What are you reading now?

[George K]

I said it was time...

[bachophile]

@George-K “You’re a good watcher, anyway, I’ll tell you that for nothing, old boy. Us singles always are, no one to rely on, what? No one else spotted me. Gave me a real turn up there, parked on the horizon. Thought you were a juju man. Best watcher in the unit, Bill Roach is, I’ll bet. Long as he’s got his specs on. What?”

I always loved Jim Prideaux’s conversations with Bill Roach.

[jon-nyc]

A book called The Coming Wave by one of the founders of Deep Mind.

He explores the risks and opportunities of new waves of technologies such as AI, drones, and synthetic biology.

It was on Gates’ recommended list at the end of the year.

[George K]

I'm about 2/3 of the way through TTSP - and I'd forgotten how LAYERED it is. So many side stories, etc. Really enjoying it this time.

As an aside, I'm watching the 2011 movie at the same time, but only watching up to where I am in the book. Movie is very faithful.

It's funny how, in the book, it takes forever to know why Ann left George, or should I say, why the marriage got into trouble. In the film, there are hints, but you don't really know that she was unfaithful until the SECOND shot of the Christmas party.

[jon-nyc]

My sister found this and got it for me. A memoir of a Lung Transplant Pulmonologist. I started it overnight. (Dry January comes with a little extra insomnia than normal)

[George K]

I'm about a quarter of the way through "The Honorable Schoolboy."

What a slog. I keep waiting for something to happen, and it doesn't. So far, the most exciting thing is that "The Schoolboy" has gone to the East, and Smiley sees his wife through a window.

Yeesh. Don't know if i"ll bother to finish it.

[kluurs]

I had mild expectations - but it's quite good. I'm just at the point where he was in prison. His brother suggested he read Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People" before going before the parole board. Knowing better, Malcom unloaded vitriol upon the board with the not expected result that he was denied parole. Subsequently, Malcom read the Carnegie book and took it to heart - won over prisoners, prison staff - and ultimately the parole board. The book changed his life.

I'm surprised at how much I'm liking the book.

[bachophile]

@George-K oh come now. U don’t read Le Carre for action. You read him just to enjoy the writing. and the far east buts are kinda interesting. The whole jungle opium Laos scenes.

[George K]

@bachophile oh, I get it. The writing is glorious. So many "train-of-thought" detours in one paragraph.

[Renauda]

Hang in there George, it is very much worth every page and to the very end.