What are You reading?

[longship]

39. Lots of science.

Walter Issacson's biography of Albert Einstein is a really wonderful read. I highly recommend it.

Frank Wilczek's The Lightness of Being describes modern physics in a new way and also describes what the fuck is asymptotic freedom (for which the author shared the Nobel Prize). Plus, Wilczek is a very cool person.

Then, I often read a good book over and over again. Examples of such things are the following:

The Big Short by Michael Lewis. A wonderful narrative with a great cast of characters. Steve Eisman is an incredible individual. That Lewis' narrative focussed on him is not an accident. I have not seen the film, but I hear it is great.

god is not Great by Christopher Hitchens. This is another book that I can read over and over again. Hitch had a way with words nobody else had (maybe since Churchill). Anyway one looks at it, this is a great read. Yup! It's a polemic. But it's Hitchens!

I also have dragged out Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel Escher Bach, just for the fun and challenge of it. Who else would have thought of Contrafactus, and football! I guess it depends on whether one is a fan of ten dimensional steam hockey.