Tag: books
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How harmful is the decline in long-form reading? – Marginal REVOLUTION
A second and more pessimistic diagnosis is that print and reading culture has been hanging by a thread, and current and pending technological advances are about to give that thread its final cut. The intellectual and cultural apocalypse is near. Even if your family thinks of itself as well-educated, your kids will grow up unable…
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The Rose Field by Philip Pullman – nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series | Fiction | The Guardian
“There are no endings,” said Hilary Mantel on the final page of Bring Up the Bodies; “they are all beginnings.” Pullman draws his great matter to a close, but he’s clear that his characters, and their stories, will continue without him – that the end of his book marks the start of their next chapter.…
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Les Effingers (1951) – Gabriele Tergit
The book follows two Jewish families in Berlin from the 1870s to the 1940s. Paul Effinger moves to Berlin and, with his brother Karl, founds a company manufacturing nails. Paul is serious and hard-working, Karl is more worldly. The first half of the novel concerns the growth of the company into a major car manufacturer…
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli – 2014 Really remarkable. Short, clear, and accessible. Covers: 5/5