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[Clueless Morgan]

Brakeman sent me a PDF of this book and I'm in the middle of it right now. It's pretty interesting and I'm enjoying it so far.

My youngest daughter got me interested in the Divergent series. Read all three books. She bought the fourth one titled Four. Haven't read it yet because now we've moved onto the Maze Runner series.

I read the first Maze Runner book and wasn't thrilled by it. It was aiight, I guess. What I don't like about YA books nowadays is not the penchant for every last fucking one to become a series (series can be fun! I really liked the I Don't Want to Be A Serial Killer series), it's that a lot of the ones I've read lately don't have actual endings for the first book! The first book just leaves off in a giant, unanswered question mark that I know is supposed to draw me into the next book but it's just pissing me off lately.

So until they sort that shit out and stop doing it I'm not reading YA.


My other current book right now is Catch 22


Gotta admit that I'm very bored by it. I'm like 80 pages in (it's ~450 long) and I'm wondering how much longer I have to go in it before it becomes, you know, good.

the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was extremely draggy in the first... quarter to third of the book, but I managed to stick with it until it became a page-turner and I either must not be there yet with Catch 22, or it never becomes that.

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Good history - he should leave the math to others.

What's wrong with it if I may ask?

Not speaking for Min, but the only issue I see with the math part of it is that he assumes you've read Proving History (which is a reasonable expectation), and that, having read it, you now thoroughly understand Bayes Theorum so that you can read through all of his equationy bits and totally get it. I know enough to say I'm not there yet with BT, so the equations still look like strings of numbers to me.

Overall, though, there's not a whole lot of math in the book up to the point I've read and I'm about ~40% through it. I find them to be a bit of a stumbling block, but I just skip over the equations and keep reading.