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Fascinating indeed ...  

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Anthony Gottlieb's brilliant The Dream of Reason, and The Dream of Enlightenment; Sean Carroll's equally, if not more, brilliant From Eternity to Here.... Any or all of them will leave one in awe. Cheers, Filip

I think she was trying to tell me something about my hobby.😄 ...  

It follows the Up’s and Down’s of Crypto. The author has a wicked sense of humor, which adds to the read.

All of 500 pages! ...  

My preference is classic literature, and I find "Vanity Fair" (1848) by William Makepeace Thackeray quite interesting keeping the present culture of influencers and their hunt for fame and so on in mind. Also Thackeray, "The Virginians" (1859) could be se... 

I don`t keep tabs, must have read it at least 4-5 times I think. I revisit the Musketeers every so often as well.

Sadly, I have to read the English translations thus I will never know the original works, but the translations are indeed pleasant reading. Would also recommend the translations of a.o. Turgenev, Chekhov and Tolstoy by Garnett for those who prefer (or hav... 

This will be my third time reading all of them. He was brilliant. If you love Hemingway read “Max Perkins: the editor of genius”.

Worth looking into. I'm on Junot Diaz's "This is how you lose her" presently. A peach.

...so am going with 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' It's long : )