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Fiction, Novel, Religion  1 Comment

August 20, 2021March 26, 2021

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain

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Crime, Internet, Libertarianism, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

August 6, 2021April 21, 2021

American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road – Nick Bilton

Nick Bilton’s treatment of Ross Ulbricht is a lot more even handed than I would have been.

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Math, Non-Fiction, Scepticism  0 Comments

July 9, 2021April 21, 2021

Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos

Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 25, 2021July 4, 2021

MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood

Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.

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Biography, History, Journalism, Mythology, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 11, 2021July 4, 2021

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet

I don’t think this book had the desired effect.

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Evolution, Fiction, Novel, Science, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

May 28, 2021January 20, 2021

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.

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Culture, Current Events, Journalism, Libertarianism, Non-Fiction, Politics, Sociology  0 Comments

May 14, 2021March 13, 2021

A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) – Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

Libertarianism: NOT EVEN ONCE!

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Economics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 30, 2021November 29, 2020

Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison

The word of the day is: Malthusian

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Future, Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Science, Sociology  4 Comments

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021

Technopoly – Neil Postman

The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 2, 2021November 29, 2020

All These Worlds – Dennis E Taylor

Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.

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