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Wants to read The Origins of Totalitarianism
Wants to read Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence
Rated Annihilation 8/10
<div>I am quite late to the party with this book, but I enjoyed it enough to get the next installment from the library. I listened to the audiobook, which leant itself well to the diary style in which it was written.</div>
Wants to read Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Wants to read Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Rated The Power 10/10
Loved this book. For me, it puts a magnifying glass on the grotesque behaviours that men have and still do, inflict on women, simply because of gender, this warped idea that one is stronger than the other. As a man this book is a huge insight into the reality of the power struggle, along with being a great page turner and great thriller.
Rated The Dead Fathers Club 6/10
The story of an 11 year old boy after his father dies. The story uses a unique story telling device where it's told from the boys mind (or imagined diary), but the result is a stream of consciousness, littered with rule-breaking authoring techniques. <br/><br/>I can imagine this method coming off as forced or trite. But Haig's book manages to execute really well.<br/><br/>There's some vivid scenes of loss that touch my own personal childhood, remembering my own mother in the early chapters. <br/><br/>The boy himself believes he's being visited by his deceased father who asks him to enact revenge for his recent death. <br/><br/>The boy, Philip, struggles with his own confused feelings of being a boy, being 11 and starting to see more of the world, and being thrown into a new family structure. It's all too much for him.<br/><br/>Being inside his head you can understand his actions, and it makes me wonder about how we judge someone from the outside who behaves so oddly or "badly".<br/><br/>Ultimately we're left to decide for ourselves whether the boy is really seeing ghosts, though one thing is clear by the end: he'll need counselling to get through the next 15 years.<br/><br/>A good, fast, little read, perfect for holiday reading.
Rated The Song from Somewhere Else 8/10
Beautiful story (and printed paper was so nice).
Finished reading Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
Finished reading Nihilism and Technology
Wants to read Solo Leveling Novel 06
Reviewed What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley
Very different than I was expecting but still very good!