Ah yes Samanth! Very much so. (Didn't realise 'twas you behind 'WordPsmith'!) Interestingly, a few weeks ago my 8-year-old picked it up where JBS Sr was doing experiments on himself and was very much intrigued that people do that sort of thing and we went down a little rabbit hole.
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 8:04 PM WordPsmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Udhay! > > Kunda, I hope you’re enjoying the book! 🤞 > > > On Nov 25, 2020, at 14:25, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 3:45 PM Venkatesh H R <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > - Re-read Frank Herbert's Dune. First read it as a 16-year-old and was > >> apprehensive about the second read. So many of our heroes turn out to > have > >> written sexist, racist stuff or were otherwise total ass***** in their > real > >> lives. But Dune continued to amaze with its vision, its mixing of > various > >> cultures in the world, the strong secondary and tertiary characters and > >> pro-environmental message. Now wondering if I should run through the > entire > >> series ahead of the movie. > >> > > > > Speaking for myself, I loved Dune (although I last read it at least 2 > > decades ago) but found the other books in the series underwhelming. > > > > > > > >> That's about it. Reading A Dominant Character by Samanth Subramanian > > > > > > Samanth is on silk, so I will take this opportunity to congratulate him > for > > making it to the NYT notable books of 2020 list [1]. > > > > Udhay > > > > [1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html > > -- *Get your 'vaccine' from 'fake news', lies, half-truths, manipulated truths, propaganda and general B.S. at my media buddhi newsletter <https://mediabuddhi.substack.com/>.* H R Venkatesh Director, Training and Research, BOOM <https://www.boomlive.in/> John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, Stanford University Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
