Manifold+Goodreads - mc-ul - I add new books to read, later resolve to my rating. I won't look at your positions
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170Ṁ120
2037
90%
The King of Elfland's Daughter
83%
Theft of Fire by Michael Edelson
80%
Invisible China - Rozelle & Hell
55%
The Idiot - Dostoyevsky
50%
The Conservative Futurist - Pethokoukis
50%
Burn Math Class

I'll add books I have and am considering reading. As I finish them I'll rate them 0-100%. Or if I give up early I will rate then, and not necessarily zero.

I'll add new books I'm thinking of reading as I go and try to be honest about progress or what I think if I've already started one.

I'll end markets when I'm done or have given up or too long has passed at my discretion. I'll try to be fair but I wouldn't advice betting a ton. I won't rate strategically, and will try to be fair but I don't want to have it get messy.

About me, some recent ratings:

  • Dune 100% 3rd read

  • Have Spacesuit Will Travel 90% 2nd read

  • Marrow Rovert Reed 40% abandoned about 40% in, pointless book

  • Grace of Kings by Ken Liu 85% but stalled for more than a year at 42% done

  • Tatja Grimms world by Vinge - 85%, all Vinge is good

  • Musk book 82%, very interesting but wasn't convinced the author really was independent and not playing the power status game

  • The 3 musketeers, read about 50% but it's a lot like it but how much more do I need?

  • Termination shock - Neal Stevenson - abandoned it's just getting to be too much.

  • American Nations -97% - super great everyone who cares at all about American history and understanding our culture must read it

  • Babel - RF kuang - wanted to like it so much, great setting, but just is full of the worst dumbest race jingoism ever, 14% for setting, abandoned after about 15%

  • I am a strange loop - Hofstadter 30% abandoned fairly soon, just normal dated old world thinking. Love the guy but I don't buy this platonism

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Theft of fire stayed good. Things are progressing. I slightly hoped they'd move on to conflict of a type besides immediate violence, but still enjoyable. I can see he's reserving future character development exclusively for the sequels by not introducing anything specific about the adversaries.

Seems to discuss a bit about high school and that rural people should be educated more

In China, by contrast, the high school attainment rate is just 30 percent.

Well, that's because everyone who wants to go to high school needs to take the Zhongkao, which determines which high school you go to. Half of all students will not go to high school.

And high school isn't mandatory in China, even if you scored enough points.

If I had to make a guess, China is deliberating creating a lower-class stratum of people who will perform the menial work that the upper-class people demand. Takeaway and delivery in China is cheap and common, but probably only because people have no other choice than to work that job.

@bohaska did you think the book was worthwhile to read?

@Ernie Uhh... I did not read the book, I looked on Amazon reviews for 10 minutes then wrote my thoughts about it...

Burn Math Class - seems great, only a few pages in

The Conservative Futurist - read a page or two, not sure so far. Intend to give it at least a bit more time

The Idiot. So many characters. 15% through, like it so far, slightly dated? Focus on torture and death is off-putting

The King of Elfland's Daughter - only 65% of the way, stalled, love SO many passages, will read and read again too, never giving up

Invisible China is well recommended and I usually like books like this.

30% through theft of fire so far, like it pretty well. It's doing a lot of things I'm interested in but also worried about. Seems like I'll finish it cause I want to know what's going to happen

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