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Starters

by Lissa Price

Great dystopian sci-fi book, not too romanced for my taste, the end is not a masterpiece but overall is a good enjoyable book, it has some questionable technical passages, where you might think that things don't add but that doesn't happ...

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet

Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet

by Klaus Schwab

Low effort to convince us that corporations can transform in a way that cares about society, there are some OK facts about how inequality and greed are destroying the world and they are truthful but the solution in this book is not to re...

Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost

by Slavoj Žižek

Short and classic Žižek compounded pessimism and optimism in the same sentence. I can't say if the pandemic will have such drastic effects as Žižek predicts, I can agree that many things in the current system are unsustainable, but predi...

Today I Am Carey

by Martin L. Shoemaker

This is not your average humanoid - AI book. Carey is not what you would expect of a humanoid AI robot, as a character it is built almost like a human, and the book resembles very much the old movie 'bicentennial man'. Every robot - AI b...

The Mansion

by Ezekiel Boone

I really didn't like this book, it romanticizes too much the idea of monopolizes and power, the writing style also isn't great. The billionaire who is one of the main characters seems to me have many similarities in the story of him beco...