The Neglected Read
Joseph GuyerReading my library of neglected, unread books.
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The Neglected Read #7: The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Welcome to the seventh installment of The Neglected Read, where I plow through my backlog of books that have been collecting dust over the years and write grown-up book reports on them. Glad you’re here! For this installment, I tackled The...
The Neglected Read #6: Song for the Unraveling of the World
Welcome to the sixth installment of The Neglected Read! If you’re new here, this project is all about tsundoku, the Japanese word for books you had the utmost intention of reading but instead have completely ignored.
You know the ones I’m...
The Neglected Read #5: The 1619 Project
Welcome to the fifth installment of the Neglected Read, in which I finally get around to reading and discussing my backlog of unread books. The Japanese even have a word for this phenomenon: tsundoku, which literally means “to let books pil...
The Neglected Read #4: The Book That Made Me Take the Risk of Artificial Superintelligence Seriously
Photo by Joseph Guyer
During a 2023 interview with 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley, Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted to something that should have convinced way more people that artificial intelligence (AI)—and artificial superintelligence (ASI)...
The Neglected Read #3: Emily Wilson's 2017 Translation of The Odyssey
I’ll just come out and say it at the top: I really, really enjoyed Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of The Odyssey.
In my first post, I said I wasn’t interested in recommending books, and I’m still not. I see this project, The Neglected Rea...
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Hi, I’m Joseph, and I’m working through my personal tsundoku (a.k.a. my pile of neglected, unread books). Expect honest, thoughtful book reviews and the occasional rabbit hole.
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