Antifragile by Nassim Taleb let me embrace progress and change
It’s kind of been a shallow year for both books and movies in terms of impact on me. That’s not to say it’s been a bad year for them, but it’s mostly been just ‘enjoyable’.
That said, it was probably Radicalized by Cory Doctorow. It’s a collection of four novellas that follow different characters pushed into different kinds of extremist action. The one where people start murdering health insurers was particularly heavy.
Planet of exile by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Origin on Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes.
Now that was a wild read.
Probably the movie Perfect Blue. I love creatively told, dark stories, and I love good animation, that movie expertly delivered on both and resonated with me.
Finnegans Wake. I read it across the year with an online group. It was always on the edge of incomprehensibility - often well over the edge - but it definitely had a impact.
This year’s ‘big read’ will be the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms I’m just about to make a start.
Started reading Hyperion, couldn’t finish it because of the Sol Weintraub story, it’s hard to read when you have kids
A Canticle for Lebowitz. A post apocalyptic scifi written about earth after a nuclear holocaust written in the 1950s and is extremely fun and terrifying to read. The guy who wrote it was a WW2 bomber and only every wrote this one book and it is an amazing piece of literature.
Sounds like “One Second After” which is about a man and his family trying to survive after nuclear war hits america.
Book: In the Shadow of Altars by Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
