Book Review – Page 26 – 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.

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

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.

Have you ever been so utterly confused by a book that you later became convinced that you didn’t really read it?

John McWhorter has a gift for making an understanding of language easy and accessible.

Little Brother deals with some pretty serious topics, but distills them down to a point where even kids will find it all to be a bit silly.