Looks like a snooze-festival.
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, I don’t know, I fell asleep.
It’s like a book that’s impossible to finish.
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Yet Another Attempt To Make Sense of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’ | RealClearMarkets
I have read C&P, but not TBK. I’ve got The Idiot in a box somewhere atm, and I have just reread Notes From Underground for the – what, third time in six months, due to its being a propellent for the existentialist movement.
The similar sounding names are bothersome. It’s why I’ll never willingly visit Russia, or Ukraine for that matter.
Oh, and bloody Murakami has a new book coming out, that I’ll surely read. 
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Just finished the new NF series. nice, NOT the movie version at all. Far more nuanced and less Dexterish.
Is Tom Ripley Gay? (vulture.com)
I’ll go with NO, he’s not gay. Just a malignant narcissistic sociopath.
Yep. Absolutely great/
Love Dosteovsky- my favourite author.
Except Crime and Punishment. It is so depressing that I couldn’t get through it the first time, until found out it had a “happy ending”- and after 500 pages there were a couple of pages tacked on at the end, which would have been better left off.
his characters are hilarious in their refusal to be anything better than what they are while dreaming they could be worse but lacking the balls to pull the trigger.
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Some of my favorite science books/
I’ve always wondered why it’s so easy to change someone’s sex (just by manipulating hormones) but so difficult to change their sexuality. I didn’t find the answer, but this book was enlightening nonetheless.
Interesting was the fact that humans and goats are the only species with homosexuals. Some species have bisexuals and those that do only mate with same sex partners of opposite sex partners are unavailable.
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Morally, Richard Dawkins is a bunghole, but this a classic.
I call Selfish Gene an economics book masquerading as a biology book. I think it offers a better framework for the interests people and animals pursue than standard economic theory.
This is a bit of a misnomer, because this is about the general biology of sports, not just genetics.
This book is super illuminating and fascinating. Also provides which parts of the body transfer the most force onto a swing, which is useful for hitting the ball farther.
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@OysterOmelet you might also like Jeremy Narby. I don’t believe a lot checks out now a days with further study with his older books. But there are some pretty interesting thoughts and theories that are certainly worth pondering.
Cosmic serpent seems the best of the ones I read. He gets a bit shaman centric going forward. But they are interesting perspectives.
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Not unlike Highsmith, who evidently was gay (“a lesbian with a misogynist streak”).
Ever watched Ripley’s Game (2002 version)? The novel is the sequel to The Talented. The movie was directed by Liliana Cavani. John Malkovich (Ripley), Ray Winstone, Dougray Scott. With no trace of Matt Damon’s Ripley’s innocence (real or feigned), Malkovich as Ripley is a reptile who nevertheless has the audience on his side in the end. Pretty good movie.
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New Haidt book dropped which I’ve been listening to on audiobook during my commute
Haidt is a leading psychologist in the moral, social and political psychology field known for his groundbreaking work in moral foundations theory. This book focuses on the impact social Media and smart phones have had on mental illness in youth. Specifically how social media has impacted development of girls (although boys are also significantly affected) making them more anxious, more depressed and less happy overall. Smart phones and social media have also impacted the normal development of all children in that they have significantly less interaction with adults which they needing order to learn how to understand others (screen time strips away from child-parent interaction as I’m sure we’ve all seen anecdotal evidence of this) as well as prevented children from engaging in free play with each other.
An interesting read so far.
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Speak of the devil.
JM makes a cameo in the new one.
A nice little fiction break. I’m really digging these older sci fi books. They don’t try to do too much.
I’m so old that I think of Rendezvous With Rama as one of his newer works. Sort of like Time Enough For Love by Heinlein or any of Asimov’s Foundation books after the original trilogy.
“Hey, I liked him before he sold out” (though Rendezvous is good,)
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I’m at the end and I’m putting it off. It’s what good sci fi should be.
Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
“Small chapters so easy to digest” I noticed in one of the reviews.
Big thoughts for small minds?
Perfect