Weekend Reading

Recollections of books carried back and forth on the elevated train -- in a long-term, though belated, attempt to learn something about the world.

Saturday, February 21, 2026

John Fowles - The Magus

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  Eventually I realized that all this cleverness was going nowhere, but until then ……. Wow! Right from its first words, this novel has ...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Waysun Liao : Dimension One

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Waysun Liao —- Dimension One : the Laws of the universe according to Tao Does theoretical physics affirm the Tao Te Ching ? The technical so...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

Federico Faggin : Irreducible - Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature

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  The premise of this book - as suggested  by the title - is that consciousness is an irreducible whole, greater than the sum of its parts. ...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

My Promised Land - by Ari Shavit

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 A review of My Promised Land by Ari Shavit A thoroughly entertaining and informative trip through the history of Zionism and the state it c...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Chetan Bhagat : One Indian Girl

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The protagonist in this pulp fiction is hardly just "one Indian girl" She's brilliant, attractive, ambitious, and h...
Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Min Jin Lee : Pachinko

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Looks like the toy section in a Walmart, doesn't it ?    It's actually a pachinko hall in Japan - pachinko being a mechanic...
Monday, February 18, 2019

Ernest Satow : A Diplomat in Japan

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This memoir would probably be fascinating for those familiar with the Meiji Restoration and the characters involved. For me ...
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