Gray Day – Eric O’Neill
Imagine a spy story. No, a real one.
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Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.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.
The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.
The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?
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The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.
Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente
Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.
Failures in Polymathy 