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PaperclipPerfector  2mo ago (text post)   3066 thread views

Small-Scale Question Sunday for February 23, 2025

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So, what are you reading?

Still on The End of Faith, Menace of the Herd and Non-Computable You. Picking up Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow, which seems overdue.

Making my way through The Way Of Kings. The prose is really mediocre, actually seems worse than his Wheel of Time entries, almost like he just doesn’t try as hard when he doesn’t have Jordan’s standard to live up to. Spren are still really annoying. Still, there’s a hint of a really interesting plot here. Dalinar and Shallan have more interesting stories than Kaladin.

Usually I read long series like this one straight through so as to not forget important details but there’s so much summary content available for Stormlight I might space it out. Will likely read a different genre next. I’m thinking either House of Leaves, Neal Stephenson’s Ananthem, or Pillars of the Earth.

I adored Anathem. Read it ages ago, though.

Personally, I bounced off of Anathem within several chapters when I first picked it up. Then, quite a few years afterwards, I was able to dive right in and plow through it, enjoying it greatly. Even now, the only difference that I can point to as a possible explanation is that I had devoured a lot more Neal Stephenson in the intervening years.

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