Are the above available in any Reader’s Digest condensed versions? I’ve yet to find a book that I couldn’t manage to drowse off during, if I’m in that kind of shape.
@phendrick OTOH, for anyone who goes the other way, needing help getting to sleep, I have several of my graduate school math texts I could recommend; one on category theory comes to mind, and several on consistency of logical systems.
There are some people who would consider these horror books or otherwise disturbing.
@phendrick Siddhartha by Herman Hesse held my interest and even made me emotional. An exceptional book.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury was a series of short stories published in magazines but he was convinced to combine them into a book. Easy to break into sections because each story stands on its own as a chapter yet they still work together.
The Great SF Stories was a 25 volume series of selected science fiction stories. I have volume one and it is outstanding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_Presents_The_Great_SF_Stories_1_(1939)#/media/File:IsaacAsimovPresentsTheGreatSFStories1.jpg
Serious suggestion. I read The Call of Cthulhu last week. There’s a reason it’s famous. It’s in the public domain because it’s old enough. Just look it up and read it on your phone.
Red Bull Durham
The Count of Macchiato
Matcha Do About Nothing
Celsius 451
Are the above available in any Reader’s Digest condensed versions? I’ve yet to find a book that I couldn’t manage to drowse off during, if I’m in that kind of shape.
@phendrick OTOH, for anyone who goes the other way, needing help getting to sleep, I have several of my graduate school math texts I could recommend; one on category theory comes to mind, and several on consistency of logical systems.
There are some people who would consider these horror books or otherwise disturbing.
@phendrick Siddhartha by Herman Hesse held my interest and even made me emotional. An exceptional book.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury was a series of short stories published in magazines but he was convinced to combine them into a book. Easy to break into sections because each story stands on its own as a chapter yet they still work together.
The Great SF Stories was a 25 volume series of selected science fiction stories. I have volume one and it is outstanding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov_Presents_The_Great_SF_Stories_1_(1939)#/media/File:IsaacAsimovPresentsTheGreatSFStories1.jpg
The Great Gats-bean
Guarana Peace
@shahnm Does that one also stretch to over 1500 pages?
For Whom the Kettle Boils
The Oolong Goodbye
The Monster of the Baskervilles
The Sound and the Brew-ry
The Call of the Wired
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Espresso
A Tale of Two Lattes
The Fault in Our Starbucks
The Strange Case of Dr. Jitter and Mr. Hyde
Moby Drip
Uncle Tom’s Caffeine
A Portrait of the Barista as a Young Man
The Last of the Mochas
@shahnm Seems like someone has been spending a lot of time and/or money at Dutch Bros or Starbucks.
Serious suggestion. I read The Call of Cthulhu last week. There’s a reason it’s famous. It’s in the public domain because it’s old enough. Just look it up and read it on your phone.
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