Paul Graham Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Paul Graham

G. J. Warnock's English Philosophy Since 1900 is an excellent and, strange as it may sound, often very funny book.

Paul Graham

@tommycollison I tried reading Ronald Syme's The Roman Revolution, which looks very promising, but I had such a bad cold that I couldn't focus and had to read a 1950s thriller called Stop at Nothing, by John Welcome.

Paul Graham

@tommycollison Playback, Raymond Chandler Moorish Spain, Richard Fletcher Bija Ganita, Bhascara Acharya

Paul Graham

Slocum's _Sailing Alone Around the World_ is great. As well as being the first to sail single-handed around the world, he writes with such humor and directness that this may also be the best book on sailing period. https://t.co/ksTtc7EV4e

Paul Graham

Slocum's _Sailing Alone Around the World_ is great. As well as being the first to sail single-handed around the world, he writes with such humor and directness that this may also be the best book on sailing period. https://t.co/ksTtc7EV4e

Paul Graham

@BoyanSlat So true. If you haven't read it, you might like Lynn White's Medieval Technology and Social Change.

Paul Graham

If you read books, read William Finnegan's Barbarian Days. It's one of those rare books that divide your life into two parts: before you read it, and after. https://www.amazon.com/Barbarian-Days-Surfing-William-Finnegan/dp/0143109391

Paul Graham

Freeman Dyson's Maker of Patterns is a wonderful book. Books of letters aren't usually very good, but this is as good as an autobiography, if not better. And of a very interesting man. https://t.co/SZ0aYmONEp

Paul Graham

@tommycollison Playback, Raymond Chandler Moorish Spain, Richard Fletcher Bija Ganita, Bhascara Acharya

Paul Graham

Joel Hamkins's Proof and the Art of Mathematics is a beautiful book in both senses. It's both beautifully written, but also physically beautiful, thanks to its many illustrations, which I was surprised to hear were made by the author himself. https://t.co/MlKCuX7L7W