Book – Page 20 – Failures in Polymathy

The Lathe of Heaven – Ursula K. Le Guin

Leibniz is not once mentioned in the novel. So why do I keep thinking about him?

Paging Dr Pangloss.

What happens when you read the sequel to a novel you didn’t really feel needed a sequel?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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