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What are you reading this week? [7/02/23] (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by McBinary@kbin.social to c/books@kbin.social

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What book is currently on your nightstand?
Who is the author?
What genre?
How do you like it?
Would you recommend it to others?

Probably lots of bleed-over from the last week since it was posted so late, but...

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[–] IllegallyBlonde@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

American Prometheus, the Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.

I wanted to check it out before the movie comes out, and I highly recommend it for a very in depth view of his life.

I also recently finished On the Origin of Time, by Thomas Hertog, which I also recommend. It's about Stephen Hawking's final ideas and theories, told by one of his closest proteges. There are some incredible ideas in this book that I had never heard of before, and I'm a cosmology nerd.