ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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I read Tolstoy's War and Peace several years ago and it was phenomenal.I can not reccomend it highly enough. i am a history junkie and without my knowledge i subscribed to the Great Man theory of history. Tolstoy points out the fallacy in that theory and shows that we are all caught up in history's grand arc.
The book is also a wonderful cultural and social history of Russia in the Napoleonic era. Yes,it is quite long but the prose and detail which he offers are moving and necessary.
The energy and discpline that you expend reading this will pay huge dividends.
JJJ
A/C may be just the thing for very hot, humid summers, but in my experience fans are fine in hot, dry summers (Mediterranean climate) and British summers (the climate they have in heaven).
Yay for graphic novels. Now about web-based graphic novels?
Hm. Interesting that you think graphic novels give you more content per hour -- I think they give less, which is why I don't like them as much. For the same reason, I generally only watch movies or TV as part of a social outing. I like standard novels (though I would agree many are twice as long as they ought to be). And my favorite comic is all stick figures. I suppose I don't care for visual storytelling very much!
I am currently living in Shenzhen and Delisle's book cannot be more inaccurate.
It's not that smoggy, the people aren't that backward, and the authoritarian government not all that noticeable. I don't see how someone can be so lonely during their time in Shenzhen; as a Westerner people are always friendly and want to talk to you. But then again, maybe that's a function of the fact that some people spend months in a place, pen a novel describing it, but don't bother learning the local language.
Where do roleplaying games fit on this scale?
I fully support rating books by benefit-cost analysis of the time they take. If you write 1000 pages, you better need 1000 pages.
I can't say that I had much use for Confessions of a Blabbermouth.