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Eric Lin is starting Opening Theory Made Easy: Twenty Strategic Principles to Improve Your Opening Game

this shit is not easy yet

— Jul 15, 2022 03:20PM Add a comment

Opening Theory Made Easy: Twenty Strategic Principles to Improve Your Opening Game

Eric Lin is 52% done with The Nix

So far, book of the year

— Nov 19, 2019 10:37AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 10 of 625 of The Nix

So far, this has been a pleasant surprise. The author really nails all the little details.

— Nov 15, 2019 05:03PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is starting Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

I'm super pumped to be starting this book

— Nov 05, 2019 10:35AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is 25% done with Mornings on Horseback

:twist:

— Jun 24, 2019 06:07PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is 49% done with Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

This book is scaring the shit out of me, and is trending towards "recommend to everyone I know" status

— Feb 14, 2019 10:26AM Add a comment

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams

Eric Lin is 41% done with Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Working 14 hours a day in a building with no bathrooms in the bustling metropolis of Bristol, Connecticut? These guys are clearly having all the fun.

— Jul 09, 2018 12:51PM Add a comment

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

Eric Lin is 56% done with Churchill: A Life

We're getting there. Europe's slow creep towards WW2, with Churchill's continuous warnings about the growing German military threat being mocked, and (even worse) ignored.

— Apr 25, 2018 02:18AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is 60% done with Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

— Feb 22, 2018 01:15PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is 22% done with Churchill: A Life

omg this motherfucker accomplished too much shit. I'm only 22% through and he's not even prime minister (for the first time) yet

— Feb 16, 2018 12:40PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 92 of 656 of The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

Done with international leaders. Onto American leaders..

— May 23, 2017 01:20PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 60 of 656 of The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

This is a modern-day Plutarch's Lives

— May 10, 2017 11:10AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is starting The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

I feel important carrying a large book around

— May 08, 2017 02:00PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 270 of 464 of Dead Man's Walk

This has been moving along. Really unpretentious prose, and interesting plot and characters.

— Mar 17, 2017 03:58PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 114 of 464 of Dead Man's Walk

This is really good so far. I think the youth of Gus and Call is depicted really well. This is exactly how I'd imagine two young kids wandering aimlessly around Texas would act.

One is super serious, and the other is obsessed with prostitutes, so they have had some pretty good interactions so far.

— Mar 15, 2017 11:55AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is starting 5 Weeks to Winning Bridge

This game is insane.

You play several hands of bridge, after you have picked a partner. If you score enough points in successive hands (or one really good hand), you win a game, which also makes you 'vulnerable', where you can score more points, but penalties for failing to deliver on your contract (established by a series of bids) are also higher. If you win 2 games out of 3, you have won a 'rubber' of bridge. WTF

— Aug 11, 2016 03:27PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is starting The Ultimate Cigar Book

Currently reading, OR CURRENTLY SMOKING?!?

— Aug 11, 2016 03:19PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 186 of 262 of But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

— Jul 01, 2016 10:26AM 1 comment

Eric Lin is on page 114 of 262 of But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

We could be wrong about a lot of shit.

— Jun 28, 2016 05:03PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is 86% done with Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS

— May 23, 2016 10:47AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is starting Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

Apparently Churchill had all these Ministers?

— Apr 22, 2016 11:26AM Add a comment

Ministers at War: Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

Eric Lin is on page 923 of 1056 of The Executioner's Song

We're almost there. Gary Gilmore is almost dead. (Spoiler alert!)

— Apr 19, 2016 04:51PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 707 of 1056 of The Executioner's Song

It's almost like he committed murder so they'd lock him up before he can ruin the lives of the few people who cared for him.

— Apr 07, 2016 02:12PM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 306 of 1056 of The Executioner's Song

I'm just blown away by the poor decision making. Gary violating his parole to steal ~$100 waterskis, which he'll only be able to sell for $25. Nicole dealing with her loneliness by having her sister-in-law drive her to a truck stop. Any time someone loans Gary money.

This book is triggering very high amounts of fremdschämen.

— Mar 29, 2016 11:19AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 207 of 1056 of The Executioner's Song

This is just miserable. These people have horrible lives.

— Mar 28, 2016 11:47AM Add a comment

Eric Lin is on page 68 of 512 of The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)

They just got to the forest. Just kidding.

— Oct 15, 2015 12:26PM Add a comment