Reading Update

sudden unexpecting shippy feels in a couple of these books?? no brain, stop it.

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Might've seen a movie adaptation of this once as a kid. Have fragmented memories of scenes.

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The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis

Non-fiction about the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis in US, from the perspective of some guys who saw it coming and in fact bet on it happening, winning big when it hit.

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The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Sequel to Three-Body Problem. Loved the plot strategizing, disliked how weird this book is about women.

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Death's End by Liu Cixin

Sequel to The Dark Forest. Didn't care much for the plot, and this book manages to be extra weird about women, like it's trying to out-compete the previous two in the series, like come on. Worst of the series.

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