What Are You Reading?

[vol.2]

Started The Complete Little Nemo 1905 - 1927 by Winsor McCay.

Very cool. I love Little Nemo and it would be great to get the whole thing and read it as a story rather than in snippets.

[NYN]

Ah. In case you get interested in this particular collection, go on and ask me anything about it. It's so massive, and yes, I would pick it over digital every time.

[IrkenLurker]

Just re-read some of my favorite books, or at least the important parts, Living Color by Nina Jablonski about the science of skin color, solar radiation, and health effects from mismatch, Passions Within Reason by Robert Frank about kind of like a game theoretical economic evaluation of how emotions serve us, and I'm currently re-reading Choice and Consequence by Thomas Schelling about various economic essays and game theory (I'm interested in the one about self-control, how it's almost like being in a strategic game against yourself who wants the wrong things at the wrong times, whether alcohol, spending too much money, junk food, or whatever), and I'm set to re-read Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy next.

I like non-fiction, it makes me think I'm learning and becoming a smarter, more resourceful and productive person. I also like how I can just run a youtube interview or presentation about a book or topic and listen while I'm playing a shmup or pinball or something, it allows me to think I'm being productive when I'm playing games.

Anyone else into science, psychology, economics, or any of that junk?

[NYN]

Ghost Stories of Henry James, a collection of 10 tales, of course replete with the notorious screw turning. At the end of the 2nd, the writing is not as ambiguous as the author's prefaces, where I had trouble grasping what the man is talking about. More of a ghostly apparition, as if it were dictated via a sèance. Ah, well.

A book about Grant Wood, artist of the famous American Gothic painting. Maybe you know a parody of it? (please check out Wood's Daughters of Revolution, a treat) I find Wood fascinating, because I feel the art is beyond terms and description: it's not kitsch, not surreal, not fairy-tale. The gal told me some look like snow globe insides, minus the snow. A miniature preserved world. I find that adequate.

Prince of Persia: The Graphic Novel. Released between The Two Thrones and the drifter-not-a-prince next gen game, this is no adaptation of any game or the movie. Unique and magical, it tells of a world all its own. It's more like a European comic in flavour, which I find fitting since the games are mainly from Ubisoft. Chance I found this, and I'm glad I did.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Just re-read some of my favorite books, or at least the important parts, Living Color by Nina Jablonski about the science of skin color, solar radiation, and health effects from mismatch, Passions Within Reason by Robert Frank about kind of like a game theoretical economic evaluation of how emotions serve us, and I'm currently re-reading Choice and Consequence by Thomas Schelling about various economic essays and game theory (I'm interested in the one about self-control, how it's almost like being in a strategic game against yourself who wants the wrong things at the wrong times, whether alcohol, spending too much money, junk food, or whatever), and I'm set to re-read Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy next.

I like non-fiction, it makes me think I'm learning and becoming a smarter, more resourceful and productive person. I also like how I can just run a youtube interview or presentation about a book or topic and listen while I'm playing a shmup or pinball or something, it allows me to think I'm being productive when I'm playing games.

Anyone else into science, psychology, economics, or any of that junk?

I love listening to science podcasts and youtube series; I'm mainly interested in cosmology and particle physics, sociology, politics and philosophy. These are my favourite series:
- PBS Space Time
- Titanium Physicists
- Floatheadphysics
- Majesty of Reason