Água Viva – Clarice Lispector
During my last year of high school, I had a teacher who a whole lot of faith in me. I
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
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.
The Doors of His Face, The Lamp of His Mouth – Roger Zelazny
A highly acclaimed book of short stories.
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos
Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?
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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.
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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Evolution – Stephen Baxter
If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.
Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison
The word of the day is: Malthusian
Failures in Polymathy 