Book – Page 21 – Failures in Polymathy

The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur

The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads

I didn’t want to dislike this book, but I just didn’t seem to scratch any itch.

Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.

This book was a bit of a dip in the series, at least in comparison to the previous one.

Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.

If you try to make a book of characters alone, surely something will be missing. Notably, story.

I don’t know if distilling economics gives you correct simplifications, but it does make good reading.

Octavia Butler was a master of showing us the worst of all possible outcomes, but not letting us lose our faith on the way.

United Breaks Guitars went viral, proving to corporations that you can’t just step on customers.

Oryx and Crake lingers around in your head like a bad house guest. That’s actually a pretty nice thing to say about it.