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François

FrankAuLux@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.

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2026 Reading Goal

24% complete! François has read 25 of 104 books.

Dan Davies: Lying for Money (2022, Scribner)

A field guide to fraud and the mechanisms by which it operates in economic systems.

Extremely interesting book, examining most scams since the 19th century and tryig to extract rules to spot and prevent them. All big recent scams are there, t---p, maddof, blood analysis and paios bonds. definitely worth a read.

Camba, Julio: Mis Paginas Mejores. By Julio Camba. 1956 Edition (1956, Antologia Hispancia) No rating

Este libro reúne —escogidos por el propio Camba— los mejores escritos del genial columnista gallego; …

Yo creo que el titulo le dice todo :-) Siempre me ha gustado a Cambas, y este libro no es una excepcion, sino que confirme la excellente impresion que yo tenia. Es un poco viejo, claro, hay cosas que cambiaron, pero otras no, y la sicologia de las distintas naciones que estudie 5alemana, USA, Inglaterra, Francia) sigue siende ejemplar y muy divertido. Muy aconsejado

Joël Dicker: La Disparition de Stephanie Mailer (French language, 2018) No rating

FASCINANT!. Ce bouquin est un des meilleurs polars que j'ai lu depuis longtemps. Je suis resté éveillé très tard juste pour savoir qui était le coupable, et jusqu'au dernier moment je me suis trompé. Très conseillé !!!!

David Graeber: Bullshit Jobs (Hardcover, 2018, Allen Lane)

Be honest: if your job didn't exist, would anybody miss it? Have you ever wondered …

Excellent book and quite well researched. It started a bit slow - very verbose and going around in circle (to me anyway), and then it took off. Despite the title, this is not light reading. There are some real questions about our society (or rather the anglo-saxon one as many things apply mostly to US/UK, but the rest of the world is concerned by several aspects as well). Definitely recommended