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OftenBen  ·  1750 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's have a book thread! What have you been reading?

Working on Hawking's popular bibliography starting with The Universe in a Nutshell which I am enjoying so far.

An idea that I found super striking is that the universe could have multiple different histories as well as multiple different futures.

Devac you mentioned Hawking's optimism and I definitely see what you mean. He sees a lot of potential and I think his writing does a really good job of communicating the boundlessness of possibility open to people and the universe in general.

I also find his willingness and ability to embrace uncertainty and the unknown really personally challenging and I think I'm going to get a lot out of reading Hawking outside of the physics.

I also finished Mistborn volume 1 a few days ago. Not bad, and I'll definitely finish the series, but I'm still not sure I get the hype. I guess because the magic system is unique that's most of it, and it certainly requires a different kind of creativity to use Sanderson's magic compared to say, Harry Potter, maybe that's the selling point. There also seems to be a certain Young Adult Novel feel to the whole thing that I'm not certain I can shake.