Wants to read Internet for the People
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Finished reading Kill It with Fire: Manage Aging Computer Systems
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Wants to read Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture
Wants to read The Role Ethics of Epictetus: Stoicism in Ordinary Life
Finished reading Deep Freewriting: How to Masterfully Navigate the Creative Flow
Edited 32d ago
Rated Tripwire 4/10
Mah, not great. The book is inconsistent, stretched beyond its natural length by a lot of unnecessary digressions. But the fatal flaw, for me, is that Reacher just dawdles around the USA (with some tight timescales) for 400 pages with no sense of urgency. And the villain is a cartoonish guy with a damn hook, and (spoiler) Reacher blocks a bullet because his pecs are so thick... oh come on. Beyond parody.
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Wants to read Marcus Aurelius: A Guide for the Perplexed
Wants to read From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought
Rated Lanark 8/10
<div> is one of the wildest, most ambitious books I've ever read. Sort of set in Glasgow, also set in the Glasgow-like city of Unthank, the story is so many things at once. It's a disillusioned youth losing grip on his sense of reality, it's a surreal Vonnegutian descent into bureaucratic hell, it's an allegory for the slum tenements destruction in '70s, but also the oncoming storm of the corporate '80s.The references and acknowledgements sections are handled in perhaps the most inventive way I've ever seen. Not everything holds up since its publishing in 1981, but I hope more dedicated people than me have written papers on this weird, perpetually interesting book.</div>
Rated The Haunting 10/10
<div>Even better the second time through. </div>
Wants to read A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses
Finished reading How Hitchens Can Save the Left: Rediscovering Fearless Liberalism in an Age of Counter-Enlightenment
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Rated Tempo. Il sogno di uccidere Chrónos 6/10
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