If you want to read more great Vietnam War fiction, read “Matterhorn”, by Karl Marlantes

I consider it to be one of the best novels I have ever read. Unforgettable

None.

The investment in starting a book is negligible to me. I mainly borrow from the library or buy used. And I don’t hesitate to stop reading books that aren’t working for me.

I finished Blink because despite its repetitiveness, Gladwell is an engaging writer. A similarly repetitive writer is Nassim Taleb. I abandoned “The Black Swan” because it could have easily been an HBR article, and Taleb is insufferably arrogant.

I finished Dark Matter too. It was a quick read and entertaining enough. I can’t recall off the top of my head an abandoned novel, but I know it happens several times per year. I suspect it’s because they’re all so forgettable

Annals of a Former world, by John McPhee

Pulitzer prize winning compendium of 5 books presenting geological history of North America. It’s very long, and very dense in information. It took McPhee two decades to write, so I don’t feel badly about it taking me a few years to finish. I’m in the home stretch.