Category: Kitaplar / Books
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We Lost The Polytropos of The Odyssey
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For our TAC92 Classic Books Club, we brought Homer's Odyssey forward in our reading queue so that we would read it before Christopher Nolan's film came out. I walked into the cinema annoyingly over-prepared, like a teacher's pet, my heart beating out of my chest.
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Books I Read in 2025
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Throughout the year, I post a short review of the book I finish reading on my goodreads page as soon as I come to the end, so that: - I write about the book before I lose that feeling I'm left with as I read the last sentence - I know I might not do…
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Mixed Feelings About Technofeudalism, Yanis Varoufakis
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Technofeudalism is a thought-provoking read, cleverly structured around a conversation with his late father, peppered with Greek myths, the usual Greek etymology flexing, some questionable takes (Disney+ doesn’t benefit the consumer?), and the occasional detour into colonial guilt. I’m glad I read it. But I can’t fully trust Varoufakis — his grand agenda and ideological…
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Books I Read in 2019
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80% of business books are articles padded with fluff to fill up 250+ pages. The fluff part is usually the beginning where the author has to give examples showing that his premise worked in his sample of companies. Then there is the good part which is the article, followed by more fluff that talks about…
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Reading Orhan Pamuk, Nights of Plague
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One of the perks of being a Turkish speaker is (roughly every four years) a new Orhan Pamuk book is published and we get to read it immediately revelling in his unique style with a feeling of nostalgia.
