Reed Farrington Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Reed Farrington

@zakbronson I have not heard of any of those books and authors except Herzog. On the fiction side, because of Barack and Chuck, I’m reading Amor Towles’ “A Gentleman in Moscow.” For non-fiction, “The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.”

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In the library, I noticed this new release: What Makes Us Human? An Artificial Intelligence Answers Life’s Biggest Questions. So far, I’ve agreed with all of GPT-3’s answers. This is now my Bible. https://t.co/gXBcn9cthR

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@AnxietyFriesKim Actually, I didn’t find out that Gene Roddenberry didn’t write the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture until recently myself. (George Lucas didn’t write the novelization of Star Wars either. In both cases, the author was Alan Dean Foster.)

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Remember the Twilight Zone episode “It’s a Good Life” in which @BillMumy plays a kid who can will anything into existence? At the bookstore sale, I felt like I willed a scratch & dent copy of @Liu_Cixin’s “Death’s End.”

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@AnxietyFriesKim Actually, I didn’t find out that Gene Roddenberry didn’t write the novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture until recently myself. (George Lucas didn’t write the novelization of Star Wars either. In both cases, the author was Alan Dean Foster.)

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@brainpicker I read your essay on Yellow Submarine from the book In Their Lives. I loved it! Someone should take your outline and write a screenplay.

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Scratch and Dent Sale at The Book Outlet starts tomorrow. $1 a book. $1 audiobooks, too. At these prices, you can have a library of unread books at home like I do. (Hope I find Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem. Or anything by Ted Chiang.) See you all there!

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@zakbronson I have not heard of any of those books and authors except Herzog. On the fiction side, because of Barack and Chuck, I’m reading Amor Towles’ “A Gentleman in Moscow.” For non-fiction, “The Power of Bad: How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It.”

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“As a general rule of thumb, I happen to subscribe to the axiom that you should never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word, as it likely means they learned it by reading, and that should always be applauded.” - From “Boldly Go” by William Shatner with Joshua Brandon.

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@brainpicker I read your essay on Yellow Submarine from the book In Their Lives. I loved it! Someone should take your outline and write a screenplay.

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