Dan

Better late than never getting to it. A masterpiece. I wish I had read it sooner.

“But even when we had the books on hand, a long time ago, we didn't use what we got out of them. We went right on insulting the dead. We went right on spitting in the graves of all the poor ones who died before us.”

Most of the books on my GR read list receive high rankings because if I am not enjoying a book I simply stop reading it.

I enjoyed reading this book. I learned from reading this book. I was motivated and inspired by reading this book.

Love a good list.

An extremely rewarding read. Weston's walk was an incredible achievement and reading about it is fascinating, but the real reward of this book is the wealth of information about the relationship between the geography of our built environment, the automobile, and our own two feet.

Beautiful. Compelling. Necessary.

Excellent survey on the state of AI

If you spend time, as I do, wondering what it is about modern life (immediately modern, networked life) that's driving you absolutely f'ing crazy, see if this book doesn't help make some sense of things for you.

Doesn't include much info on using _components/_partials (project organization,) but highly informative on the mechanics and functionality of SASS. Clearly organized and full of excellent, practical examples.

If you are trying to embrace simplicity this book will help.

Some may find the chapter on home life, particularly the role of women in it, to be “of its time (1937.)”

Wonderful. The best science/philosophy volume I have read in a while. Other Minds is full of informative, factual delights, but exudes warmth and love for the complexity and beauty of our natural world.

These poems indict us and our culture, but are at the same time so sympathetic to our plight they still come across as restorative.
It seems one can be curmudgeonly and yet deeply thoughtful in the same set of stanzas.

Essential reading.

I have just finished reading and enjoying The Sun Temple by novelist Brian Spaeth.
Cannabis induced gradients of experience and perception surrounding walking excursions to The Battery. An ebb and flow of a euphoric paranoia that will let you share a re-imagining of what might have seemed a familiar place.

A huge gap in my understanding of events that greatly influenced the american politics of my formative years has been filled in.

Colin Quinn is an asshole. I love him.

Fantastic story. Loved it.

A great book for novices but worth the read for aficionados as well. I enjoy discovering what others find interesting about the things I love.

Gioia's knowledge of jazz is boundless, but it's his love and enthusiasm for the music that shines through here.

Wonderful.

Stories with ideas you don't just consider for a moment, but return to again and again.

What if you could remember your future? What if belief is not just a psychological violence but a physical one as well?

If I knew this, I'd forgotten it, so I was happy to discover that the story “Story of Your Life,” was the basis for the film “Arrival.” Probably my favorite film of the last few years. Imagine a language that requires knowledge of the future in order to be properly contextualized.

Loved it.