gwern comments on November 2012 Media Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gwern 03 November 2012 02:31:33AM 6 points [-]

In descending order of how much I liked them, I read in October nonfiction:

When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God, Luhrmann
Proving History: Bayes's Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus, Carrier
Liars and Outliers: How Security Holds Society Together, Schneier
Walden, Thoreau
Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Murray
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work, Crawford
When Prophecy Fails, Festinger
Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche
Psychiatry And The Human Condition, Charlton

Comment author: palladias 03 November 2012 03:22:47AM 3 points [-]

I also really enjoyed When God Talks Back. I had a review copy around the same time as I was reading Thinking Fast and Slow and did two posts on Luhrmann's book that may be of interest to LWers or, at least, give you a better idea of whether you'd be interested in the book: “What’s Hard is Simple, What’s Natural Comes Hard” and "Quasi-Transhumanist Charismatic Christians"