Post #712576
2026-03-20 13:51 UTC
Replies (5)
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@doublemonkeyfun@kolektiva.social 2026-03-20 15:18
@passenger i have actually squirreled away so many books for retirement i've forgotten what they are, half the books i own i haven't read. I come from a long lived family so will probably end up reading everything if my days come to a natural conclusion.
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@Centretowner@urbanists.social 2026-03-22 05:30
@passenger Definitely this 1990 Russian edition of a 1985 metallurgy conference's proceedings co-edited by my mother. Even if I could read Russian, I wouldn't understand the subject matter. Even if I could understand the subject matter, it is likely out of date. Even if the information was still current, I have no use for it. But it has my mom's name on it, so I keep it.
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@headfirstonly@mastodon.social 2026-03-22 11:35
@passenger The book on my shelf that has stayed there since I bought it is "Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour" by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern, which was the result of watching "A Beautiful Mind." I completely bounced off the maths. It's *chewy*.
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@ZDL@mstdn.social 2026-03-22 13:18
@passenger Collected poetry of Mao Zedong.
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@cshlan@dawdling.net 2026-03-22 19:21
@passenger I think I still have that book! I didn't get any farther than him dismissing out of hand the theory that makes the most sense to me 😂