Finished reading Atoms Never Touch
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Rated Oasis' Definitely Maybe 8/10
(A full review will be forthcoming.)<br><br>I can't rightly give this book less stars, despite disagreeing with the majority of Niven's post-1995 assessment of the band (it's as though he didn't listen to Dig Out Your Soul at all), among a few other details. (Call 2000-onward members "session" musicians, yet talk about the influential effect of Ride? Who do you think was IN Ride?)<br><br>Still, I can respect the thoroughness in other areas and in dealing with Definitely Maybe itself. He is way more fair than a lot of music writers are about Oasis, but there will still be plenty to talk about when I write more on this.
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Rated A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence 8/10
The book is divided into three parts. The first is about the Brain, the second is about Machine Intelligence, and the third about the future existential threats that humanity will face. <br><br>The first part is illuminating. The second one is very interesting: I don’t agree with everything but it is a must read for the future of Artificial Intelligence. <br><br>The third part is a bit at odd with the rest of the bot. It is an interesting collection of discussion point. It is definitely worth reading but there is no real insight. There are a lot of speculations on the far future that should be taken with abundant grains of salt. They are not farfetched, let’s be clear, but every time we try to talk about more than 100 years in the future we are very likely to go in “total speculation mode”. Moreover, I can see that the first two parts came from the expertise of the author, while the third not. <br><br>Anyway, it is a book I really recommended.
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Wants to read Being and Time
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Rated Other Heartbreaks 8/10
Achingly authentic, most of the stories concern families coming together for an event, oftentimes a funeral or a wedding. The women are young and old, straight and not, and the men are just as tough and complicated. One doesn't always like them, but they remain interesting.<br><br>Other Heartbreaks is an excellent portrayal of the journeys we take to feel whole — the process we must recognize in order to do so. Henley's work is honest and resonant, and it is work to which I will return again.<br><br>(Full review appears at <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/10/other-heartbreaks-by-patricia-henley.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Today is Daphne du Maurier’s birthday!
Few #writers could create an atmosphere like Daphne du Maurier. Her #stories begin elegantly, then something shifts. A beautiful house can become a prison, love can turn into possession, and silence can be more frightening than a scream. Suddenly you are #reading faster than you planned.
Have you read any of her #novels?
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Wants to read Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir
A little patch of land.
Bread on the table.
A dear friend you can talk to.
A small house you can call Home.
Rabbits…
Such a modest dream. And yet so impossibly out of reach.
Which character from this story stayed with you the most?
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Finished reading The Dragon of Ynys
Finished reading Metal from Heaven
Rated A Fire Upon the Deep 9/10
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Finished reading Record of a Spaceborn Few
Finished reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Magic can give you just one thing. Choose wisely:
Knowledge?
Courage?
Love?
Or simply more time at home?
You will receive it today, because today is L.Frank #Baum’s birthday - the #author of The Wonderful #Wizard of #Oz.
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Finished reading Parable of the Talents
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Rated The Infinite and the Divine 8/10
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Rated Spark 6/10
SPARK is a somewhat disorienting little book. What starts out as a fairly straightforward story turns into a darker, mysterious world.<br><br>The trouble I had with these mysterious occurrences was that I wasn't entirely sure that they were real. Now, maybe the issue is that I was reading the book while tired, before bed, and maybe there were clues that I did not notice. If Mauk intended to makes these experiences surreal, I cannot say for certain if that's how they come across.<br><br>I'd be curious to hear other readers' impressions. SPARK is definitely a novel that merits discussion, and I hope that it gets it.<br><br>(My full review appears on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2012/09/spark-by-courtney-elizabeth-mauk.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)
Finished reading The City of Brass
Rated Spore 8/10
This was way better than the 50th Anniversary re-issue of EARTHWORLD, which also features the Eighth Doctor, but I wondered how much of the audio adventures Scarrow had listened to because the first half of the story sounded like the Eighth Doctor, and the second half, a bit less so -- A bit more like the Fifth, maybe. Still sounded like the Doctor, but less about the specific incarnation.<br><br>The pacing was good except in that the story just seems to suddenly be done. Partially, this is a problem with the short story format combined with the breadth of DW history, but it did leave me somewhat with the feeling of, "Oh. So we're done now."<br><br>However, this story overall would have made a really great episode too. Maybe one day we'll get a Big Finish audio of it, depending upon how the BBC licenses such things.