Tag: books

Enjoyed this biography on Ben and ended up reading about 4/5ths. Got bored at the end when Isaacson is detailing his life in Paris. Seems important, especially considering he was America’s representative in securing important aid from the French to take on the Revolutionary War, but it was incredibly detailed in a way I no…

This is the second time I’ve read 1984, both since graduating college. I got what I think is a different sense of it this second time. Mainly, the typical meme of, “Hey man the government (Big Brother) man, going after the jokes I’m trying to tell about __ group man!” feels childish and undervalues the…