Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky
There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’
How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci
A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.
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Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor
A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.
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We Are Legion (We Are Bob) – Dennis E. Taylor
Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.
Talk on the Wild Side – Lane Greene
I seem not to be tiring of books on linguistics. It may be because books like this are just so interesting that I don’t mind going over the same information over again.
The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)
Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.
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This idea must die – John Brockman (ed.)
Try as I might, I just can’t think of who this book could possibly serve.
Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.
Failures in Polymathy 