Literature

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Been enjoying post-modernist books right now, and just straight philosophy. It's all so intriguing.

Reading the classic White Noise by Don Delillo, in the middle of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of The Prison by Michel Foucault. Finished Shibumi by Trevanian a month or two ago, one of the most funny and badass reads I've been through. Looking forward to picking up some Byung Chul Han books after reading a PDF of his book The Burnout Society.

I am reading "Maskiner som tenker: Algoritmenes hemmeligheter og veien til kunstig intelligens" (Machines that think: The algorithms' secrets and the way to artificial intelligence) by Inga Strümke. I have learned many new terms, as well as artificial intelligence's history and fundamental concepts.

Rereading Wul's Oms en série, the late 50s French sci-fi novel that the movie Fantastic Planet is based on.

I'm partially reading it because it's great language practice (my French is not very good) but also because I really like Wul. His stories are not much like American sci-fi. Not that they're intellectual in the realm of Lem or the Strugatskies, but... they go in directions someone (like myself) raised on American sci-fi doesn't expect. It's very interesting.

I'm definitely late to the party but I'm reading Becoming, the Michelle Obama autobiography. Have had it on my shelf for years and have picked it up and abandoned it more than once. I'm committed to finishing it this time lol

Currently listening to Red Rising by Pierce Brown on Storytel. Only 3h into it yet but enjoying it so far at least :)

I just completed The Terror by Dan Simmons and I am currently reading the second book in the Malazan series by Erikson, Deadhouse Gates.

Malazan is amazing.

I found quite difficult to assess the Terror. It was quite a long read for the first 700 pages, then I really enjoyed the last 2 hundreds. But in retrospect I appreciate this slow pace so ... I am not sure about my judgement. In the end I am glad to have read it. I also learned a lot about people and cultures of the Artic circle.

After the Malazan novel I will probably follow upon the third one, but I could also switch back to (re) reading Iain M. Banks or reading Peake's Ghormenghast for the first time.

The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison.

Just started. A bit surprised by the prose, wasn't what I was expecting, but I think I'm into it.

Recently finished "how to do nothing" by Jenny Odell. Working on her latest book now about saving time.