I started The Deep History of Ourselves by Joseph LeDoux over the weekend. Reading Cosmos by Carl Sagan helped me understand the universe a bit more. Which made me want to understand humanity better. I suppose this is about how life evolved to give us the conscious brain that we currently possess.

I finished Brave New World by Aldous Huxley last week. It was okay. I’m sure if I had read it when it was first published, it would seem ground breaking.

Everyday my soul dies a little.

I’m still reading Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. My area had some unexpected weather a couple weeks ago so I’ve been off my usual routine.

The book is good and I’m about half way through. I want to finish it by tomorrow.

You’re welcome!

I thought it was an interesting cave so I felt like sharing.

That’s an interesting idea. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your experience! I also don’t really care for horror but I thought the same about classics.

That’s says a lot about the quality of the book.

While it’s on my TBR, this is one of the books that I have never heard someone dislike. I think I want to wait until I have a physical copy to read it since it’s so well liked. I have a few books that I need to get through first so I still have some time to make up my mind.

I’d like one too. He has a nice shop.

I had the same thought. It was really impressive, both the engineering of the train itself and the video.

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1984 is mostly easy to read until the last third. Before then it almost makes you have hope that the world in the book changes. Then it becomes more difficult to read due to what happens to the main characters. The last dozen pages were disheartening. I would recommend it to read at least one time.

Brave New World is easier to read so far. The themes (people are all the same and just do as they are conditioned without quesion) have obviously been in other media for decades so there isn’t anything that is too “new”. I’ll have to finish the book to really know what I think about it.

I finished 1984 by George Orwell last week and started Brave New World by Aldous Huxley a few days ago. I’m about halfway through so I should be finished with it by the end of the week.

Afterwich I’ll start The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains by Joseph LeDoux. It’s a book I’ve been wanting to read for a few months so I hope it’s as good as it sounds.

I’m still reading Epictetus: The Complete Works by Robin Waterfield and The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday.

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing!

Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed it!

the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance

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Now I actually do want to read it.

Yeah, it really is the dystopian book on most lists. Not difficult to see why when you realize it was published in 1949.

Oh wow, I hadn’t heard of that one. It does sound interesting though so I might pick it up. Thanks!

Dang, I do have a copy but I don’t know if I want to go back to back dystopian or just rip off the bandaid to get through it.

I also have Fahrenheit 451, which I really do like, but I haven’t read that one in over a decade as well. I’m thinking I should just go ahead and reread them. Thanks for the motivation!

Damn, you got me.

Haha. Yeah he’s seems like a thoughtful person from what I’ve read and the videos I’ve seen from him. He definitely has a certain sense of humor. It’s nice to see especially since woodworking people tend to be somewhat more serious.