What did you read this year?
Matt’s
average rating for
2024
3.8
3.8
Good travel narrative. Great mix of the trip itself and stories of the area. A few interesting characters met along the way (park ranger, bus driver, cafe waitress, a few brief other travellers) - I would have liked a bit more stories of meeting Icelanders. But a good travel story.
Good biography of a totally egotistical great mathematician who thinks he’s entitled to serially abuse women as his muse because he’s smart. A fair look at Penrose, with great insight and ideas for math and physics, with no self awareness - he wants to be the outsider maverick but can’t stand when people don’t pay attention and he can’t be “establishment� even late is his career after knighthood and many honorary degrees. How much farther could h
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