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Berin Szóka Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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🇺🇸/🇩🇪 tech lawyer @TechFreedom, wanderer. “To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man” 🏳️‍🌈📚🗽

2 books
Book Cover for: Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F Buckley Jr. Omnibus, William F. Buckley

Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F Buckley Jr. Omnibus

William F. Buckley
Berin SzókaBerin Szóka

Marc Rotenberg has been trying to get regulators to shut down every new tech product for decades, like ad-supported Gmail He's the worst kind of technoreactionary—"standing athwart history yelling 'STOP!'" as William F Buckley put it https://t.co/e52MsNBlEZ

Paperback, 2012

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: La Place, Annie Ernaux

La Place

Annie Ernaux
Berin SzókaBerin Szóka

Kudos to Annie Ernaux on winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her 1983 novel "La Place" is the one novel that stuck with me from French lit in college. She's been compared to Proust and rightly so. Next on my list: "Les années," her mémoire about how France changed 1940-1984 https://t.co/0PazdwDWiy

Paperback, 1987

$54.99Member price:$52.24 + Free shipping5% off