What books will I enjoy reading?
What books will I enjoy reading?
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Ṁ328
2050
87%
A Practical Guide to Evil
52%
What If?
50%
The Infidel and the Professor
50%
Outlive
50%
Children of Earth and Sky
Resolved
70%
The Florentines
Resolved
70%
Ties (Domenico Starnone)
Resolved
50%
Turkey (Norman Stone)
Resolved
40%
Stations of the Tide

The purpose of this market is to solicit reading recommendations. You can submit novels, biographies, short stories (and at least for now, even essays and articles). Typically the shorter the work, the more likely I'll give it a try, but I probably will also be more willing to drop it.

Earlier iteration of this question in https://manifold.markets/TonyGao/what-books-will-i-enjoy-reading, but it costs too much to add options in a Plus market.

As with that market, resolves between 50-100% for all completed books based on enjoyment. I will resolve all books I have already read to the best of my memory. Dropped books resolve between 0-50% based on enjoyment (resubmission allowed).

That market includes a comment with a list of books I have previously enjoyed, which would all be rated over 90% in a market like this: https://manifold.markets/TonyGao/what-books-will-i-enjoy-reading#n5kyslnnl0g.

I typically read at least one book per month and occasionally will blitz through a couple books at a time. I will try to notify if and when I start a book on the list (although I will probably forget), and when I complete a book I will give a quick review with my thoughts which justify the score given. I will not bet on this market myself.

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Stations of the Tide
4mo

@TonyGao Not as good as the Iron Dragon series. The setting just feels less coherent to me, a little too fever dreamy for me, with things happening just because.

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Turkey (Norman Stone)
7mo

@TonyGao Coincidentally useful primer for Cremieux's theory on the development of science in Europe. Otherwise, not what I was expecting or wanting, which was a history up to the founding of modern Turkey. The republic is only covered loosely in the epilogue.

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The Florentines
8mo

@TonyGao Nice and quick little read, but surprising how superficially it covers things given the rave reviews for it.

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Ties (Domenico Starnone)
8mo

@TonyGao Reminds me a lot of Bryan Caplan's advice to marry a woman with low neuroticism. https://www.betonit.ai/p/shes-the-one. The protagonist of The Lying Life of Adults also seems quite anxiety-ridden, although I don't remember the characters of the Neapolitan Novels being quite so extra. Perhaps this is because I read it when I was younger (and more autistic), or maybe that's why those have so much broader appeal.

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