Books I've Read

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

by Victor Hugo

5/5

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

A Man Called Ove

by Fredrik Backman

4/5

Liked: Heartwarming tale; grumpy old men never looked so good

Disliked: Predictable plot; Ove makes Oscar the Grouch seem cheery

Beyond Good and Evil

Beyond Good and Evil

by Friedrich Nietzsche

4/5

Liked: Thought-provoking philosophy, challenges conventional morality

Disliked: Dense writing; might need to evolve into Übermensch to understand

Dune

Dune

by Frank Herbert

5/5

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

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

by Douglas Adams

5/5

Liked: Hilarious satire; your towel's new favorite book

Disliked: Absurdist humor might not appeal to everyone, especially Vogons

Critique of Pure Reason

Critique of Pure Reason

by Immanuel Kant

4/5

Liked: Groundbreaking philosophical work, deeply analytical

Disliked: So dense, it has its own event horizon

Flow

Flow

by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

4/5

Liked: Insightful psychology; might actually improve your life

Disliked: Some concepts feel repetitive

Walden

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

4/5

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

The Untethered Soul

by Michael A. Singer

4/5

Liked: Powerful insights on consciousness; your ego's worst enemy

Disliked: Some concepts feel repetitive; like meditating on the same mantra

Meditations

Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

5/5

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

On the Origin of Species

by Charles Darwin

5/5

Liked: Groundbreaking theory; not just for the fittest readers

Disliked: Dense scientific language

South of the Border, West of the Sun

South of the Border, West of the Sun

by Haruki Murakami

4/5

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

The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene

4/5

Liked: Intriguing historical anecdotes; Machiavelli would be proud

Disliked: Can feel manipulative; might turn you into a supervillain

Letters from a Stoic

Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

5/5

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

Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

4/5

Liked: Charming characters; sisterhood of the traveling heartstrings

Disliked: Some find it overly sentimental; might induce sugar coma

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

5/5

Liked: Fascinating insights; makes you question your own brain

Disliked: Can be dense; thinking about thinking is slow going

Prey

Prey

by Michael Crichton

4/5

Liked: Thrilling sci-fi concept; nanotech never looked so terrifying

Disliked: Characters feel underdeveloped; more depth than a petri dish, please

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

5/5

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

The Better Angels of Our Nature

by Steven Pinker

4/5

Liked: Comprehensive analysis; optimism in a world gone mad

Disliked: Very long

Six Easy Pieces

Six Easy Pieces

by Richard Feynman

5/5

Liked: Makes complex physics accessible; quantum leap for your brain

Disliked: Some concepts still challenging; 'easy' is relative, like Einstein said