Benedict Evans Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
J. R. R. Tolkien
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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Wake Up: Why the World Has Gone Nuts
Piers Morgan
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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Au Bonheur Des Dames
Émile Zola
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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Au Bonheur des Dames: The Ladies' Paradise (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
Émile Zola
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
$44.95$22.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for Contemporary Art
Olav Velthuis
A good read
Paperback, 2007
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