Fiction – Page 11 – Failures in Polymathy

MaddAddam – Margaret Atwood

Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.

Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.

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.

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

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

This won a Pulitzer?

Sometimes as you read a sequel you just hope beyond hope that it wasn’t a marketing departments decision.

The ship of Theseus is a pretty applicable bit of philosophy. Here’s a thought: are you the same reader you were 20 years ago?

Some books are more akin to fast food than a proper meal.

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