books_movies.log
This page is to keep track of books 📖 and movies/series 🎬 that I watched or read, starting from year 2019. Mostly I spend my spare time on Kindle or Netflix, apart from football.
Bold means recommend 👍!.
It would be great if you see something you’re also interested in :)
| Name | Author/Link | Version | logger.info() |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life Is Beautiful | 🎬 imdb | Life is beautiful, I love the ‘Guido Orefice’ character, such a wise man. | |
| 1984 | 📚 George Orwell | Kindle | Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. |
| Animal Farm | 📚 George Orwell | Kindle | BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. |
| 流浪地球 | 🎬 豆瓣 | ||
| Game of thrones Final season | 📺 imdb | HBO | 😅well…I really expected something better. |
| Chernobyl | 📺 imdb | HBO | That’s how you tell a history. |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | 🎬 imdb | Singapore Airline | Nice with the Singapore Sling on the plane haha |
| Pulp Fiction | 🎬 imdb | Singapore Airline | I believe I didn’t understand it. Will watch it twice. |
| Alita: Battle Angel | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | More awesome as we watched it for free by vonchers |
| Principles: Life and Work | 📚 Ray Dalio | Kindle | Actually the author has a PDF about all the main ideas. Can check this link. |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People | 📚 Dale Carnegie | Amazon | |
| Shazam! | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | Chuck! |
| 一只特立独行的猪 | 📚 王小波 | Kindle | 相见恨晚，早读个五六年就好了 |
| The Shawshank Redemption (rewatch) | 🎬 imdb | Watch it for… the fifth time? Still so good. | |
| 名偵探柯南：紺青之拳 | 🎬 imdb | Golden Village | 好巧啊小学生也来🇸🇬了？ |
| Learning GraphQL: Declarative Data Fetching for Modern Web Apps | 📚 Alex Banks and Eve Porcello | O’Reilly | Quite good for beginners |
| Dumbo | 🎬 imdb | Eva Green! | |
| Designing Data-Intensive Applications | 📚 Martin Kleppmann | O’Reilly | The only book you need for system design (inverview lol). |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startups | 📚 Carreyrou, John | Kindle | Excellent storytelling about a Silicon Valley startup. Also saw the documentary, also OK, but I like the book more. |
| Red Flags: why… | 📚 George Magnus | Kindle | |
| Fear: Trump in the White House | 📚 Woodward, Bob | Kindle | The author already published his second book about Trump when I just started the first one. Too fast for me, didn’t finish. |
| A Star Is Born | 🎬 imdb | Another great soundtrack album! By Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga | |
| The Hangover | 🎬 imdb | A funny movie night with a group of 🇻🇳 friends! 😄 | |
| Decisive Moments in History | 📚 Stefan Zweig | Kindle | “然而历史犹如人生，业已失去的瞬间不会因为抱憾的心情而重返，仅仅一个小时所贻误的东西，用千年的时光也难以赎回。” from 人类群星闪耀时 |
| About time (watched 2 times) | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Recommend for a movie night! and I love the music. Touching. |
| American Factory | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | It’s really interesting to see how factory works in 21st century and how China’s ‘996’ works in the States. A document produced by the Obama family, also I feel it’s an ads for #andrewyang2020. |
| Our Planet | 📺 imdb | Netflix | We really like the western parotia dancing scene! 💃 A kind of ‘bird of paradise’. A youtube clip here, you’ll like it. |
| Stranger Things S1 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Very good story-telling and I feel it contains a lot nostalgic elements including music. |
| Better Call Saul S4 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Just as good as breaking bad, love the scenes and characters. |
| Building Progressive Web Apps | 📚 Tal Ater | O’Reilly | I feel this PWA document can also do the introduction I need, book is good, I skipped some details because for now I just want to have rough ideas about how PWA works. |
| Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood | 📚 Trevor Noah | Audible | Trever Noah is really good at telling stories, interesting 8 hours spent during my transit. |
| 哪吒之魔童降世 | 🎬 douban | Golden Village | It’s good but not so good, I think it’s kind of overrated. However 仍然值得鼓励！ |
| The Great Hack | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Good documentary about privacy & data security concerns. It leads me to Snowden’s new book. |
| How I met your mother (second time) | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Exactly the (very long) TV series that you need for meals or for fun. Last time I watch it was around 20, now I’m already near the same age as Ted :( |
| Narcos | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Can’t stop until end of S2. wiki for better watching experience. |
| Hackers and Painters | 📚 Paul Graham | O’Reilly | I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people. and many other highlights, I’ll read it again. |
| Formula 1: Drive to Survive | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A guide documentary for future F1 fans, well made quality. We watched it after the Singapore Grand Prix game |
| Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Bill is a model and he’s doing something I hope I can learn from. Like the part that he brings a bag of book, takes a helicopter and goes reading in a cabin near lake. With a fridge full of Diet Coke. |
| Joker | 🎬 imdb | GV | Should be best movie of year 2019. I’ve been waiting for 2 months and watched it as soon as it’s on, as good as expected. |
| El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | A perfect ending for Jesse |
| Stranger Things S2 + S3 | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Suggestion: Save up your time and finish in several hours, as it’s hard to pause 😼 |
| Sunderland ‘Til I Die | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A beloved soccer club with history is something I really respect. Fight and struggle back to premier league soon Sunderland! |
| The Laundromat | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Stories introducing money laundry, the Panama papers, tax evasion vs tax avoidance. |
| Explained | 📺 imdb | Netflix | A documentary series explaining something in 20 minutes each episode. |
| Lost in Translation (rewatch) | 🎬 imdb | Netflix | Like this movie and the ending scene: A secret goodbye |
| Hello, Startup | 📚 Yevgeniy Brikman | O’Reilly | This website could be useful with many resources to help you build a startup. |
| Dirty Money | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Good documentary about “greed, corruption, and crime spreading through the global economy” |
| South Park | 📺 imdb | Netflix | |
| He’s Just Not That Into You | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Standard comedy + romance mode, with many so familiar faces lol |
| The Morning Show | 📺 imdb | Apple TV+ | It’s an original series about morning show newsrooms, with Jennifer Aniston casting. However there are really only a few shows in Apple TV+😓 only 8 for now. |
| 深入浅出 Rust | 📚 范长春 | Kindle | 优势主要在于是中文吧，翻一翻不错但肯定替代不了官方文档的，以及Rust的文档本身就是一本书。。 |
| Permanent Record | 📚 Edward Snowden | Kindle | Nice autobiography from a heroic whistleblower. Snowden says he may open source the Chinese version? |
| Trump: An American Dream | 📺 imdb | Netflix | Donald Trump through five decades |
| The Pragmatic Programmer: your journey to mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition | 📚Andrew Hunt, David Thomas | O’Reilly | |
| 傅雷家书 | 📺 傅雷 | Kindle | 又是一本相见恨晚。“先做人，后做艺术家，再做音乐家，最后是钢琴家。” |
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