Being Mortal by atul gawande

Would recommend

Neuromancer by William Gibson

it's pretty nifty

anyone here read "all the light we cannot see"? there's like 5 million holds on it at my library so I'm wondering if it's worth buying

Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak

im currently reading everyday by david levithan, im about midway through and im liking the concept of the book so far

Great book, would recommend

Currently reading The War On Heresy, by R.I. Moore. It's about the papal inquisition and Albigensian crusade

Twilight

Reading and trying my very best to understand genius
Always looking for ways to improve my chess game

BOOK: Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess

last thing I read was A Streetcar Named Desire, now that I watched the movie and read the book I'd love to see it on stage

reading Don Quixote right now, what a big book this is, still enjoyable

Peak by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool, very interesting book about practice

I really want to learn chess because it seems like something you could just read about and theorycraft for hours but I don't have the patience to get started :(

to be honest I think (or at least thought for a long time) almost everybody can play chess now, it's not that hard to learn how figures move or how it goes overall but ye, you can spend countless hours theorycrafting and trying new or well known strategies, it's nice if you have a friend who knows how to play, even better if he's really good at it; you just gotta start and you'll get sucked in quickly

Getting started is difficult for a lot of people and I think it has to do with the slow pace of real chess. It can seem boring and uninteresting compared to computer games and such. I enjoy the mental challenge and I get really engaged when playing. There is blitz chess and other types of speed based chess but I don't think they stress the fundamentals for new players.

There is another chess book I own called Chess Fundamentals by Jose Raul Capablanca. He is considered one of the best of all time and I wish he could have played Bobby Fischer head to head but they lived in different time periods.

His book, as the title says, focuses on the basic fundamentals of chess and I learned a lot about protection from his book. Hopefully I can round out my play and be more agressive and attacking by reading and learning from Bobby Fischer.

The current world chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen is only 26 years old but plays an agressive/pressure based style that most players just can't deal with. He is most known for his high pressure "end-game" moves that put people on the defensive. Watching him on youtube is a real treat.

infinite jest

very weird

New Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton

If youre int Thrillers try anything by Sebastian Fitzek. He is a german author so i dont know if his works are available in other languages :l

I've seen a few of his books translated into English and Italian

this thread

I was really drawn to the concept of that book but after finishing it, I felt a bit disappointed. My expectations coming into it may have been too high

I'm currently reading Red Rising by Pierce Brown (who I'm pretty sure has it all... beautiful face and body, amazing writing skills) Haven't finished the book yet but I'm loving it so far. It's been compared to the Hunger Games but I think it's darker and more mature than HG. I personally haven't been reminded of HG while reading Red Rising. Even though I haven't finished reading it so I can't have a full opinion on it, I would still recommend it to people interested in dystopian novels

finished reading the night manager by john carre a few weeks ago, then blew through the last jihad by joel rosenberg

gonna start the last days here soon

Escape from Camp 14

right now endymion and i got end of endymion and memoirs of a geisha up next after that one
i have tons of books i want to read but i haven't been reading a lot recently :-(

ulysses james joyce

Think Like a Freak

Just finished up with the letters between Max Frisch and Stafan Zweig, it's interesting how they make their correspondence work in an age where phones were commonplace. Also they're both fairly witty guys, so each letter isn't just a message but also an assertion of status.

Anyway, I'm continuing my forays into early sci fi with Ballard's The Drowned world now. I guess it's alright so far :/

I'm like half way through Blood Meridian, Starship Troopers and Atonement. And then I tried to start Harry Potter in Spanish but it was way too advanced for me.

i just finished 'the drowned world' by jg ballard and am finishing up 'the vivisector' by patrick white
ive got a few biographies i havent read i might read one of those next

currently reading, it's great

I just finished The Things They Carried and am starting Tropic of Cancer