Tag: not recommended
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Mateer’s Aphrodite Made Me Do It
Aphrodite Made Me Do ItTrista Mateer I don’t know what to make of this book. I truly don’t. It made some best of the year poetry lists, but it is very much not my thing. That said, I’m a forty something year old CIS white dude and I’m pretty damn sure I am not the…
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Bowden’s Killing Pablo
Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest OutlawMark Bowden Dad book. Tick tock of the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar written by the dude who brought you Black Hawk Down. In hindsight, I don’t know why I even bothered to read this book – I already know more than enough about Escobar and…
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Review: Carney’s The Wedge
The Wedge: Evolution, Consciousness, Stress, and the Key to Human ResilienceScott Carney New book by the author of two really good books What Doesn’t Kill Us about showman and actual real life health guru Wim Hof, and the Enlightenment Trap about the tragic death of mystic lead astray Ian Thorson. This new one, the Wedge,…
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Crawford’s The World Beyond Your Head
The World Beyond Your Head:On Becoming An Individual In An Age of Distraction Matthew B. Crawford This book by Crawford of “Shop class is Soul Craft” fame is another in a long line of recent books on the power of attention and craft in a age of twitter and youtube. There’s an important point here…
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Review: Zelnick’s Becoming Ageless
Becoming Ageless: Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever Strauss Zelnick Part memoir of the super-rich and successful Strauss Zelnick, part guide to aging well, this book is just like many many others that claim to have some new information but are really saying – eat well, exercise regularly, sometimes hard, sometimes easy,…
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Brown’s The Boys in the Boat
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Daniel James Brown Dad literature in extremis. Which usually isn’t something that turns me off, but this time, it was all just a bit too much bootstrapping, a bit too much greatest generation propaganda, a bit too…
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Review: Ferris’s Tools for Titans
Tools for Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Tim Ferris I’ll confess to being a fairly regular listener to the Tim Ferris podcast. While Ferris can be annoying at times and the whole can smell like techbro city, he is a good interviewer and his guests are often interesting…
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Review: Simenon’s Pietr the Latvian
Pietr the Latvian Georges Simenon The first of the many, many Maigret novels. Many smart people love these novels, but I’m not yet convinced. The writing is strong, the characters compelling, and the plot serviceable, but there’s more than a whiff of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment here. I might give one more a try since…
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Review – Card’s Enders Game
Enders Game Orson Scott Card Super genius boy in distant future is trained to play ever more complex war games until it is eventually revealed to him that (spoiler alert) oh shit, they weren’t games after all. A book about the ethics of war, the bonds of friendship, and the isolation of the leader. When…
Milo and the Calf 