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Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein. Plato comes back to life. He's written some books and he's doing things. Stop 1 is the Googleplex, home of Google. Goldstein interweaves stories of Plato at various places with writing about why philosophy matters. Wonderful
Dialogues of Plato ; Plato wrote really well. I decided to re-read. I'm amazed that Socrates made it to 70.
The Pursuit of Italy by David Gilmour. I am only a few pages into this one, but it has grabbed my interest. Gilmour has not written a traditional history of Italy (although it is partly that) rather, he is in pursuit of Italy - how it became a country, what it means to be Italian and so on.
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Tigerman by Nick Harkaway.
Sergeant Lester Ferris is assigned to the (fictional) Indian Ocean island of Merceu. It's meant as a recovery period for the sergeant, who has seen a lot of action. But Merceu is a strange place and it turns out there is a lot more action there than expected. Excellent.
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