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What I read, and what I would hand to a friend.
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- Maybe we are not f*cked after all Christian MartinTaking away some fear from AI with AI.
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- Der Wohlstand der Nationen Adam SmithWhere the invisible hand comes from, and less dogmatic than its reputation.
- Die Libelle John le CarréLe Carré at his best: an actress recruited as an agent in the Middle East.
- Das Kartell Don WinslowThe decades-long drug war, brutal and long. The sequel to Tage der Toten.
- Einführung in die schöne Literatur Péter EsterházyA playful, fragmentary book about literature, by someone who clearly loves it.
- Die rote Rakete am Nanga Parbat Reinhold MessnerThe 1970 Nanga Parbat expedition and the death of his brother Günther.
- Brave New World Aldous HuxleyA comfortable dystopia, which is what makes it unsettling.
- Das Ziel ist der Gipfel Peter HabelerHabeler, who climbed Everest without oxygen with Messner, on a life in the mountains.
- Sterne und Stürme Gaston RébuffatRébuffat on six great north faces. The mountains as craft, not conquest.
- Climbing Free Lynn HillThe first free ascent of the Nose on El Capitan, told by the climber who did it.
- Achttausend drüber und drunter Hermann BuhlBuhl's own account, including the solo summit of Nanga Parbat in 1953.