ɹǝʞɹɐd ʍǝɹpuɐ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@caro Tim Wu's "The Master Switch" does a good job of explaining this "first mover disadvantage" for all major communications inventions in past few centuries.

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@bijan I quit it as well. No idea why it's so celebrated. Just picked up No Country for Old Men, which is much better so far. Open ended rec: Americanah was the best fiction I read this year. Charles Portis True Grit is a much better version of Cormac western historical fiction vibe.

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@maiab And if you haven't seen in, Spike Lee's the 25th Hour is a really great movie based on a book by the same author David Benioff (who is also Game of Thrones showrunner).

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@Denzera It was not David Fincher's intention with his approach But, yes, tech school college professor say that movie's debut inspired many students to build tech companies. It's our generation's Liar's Poker. Michael Lewis wrote a cautionary tale that instead became a manual.

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@maiab it is insane how good this audiobook is. such a hidden gem. Other great audiobooks: - Clare Danes reading The Handmaiden - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (read by himself) - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (read by himself) - Ethan Hawke reading Slaughterhouse Five

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@maiab it is insane how good this audiobook is. such a hidden gem. Other great audiobooks: - Clare Danes reading The Handmaiden - Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (read by himself) - Born a Crime by Trevor Noah (read by himself) - Ethan Hawke reading Slaughterhouse Five

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Last time I was in this exact same scenario was Karen Russell's Swamplandia... And I understood all the consensus negativity by the end (though respectfully disagree)

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@kimmaicutler Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife" looking prescient

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@alex My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. Read almost in one sitting. Very different from all the sci-fi recs in this list, so might not be your cup of tea if you're tastes match your followers' tastes.