Here are a couple worth reading
Unthinkable by Helen Thomson, a Brit nuerologist journalist. She provides case studies for which she provides nuerological explanations about people with unusual brain disorders that make them think, among other things, that they are dead, or that they see not only colors but numbers around both people and things, that they hear a variety of music constantly, that they are always lost even in their own house, that they have endless hallucinations, that they cannot filter out any of the sensations that any of their senses capture at any time, or that they believe they have become a specific animal (she discusses one guy who thinks he becomes a tiger). Kind of Oliver Saks but more about the brain.
Third Thoughts, by a Nobel winning particle physicist, Steven Weinberg, who is known to be able to expain physics to generalists. I found it a hard read, though the essays are relatively short in length. He tells you where he has gone wrong in his thinking during his career, and that is refreshing. And once you get through an essay, you are glad you read it.
The Undoing Project by Michel Lewis of Liars Poker, etc. This is a nonfiction book about two Israelie behavioral psychologists who revolutionized the professions' thinking about how humans make decisions. It explains some of the thinking you see on this board.
Digital Minalism by Cal Newport. This describes the addictions that cell phones and computers have become, how you can recognize when you have a serious problem, and what you can do about it.
Unthinkable by Helen Thomson, a Brit nuerologist journalist. She provides case studies for which she provides nuerological explanations about people with unusual brain disorders that make them think, among other things, that they are dead, or that they see not only colors but numbers around both people and things, that they hear a variety of music constantly, that they are always lost even in their own house, that they have endless hallucinations, that they cannot filter out any of the sensations that any of their senses capture at any time, or that they believe they have become a specific animal (she discusses one guy who thinks he becomes a tiger). Kind of Oliver Saks but more about the brain.
Third Thoughts, by a Nobel winning particle physicist, Steven Weinberg, who is known to be able to expain physics to generalists. I found it a hard read, though the essays are relatively short in length. He tells you where he has gone wrong in his thinking during his career, and that is refreshing. And once you get through an essay, you are glad you read it.
The Undoing Project by Michel Lewis of Liars Poker, etc. This is a nonfiction book about two Israelie behavioral psychologists who revolutionized the professions' thinking about how humans make decisions. It explains some of the thinking you see on this board.
Digital Minalism by Cal Newport. This describes the addictions that cell phones and computers have become, how you can recognize when you have a serious problem, and what you can do about it.
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Anyhow, I'm a shameless Cormac McCarthy fanboi and recently finished Child of God. By McCarthy standards, it's kind of meh but, IMO, a "meh" McCarthy book is still better than most books. On the plus side, it contains one of the better necrophilia subplots I've read.
