My favorite part about William Gibson’s writing is his world building. He is truly a visionary, an understatement about the guy who envisioned The Matrix. What kept me getting back to The Peripheral was Gibson’s unique take on how humans would eventually merge with technology and the res . . . Read more

This book is the story of the birth, growth, and future of one of the most powerful and dangerous ideas in the history of science: the “gene,” the fundamental unit of heredity, and the basic unit of all biological information. When you read good books, you start immersing yourself into the world of . . . Read more

This is one of those rare sci-fi books that managed to bore me. So much so that I left the last short story halfway through, out of exasperation. I was really looking forward to the book because of Arrival. The story that inspired Arrival, Story of Your Life, is indeed quite good but the rest of the . . . Read more

“If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation." - 1Q84 What most surprised me about 1Q84 is that I actually liked reading it! I have read enough Murakami that as I was reading the book I knew that he was not going to explain an . . . Read more

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't." Rereading the five books in The Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy is the best self-care I’ve done throughout the pandemic. I would have loved to meet Douglas Adams, what a great guy he must have been to be friends with! It’s ha . . . Read more

With every Camus book there are two major problems: The writing is purposefully contrived, possibly lost in translation from French. The meaning is purposefully contrived, possibly lost in translation from French. In spite of this, I just cannot get enough of his books. He is the most enlightened pe . . . Read more

“What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?” Crime and Punishment is Dostoevsky’s criticism of naive rationalism, utilitarianism, and armchair philosophizing. For such a boring topic, this is a surprisingly fun read. Adhering to his own cri . . . Read more

“Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” The central question, says Camus, is that of suicide. If you are going to die one da . . . Read more

"...when we’re done with it, we may find—if it’s a good novel—that we’re a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have been changed a little, as if by having met a new face, crossed a street we never crossed before. But it’s very hard to say just what we learned, how we were chan . . . Read more

"Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest. If you’re going to while away the years, it’s far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive than in a fog, and I believe running helps you do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest w . . . Read more

HBO is bringing out a remixed version of the Watchmen and it brings back some very fond memories. When I first saw Zack Snyder’s Watchmen I had never heard of Alan Moore or Neil Gaiman. I had seen Snyder’s flashy, extreme slo-moed, over the top 300 which, if nothing else, was an enjoyabl . . . Read more

Sherlock Holmes was perhaps one of the first non-school books I have ever read. My first books were goosebumps, nancy drew, hardy boys and then I graduated to Sherlock Holmes and LOTR. I mostly read Sherlock in the summer, when I would have a lot of free time and would often be traveling to see my e . . . Read more

"Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is." -Three Body Problem Of the Three Body Problem trilogy, I immensely enjoyed reading the first book and had to drag my way across the other two. The first book has a very beautiful structure. It is intensely gripping with very ho . . . Read more

"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -Neuromancer I always knew that The Matrix had to have found it’s concepts from some book, it was too revolutionary a movie to have spawned out of nothing. And I finally found it - Neuromancer, the archetypal cyberp . . . Read more

"The human race has to live with its conscience. Whatever the Hermians argue, survival is not everything." -Rendezvous with Rama I’m biased towards space novels. Reading about space travel and stars and planets and contemplating the huge vastness and emptiness always fills me with a sense of i . . . Read more