Son of Escobar: First Born
Worth a read and imo better than the book by his other son Pablo Escobar: My Father.
What have you read recently?
Any recommendations for decent sci-fi? Or just weird out there stuff?
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More apocalyptic than sci fi
Amps Ken Liu’s collection The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories was quite good. Reminded me frequently of Ray Bradbury, just hints here and there.
JonQPublik Interesting…
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Have just read “No Filter, the inside story of Instagram”. It is very well sourced and first hand accounts of the executive conflict between Facebook after its acqusition are particularly enjoyable
Mostly dipping into ‘The true tales of Edward Smallman spreading the plague around the world and generally being a div’, exclusively serialised on ‘JC’
‘The Tunnels of Chu Chi’ by Tom Mangold.
Book about the tunnel rats in the war, brave or stupid men? flip a coin really. No movie can capture how scary that shit was, some of the stories in the book are blood curdling.
Excellent read. About why only franchise movies get made and/or released in theatres - the collapse of DVD sales, appealing to the market in China, Marvel replacing movie stars with universes, et cetera. The part about “After Earth” is hilarious; how they thought the movie franchise could possibly replace Facebook and marketed it along side After Earth cologne. Laughable.
2 months later
Educated by Tara Westover… a memoir by a woman who grew up in a strict Mormon society and whose father was a paranoid bipolar nutter who stockpiled food and fuel in anticipation of the end of society as we know it. A grim read - the author was subject to some terrible abuse by father and brothers. In the end, despite being educated at home, she managed to escape her family community and studied at Cambridge and Harvard.. impressive. Not easy reading. 8/10
Ready Player Two- Only half way through but so far its essentially the same as the first book but not as enjoyable.
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Finished Stephen King’s ‘The Institute’ last night.
Not exactly highbrow, or cool, but a good story, well constructed and paced. Easy bed time reading.
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oh didn’t realise that was out…first book was a great read.
Might have to read Obama’s memoir first though - the reviews look top notch