I'm sharing Jeffrey Archer's short story "The Perfect Gentleman" as a great entry point to his writing style. I've also linked to a backgammon primer and more of Archer's bibliography from Harper Collins.
Full text of Jeffey Archer’s short story: The Perfect Gentleman. A nice introduction to Archer’s style, if you haven’t read him. And here’s some more from Harper Collins.
I'm checking out Meet the Author, a collection of short videos on Google Video where authors like Richard Dawkins and James Surowiecki introduce their books. It covers a wide range of fiction and non-fiction titles.
I use Claude to summarize and fact-check non-fiction books, reading them in an hour instead of twelve. By logging these as "read," I focus on actionable insights and personalized advice that actually changes how I work.
This 2021 reading retrospective organizes fifty-two books by impact, recommending titles that most changed the author's thinking about wealth, habits, mortality, storytelling, and fantasy.
Llama 3 405B reportedly behaving like an amnesiac without a system prompt suggests that large models can develop strange, scale-driven emergent behaviors around alignment and role setup.
The author's 2023 reading list mixes beloved fantasy re-reads, manga discoveries, and practical nonfiction, with clear preferences for gripping plots, rich systems, and useful mental models.