel, the first of three books sharing a setting but featuring …
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture is a 2003 book by David Kushner …
@cblgh I’ve read it! It was really long but a fun intro to a ton of concepts in the rationalist ways of thinking. It can be a little smart-alecky and annoying at first but it morphs into taking the world building, plot, and characters much more seriously. The world felt more well thought out than in the real books. After a certain point, I felt a stronger connection to the characters in this than the ones in the real HP books 5-7.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris, lit. 'Our Lady of Paris', originally titled Notre-Dame de Paris. 1482) is …
