Wondering what the community at large is currently interested in!
Wondering what the community at large is currently interested in!
It's been quite entertaining to read how he went from picking off bucket shops to going bust on Wall Street and how he proceeded from there. Old-fashioned writing that goes straight to the point.
His art-like approach to speculation is refreshing after spending time on /r/quant. I cannot say if any of his high-level speculation wisdom hold water anymore, though.
Would recommend!
(I know the long s wasn't really used at the ends of words, that was just a hurried example.)
Crossing the Unknown Sea by David Whyte. Also excellent. Nearly finished it.
I grew up reading arabic and sentences are just feel longer so maybe thats why Im not struggling with it.
The Recorded Books recordings of The Road and No Country for Old Men narrated by Tom Stechschulte are very good too.
It's a red pill fable for marketing directors (and other threads are pulled).
Later adapted for film, it saw 400 viewers walk out on it when screened at Cannes... most likely when the fish hit the floor. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifR7tsVT_-Y
The book was written in the 50s, its way slower than the movie (though still a short read). Some things from the movie plot are the same
I love details like how difficult it was to get something communicated across a border only 75 years ago
I liked the first one but its very raw and dark, no glitter and glamour
I quit the second one, part of the book are flashback scenes and I had a hard time staying concentrated, i forgot why exactly i didnt like those scenes
Augustine's Confessions
Last fiction: Nice Job by David Lodge
But I read it when I had far more free time than now.
Any tips and tricks for reading the magnum opus? Would help!
There's a sequence with the boys out on the town which helped me cement each of the main male protagonists images in my head. Fairly early on I think. Pierre + Andrei being main characters, Nikolai (the younger) and Antole being the rest of that group.
I also I ended up classifying the characters into three generations, the young men/woman, the older parents, and the younger children.
I'm about 50 pages in, and am entranced with the prose.
Non-Fiction: The Spy and the Traitor by Ben MacIntyre. It's about the KGB spy-turned-MI6 agent Oleg Gordievsky and reads like a thriller.
Fiction: Reaper's Gale, book #7 of the fantasy series Malazan Book of the Fallen.
Non-fiction(history): Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy
And then I'm dabbling in a few books around the math behind and practical hands-on machine learning/deep learning.
SMAAART•4mo ago