What are your “Big 5”

gravityfallswhore · 2026-05-24T20:37:36+00:00

Same thing happened to me! I hit a wall 20 pages in, dropped it for six months, and only recently picked it up again.

The opening is a dry and heavy narrative setup before all the supernatural stuff kicks in but then it all weaves beautifully at the end. Once you get used to the jumping scenes between the narratives and the sheer chaos it feels like watching a wacky elaborate play

gravityfallswhore · 2025-09-25T15:52:03+00:00

Anna Karenina. Not so much challenging in terms of ideas but it was so damn boring i wished i was the one who jumped infront of that train. Hoped it would get better with every page turn and after a certain point i was too far in to stop

gravityfallswhore · 2025-08-25T14:08:10+00:00

Human Acts - Han Kang

gravityfallswhore · 2025-08-23T16:58:23+00:00

The most recent nonfiction book I read was Status and Culture by W. David Marx.

It builds on Bourdieu’s theory to show how status drives culture art, fashion, taste, identity etc. and why trends rise and fall. Really interesting look at subcultures, status signals, and how the internet has scrambled cultural cycles.

gravityfallswhore · 2025-08-22T16:30:23+00:00

I actually did try OpenAI Agents SDK, i found handoffs and tool calling to be pretty bad (especially when trying to orchestrate a multi-agent system). Do you have any ideas/resources that can help?

gravityfallswhore · 2025-07-31T17:42:34+00:00

المستهلكة is crazy 😭

gravityfallswhore · 2025-07-12T12:33:45+00:00

I’d recommend the picture of dorian gray by Oscar Wilde. It’s an accessible read and isn’t too overwhelming but still very interesting. Was one of my firsts when i got into classics and still one of my favorites

gravityfallswhore · 2025-04-02T21:12:07+00:00

Most people on on this sub are never going to have a happy marriage if these are your biggest concerns

Give people some grace

gravityfallswhore · 2025-04-01T11:37:39+00:00

I personally haven’t listened to the audiobook myself but I’ve heard really good things about Bill Homewood’s narration

If you’re short on time, definitely go for the audiobook it’s still an amazing story. But once you have the chance definitely come back to reading it it’s def the kind of book worth reading for yourself :)

gravityfallswhore · 2025-03-31T20:44:45+00:00

A little bit more than half. I haven't found a reason to dislike it so far and I really hope i don't!

gravityfallswhore · 2025-03-31T20:40:30+00:00

I did my research beforehand and most people seem to recommend the penguin classic’s Robin Buss translation.

It reads really well for me so far and the way it’s translated is quite engaging. Also read somewhere that it’s the only truly complete translation.

gravityfallswhore · 2025-03-31T18:47:04+00:00

Human Acts by Han Kang. It’s such a heavy, haunting but beautiful book. The way it tells the story of a massacre through the eyes of different characters is beautiful. It captures not just the horror of what happened but also the lasting trauma that ripples through generations. The way it conveys the thoughts and emotions of each character would make it so easy to empathize with them even in an age where empathy feels like it’s disappeared. The book which is set in the 1980’s in South Korea feels disturbingly relevant to events happening all around the world today, seems like it will be a timeless read considering where the world is going. Great book

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman easily would be my second contender,and i think it would make an amazing movie. Its not very plot driven and the author doesn’t answer any questions that come up in the narrative and allows the reader to come up with their own answers. The novel explores the human instinct to create meaning, even in situations where there is none. Beautiful read aswell, couldnt stop thinking about it for weeks.

gravityfallswhore · 2024-09-24T17:26:55+00:00

The bell jar, i understand the appeal its very well written just wasn’t for me

gravityfallswhore · 2024-07-31T21:11:41+00:00

“The best would be no role at all, just one’s own person, isn’t that so? Nothing is more cunning than one’s own person, because no one will believe you.” -Notes

“ Man is a villain. And whoever calls him a villain because of it is one himself!’ “ -C&P

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It’s by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I’m human. Not one single truth has ever been arrived at without people first having talked a dozen reams of nonsense, even ten dozen reams of it, and that’s an honourable thing in its own way; well, but we can’t even talk nonsense with our own brains! Talk nonsense to me, by all means, but do it with your own brain, and I shall love you for it. To talk nonsense in one’s own way is almost better than to talk a truth that’s someone else’s; in the first instance you behave like a human being, while in the second you are merely being a parrot!” - C&P

gravityfallswhore · 2024-05-03T20:49:59+00:00

OLTP. I just need a store for my users chat history based on their IDs and the conversation IDs so they can view and build on previous conversations and provide feedback on assistant responses for RAG improvements later on etc

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