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Reading this at present, as an engineer historical engineering stuff is interesting, in the knowledge it was state of the art and experimentation in the unknown at the time - and we probably haven't got much further even now.
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/aer … etail.html

Dear lord, just this makes my head hurt


There's a whole lot more.
https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/index.html

lol.

i’m reading quite a lot of oliver sacks lately. pretty middlebrow fare but he writes engagingly and with an enormous spirit. hard to dislike.

Are you sure it's not a bump stock?

Was gifted The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich for Christmas as well as The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 by Eric Hobsbawm. I already had Inside the Third Reich by Albert Speer. So I feel I have a pretty good World War 2 section of my personal library.

What books were you gifted?

I kept imagining Uzi ran into the dude in this New Yorker article the entire time I was reading it. Should've gone to Oxford and punched this dude in the face.

Hey, I read that article too! I signed up for the New Yorker when they were having a special. I think it was 24 weeks for $6, including online and print.

i will probably unsubscribe once the life of the deal is over. I was just looking at a cover of the mag an it retails for $8.99. I don't live in NY so a lot of the coverage means absolutely nothing to me.  I pretty much bought it for their longform.

I picked up Why We Sleep after listening to the author on Joe Rogan's podcast.  He had a complete hard on for the science of sleep and im looking forward to reading it.

(No one said the New Yorker was top rate)

You have suggested those before, but I don't have much of a sense of what I actually want to read. If you'd summarized the first article about that author, I don't think I'd be interested in reading it. But somehow, I ended up starting it at lunch and finishing it at home in the evening. Regardless, I've lined up a couple of articles for the morning, so we shall see.

Reading History of the Peloponnesian War. Conservative publications and writers like to name drop this book as something everyone should read to get an understanding of American politics, government, some shit or the other. I don't know. But they name drop it often so I am reading it.

It's okay I guess.

I'm fairly sure HBO paid him a ton of money to wait until after the show is done to release the last two books.

What do you think about Stephen King? I am reading my first novel of his. The book is a 1200 pager and I am 300 in since I started Saturday. So it's an easy read.

I have heard people say he isn't a good writer but he seems fine. I did notice he explains things a little more than he has to.

For instance a general inspecting a science lab after the scientist got locked in and died.

It went something like
"He opened another door and found a naked man and woman with holes in their heads. They had sex and afterward the man shoot the woman and then himself. The .45 pistol was still in the makes man's hand."

Anything after "He opened another door and found a naked man and woman with holes in their heads." was unnecessary or at least could have been better summed up.

"Stephen King doesn’t even try to hide the fact that many of his works were written on cocaine. Besides, he doesn’t even remember writing them. In a Rolling Stone interview, he said that he’d been using cocaine from 1978 to 1986 and wrote around 10 novels. Some of them are It, The Dark Tower, Pet Sematary, and The Stand."

The book I am reading is the Stand. The book does have a lot of references to drugs now that I think about it.

https://imgur.com/a/CsCI4K5

some recent richard ford. i think he’s good.