Books I've Read
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
Liked: Epic story, complex characters, and enough pages to build a fort
Disliked: Can be overly long; might finish before French Revolution ends
A Man Called Ove
by Fredrik Backman
Liked: Heartwarming tale; grumpy old men never looked so good
Disliked: Predictable plot; Ove makes Oscar the Grouch seem cheery
Beyond Good and Evil
by Friedrich Nietzsche
Liked: Thought-provoking philosophy, challenges conventional morality
Disliked: Dense writing; might need to evolve into Übermensch to understand
Dune
by Frank Herbert
Liked: Immersive world-building; makes you wish you had your own sandworm
Disliked: the pacing gets slow; like waiting for water in a desert
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
Liked: Hilarious satire; your towel's new favorite book
Disliked: Absurdist humor might not appeal to everyone, especially Vogons
Critique of Pure Reason
by Immanuel Kant
Liked: Groundbreaking philosophical work, deeply analytical
Disliked: So dense, it has its own event horizon
Flow
by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Liked: Insightful psychology; might actually improve your life
Disliked: Some concepts feel repetitive
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
Liked: Beautiful nature writing; makes you want to live in a shack
Disliked: Can be preachy; Thoreau needed to branch out more
The Untethered Soul
by Michael A. Singer
Liked: Powerful insights on consciousness; your ego's worst enemy
Disliked: Some concepts feel repetitive; like meditating on the same mantra
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
Liked: Timeless wisdom; emperor's new clothes actually worth wearing
Disliked: Some passages can feel repetitive or dated; Rome wasn't built in a day
On the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
Liked: Groundbreaking theory; not just for the fittest readers
Disliked: Dense scientific language
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami
Liked: Atmospheric writing, exploration of nostalgia and lost love
Disliked: Plot feels thin at times; characters more mysterious than sushi ingredients
The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene
Liked: Intriguing historical anecdotes; Machiavelli would be proud
Disliked: Can feel manipulative; might turn you into a supervillain
Letters from a Stoic
by Seneca
Liked: Practical wisdom; ancient advice that's not all Greek to me
Disliked: Some advice feels dated; togas and philosophy don't always mix
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
Liked: Charming characters; sisterhood of the traveling heartstrings
Disliked: Some find it overly sentimental; might induce sugar coma
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Liked: Fascinating insights; makes you question your own brain
Disliked: Can be dense; thinking about thinking is slow going
Prey
by Michael Crichton
Liked: Thrilling sci-fi concept; nanotech never looked so terrifying
Disliked: Characters feel underdeveloped; more depth than a petri dish, please
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Liked: Powerful dystopian themes; ironically, a real page-burner
Disliked: the pacing is kinda uneven; firemen have never been less helpful
The Better Angels of Our Nature
by Steven Pinker
Liked: Comprehensive analysis; optimism in a world gone mad
Disliked: Very long
Six Easy Pieces
by Richard Feynman
Liked: Makes complex physics accessible; quantum leap for your brain
Disliked: Some concepts still challenging; 'easy' is relative, like Einstein said