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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 3, 2023February 12, 2022

Replay – Ken Grimwood

I don’t think you need to get the moral of something exactly right for your to enjoy it.

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Capitalism, Economics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

February 24, 2023February 23, 2023

Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back – Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow

You should read this book and become upset at tech giants, in case you weren’t already.

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Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Novel  0 Comments

February 17, 2023January 29, 2022

The Rooster Bar – John Grisham

Bad Lawyers doing bad things.

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Linguistics, Non-Fiction  1 Comment

February 10, 2023March 3, 2022

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries – Kory Stamper

There are some books you didn’t even know you needed until you read them.

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Fiction, Horror, Novel  0 Comments

February 3, 2023January 29, 2022

The Dark Net – Benjamin Percy

Once again, I should stop reading horror.

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Fantasy, Fiction  0 Comments

January 20, 2023February 6, 2022

A Storm of Swords – George R. R. Martin

Hey look, it’s season three.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  2 Comments

January 6, 2023October 31, 2021

Slan – A. E. van Vogt

Once upon a time, science-fictions fans referred to themselves as Slans. Now it seems a bit much.

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Current Events, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

December 30, 2022February 9, 2022

The Revolt of the Public: And The Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium – Martin Gurri

Another book that tried to explain why everything feels wrong now-a-days.

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  3 Comments

December 23, 2022October 27, 2021

The Inverted World – Christopher Priest

Good sci-fi is hard to pull off, and as the technology improves, it is getting increasingly harder.

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Classics, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

December 9, 2022October 26, 2021

Revolutionary Road – Richard Yates

Oh look, I actually liked one

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