How did you discover Goodreads?
A friend of mine
sent me a link to it.
What have been your most
memorable Goodreads experiences?
Possibly
everything connected to reading The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose whilst
others tried and failed or finished way ahead of me. Even (in fact way) harder
than the Feynman Lectures Vol.3. What’s a Lie Algebra again? What’s sheaf
cohomology again? And why doesn’t Penrose know about orbital spin?! And General
Relativity is only proved to conserve energy/momentum/angular momentum for
asymptotically flat cases!!!
Seemingly endless
arguments about the Weak Anthropic Principle with Manny.
Being shocked to
find people “voting” for my reviews.
Name one reviewer not in the
Forbes 25 that people should be aware of.
What was your initial reaction
to Amazon buying Goodreads?
Aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!
The Horror!
How many books do you own?
Dunno, over a thousand
almost certainly.
Who is your favorite author?
What is your favorite book of
all time?
What are your thoughts on
ebooks?
I wish they weren’t platform
dependent; that stifles competition and tends towards monopolisation of the
market.
What are your thoughts on
self-publishing?
What’s the difference,
these days?
Any literary aspirations?
I’m a published author but
I don’t expect many people are interested in such titles as, “Correlation between Scintillation
Indices and Gradient Drift Wave Amplitudes in the Northern Polar Ionosphere”
and “Imaging Meso-scale Ionospheric Structures.”
My Evil Villain Lair:
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