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kleinbl00  ·  1929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: It's been too long! Book thread time. What have you been reading?

Three events of cataclysmic import happened:

1) I decided to burn through my Audible backlist, which means I haven't added anything lately

2) I discovered that I can check-out audiobooks from my library more easily than buying them on Audible

3) I did not turn on my account history at said-same library

...which means I really have no idea how many books I've burned through since June. Figure between 1 and 2 a week. Honestly.

Highlights I can remember:

- Lords of Finance

- The Goblin Emperor

- Collapse

- The Life and Death of Great American Cities

- Evicted

- A Generation of Sociopaths

- The Square and the Tower

- A Deepness In The Sky

- Hell's Angels

Currently reading Bad Blood which is pretty great in an unfiltered hatorade sort of way.





dublinben  ·  1929 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm also reading Bad Blood right now. It's an excellent book. I think Theranos exemplified everything wrong with the technology sector right now.

kleinbl00  ·  1928 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Also Billion Dollar Whale. Bad Blood is about what dishonest shysters will do for money; Billion Dollar Whale is about what dishonest shysters will do with money.

On that note,

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/17/1mdb-scandal-malaysia-files-charges-against-goldman-sachs