📖 Book Notes
Books are a uniquely portable magic — Stephen King
I have taken up the habit of keeping a bit of fictional reading in my rucksack at all times and when the monotony of studying or triviality of transportation bleakens my outlook, they provide a pleasant existential escape.
Below is an index of my thoughts on some of the books I have read, which I try to collect entirely for my own benefit and amusement while they’re still lucid.
Notes still to be written:
- Norwegian Wood
- The Inimitable Jeeves
- Collected Grooks I/II
- Animal Farm
- A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- The Hunger Games
- A Clockwork Orange
Some Thoughts on the Common Toad — George Orwell
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A short collection of Orwellian essays of greatly varying interest to me.
Slaughterhouse 5 — Kurt Vonnegut
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Moving and thought-provoking novel that portrays the sobering realities of war and their meaninglessness.
The Salmon of Doubt — Douglas Adams
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A book that shouldn’t have been written, though may still interest particularly enthusiastic fans of Douglas Adams.
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul — Douglas Adams
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An equally brilliant successor elaborates on Dirk Gentley’s chaotic but effective detective career.
Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency — Douglas Adams
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Hilariously well-written sci-fi that blatantly disregards the laws of physics, and reaffirms the geocentric world-view by placing Cambridge, UK at the very centre of its universe.
The Art of Rest — Claudia Hammond
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Yet another trivial self-help book that manages to cite the scientific literature without producing much in the way of interesting or useful facts.
