What Book Are You Currently Reading?

[Hochmeister]

The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.

[American_Hispanist]

The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

[Petersburg]

[bella1407]

[Linet]

Oh i have read that ....very mmm interesting book....unique to its type

poor devil ...

[lei.talk]

“When I hear you give your reasons,” I remarked, “The thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each successive instance of your reasoning, I am baffled until you explain your process. And yet I believe my eyes are as good as yours.”

“Quite so,” he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing himself down into an armchair. “You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”

~A Scandal in Bohemia

But how does the world’s most famous detective do it? What’s the thought process behind Holmes’s remarkable results—and is it something we, too, can learn? Or are we doomed like his hapless sidekick Dr. Watson to always remain by the sidelines and only understand after the fact?

Maria Konnikova’s first book, Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes, was inspired by her “Lessons from Sherlock Holmes” series for Scientific American and follows the legendary detective as he explores the workings of the human mind. It is guided by a central premise: that Sherlock Holmes serves as a near-ideal window into the psychology of how we think and is a rare teacher of how to think better than we naturally do. While those who read the book may not become master detectives, they will certainly learn more about themselves, their minds, and their capabilities, and in so doing, will come closer to the Sherlockian ideal of a thinker who knows how to observe, not merely see, the world around him.

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[aimar]

I'm reading it in english, I just loved the premise of the book and I knew I had to buy it, even though I didn't find a portuguese version anywhere.

[lei.talk]

...for the script-kiddies that have realised
the time-sucking pointlessness of /b/ - Random et cœtera

and aspire to becoming a ~spieler.

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson. The novel follows the exploits of two groups of people in two different time periods, presented in alternating chapters. The first group is World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, as well as disillusioned Axis military and intelligence figures whom they encounter. The second narrative is set in the late 1990s with descendants of the first narrative's characters employing cryptologic, telecom and computer technology to build an underground data haven in the fictional Sultanate of Kinakuta. Their goal is to facilitate anonymous Internet banking using electronic money and (later) digital gold currency, with a longer range objective to distribute Holocaust Education and Avoidance Pod (HEAP) media for instructing genocide-target populations on defensive warfare.

security is a necessary skill
because ein ~spieler will never contact you directly
or in real-life - only cat's paws/provocateurs/soon-to-be-victims of the leviathan
will offer direct contact. those craving external validation are a hazard.

what one does not know
about an other free man
one can not be forced to reveal.

this is a game for self-cultivating sovereign individuals
that wish to exchange information
vital to personal freedom.

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[Nihtgenga]

Just finished.


About a third of the way in.

[Hoca]

Gonna reread