Novel – Page 2 – Failures in Polymathy

The Death of Grass – John Christopher

2021, What a time to read this book.

Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.

This book will haunt me till my dying day. Me and The Sun Also Rises have a torrid history. This

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain

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.

If the sentence “Baxter did a Stapeldon” makes sense to you, you will enjoy this review.

The word of the day is: Malthusian

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.

This won a Pulitzer?

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?