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

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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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Current Events, Identity politics, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

March 19, 2021July 4, 2021

Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody – Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

This book is meant to be a critique of the newest form of post-modern philosophy, and what it ultimately morphed into.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 5, 2021February 14, 2021

Tiamat’s Wrath – James S. A. Corey

I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.

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Fiction, Horror, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  1 Comment

February 5, 2021November 29, 2020

The King in Yellow – Robert W. Chambers

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.

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English, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

January 22, 2021January 17, 2021

The Story of English in 100 Words – David Crystal

David Crystal wrote a nice little coffee-table of linguistic factoid.

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

January 8, 2021November 29, 2020

Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

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Fiction  1 Comment

December 18, 2020August 30, 2021

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz

This won a Pulitzer?

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