Yea, the book "The Prince" is different than the pop-culture ideas of it. I blame English literature snobs for making mountains out of mole hills from this one.
Really? I found Neuromancer to be incredibly exciting when I read it, almost breathlessly so. The first time I read it (back in the 80s), I read through the Sense/Net run to retrieve the Dixie Flatline cartridge in a single sitting, and my adrenaline was pumping.
I re-read it last year, and it still works for me.
- Apex [Nexus 3] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way)
- Factfulness (Awesome, most important book I read this year)
- Prisoners of Geography (why nations act the way they do)
- Crux [Nexus 2] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way)
- Debt: the first 5000 years (slog to get through but interesting)
- Nexus [Nexus 1] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way)
- Digitocracy (super short story, super powerful message)
- Artemis (Not as good as the martian)
- Before Mars (Starts out great, fizzles out)
- Down and Out in Magic Kingdom (How reputation based social currency might pan out)
- Blood Sweat and Pixels (How games are really made)
- Masters of Doom (Awesome story of how the game was made and what it led to)
- Foundation [Foundation 1] (Prescient with where the world is, what might happen in reality)
- Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that can't... (Ok, not great, read it on blinkist)
- Ender's Game (Under rated, most fun I had reading this year, I know...)
- Neuromancer (classic, must read)
- Pre-suation (interesting and worth reading if starting a consumer facing business)
- The Three-Body Problem (Found it tedious, honestly. Interesting though)
- Radical Candour (A lot of common sense advice we take for granted and could do better with)
- Seveneves (Longggggg, but really worth it. Shame about the ending)
- The Virgin Banker (Really good read, how a bank came into being)
- Why information grows (Great read, could of been half the length, would recommend)
- Babylon Revisited (Meh)
- Money: the Unauthorised Biography (Simplistic history of money before and after coin. Good)
- Hellbent (Enjoyed it, good for a holiday read)
- Snow Crash (Classic, Awesome, read it)
- The little prince (must read)
- To Pixar and Beyond (A different viewpoint on Jobs)