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looking to expand my horizons. My last 2 books: the power of introverts and the subtle art of not giving a f*ck.

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[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago

For non fiction I'm reading The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle, and can highly recommend. Short, thought provocative, and engaging. For fiction, Children of Strife is great, latest instalment in Tchaikovsky's Children of Time series which I really enjoyed overall.

[-] greenMeanHoppinMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Children of Time is great. I also thought Alien Clay by Tchaikovsky was interesting. Although I'm a little skeptical about how aliens work in that one.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

I was gonna say, it was a neat concept, but he didn't really spend the time to make it convincing or explain the mechanism for how life would evolve to be like that. It's like he just had this idea that life could be more modular, but didn't bother fleshing it out past that. I actually enjoyed Shroud a lot more, I feel like he put more work into making it plausible. Can recommend if you missed it.

[-] greenMeanHoppinMachine@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

I haven't read Shroud. I will put it on the list, thanks.

[-] vapor_body@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Will definitely check those out

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