happy2bretired
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
I'm finishing up The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan and will start on all of Jane Austen's books after that.
Wally Lamb, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides. No actual guarantee on how well you think the styles match. This input is from an engineer (retired) not an English major.I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and JD Salinger, but have read all their stuff. Can anyone recommend some other author(s) in the style of Roth / Updike / Salinger ?
Merry Christmas,
JG3
I like Philip Roth, John Updike, and JD Salinger, but have read all their stuff. Can anyone recommend some other author(s) in the style of Roth / Updike / Salinger ?
Merry Christmas,
JG3
Just finished Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. This is a spectacular work by someone frequently mentioned as the most accomplished behavioral psychologist of the last 50 years. The excellent reviews do not do justice to an extraordinary work, engaging in its readabilty and thought-provoking in content. Micheal Lewis has a review of this book, which is fitting since Moneyball's focus on statistics and illusions of validity are based on Kahneman's work.
Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002. And his work has turned utility economics or homoeconomicus on its head.
I enjoyed this one. Read it awhile ago but remember it held my attention from the start.Just started another Tom Clancy novel, "Without Remorse". Haven't really done a lot of reading for years but picked up three Tom Clancy books at a garage sale recently. I was a fan of his writing but somehow got away from reading a few years ago.
Sh*t my Dad Says was hilarious. Got it for Christmas.
I worked in Silicon Valley for 25 years. There are a lot of brilliant but disturbed types there. There is lots of wealth created and who's to say that's good or bad. I don't know about Jobs but do not believe the hype. Full disclosure, I never was an Apple fan and do not believe in worshipping any corporate type and/or product.I'm reading the bio of Steve Jobs, too. So much is very interesting and was unknown to me. He was apparently a very difficult man for those who had to work with him.