Failures in Polymathy

I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream – Harlan Ellison

Even if one doesn’t particularly like short stories, one cannot help but admit that Harlan was a master of the craft.

Do you remember the good old days? Roger Scruton does, and his memory of the good old days will save western civilization.

Not really…

Richard K Morgan writes science-fiction so bad that it makes me dislike myself for liking science-fiction.

Are all interpretations created equal? Some would say so, and some would test the idea further.

The controversy around Robert A. Heinlein’s ‘Starship Troopers’ is about as interesting as the book itself.

As you read this book you can hear the sound of someone folding tin foil into a hat.

A book about Benoit Mandelbrot? Cool! And it’s magical realism? Even cooler!
It’s execution? Not so cool…

Most of us are silly enough to believe that were WE to suffer from Trauma, we would know what to do.

This is one of the most rich and complex book I have read in some time.

At best, reading this book was a public service so that I could inform people to not read this book.