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

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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?

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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.

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Alternate History, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  2 Comments

July 17, 2020July 2, 2020

Pavane – Keith Roberts

This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.

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Non-Fiction, Self-Help  1 Comment

July 10, 2020July 9, 2020

Atomic Habits – James Clear

Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction  0 Comments

July 3, 2020July 1, 2020

The Atheist in the Attic – Samuel R Delany

What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?

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Crime, Internet, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

June 26, 2020May 7, 2020

Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn

The internet has broken a lot of boundaries and made the world a lot more interconnected. This is a good thing, until you think about it in the context of crime.

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Fiction, Horror  1 Comment

June 19, 2020June 6, 2020

The Hellbound Heart – Clive Barker

For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.

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Non-Fiction, Scepticism  2 Comments

June 12, 2020June 6, 2020

Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer

This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 5, 2020April 27, 2020

The Expert System’s Brother – Adrian Tchaikovsky

There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’

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Non-Fiction, Philosophy, Self-Help  1 Comment

May 29, 2020May 27, 2020

How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life – Massimo Pigliucci

A review written so long ago it is currently comically irrelevant.

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