Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part 3

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

Heavy subject, but great art and writing. An artist in his 60s, looks back on the time he spent as a kid, at a boarding school run by a sadistic pervert. How that experience ate at him..
Cover is color, but the art is black & white (Charles Burns-like) artwork.

 

[sr edler]

I tried to read Goldfinger recently by Ian Fleming, the book was humming along okay, I didn't even have a problem with the card games (I don't like playing cards at all, and definitely don't get the widespread fascination for it) but then he (the author) drops like a 30-pages long tedious golf game right in your face, and I'm saying this as someone who doesn't even dislike golf, I've even played some myself. But man was that boring. What can I say I DNF'd it.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

After the Democrats' subversion of their 2024 presidential primary.. it got me wondering about the party primary process.. and found this history.
Nothing exciting in the early chapters..

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

Comprehensive history of TV.
I'm in part one, pre-1940 visionaries & technicians behind the creation of television. David Sarnoff is covered a lot in the opening. He seemed like the Steve Jobs of TV, personally promoting the transformative value of a new household technology.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Late 1800s evaluation of wealth inequality. An important piece of history, but dry reading.. a lot of long, run-on sentences.. awkward to read.

 

[Hippasus]

Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann, by Ivor Grattan-Guiness.

I'm really liking this one so far. U.K. author. I think this was his first book. He was a historian of mathematics, but perhaps with a bit of a philosophical slant. Should be fun.

 

[Hippasus]

Late 1800s evaluation of wealth inequality. An important piece of history, but dry reading.. a lot of long, run-on sentences.. awkward to read.

He had that idea of the land tax. From Wikipedia, maybe taxing the land is the most logical source of revenue. This is perhaps an efficient means of doing so.

"Progress and Poverty (1879), sold millions of copies worldwide. The treatise investigates the paradox of increasing inequality and poverty amid economic and technological progress, the business cycle with its cyclic nature of industrialized economies, and the use of rent capture such as land value taxation and other anti-monopoly reforms as a remedy for these and other social problems. Other works by George defended free trade, the secret ballot, free (at marginal cost) public utilities/transportation provided by the capture of their resulting land rent uplift, Pigouvian taxation, and public ownership of other natural monopolies."

 

[Babe Ruth]

The story of early development & marketing of A.I.. first 50 pages have been dominated by Sam Altman.