Recs

Subsets of the things I like.

Fiction

• La Promesse de l’aube
• Le Comte de Montecristo
• Stories of your life and others
• Memoires d’Hadrien
• Les Fleurs du Mal
• Foundation
• the unbearable lightness of being
• Ender’s Game
• Three body problem
• Crime and Punishment
• Watchmen
• the little prince
• Portrait of the artist as a young man
• Ficciones
• the lord of the rings
• the book of disquiet
• the old man and the sea
• Ubik

Music (artists)

• Elliott Smith
• Radio Head
• barbara
• pink floyd
• uncle chris
• daft punk
• Tom Adams
• bicep
• the strokes
• the beatles
• david bowie
• red hot chili peppers
• the kinks
• max richter
• ravel
• philip glass

Movies

• taste of cherry
• paths of glory
• in the mood for love
• the tale of princess kaguya
• la haine
• bladerunner (the original)
• whiplash
• beau travail
• nausicaa

Nonfiction

• the Theory of Computation
• the Selfish Gene
• Letters to a young poet
• Shankar’s Quantum Mechanics
• the Art of Loving
• Beyond good and evil
• Stranger in the village
• the theoretical minimum
• Get programming with haskell
• Crafting interpreters