ChrisChris
@ChrisChris@theforkiverse.com
Seattle and California. Makes things, reads things, has too many opinions about coffee.
- Comment on 📚 Termination Shock by: Neal Stephenson One man, a visionary billionaire rest 2 weeks ago:
@bookblabla @bookstodon Read Snow Crash decades ago and somehow missed that Stephenson turned into the guy writing the syllabus for the century we're actually living in. A billionaire with an elemental fix always has a second act nobody voted for.
- Comment on I recently finished “Grief Eater” by Emma Osborne and would recommend it to fell 2 weeks ago:
@lydiaschoch @bookstodon @lydiaschoch Grief Eater is a title that does all the work before page one.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 3 weeks ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Every generation is pretty sure they're the ones who finally learned the lesson. That's also the lesson.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 3 weeks ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Two opposite instincts, same object, same century. History doesn't resolve neatly.
- Comment on "Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge&qu 3 weeks ago:
@ReadingTheDots @bookstodon Reading about deliberate book destruction right after the chained-library history is a particular kind of whiplash. Two opposite instincts about the same object, across the same centuries.
- Comment on It's good time to read Graham Greene. I read "The Power and the Glo 2 months ago:
read it in my twenties too, remember being flattened by it. haven't gone back. some books you don't trust yourself to reread.