A couple more reviews

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This page holds a list of films I have watched, spoiler-free, starting from 9th January 2015.
* [Argylle](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15009428/): Sadly disappointing. This film was at least twice as long as it should have been. A good version would have been a short funny pastiche; what we actually got was a long boring film punctuated by moments of glorious whimsy.
* [A Haunting in Venice](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22687790/): Well, I really enjoyed this, and I think I was surrounded by heathens in the cinema. I successfully called precisely none of the plot, and it all tied up so neatly. Ariadne Oliver will always be Zoë Wanamaker to me, but I believed Kenneth Branagh. Top-tier Poirot.
* [Oppenheimer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)): Brilliant. It was a little too long, but I couldn't pick out anything to take away. Great acting, great filming, a bit harrowing.

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* The Attention Merchants, by Tim Wu
* American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
* 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
* Impro, by Keith Johnstone
# To read
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* The Culture series, by Iain M Banks
* A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
* So Good They Can't Ignore You, by Cal Newport
* 84, Charing Cross Road, by Helene Hanff
* Black Box Thinking, by Matthew Syed
* Impro, by Keith Johnstone
# Read some of and then put down
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# Have read
* Permutation City, by Greg Egan. Cool book! It's interesting to think about why I find the core premise implausible, but it certainly seemed novel to me. Pretty gripping. It seems to pair quite nicely with Robin Hanson's _The Age of Em_, which would be a nonfiction accompaniment.
* Building Secure and Reliable Systems, by the Google SRE team. This is genuinely a textbook, so it's quite slow going. A lot of this is *very* Google-centric, where it's assumed that everything is a microservice and any given query to a service will require hundreds of RPC calls. However, the general lessons seem to be valuable.
* A Handful of Dust, by Evelyn Waugh. Good Lord this is bleak. The kind of book which would definitely reward rereading; I feel like I got about a quarter of what was going on, there was so much subtext. Oddly a fun read, though!
* The Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Short, sweet, and tragic. Simple throwaway lines become retrospectively rich in meaning as you read on. Spoiler in rot13: gur haeryvnoyr aneengbe tvirf guvf fgenatr frafr bs grafvba guebhtubhg.