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Rated Split Tooth 10/10

Rated The Shining 10/10

Finished reading The Laws of Simplicity

Rated Baptism of Fire 10/10

Rated Sword of Destiny 10/10

Rated The Last Wish 10/10

Rated The Vital Abyss 10/10

Rated Gods of Risk 8/10

Wants to read Persepolis Rising

Wants to read Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story

Rated Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage 8/10

Rated Foster 8/10

Rated How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self 10/10

Rated Blonde 10/10

Rated Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda 8/10

Rated If It Bleeds 8/10

Rated The Song of Achilles 10/10

Rated The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 8/10

Rated The Psychology of Money 10/10

Finished reading Oryx and Crake

Wants to read Crying in the Bathroom

Rated The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation 8/10

Rated The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science 8/10

Will Storr takes the reader along on a journey among people with unconventional ideas about the world, meeting with a infamous holocaust denier, homeopaths and alien abductees. As the book progresses, Storr does a good job at showing how fuzzy 'truth' and 'facts' can actually be. The story is guided by the principle of 'audi alteram partem', and he makes sure to always show both sides of the case (how ridiculous something might seem). I agree with Storr's final conclusion that whenever a story - because that is simply how we as humans conceptualize the world - is too coherent, i.e. everything can be explained by causal relationships, we should be skeptical. In that sense, this could be both a conspiracy theory but also a scientific 'theory of everything' that aims to explain everything in a clear set of unbreakable rules. The book is also a good reminder that we should always at least empathize, although not necessarily sympathize, with those who differ in opinion. Everyone thinks that their set of believes is correct, but we are all prone to err, bias, and short-sightedness.

Rated Dante 8/10

Rated Titanic. Naufragio o cambio di rotta per l'ordine liberale. 10/10