The Alchemist gets a lot of hate for being Spirituality 101
or too basic but I think it is a powerful and deep allegory and fuck all the haters.
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Usually I only read Sci-fi and Fantasy, but not always. Off the top of my head and looking around me: The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (all-time favorite book) Salt Fat Acid Heat (a great book on the science of cooking) A History of Nearly Everything (I’ve heard there... - b_b...
Climate Alarmism & Geological Time, Meanderings
I recently read the pop-geology book A Brief History of Earth (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6169724173); it was OK but the final chapter bugged me—this book about 4.5 billion years of history suddenly transformed into a political finger wagging about how humans are... @brian, Name of the Wind novella I think you havent read yet
We were talking about Name of the Wind and how there’s a short story where Val thinks in the afterword it means Rothfuss is going to finish the series—you mentioned you’d read it and it was one of the most annoying characters-I presume you were talking about Auri and the 2014... - b_b...
Fiction books I recommend! I’m pulling out maybe less well-known stuff from my goodreads favorites, which you can page through here if you want (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4747793) neverending story (the great original movie is only the first half!) tschai (and more)... Man. Not too change the topic too much, but I have so little faith in Rothfuss finishing this. I originally got into it when I heard it was an unfinished trilogy. Then I saw an interview several months ago where Rothfuss was like, who said it was a trilogy?...