Do you read books? recommendations?

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    Oh I forgot to mention Andy Weir (The Martian) new book The Hail Mary Projects a cracker as well.
     
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    Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
    Arthur Miller - Death of a Salesman
    Larry Kramer - Faggots
    All three are especially relevant if you're from uasai.
     
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    If you like nail biting suspense:
    The Sandman by Lars Kepler.
     
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    Very nice post; thanks averybody for sugestions

    Two of my favorites :
    Mastering audio: the art and science , by Bob Katz
    What “SineWave” says : Foundation (series), by Isaac Asimov, are very nice books

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    I never knew double fisting was a thing until I read Faggots.
    And I'd read pretty well all of John Rechy's books beforehand, too.
     
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    Noam Chomsky

    (2020) Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal: The Political Economy of Saving the Planet
    (2021) Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance
    (2021) The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and Urgent Need for Radical Change
     
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    There is one book called “So good they can’t ignore you”. I think the author is Cal Newport. I remember nothing from it, but luckily the essence is in the title. Read it a bunch of times (the title I mean) and then do the work (literally do the work, no the book Do the Work by Steven Pressfield from which I don’t remember a a thing but luckily the essence was in the title)
     
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    I read E-books on Marcus Aurelius, Jean Jacques Rousseau. anything from archaeology, History, Electronics to Medicine, weapons, and just about anything interesting and of importance to myself.
     
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    So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love, I haven't read this but may check it out at a future time.
     
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    And of course, any of the This Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies put together by Gardner Dozois (RIP) from 1986-2018. It was something I'd always buy for myself from a bookstore on my birthday.

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    There is something earthy about holding a book in your hand and reading it. Anyone can read a PDF on a phone and an iPad.
    The Internet for all its glory, still in some areas points to books to loan or buy because the information is not online on purpose.
    Reading a book is always a good choice. You will probably remember everything you read more easily in the process instead of from an ebook on a glowing screen.
     
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