Goldfinger

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1. enraged_camelDec 2025
   "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." -Ian Fleming, Goldfinger (1959)
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2. peterspathDec 2025
   I read 52 books this year:

   - Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger

   - Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink

   - Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink

   - The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

   - The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

   - When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté

   - Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

   - The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

   - Standing Strong by John MacArthur

   - The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

   - We Who Wrestle with God by Jordan B. Peterson

   - I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek

   - The Holy Bible

   - Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef

   - I Am Giorgia by Giorgia Meloni

   - 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

   - The Two-Income Trap by Elizabeth Warren

   - The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray

   - The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray

   - The War on the West by Douglas Murray

   - Porn Generation by Ben Shapiro

   - The Authoritarian Moment by Ben Shapiro

   - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

   - In Farleigh Field by Rhys Bowen

   - Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten

   - Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

   - The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown

   - Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

   - Live and Let Die by Ian Fleming

   - Moonraker by Ian Fleming

   - Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming

   - From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming

   - Dr No by Ian Fleming

   - Goldfinger by Ian Fleming

   - For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming

   - Thunderball by Ian Fleming

   - The Spy Who Loved Me by Ian Fleming

   - On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming

   - You Only Live Twice by Ian Fleming

   - The Man with the Golden Gun by Ian Fleming

   - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

   - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

   - Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

   - The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

   - The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

   - The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

   - Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

   - 1984 by George Orwell

   - The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

   - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

   - The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

   Next year I will read more books of the Russian writers on this list. I enjoyed those books very much.

   After seeing this list, what books do you recommend for me?

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3. cjbgkaghJun 2024
   “Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action” ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

   P-hacking is so endemic and so essential to modern academia, especially in the 'softer' sciences, that the whole thing is beyond saving. It's so bad that anyone who understands statistics well enough to know that most of their peers works are bogus are much more likely to be shunned than embraced because of this knowledge which is an incredible disincentive to acquiring it.

   Edit: as I can’t reply to the now dead account, the first quote explains why academia cannot keep claiming innocence on such matters. The rest of my comment was my explanation as to why nothing is being done about it. Sure, we can ask them to do better but they should already know that.

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4. ndrMay 2024
   "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action"

   ― Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

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5. sneakMay 2024
   "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." —Ian Fleming, Goldfinger
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6. WaitWaitWhaApr 2023
   "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

   - Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

   I find this to be a reasonable subjective measure.

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