Email Storyselling Playbook by Jim Hamilton

https://a.co/d/08zSx2LD

President Lincoln by William Lee Miller about the magnanimity of Lincoln

God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre by Richard Grant about hiking through cartel-run Mexico alone

Claude tokens

Antigone by Sophocles

Way too many John Le Carré novels (and his memoir). Not escapist enough, frankly—it adds up to a very dismal appraisal of geopolitics, with plenty of foreshadowing of what the world has become: the kleptocracy in the ruins of the Soviet state; having fought communism, the need to now fight capitalism; and this one I saved from The Little Drummer Girl: "What are we to become, I wonder? A Jewish homeland, or an ugly little Spartan state?"

Does anyone consider audiobooks reading?

My friends have begun saying they are reading books when they listen to them.

It enrages me.

Thanks for this question!

I'm not reading anything at the moment since I'm taking a break and watching season one of Deadwood and also re-watching season one of Boston Legal.

But when I'm done, I plan to re-read "The Cold War A Very Short Introduction" by Robert J. McMahon. I read it about five years ago and it's time to read it again.

Having said that, I can't pass on this opportunity to share the books I've read (some are re-reads) thus far this year that I recommend. I'll just list them while saying that they all come highly recommended by me.

In the famous words of Frank Zappa - So many books, so little time.

1. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris

2. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

3. Lying by Sam Harris

4. The Road by Cormac McCarthy

5. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

6. Cosmos by Carl Sagan.

7. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins

8. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

9. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

10. Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

11. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling

12. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling

13. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

15. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan

16. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

I've been reading graphical novels, lots of non-fiction and adaptations. Many that I've read as regular novels and many that I would never have read otherwise.

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23168840-the-arab-of-the...

- https://www.goodreads.com/series/329945-sapiens-a-graphic-hi...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769712.Palestine

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196618871-1177-b-c

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203767306-the-hidden-lif...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/207003952-capital-ideolo...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9844623-feynman

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23167775-the-age-of-self...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38589785-to-kill-a-mocki...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208512484-the-mythmakers

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61783727-the-bomb

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50159458-kent-state

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12959045-my-friend-dahme...

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32951507-the-park-bench

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6493321-logicomix

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/218569864-insectopolis

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48638303-billionaires

Currently I'm reading https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210384823-shroud

At home, Atlas Shrugged. It's an interesting story even if you don't care about the allegories, I'm really enjoying it so far. But it will probably take me half a year to finish it at this rate, since I can only read it on weekends.

At work I'm currently trying to read SF light novels from the turn of the millennium. I finished Murasaki no Qualia some time ago, and it's just as amazing as I remember the manga being when I read it as a teen. Right now I'm reading Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu. Sadly very few of these are translated. The Last and First Idol story collection is also a good read if you're interested in this genre.

OK listen up.

* Iain M. Banks is a bad writer. His books are predictable. You know the goodies (1990s neoliberals with space helmets) are gonna win. There's no moral uncertainty and not even really any jeopardy.

* I'm seeing an alarming amount of Dungeon Crawler Carl. Look, if you don't want to read, just don't read! There's no point reading rubbish. Just play a computer game or pick your nose or something. There's a thousand years of literature out there. Some of it is really good.

* Neil Gaiman. American Gods was so unbearable I couldn't finish it. How can any decent person like this vain, pompous writer?

I am judging typical hn-er tastes, sorry, but it's as if I thought PHP was the best programming language or something. No. It is not.

Genre is fine! There's great SF and fantasy. But bad writing is bad writing. Genre is not an excuse.