<commit_before>Reading:
  - title: The Brief History of Time
"Still Reading":
  - title: Cities in Flight
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A
In Hibernation:
  - title: Արշակ Արքա, Դրաստամատ Ներքինի
    authors:
    - Լևոն Խոչոյան
  - title: The Society of Mind
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0671657130
  - title: How to Read a Book
    url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
    isbn-13: 978-0671212094
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
Recommend:
  - title: Foundation Trilogy
    url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - Plot is amazing! And the ideas in the book are really good too.
  - title: Преступление и Наказание
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.07
    url: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5
    comments:
      - I wanted to read this book for a while and it was worth reading. It's a very intriguing story and thought provoking. It's not an easy read, but well worth the effor. The ending is probably not the great (the very last part) but the story is very interesting and as I said though provoking.
  - title: Black Dog of Fate
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0465007042
    date: 2016.04  
    comments:
      - If you are not an Armenian this could be a good way to understand feelings of Armenians about Armenian genocide! It has a very nice personal touch from the author that explains how he feels also give you some historical context of what actually happened, and why it's hard for an Armenian to tell you what happened.
      - If you are Armennian, it's equally good. Book describes how the authorsfeel and I could related to a lot of his feeling and he put a lot of feelings into words which I really liked.
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
    authors:
      - Various Authors
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_One,_1929%E2%80%931964
    data: 2016.02-04
    comments:
      - Great collection, a very nice exploration and introduction to various great artists.
  - title: Short Stories
    comments:
      - “The Wall of Darkness” by <NAME>
      - “Publicity Campaign” by <NAME>
      - “Microcosmic God” by Theodore Sturgeon
      - “The Cold Equations” by <NAME>
      - “First Contact” by <NAME>
"Reading History":
  - title: The man who bridged the mist
    date: 2016.12
  - title: The Demolished Man
    date: 2016.12
  - title: My Name is Aram
    date: 2016.10-12
  - title: The chemical wedding
    date: 2016.12
  - title: Tracy's Tiger
    date: 2016.09
  - title: Unknown book(s) while in Yerevan
    date: 2016.08
  - title: Ancillary Mercy
    date: 2016.08
  - title: Ancillary Sword
    date: 2016.07
  - title: Accelerando
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
    authors:
      - <NAME>
  - title: The Human Comedy
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Comedy_(novel)
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.06-07
    comments:
      - This seemed like a more realistic version of American dream (I'm not sure about correct meaning of this term). But it shows that there are a lot of different people even in the small town and that everyone is nice deep inside and it is not hard to live together instead of waging wars against each other. Wars distruct and take people for no reason. American way of life is to embrase leaving. Actually it's hard to identify the core meaning of this text, it has a lot of smaller ideas, like being homesick and necessity to have a home.
  - title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.06
    comments:
      - Really recomend! It raises all the interesting questions about distinctions between androids and humans and how to classify one and another. Together with an interesting story that goes with it, creating culture just to be different from androids because we do things to be different. This goes along how people behave themselves too.
  - title: I Am Zlatan Ibrahimovic
    isbn-13: 978-0241966839
    isbn-10: 0241966833
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.05-2016.05
    comments:
      - Interesting to read what goes on in the mind of Zlatan. Other than that book is not very well organized, it seems like listening to a mind that strays away while telling its stories. Even with that it was an interesting read, you understand that even professional teams are supposed to be teams, and that professionals should have the desire to win to succeed.
  - title: Flowers for Algernon
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    data: 2016.05
    comments:
      - I really liked this book. It seems that it's a story of life compressed into a year. At the same time it is also a look into a mind that you don't understand. Both because you don't understand retarted people and you don't understand geniouses and different problems them face.
      - It made me wonder if I'm becoming Charlie the Scientist as I try to learn more of everything, because while doing that I feel like I'm becoming lonelier than before. Maybe this is because of moving back to MIT, but still makes you think that smart and accomplished people are usually rude.
  - title: The Sun Also Rises
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    data: 2016.04
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
    authors:
      - Various Authors
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_One,_1929%E2%80%931964
    data: 2016.02-04
    comments:
      - Great collection, a very nice exploration and introduction to various great artists.
  - title: Black Dog of Fate
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0465007042
    date: 2016.04  
    comments:
      - If you are not an Armenian this could be a good way to understand feelings of Armenians about Armenian genocide! It has a very nice personal touch from the author that explains how he feels also give you some historical context of what actually happened, and why it's hard for an Armenian to tell you what happened.
      - If you are Armennian, it's equally good. Book describes how the authorsfeel and I could related to a lot of his feeling and he put a lot of feelings into words which I really liked.
  - title: Do No Harm
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21086818-do-no-harm
    comments:
      - A good anthology of life stories from a neurosurgeon that is very honest and you actually think you understand how a doctor feels that deals with death on everyday basis.
    date: 2016.04
  - title: Fountains of Paradise
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise
    comments:
      - A very good book that describe an initiative of a daring engineer to build a space elevator. It touches the ethical dilemmas when building something extraordinary and daring that humanity might not be ready for.
    date: 2016.03
  - title: The Lean Startup
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lean_Startup
    comments:
      - A very good overview of the Startup workflow. It does not give you anything that could not be deduced logically, but it is a great overview that seems to cover the life of startup from inception to self sustainable company.
    date: 2016.03
  - title: The Big Short
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - A really nice book! I managed to listen to it in 3 days, keeps you listening. It made me really skeptical about USA and Stock Market in particular.
    date: 2016.02
  - title: The Road to Character
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Character
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12 - 2016.02
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - It was a nice book with a lot of examples of people that had characters. I like overall idea of the book and what it promotes, but I was not convinced by some of the examples it had. It made me think that US society is divided in a lot of parts, and the part that is non-South thinking (I don't know how else to discribe it), and has achieved something has a lot of values that that my parents taught me. So even though American mentality is far away from Armenian one, there is a set of core values of being human that is shared among both, but you have to dig for those and you only find those values in thinkers of the time.
  - title: A case of Conscience
    authors: 
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.02
    comments:
      - A really well written story. Has a lot of Catholic dogma insights in it, and controversies that come up when viewing other races. It was a really nice read
  - title: Farewell to the Master
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_Master
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - A very cool short story. I did not get the message but it was a very cool story. 
  - title: The Man in the High Castle
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - It was a really nice read. I enjoyed it a lot. A very though provoking and makes you feel like how it feels to loose a war. So It does not really matter what is the regimen after a war. Loosing side suffers.
      - The idea of a book within a book was a very good one, and very well executed.
      - I watched the amazon TV series right after reading the book, and the series was good, but I think they understood the book differently. Or they did not want to convey the same message.
  - title: The Other Side of the Sky
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Sky
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - A very nice relaxing read with some of the stores that I really liked and some that were so so.
      - I really liked "The Wall of Darkness" and "The Other Side of the Sky" series. "The Songs of Distant Earth" was also good.
  - title: Ancillary Justice
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_Justice
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12-2016.01
    comments:
      - Nice read, especially for somebody that has though about distributed systems.
  - title: The Forever War
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12
    comments:
      - I really liked this book, it was a very nice read and made you question a lot of things we do. (I'm to tired to write more :P)
  - title: Zero to One
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.10-12
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - |
        It was a good book to understand how Peter Thiel thinks about startups.
        I definitely agree with a lot of points there, but I can not remember
        which of the ideas came from this book which from somewhere else. I like
        his 7 questions that all startups should ask themselves! It's a good
        book if you are considering starting a startup.
  - title: Fahrenheit 451
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11-12
    comments:
      - |
        I read this over long period if you consider that the book is only 150
        pages long. It was a nice book, with a nice buildup of what the society
        looks when people want to be happy all the time. Makes you think about
        what is the life about like any other good fictional book. It was
        entertaining, but I have read better scifi books.
  - title: The City and The Stars
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11
    comments:
      - |
        Very nice book and it didn't take too long to finish it. I will
        definitely read more of <NAME>. This had a resemblence with
        Childhood's end in a way that it says that human race is not the
        dominant force in the universe.
  - title: Dubliners
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11
    comments:
      - |
        It had interesting stories, I wouldn't say I loved the book, but it
        was worth reading. Way better than other short stories I have read.
        There was a sense that he was telling stories about people that live
        in Dublin, but have very little in common.
  - title: The Silmarillion
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.10
    comments:
      - |
        In the beginning I felt like reading the Bible, even though I haven't read
        it. Very entertaining, but dense and full of names that one must remember
        when reading. Reading in Kindle helped a lot because of the X-Ray feature.
        I'm not sure if I liked it to recommend to someone not already liking Game
        of Thrones of other works of Tolkein.
  - title: Կայարան
    date: 2015.09
    comments:
      - Հետաքրքիր ներածություն էր պատմվածք ժանրում, ու էլի պատմվածքներ կկարդամ, բայց մի քանի հատը շատ պրիմիտիվ էին, չնայած կային լավերը։
  - title: Shogun
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.08-09
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgun_%28novel%29
    comments:
      - This is a very entertaining book even though it's 1000 pages long! It's like reading Game of Thrones but in medieval Japan and without fantasy. I really recommend this book if you want entertainment and some basic insight into Japanese mentally and self control and cunning planing.
  - title: "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most [Audio Book]"
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.08-09
    comments:
      - Too slow to read, but it's probably worth listening to. Has some suggestions that are worth listening to, but probably is more useful at the work setting than anywhere else.
  - title: Преступление и Наказание
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.07
    url: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5
    comments:
      - I wanted to read this book for a while and it was worth reading. It's a very intriguing story and thought provoking. It's not an easy read, but well worth the effor. The ending is probably not the great (the very last part) but the story is very interesting and as I said though provoking.
  - title: The Orphan Master's Son
    ASIN: B002UBRFDC
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.06
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orphan_Master%27s_Son
    comments:
      - Very well written book, I liked it. It is Fiction but it seems so real that you think you are reading a history book about some person. It makes you think about the values in life, and what is necessary for oneself to live. Very entertaining and I'd recommend, the only downside is that it's a pretty dark novel.
  - title: The Game
    isbn-13: 978-1847672377
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.06
  - title: "The World's Religions (Plus)"
    isbn-13: 978-0061660184
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.05
  - title: Second Foundation
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.02
    comments:
      - The Foundation Trilogy is the best I’ve read! Probably better than the Song of Fire and Ice (we’ll see after it’s finished)
      - But the amount of thought that is put into this book and how everything is connected and everything in the end makes sense. There is pretty much no false clues in the book (none that I saw).
  - title: Foundation and Empire
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.02
    comments:
      - Really good, i started reading the 3rd one right after this book it was that good
  - title: Moonwalking with Einstein
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2014.12 - 2015.01
    comments:
      - I really liked this book, recommend. I even bough “Ad herenium” after (while) reading this book
      - It has interesting techniques about memory, also is written very nicely so it is very interesting to read.
      - I need to learn the Major System for remembering numbers and of course practice the method of loci to be able to use this in real life. Foer says that he didn’t find good applications for the knowledge other than being human by remembering, I like this idea, but I need to try to find useful applications myself before I can agree with him. 
  - title: Solaris
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Very entertaining, my fist Lem novel. Written from first person. After Of Mice and Men I've started noticing the way story is presented and how could it be converted to a movie so I should watch Solaris (2002) and see how they did.
      - I really didn’t like Solaris (2002) movie, it tried to take some ideas out of the book (I didn’t get all of those ideas, but most of them) and force feeds to the audience. It solves all the narration by skipping it and creating a slightly different back story which doesn’t make much sense.
      - |
        (2015.12) I watched <NAME>'s Solaris (1972) and I liked it a
        lot. I think the movies made me look at the book in a slightly different
        way. The quote that I remembered from the movies was that we were
        looking for a contact with ET civilization but when we find it we have
        no idea what to do with it. Another good one was that human race doesn't
        want to conquer the universe, it wants to expand Earth to the boundaries
        of the universe. Great movie! I think I should read the book again in a
        year or so.
  - title: Of Mice and Men
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Nice short read, very unconventional story
      - It was interesting reading in this novellete/play style. He actually though about presenting at n different media not just writing a book, I guess you are at the next level when you come up with a story and can present it in different media simultaneously without hurting the story
  - title: The Variable Man
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Had couple of very interesting ideas
      - I’m not sure how I feel about the variable man, seems to fictional, but this is fiction and the character is well defined
  - title: Childhood’s End
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - It was a great read (Read it on my trip from EVN to LHR)
      - Need to read couple more novels by Clarke
      - Lots of ideas from this book are reused, V TV Series picks where this book starts and tries to take an alternative path, but their path was pretty mediocre.
  - title: All You Zombies
    date: 2015.01
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - This is the story behind “Predestination (2014)” in couple of pages
      - It is really good, but I had recently watched the movie, would be much nicer if I hadn’t watched the movie before. The movie is almost identical to the book, but they filled it with some back story to make it more interesting and fill the time since this novelleta is so short.
<commit_msg>New Year update<commit_after>Reading:
  - title: The Brief History of Time
  - title: Flappers and Philosophers
    date: 2016.12-2017.01
"Still Reading":
  - title: Cities in Flight
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A
In Hibernation:
  - title: Արշակ Արքա, Դրաստամատ Ներքինի
    authors:
    - Լևոն Խոչոյան
  - title: The Society of Mind
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0671657130
  - title: How to Read a Book
    url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book
    isbn-13: 978-0671212094
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
Recommend:
  - title: Foundation Trilogy
    url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - Plot is amazing! And the ideas in the book are really good too.
  - title: Преступление и Наказание
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.07
    url: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5
    comments:
      - I wanted to read this book for a while and it was worth reading. It's a very intriguing story and thought provoking. It's not an easy read, but well worth the effor. The ending is probably not the great (the very last part) but the story is very interesting and as I said though provoking.
  - title: Black Dog of Fate
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0465007042
    date: 2016.04  
    comments:
      - If you are not an Armenian this could be a good way to understand feelings of Armenians about Armenian genocide! It has a very nice personal touch from the author that explains how he feels also give you some historical context of what actually happened, and why it's hard for an Armenian to tell you what happened.
      - If you are Armennian, it's equally good. Book describes how the authorsfeel and I could related to a lot of his feeling and he put a lot of feelings into words which I really liked.
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
    authors:
      - Various Authors
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_One,_1929%E2%80%931964
    data: 2016.02-04
    comments:
      - Great collection, a very nice exploration and introduction to various great artists.
  - title: Short Stories
    comments:
      - “The Wall of Darkness” by <NAME>
      - “Publicity Campaign” by <NAME>
      - “Microcosmic God” by Theod<NAME>
      - “The Cold Equations” by <NAME>
      - “First Contact” by <NAME>
"Reading History":
  - title: Ender's Game
    date: 2017.01
    comments:
      - The ideas from the book really resonated with me. I had liked the movie based on this novel, but reading the book was even better.
      - The book is full of ideas about what it takes to be a leader, how people come together in time of crisis, and how they still keep plotting against each other no matter what.
  - title: Ubik
    date: 2016.12
  - title: The man who bridged the mist
    date: 2016.12
  - title: Beggars in Spain
    date: 2016.12
  - title: Geeks and Greeks
    date: 2016.12
  - title: Chemical Wedding by <NAME>
    date: 2016.12
  - title: The Demolished Man
    date: 2016.12
  - title: My Name is Aram
    date: 2016.10-12
  - title: The chemical wedding
    date: 2016.12
  - title: Tracy's Tiger
    date: 2016.09
  - title: Unknown book(s) while in Yerevan
    date: 2016.08
  - title: Ancill<NAME>
    date: 2016.08
  - title: Ancillary Sword
    date: 2016.07
  - title: Accelerando
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
    authors:
      - <NAME>
  - title: The Human Comedy
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Comedy_(novel)
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.06-07
    comments:
      - This seemed like a more realistic version of American dream (I'm not sure about correct meaning of this term). But it shows that there are a lot of different people even in the small town and that everyone is nice deep inside and it is not hard to live together instead of waging wars against each other. Wars distruct and take people for no reason. American way of life is to embrase leaving. Actually it's hard to identify the core meaning of this text, it has a lot of smaller ideas, like being homesick and necessity to have a home.
  - title: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep%3F
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.06
    comments:
      - Really recomend! It raises all the interesting questions about distinctions between androids and humans and how to classify one and another. Together with an interesting story that goes with it, creating culture just to be different from androids because we do things to be different. This goes along how people behave themselves too.
  - title: I Am <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0241966839
    isbn-10: 0241966833
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.05-2016.05
    comments:
      - Interesting to read what goes on in the mind of Zlatan. Other than that book is not very well organized, it seems like listening to a mind that strays away while telling its stories. Even with that it was an interesting read, you understand that even professional teams are supposed to be teams, and that professionals should have the desire to win to succeed.
  - title: Flowers for Algernon
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for_Algernon
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    data: 2016.05
    comments:
      - I really liked this book. It seems that it's a story of life compressed into a year. At the same time it is also a look into a mind that you don't understand. Both because you don't understand retarted people and you don't understand geniouses and different problems them face.
      - It made me wonder if I'm becoming Charlie the Scientist as I try to learn more of everything, because while doing that I feel like I'm becoming lonelier than before. Maybe this is because of moving back to MIT, but still makes you think that smart and accomplished people are usually rude.
  - title: The Sun Also Rises
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    data: 2016.04
  - title: The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929–1964
    authors:
      - Various Authors
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_Fiction_Hall_of_Fame,_Volume_One,_1929%E2%80%931964
    data: 2016.02-04
    comments:
      - Great collection, a very nice exploration and introduction to various great artists.
  - title: Black Dog of Fate
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    isbn-13: 978-0465007042
    date: 2016.04  
    comments:
      - If you are not an Armenian this could be a good way to understand feelings of Armenians about Armenian genocide! It has a very nice personal touch from the author that explains how he feels also give you some historical context of what actually happened, and why it's hard for an Armenian to tell you what happened.
      - If you are Armennian, it's equally good. Book describes how the authorsfeel and I could related to a lot of his feeling and he put a lot of feelings into words which I really liked.
  - title: Do No Harm
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21086818-do-no-harm
    comments:
      - A good anthology of life stories from a neurosurgeon that is very honest and you actually think you understand how a doctor feels that deals with death on everyday basis.
    date: 2016.04
  - title: Fountains of Paradise
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise
    comments:
      - A very good book that describe an initiative of a daring engineer to build a space elevator. It touches the ethical dilemmas when building something extraordinary and daring that humanity might not be ready for.
    date: 2016.03
  - title: The Lean Startup
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lean_Startup
    comments:
      - A very good overview of the Startup workflow. It does not give you anything that could not be deduced logically, but it is a great overview that seems to cover the life of startup from inception to self sustainable company.
    date: 2016.03
  - title: The Big Short
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - A really nice book! I managed to listen to it in 3 days, keeps you listening. It made me really skeptical about USA and Stock Market in particular.
    date: 2016.02
  - title: The Road to Character
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Character
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12 - 2016.02
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - It was a nice book with a lot of examples of people that had characters. I like overall idea of the book and what it promotes, but I was not convinced by some of the examples it had. It made me think that US society is divided in a lot of parts, and the part that is non-South thinking (I don't know how else to discribe it), and has achieved something has a lot of values that that my parents taught me. So even though American mentality is far away from Armenian one, there is a set of core values of being human that is shared among both, but you have to dig for those and you only find those values in thinkers of the time.
  - title: A Case of Conscience
    authors: 
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.02
    comments:
      - A really well written story. Has a lot of Catholic dogma insights in it, and controversies that come up when viewing other races. It was a really nice read
  - title: Farewell to the Master
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_to_the_Master
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - A very cool short story. I did not get the message but it was a very cool story. 
  - title: The Man in the High Castle
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_High_Castle
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - It was a really nice read. I enjoyed it a lot. A very though provoking and makes you feel like how it feels to loose a war. So It does not really matter what is the regimen after a war. Loosing side suffers.
      - The idea of a book within a book was a very good one, and very well executed.
      - I watched the amazon TV series right after reading the book, and the series was good, but I think they understood the book differently. Or they did not want to convey the same message.
  - title: The Other Side of the Sky
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Sky
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2016.01
    comments:
      - A very nice relaxing read with some of the stores that I really liked and some that were so so.
      - I really liked "The Wall of Darkness" and "The Other Side of the Sky" series. "The Songs of Distant Earth" was also good.
  - title: Ancillary Justice
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancillary_Justice
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12-2016.01
    comments:
      - Nice read, especially for somebody that has though about distributed systems.
  - title: The Forever War
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.12
    comments:
      - I really liked this book, it was a very nice read and made you question a lot of things we do. (I'm to tired to write more :P)
  - title: Zero to One
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.10-12
    comments:
      - Listened to the audiobook
      - |
        It was a good book to understand how Peter Thiel thinks about startups.
        I definitely agree with a lot of points there, but I can not remember
        which of the ideas came from this book which from somewhere else. I like
        his 7 questions that all startups should ask themselves! It's a good
        book if you are considering starting a startup.
  - title: Fahrenheit 451
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11-12
    comments:
      - |
        I read this over long period if you consider that the book is only 150
        pages long. It was a nice book, with a nice buildup of what the society
        looks when people want to be happy all the time. Makes you think about
        what is the life about like any other good fictional book. It was
        entertaining, but I have read better scifi books.
  - title: The City and The Stars
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11
    comments:
      - |
        Very nice book and it didn't take too long to finish it. I will
        definitely read more of <NAME>. This had a resemblence with
        Childhood's end in a way that it says that human race is not the
        dominant force in the universe.
  - title: Dubliners
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.11
    comments:
      - |
        It had interesting stories, I wouldn't say I loved the book, but it
        was worth reading. Way better than other short stories I have read.
        There was a sense that he was telling stories about people that live
        in Dublin, but have very little in common.
  - title: The Silmarillion
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.10
    comments:
      - |
        In the beginning I felt like reading the Bible, even though I haven't read
        it. Very entertaining, but dense and full of names that one must remember
        when reading. Reading in Kindle helped a lot because of the X-Ray feature.
        I'm not sure if I liked it to recommend to someone not already liking Game
        of Thrones of other works of Tolkein.
  - title: Կայարան
    date: 2015.09
    comments:
      - Հետաքրքիր ներածություն էր պատմվածք ժանրում, ու էլի պատմվածքներ կկարդամ, բայց մի քանի հատը շատ պրիմիտիվ էին, չնայած կային լավերը։
  - title: Shogun
    authors:
      - <NAME>ell
    date: 2015.08-09
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C5%8Dgun_%28novel%29
    comments:
      - This is a very entertaining book even though it's 1000 pages long! It's like reading Game of Thrones but in medieval Japan and without fantasy. I really recommend this book if you want entertainment and some basic insight into Japanese mentally and self control and cunning planing.
  - title: "Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most [Audio Book]"
    authors:
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.08-09
    comments:
      - Too slow to read, but it's probably worth listening to. Has some suggestions that are worth listening to, but probably is more useful at the work setting than anywhere else.
  - title: Преступление и Наказание
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.07
    url: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5
    comments:
      - I wanted to read this book for a while and it was worth reading. It's a very intriguing story and thought provoking. It's not an easy read, but well worth the effor. The ending is probably not the great (the very last part) but the story is very interesting and as I said though provoking.
  - title: The Orphan Master's Son
    ASIN: B002UBRFDC
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.06
    url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orphan_Master%27s_Son
    comments:
      - Very well written book, I liked it. It is Fiction but it seems so real that you think you are reading a history book about some person. It makes you think about the values in life, and what is necessary for oneself to live. Very entertaining and I'd recommend, the only downside is that it's a pretty dark novel.
  - title: The Game
    isbn-13: 978-1847672377
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.06
  - title: "The World's Religions (Plus)"
    isbn-13: 978-0061660184
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.05
  - title: Second Foundation
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.02
    comments:
      - The Foundation Trilogy is the best I’ve read! Probably better than the Song of Fire and Ice (we’ll see after it’s finished)
      - But the amount of thought that is put into this book and how everything is connected and everything in the end makes sense. There is pretty much no false clues in the book (none that I saw).
  - title: Foundation and Empire
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.02
    comments:
      - Really good, i started reading the 3rd one right after this book it was that good
  - title: Moonwalking with Einstein
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2014.12 - 2015.01
    comments:
      - I really liked this book, recommend. I even bough “Ad herenium” after (while) reading this book
      - It has interesting techniques about memory, also is written very nicely so it is very interesting to read.
      - I need to learn the Major System for remembering numbers and of course practice the method of loci to be able to use this in real life. Foer says that he didn’t find good applications for the knowledge other than being human by remembering, I like this idea, but I need to try to find useful applications myself before I can agree with him. 
  - title: Solaris
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Very entertaining, my fist Lem novel. Written from first person. After Of Mice and Men I've started noticing the way story is presented and how could it be converted to a movie so I should watch Solaris (2002) and see how they did.
      - I really didn’t like Solaris (2002) movie, it tried to take some ideas out of the book (I didn’t get all of those ideas, but most of them) and force feeds to the audience. It solves all the narration by skipping it and creating a slightly different back story which doesn’t make much sense.
      - |
        (2015.12) I watched <NAME>'s Solaris (1972) and I liked it a
        lot. I think the movies made me look at the book in a slightly different
        way. The quote that I remembered from the movies was that we were
        looking for a contact with ET civilization but when we find it we have
        no idea what to do with it. Another good one was that human race doesn't
        want to conquer the universe, it wants to expand Earth to the boundaries
        of the universe. Great movie! I think I should read the book again in a
        year or so.
  - title: Of Mice and Men
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Nice short read, very unconventional story
      - It was interesting reading in this novellete/play style. He actually though about presenting at n different media not just writing a book, I guess you are at the next level when you come up with a story and can present it in different media simultaneously without hurting the story
  - title: The Variable Man
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - Had couple of very interesting ideas
      - I’m not sure how I feel about the variable man, seems to fictional, but this is fiction and the character is well defined
  - title: Childhood’s End
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    date: 2015.01
    comments:
      - It was a great read (Read it on my trip from EVN to LHR)
      - Need to read couple more novels by Clarke
      - Lots of ideas from this book are reused, V TV Series picks where this book starts and tries to take an alternative path, but their path was pretty mediocre.
  - title: All You Zombies
    date: 2015.01
    authors:
      - <NAME>
    comments:
      - This is the story behind “Predestination (2014)” in couple of pages
      - It is really good, but I had recently watched the movie, would be much nicer if I hadn’t watched the movie before. The movie is almost identical to the book, but they filled it with some back story to make it more interesting and fill the time since this novelleta is so short.

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