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veen  ·  3534 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are you reading? Is it any good?

I've made quite a lot of (long) train rides and drives lately which allowed me to plow through books with Audible. It's all non-fiction though.

- Finished Ryan Holiday's Trust Me I'm Lying, which was very insightful in detailing the systematic problems with blogs and online media manipulation. I knew sites like Gawker were shit but damn, they're even worse than I thought. Only downside to the book is that I found the second half to be a bit repetitive.

- Finished two Chuck Klosterman books (Eating the Dinosaur and Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs). Enjoyable and witty collection of essays but nothing more than that. I'm I bought it during the sale.

- Almost through Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 years. Better than I expected, although I have the tendency to lose track of the narrative when Graeber goes on a historical or etymological tangent, which he does more and more further into the book. I took Economics in high school where I was taught the simplified history of money. Debt definitely changed that view and quite some other ideas I had about money, debt and economics.

- Halfway through Being Wrong by Kathryn Schulz. Interesting read. Most of the examples she uses I've already read about before, but she highlights and explains clearly that our concept of 'truth' is much more malleable than one might think.

- Still haven't made much more progress with the Hubski book. I will finish it though, just not in the next weeks.