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

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Fiction, Novel, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

November 12, 2021October 31, 2021

The Death of Grass – John Christopher

2021, What a time to read this book.

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Capitalism, Classics, Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

October 15, 2021April 8, 2021

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

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.

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novel  0 Comments

September 17, 2021March 25, 2021

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

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

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Fiction, Novel, Religion  1 Comment

August 20, 2021March 26, 2021

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac

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

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

June 25, 2021July 4, 2021

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.

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Evolution, Fiction, Novel, Science, Science-Fiction, Short Stories  0 Comments

May 28, 2021January 20, 2021

Evolution – Stephen Baxter

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

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Economics, Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

April 30, 2021November 29, 2020

Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison

The word of the day is: Malthusian

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Fiction, Science-Fiction  0 Comments

March 5, 2021February 14, 2021

Tiamat’s Wrath – James S. A. Corey

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.

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Fiction  1 Comment

December 18, 2020August 30, 2021

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Díaz

This won a Pulitzer?

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Fiction, Reviews that are really about something else, Science-Fiction  6 Comments

November 20, 2020September 25, 2020

The Martian Time Slip – Philip K Dick

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?

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