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[NotAllThere]

Snow Crash- Neal Stephenson. I can't believe I missed it! Next up are Geometry for Ocelots- Exurb1a, and Walkaway- Cory Doctorow.

[saptastic]

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...n-dollar-loser

Billion dollar loser - interesting story of the founder of WeWork and how the IPO crashed - (we work seem to be everywhere in London - who has not had a meeting in there?)

[vetran]

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. - Thanks Gibbon!

[Gibbon]

Bump

Currently about to start The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.

Thanks

Amazon.co.uk : roberto calasso

[eek]

Bump

Currently about to start The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company.

[NotAllThere]

The Things by Peter Watts

Free bit of SF. Essentially "The Thing" from The Thing's point of view.

[OwlHoot]

Economix; M Goodwin; Abrams ComicArts (2012)

[shaunbhoy]

Shantaram. Based on a true story which always enhances matters. Unputdownable................almost.

[NotAllThere]

Are there two 'currently reading' threads or have we lost a load of posts?

I think there might be a CUK Book Club thread, perhaps? Maybe a merge of the two would be a good idea?

You are right. But I daren't do it until Nick confirms its working.

[OwlHoot]

Currently reading Elements of programming interviews in python - The insiders' guide; A Aziz et al; CreateSpace (2016)

Packed full of coding hints, tips, and examples, and geared for preparing for sadistic programming problems set at interviews!

[ladymuck]

Are there two 'currently reading' threads or have we lost a load of posts?

I think there might be a CUK Book Club thread, perhaps? Maybe a merge of the two would be a good idea?

[NotAllThere]

Bindi by Nnedi Okorafor. It's a triology of Sci-fi/horror novellas. The first one won Hugo and Nebula awards. It's very different and quite mind expanding, as proper sci-fi should be.

Just finished The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken. A nice bit of hard sci-fi/space opera/heist. Fun to read.

Before then, Obama's autobiography. Surprisingly well written (I usually find politician memoires to be a bit dull). While I don't agree with all is politics, and of course understanding he's going to make himself look good, it's a fascinating insight into US politics. If John "Oven Chips" McCain has memoirs out covering the period when he stood against Obama, I'd like to read them.

[NotAllThere]

I thought the other stuff was hard science fiction. Now I'm reading Greg Egan - Diaspora. Intelligent life forms living in fourier analysis. 12 dimensional space. And virtualisation of reality.

At least on his website he has diagrams explaining some of the concepts.

[unixman]

Lord Hornblower

[NotAllThere]

Bought both of them - thanks guys.

New one. There Is No Antimemetic Division. What's weird is, I'm sure I've already bought it and read it, but it isn't on my kindle. You'll have to read it to understand why that's weird.