Christopher D. Long Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Christopher D. Long

@maartengm Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric! is a another great title, but I don't think it counts as it's from a poem by Walt Whitman. Likewise, John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up is also a great, but it comes from a poem by Milton.

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Christopher D. Long

Philip K. Dick had some great book titles: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said We Can Remember It for You Wholesale A Scanner Darkly

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Christopher D. Long

I hadn't come across Peter Singer's "Famine, Affluence, and Morality" before, but it's essentially the same type of argument I came up with as a child, where I argued that it was immoral to enjoy even the smallest luxury if other people were suffering. It didn't go over well.

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Christopher D. Long

Two short of stories I remember reading as a kid that really stood out to me at the time were Twain's "The Million Pound Bank Note" and Irving's "Rip Van Winkle". Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" was one I read when I was slightly older.

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Christopher D. Long

Lots of great titles, for sure. Alongside Gogol's The Nose, I'd add Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, de Maupassant's The Piece of String and Saki's Tobermory. I also thought Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground was (perhaps unintentionally) hilarious, in a very dark comedic way. https://t.co/oQan5oHA5G

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Christopher D. Long

I wonder if this is one of the many stories influenced by Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. Poe's novel was so influential that Jules Verne even wrote a sequel (called An Antarctic Mystery). https://t.co/x9OFFtNo16

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Christopher D. Long

On the topic of sports, which books about the NFL from an analytical perspective do people particularly recommend? Two I've been recommended are Crunching Numbers and Caponomics.

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Christopher D. Long

On the topic of sports, which books about the NFL from an analytical perspective do people particularly recommend? Two I've been recommended are Crunching Numbers and Caponomics.

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Christopher D. Long

If your goal is strictly to read one novel per week, I wouldn't choose something like The Brothers Karamazov. Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground is a much more realistic read.

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Christopher D. Long

@maartengm Ray Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric! is a another great title, but I don't think it counts as it's from a poem by Walt Whitman. Likewise, John Brunner's The Sheep Look Up is also a great, but it comes from a poem by Milton.

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