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Benedict Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Benedict Evans is a tech analyst and former venture capitalist. Trying to work out what's going on, and what happens next. Mostly tech.

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Book Cover for: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again, J. R. R. Tolkien

The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again

J. R. R. Tolkien
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The Hobbit is a world-class children’s book. Dune pioneered the idea that inventing a society/ecology/politics might be more interesting than putting 1950s Americans in rocket ships. It’s also not a *bad* novel, and there are actual characters, unlike a lot of sci-fi

Paperback, 2012

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Book Cover for: Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts, Piers Morgan

Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts

Piers Morgan
Benedict EvansBenedict Evans

Piers Morgan’s “Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts” has sold 5,650 print copies since it was published a year ago. https://t.co/xWueGMFRjQ

Paperback, 2021

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Book Cover for: Au Bonheur Des Dames, Émile Zola

Au Bonheur Des Dames

Émile Zola
Benedict EvansBenedict Evans

The Web 1 OGs, who wish we were still using TypePad, RSS and blogrolls, and talk a lot about community-building, are a little like the old shopkeepers who shook their fists at department stores (Here's Baudu in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames) https://t.co/uflA3jazfT

Paperback, 2002

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Book Cover for: Au Bonheur des Dames: The Ladies' Paradise (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket), Émile Zola

Au Bonheur des Dames: The Ladies' Paradise (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Émile Zola
Benedict EvansBenedict Evans

The Web 1 OGs, who wish we were still using TypePad, RSS and blogrolls, and talk a lot about community-building, are a little like the old shopkeepers who shook their fists at department stores (Here's Baudu in Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames) https://t.co/uflA3jazfT

Hardcover, 2021

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Book Cover for: Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art, Olav Velthuis

Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art

Olav Velthuis
Benedict EvansBenedict Evans

A good read

Paperback, 2007

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