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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Fiction, Horror, Novel  0 Comments

February 3, 2023January 29, 2022

The Dark Net – Benjamin Percy

Once again, I should stop reading horror.

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Computer, Current Events, Journalism, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

January 27, 2023February 20, 2022

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon – Kim Zetter

This book is truly excellent journalism. Just try to go into it without spoilers.

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Fantasy, Fiction  0 Comments

January 20, 2023February 6, 2022

A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin

Hey look, it’s season three.

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Comics, Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  2 Comments

January 13, 2023January 3, 2023

Niente di nuovo sul fronte di Rebibbia – Zerocalcare

I picked up some nostalgia bait and read it.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  2 Comments

January 6, 2023October 31, 2021

Slan – A. E. van Vogt

Once upon a time, science-fictions fans referred to themselves as Slans. Now it seems a bit much.

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

December 30, 2022February 9, 2022

The Revolt of the Public: And The Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium – Martin Gurri

Another book that tried to explain why everything feels wrong now-a-days.

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  3 Comments

December 23, 2022October 27, 2021

The Inverted World – Christopher Priest

Good sci-fi is hard to pull off, and as the technology improves, it is getting increasingly harder.

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Conservative, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

December 16, 2022March 1, 2022

Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science – Paul Gross and Norman Levitt

Attacks on Post-modernism are so frequently right-wing screeds. This one doesn’t even try to hide it.

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Classics, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 9, 2022October 26, 2021

Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

Oh look, I actually liked one

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Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

December 2, 2022February 7, 2022

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin

A whole lot of bravado from one of America’s founders.

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