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

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Capitalism, Classics, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

October 15, 2021April 8, 2021

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.

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Comics, Economics, History, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

October 1, 2021May 20, 2021

Economix – Michael Goodwin and Dan E. Burr

Want to understand the economy? Look elsewhere. Want to understand economic history? This may help.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

September 17, 2021March 25, 2021

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

This book will haunt me till my dying day. Me and The Sun Also Rises have a torrid history. This

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Reviews that are really about something else, Uncategorized  0 Comments

September 3, 2021May 11, 2021

Água Viva – Clarice Lispector

During my last year of high school, I had a teacher who a whole lot of faith in me. I

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Fiction, Novel, Religion  1 Comment

August 20, 2021March 26, 2021

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain

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Crime, Internet, Libertarianism, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

August 6, 2021April 21, 2021

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road – Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton’s treatment of Ross Ulbricht is a lot more even handed than I would have been.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

July 23, 2021March 24, 2021

The Doors of His Face, The Lamp of His Mouth – Roger Zelazny

A highly acclaimed book of short stories.

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Math, Non-Fiction, Scepticism  0 Comments

July 9, 2021April 21, 2021

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos

Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 25, 2021July 4, 2021

MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood

Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.

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Biography, History, Journalism, Mythology, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 11, 2021July 4, 2021

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet

I don’t think this book had the desired effect.

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