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Jason Furman is on page 452 of 1023 of Don Quixote

Finished the First Part, so excited to be (once again) spending time with Don Quixote, his squire Sancho Panza, and the rest of the vividly real imaginative world they're a part of.

— Feb 22, 2026 04:44AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting The Great Divide

— Dec 29, 2025 09:30AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting Panama

— Dec 26, 2025 05:44PM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 253 of 430 of The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Re-read Oedipus the King. I love how human it is but not sure how to square that with how relentless and unavoidable fate is. (Will eventually re-read the other two.)

— Nov 27, 2025 06:58AM Add a comment

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

Jason Furman is starting If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All

— Oct 19, 2025 08:48AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting The Charterhouse of Parma

— Sep 14, 2025 05:53AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

— Sep 14, 2025 05:46AM Add a comment

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Jason Furman is starting The House of Mirth

— Aug 31, 2025 05:56AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 592 of 858 of Lonesome Dove

Astounding and immersive, some of the most amazing character's ever created. I can't stop thinking about it.

— Aug 09, 2025 10:10AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting The Life of Monsieur de Molière

— Jul 16, 2025 04:42AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is starting The Voyage to Parnassus, the Siege of Numantia, and the Treaty of Algiers

— Jun 27, 2025 02:25PM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 80 of The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (2008-08-01)

Read the first in the trilogy (The Barber of Seville). And learned that Rossini barely changed it for his opera. And it is still delightful, charming and a bit superficial in writing without a performance or music to go along with it.

— May 01, 2025 08:45PM Add a comment

The Figaro Trilogy: The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro, The Guilty Mother (Oxford World's Classics) by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (2008-08-01)

Jason Furman is starting The Story of the Nose (Save the Story)

— Apr 09, 2025 07:41PM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 135 of 1276 of The Count of Monte Cristo

Still so good.

— Feb 03, 2025 06:09PM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 75 of 1276 of The Count of Monte Cristo

So far so thrilling (my second time around--but don't remember much from 30 years ago beyond the broad outlines and the general feelings I had).

— Jan 26, 2025 06:12AM Add a comment

Jason Furman is on page 90 of 432 of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Finished the first part on how animal brains originally developed to help bilateral organisms steer. And it was fascinating--shaping up to be among the best books I've read in a long time.

— Jan 14, 2025 05:41PM Add a comment

A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

Jason Furman is on page 199 of 1490 of Hawaii

I've read two parts: The first a geological and paleontological history of Hawaii that spans hundreds of millions of years and ends before people arrive. The second the journey of the first humans to Hawaii spanning thousands of miles. I plan to stick with this is. A bit trite to say but is certainly quite an epic.

— Dec 24, 2024 04:25AM Add a comment