Unfortunately I’m a little geek and know a lot about Greek mythology so yeah, I already knew how it would end before it even ended. Those moments were so precious I couldn’t get enough of them and all I wanted was for them to be happy. Even though she never went into detail, never actually let them say that they loved each other it was still palpable in every single moment they shared together. What I loved the most was how she managed to convey Achilles’ and Patroclus relationship though. This book was just so beautiful! So, so damn beautiful! Madeline Miller definitely has a way with words and I loved how this story was written: Poetical with a lot of mythological facts and with so many details that it succeeded to make this a more than just intriguing journey. I was about 37% percent in (yes I looked it up! -P) when I first started to cry and it didn’t get any better after that. Well, both of those things came true, even way earlier than I had initially anticipated. The moment I read the first page I was already certain of two things:ġ.) This would become one of my all-time favourites and I’d gush about it like crazy.Ģ.) It wouldn’t only leave me devastated and heartbroken but also sobbing like a little child. ”We were like gods, at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.” Review of The Song of Achilles by Miller Madeline “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room , referring to The Song of Achilles , Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique retelling of the legend of Achilles and the Trojan War. A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad . An action-packed adventure, an epic love story, a marvelously conceived and executed page-turner, Miller’s monumental debut novel has already earned resounding acclaim from some of contemporary fiction’s brightest lights - and fans of Mary Renault, Bernard Cornwell, Steven Pressfield, and Colleen McCullough’s Masters of Rome series will delight in this unforgettable journey back to ancient Greece in the Age of Heroes.   Download The Song of Achilles by Miller Madeline PDF book free online – “At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….

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An example of the kind of thought experiments they performed is the Asian disease problem which elegantly demonstrates the power of framing. They were able ask very original and daring questions and they were brave enough to pursue those questions and break ground in uncharted territory. Their research shows a prime example of academic courage and creativity. Their collaborative research started the behavioral economics field. When Amos and Danny got together as colleagues, they started an epic collaboration streak investigating the irrational ways humans make decisions about risk. (In other words, similarity is like Bayesian subset comparison of features.) The book has a nice anecdote about how Amos instated that sometimes a lack of a feature is a feature: e.g., a three legged dog. As a result, New York is not as much like Tel Aviv as Tel Aviv is like New York. Note that, objects have varying number of noticeable features: New York has more of them than Tel Aviv. The more noticeable features two objects share, the more similar they are. People assess similarity essentially by making a list of features. Similarity is not like distance, because it does not necessarily have symmetry. What kind of psychologist I am may reflect deep traits.'Īmos's early research on similarity of things was also very interesting, and the book explains this very nicely. That I became a psychologist is probably not very revealing. On the other hand, the small decisions are very systematic. Who we marry may depend on who happens to be around at the right time of life. Which field we go into may depend on which high school teacher we happen to meet.  The small choices probably tell us more about who we are. When he was asked why/how he had become a psychologist, Amos replied: 'The big choices we make are practically random. The book contains many amazing quotes from Amos. He was very bright, which led to his colleagues coining an IQ test: 'The faster you realized Tversky was smarter than you, the smarter you are.'  He got educated at US for graduate school in psychology. He was a gifted child and starred in academia, although through out his life he was always had doubts about his talents and was always unsure of himself.Īmos Tversky was born in Israel and served in the Israel army for many years. His family survived (except the father) through Nazi prosecution and World War 2, and were able immigrate to Israel in 1948.  So I plan to read more of Michael Lewis's books: Flash Boys, The Big Short, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Liar's Poker.ĭanny Kahneman had a very tough childhood. I wouldn't ever imagine social science and behavioral economics could be this exciting. From his pen, the academic collaboration story of two social scientists becomes a love story and a thriller. The book is by Michael Lewis, a truly great storyteller. I have recently read this 2017 book about the collaboration between two psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman.

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