214 books
—
532 voters
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
to-read
(15)
currently-reading (35)
read (312)
did-not-finish (0)
shelfari-favorites (15)
audiobook (13)
ebook (2)
humor (2)
10-feb-2016 (1)
1950-s-1960-s-childhood (1)
actor (1)
adventure (1)
currently-reading (35)
read (312)
did-not-finish (0)
shelfari-favorites (15)
audiobook (13)
ebook (2)
humor (2)
10-feb-2016 (1)
1950-s-1960-s-childhood (1)
actor (1)
adventure (1)
agatha-christie
(1)
america (1)
audiobooks (1)
autobiography-memoir (1)
batting (1)
bill-bryson (1)
bollywood (1)
bowling (1)
cricket (1)
david-weber (1)
espionage (1)
evidence-based-medicine (1)
america (1)
audiobooks (1)
autobiography-memoir (1)
batting (1)
bill-bryson (1)
bollywood (1)
bowling (1)
cricket (1)
david-weber (1)
espionage (1)
evidence-based-medicine (1)
“Ah, the good old days,” I replied. “When things were simpler, kids were more respectful, and we had to walk to school through six feet of snow.” “Barefoot.” “Uphill.” “Both ways.”
― All These Worlds
― All These Worlds
“They have shown school as a complex game, a battle of opposing interests, where the teacher, representing authority and power, attempts to pack the maximum information into the students' heads, while the students, by nature the weaker side, do their best to avoid that information.”
― Highcastle: A Remembrance
― Highcastle: A Remembrance
“Tolerance does not grow with banning what is thought to be unpalatable; it grows with arguing and talking about it; for that which is unpalatable gets discarded.”
― The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
― The Past as Present: Forging Contemporary Identities Through History
“Small children always bounce back. Parents think of them as fragile flowers, but they’re more like weeds: They show up whenever they want, grow like crazy, and make your garden look terrible. But most importantly, nothing kills them. I’ve seen dandelions soak up bottles of herbicide and toddlers eat handfuls of cereal from inside a dusty vent. Both pests are still here.”
― Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child
― Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child
“All the scientists out there seem to be just churning out little puzzle pieces from their little area of expertise, and almost nobody is working on the puzzle! In fact if you look at the all the science journals out there, you will find that about 99% of them deal with results of experiments or clinical observations. I only know of one medical journal devoted to theory-Medical Hypotheses! That should tell you how dysfunctional our science community actually is! I believe most scientists are borderline autistics that love repetition, sameness, and are generally pedantic (enjoying correcting others) and, like autistic children , they get mad when the furniture is rearranged!”
― The Miraculous Results of Extremely High Doses of Vitamin D3: A year-long Experiment With Huge Doses of the Sunshine Hormone From 25,000 to 100,000 IU/Day
― The Miraculous Results of Extremely High Doses of Vitamin D3: A year-long Experiment With Huge Doses of the Sunshine Hormone From 25,000 to 100,000 IU/Day
Gaurav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gaurav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Gaurav
Lists liked by Gaurav































