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Failures in Polymathy

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

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Cyberpunk, Fiction, Noir, Schlock, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 15, 2019March 15, 2019

Woken Furies – Richard K. Morgan

Richard K Morgan writes science-fiction so bad that it makes me dislike myself for liking science-fiction.

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Essays, Literary Criticism, Literary Semiotcs, Semiotics  0 Comments

March 8, 2019November 30, 2018

Interpretation and Overinterpretation – Umberto Eco

Are all interpretations created equal? Some would say so, and some would test the idea further.

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Bildungsroman, Fiction, Military Fiction, Science-Fiction  4 Comments

March 1, 2019November 30, 2018

Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

The controversy around Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ is about as interesting as the book itself.

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Christianity, Current Events, Europe, Immigration, Islam, Non-Fiction, Politics, Religion  0 Comments

February 22, 2019December 3, 2018

The Strange Death of Europe – Douglas Murray

As you read this book you can hear the sound of someone folding tin foil into a hat.

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Biography, Fiction, History, Magical Realism, Math  0 Comments

February 15, 2019November 21, 2018

Mandelbrot the Magnificent – Liz Ziemska

A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…

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Mental Health, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Science, Trauma, Uncategorized  0 Comments

February 8, 2019November 11, 2018

The Body Keeps The Score – Bessel van der Kolk

Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.

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Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

February 1, 2019November 14, 2018

Contact – Carl Sagan

This is one of the most rich and complex book I have read in some time.

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Longer Views, Non-Fiction, Schlock, Self-Help  0 Comments

January 25, 2019August 4, 2021

Twelve Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos – Jordan Peterson

At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  2 Comments

January 18, 2019November 11, 2018

The Final Programme – Michael Moorcock

Have you ever been so utterly confused by a book that you later became convinced that you didn’t really read it?

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Uncategorized  1 Comment

January 11, 2019December 5, 2018

What Language is – John McWhorter

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

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