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Wants to read Internet for the People

Rated Between Two Fires 10/10

Rated Neuromante 6/10

Wants to read Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

Rated L'ultimo orizzonte: Cosa sappiamo dell'universo 6/10

Finished reading Dieci cose che ho imparato

Finished reading Deep Freewriting: How to Masterfully Navigate the Creative Flow

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.

Wants to read A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Wants to read The hierarchy of heaven and earth : a new diagram of man in the universe

Finished reading Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Wants to read We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Finished reading Da animali a dèi: Breve storia dell'umanità

Rated This Close 10/10

Not many short story collections are entirely wonderful. One or two stories, while not necessarily UNenjoyable, usually feel like filler. And yet, Jessica Francis Kane's new collection is quite near perfect. It left me wishing for one more story, which likely means that the length of the book is exactly right. Twelve stories, some related and some standalone, navigate the yearning for connection and the complex interior lives that we all have. <br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-close-stories-by-jessica-francis.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Rated The Many Daughters of Afong Moy 3/10

<div>Too many similes, too many words lifted from other people. The overall concept is interesting and understandable, but I didn't care for the the execution. In short, not for me.</div>

Wants to read From Villain to Hero: Odysseus in Ancient Thought

Rated Lanark 8/10

<div>&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</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

Wants to read The Theater of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

Rated The No-Prep Gamemaster: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Random Tables 7/10

Rated Tempo. Il sogno di uccidere Chrónos 6/10

Rated Questa è l'America: Storie per capire il presente degli Stati Uniti e il nostro futuro 8/10

Wants to read A Big Bang in a Little Room: The Quest to Create New Universes