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

October 28, 2022October 12, 2021

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe – Charles Yu

What even is sci-fi?

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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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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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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, Reviews that are really about something else, Science-Fiction  6 Comments

November 20, 2020September 25, 2020

The Martian Time Slip – Philip K Dick

The ship of Theseus is a pretty applicable bit of philosophy. Here’s a thought: are you the same reader you were 20 years ago?

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

August 28, 2020July 30, 2020

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.

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

November 29, 2019August 14, 2019

Everything is F*cked – Mark Manson

And sometimes some books make you think “I’d rather be reading something else.”

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

April 19, 2019April 16, 2019

Age of the Spiritual Machine – Ray Kurzweil

How we come to categorize books like this is sometimes more interesting than the books themselves.

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Fiction, Longer Views, Reviews that are really about something else, Schlock, Thrillers  1 Comment

April 12, 2019November 30, 2018

Conclave – Robert Harris

A so called twist ending is never a very good reason to consume anything.

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