Failures in Polymathy

Train Dreams – Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson’s virtue seems to be his concision, and this is rather clear in ‘Train Dreams’.

I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be

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

There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.

The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.

Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.

What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?

Humanity’s prehistory was once very overlooked by people who claimed to be lovers of history. Hopefully this book changes that.

This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.

Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.