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– Personal ramblings, thinly veiled as thoughts on what I read

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

May 18, 2018May 28, 2018

A Higher Loyalty – James Comey

Guided by principles of what duty to an office really means, this book illuminates the reasoning behind recent events.

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Fiction, Western  0 Comments

May 11, 2018March 27, 2018

Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt

In this not-exactly-a-Western two gruff brothers take an assassination job that down through the American West coast

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History, Math, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

May 4, 2018March 8, 2018

The Drunkard’s Walk – Leonard Mlodinow

Statistics themselves can be rather boring, but this slim’s book story of how they affect our day to day life is rather captivating.

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Non-Fiction  1 Comment

April 27, 2018February 20, 2018

The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa

Life for the Portuguese poet certainly is not peachy…

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 20, 2018March 8, 2018

Caliban’s War – James S.A Corey

The second book in James S.A. Corey’s Expanse follows the story pretty much as expected.

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Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

April 13, 2018January 29, 2018

Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free – Cory Doctorow

The arts in this new internet based economy do not work as we would think.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 6, 2018March 8, 2018

Daemon – Daniel Suarez

Imagine a movie about an evil computer algorithm that wasn’t complete trash…

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Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

March 30, 2018January 29, 2018

The Filter Bubble – Eli Pariser

The internet is no longer a wide field of free information. It’s being given to you mediated, and the mediators are starting to have an effect on us..

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Classics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 23, 2018February 10, 2018

Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner

It’s a strange, ‘happening’ future. Contemporary, and sixty years too late

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Non-Fiction, Technology  0 Comments

March 16, 2018January 20, 2018

Future Crimes – Marc Goodman

Its a great time to be alive. That is, unless you know what is going on. Then its kind of scary.

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