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Non-Fiction, Cognitive Science, Writing  0 Comments

August 12, 2022September 10, 2021

The Science of Storytelling – Will Storr

This book felt like the first PhD literature review I ever gave a shit about.

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Comedy, English, Fiction, Humour, Novel  2 Comments

August 5, 2022August 22, 2021

Right ho, Jeeves – P. G. Wodehouse

Jumping into a novel in the middle of a series is never a great idea.

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Non-Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

July 29, 2022September 8, 2021

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum – Katherine Boo

Non-fiction that reads like fiction. Pretty enjoyable, actually.

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Crime, Fiction, Novel, Thrillers, Whodunit  0 Comments

July 22, 2022August 20, 2021

Km. 123 – Andrea Camilleri

For all of Andrea Camilleri’s laurels, this was just plain bad.

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Atheism, Counter Apologetics, Essays, Non-Fiction, Religion, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

July 15, 2022August 25, 2021

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God – Guy P. Harrison

This is an excellent book on counter-apologetics. It is, however, the last book on the subject I may ever read.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

July 8, 2022August 20, 2021

A Clash of Kings – George R. R. Martin

Have you seen the TV shows? This is season two. Second verse same a the first.

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Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

July 1, 2022August 22, 2021

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly – Anthony Bourdain

Here is a hot take: after reading this I feel like I understood Anthony Bourdain’s suicide.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  8 Comments

June 24, 2022July 28, 2021

Ringworld – Larry Niven

If ever you want to see the power of Worldbuilding, this is the book that will show it to you.

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Conservative, Economics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

June 17, 2022August 21, 2021

Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World – Charles Koch

If you hate Charles Koch you should steal a copy of ‘Believe in People’ and read it. It’ll just make you hate him more.

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Classics, Fiction, Novel, Satire  0 Comments

June 10, 2022July 28, 2021

Gulliver’s Travels: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World – Jonathan Swift

So called ‘classics’ pretty frequently don’t age very well. I am not sure why this is such a controversial statement.

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