- A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. This is a very good history of the subject, well written and clear. Kenny follows an unusual strategy in that he takes two approaches: He first covers each era in a more-or-less chronological order, then he looks at the big topics of that era in a systematic way. I am on p. 223.
- The Great Formal Machinery Works: Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age by Jan van Plato. An examination of formal logic and computation. I am on p. 75.
- High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery that Challenges Everything you Know About Drugs and Society by Carl Hart. Why everything you know (or thought you knew) about illicit drugs is wrong. I am on p. 165.
- I started Black Flagged Redux by Steven Konkolly, I am on page 63.
- The Language of Bridge by Kit Woolsey. This is a great book about the game, Woolsey analyzes things in a way that is different from other authors. For intermediates and up. I am on page 145.
- I started Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor, the sequel to Binti which I reviewed here. This one is just as good. I am on page 200.
- Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, the Master of Terror by Viktor Sebestyen. So far, it's very good. I am on p. 325.
That's what I'm reading. What are you reading?
Currently in the middle of "Emma" and "Jane Eyre", and getting through them very slowly, which is disappointing after the pace I managed to sustain for "Moby-Dick".
ReplyDeleteI'm slowly building some momentum reading Augustine's "Confessions", Spinoza's "Ethics", and Robert Alter's translation of the Book of Psalms. I also want to read Diarmad McCulloch's "Silence, A Christian History" before moving on to his mammoth single-volume history of Christianity; and read the New Testament in preparation for a module I have after Christmas.
And I really, really do want to get to GEB sometime soon, as well as far, far too much else.
I have never gotten into "classic" literature, myself. GEB was a great book.
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