Skip to content

Failures in Polymathy

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

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact

Book

Read more

Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

September 25, 2020

For We Are Many – Dennis E Taylor

For We Are Many raises the stakes on what was set up in the first book of the series.

read more For We Are Many – Dennis E Taylor

Read more

English, Linguistics, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

September 18, 2020September 5, 2020

The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

Reading this felt like a review course, but maybe that isn’t always a bad thing.

read more The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

Read more

Fiction  0 Comments

September 11, 2020August 1, 2020

Train Dreams – Denis Johnson

Denis Johnson’s virtue seems to be his concision, and this is rather clear in ‘Train Dreams’.

read more Train Dreams – Denis Johnson

Read more

Atheism, Evolutionary Psychology, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Religion  0 Comments

September 4, 2020September 1, 2020

Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia

I don’t normally go too much into myself in these reviews, but I think in this case it may be

read more Alpha God – Hector A. Garcia

Read more

Comedy, Fiction, Humour, Reviews that are really about something else  0 Comments

August 28, 2020July 30, 2020

A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.

read more A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole

Read more

Cognitive Science, Non-Fiction, Psychology  0 Comments

August 21, 2020August 10, 2020

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky

There is a point of diminishing returns with being interdisciplinary. I thing this book may have missed that point.

read more Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst – Robert M. Sapolsky

Read more

Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

August 14, 2020April 12, 2020

Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey

The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.

read more Persepolis Rising – James S. A. Corey

Read more

Non-Fiction  0 Comments

August 7, 2020August 7, 2020

Factfulness – Hans Rosling

Good news everyone! The world isn’t nearly as screwed as we would like to think.

read more Factfulness – Hans Rosling

Read more

Fiction, History, War  0 Comments

July 31, 2020July 9, 2020

All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?

read more All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque

Read more

Anthropology, History, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

Humanity’s prehistory was once very overlooked by people who claimed to be lovers of history. Hopefully this book changes that.

read more Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Failures in Polymathy
    • Join 174 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Failures in Polymathy
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...