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Rated Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Extinction Event 6/10

Starting to think that Men Are Weird Around Bernice is the theme of S2, but still enjoyable.

Wants to read Smiley's People

Rated The Subtle Knife 10/10

Rated Homo Evolutis 4/10

not so much a book, but a conversion of presentation slides. interesting and though provoking in bitesized form.

Finished reading There Is No Antimemetics Division

Rated The Modernist 10/10

(My full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/09/modernist-edited-by-r-klanten-and-h.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>.)

Rated Doctor Who: The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield 10/10

<div>Really, really liked this interlinked set of Benny stories.</div><div><br></div>

Added Women of Wonder, the Classic Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1940s to the 1970s

Added The Future Is Female! Vol. 2: The 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women

Added Parable of the Sower

Rated Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business 10/10

Added What Is the What

Added Neuromancer

Added Hannibal

Added After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

Added If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Added Voyage in the Dark

Added The Return

Rated Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Greatest Shop in the Galaxy 8/10

This one had its funny moments, but I look forward to hearing one of these older audios that isn't loosely centered around "men being weird around Benny."

Rated Real Tigers 8/10

Rated The Gospel of Anarchy 8/10

To expect Taylor to devise an entire philosophy out of nothing along with the novel itself would be naïve. Expecting fiction to arrive completely out of the imagination misunderstands the act of writing. Even the most speculative or avant garde fiction hopes to connect with its readers, and readers connect when they can identify. The best fiction contains so much truth and honesty, but affords itself the benefit of creating its own facts. Taylor took an existing philosophy and manufactured a world to surround it. He lived in Gainesville between 2000 and 2004, and the description of the university town drips with humidity and rising mercury. The pressure builds in each character in a way that mimics the Florida summer. Borrowing from an existing group of people is no less valid than borrowing from an existing city.<br><br>(full review can be found on <a href="http://glorifiedloveletters.blogspot.com/2011/07/gospel-of-anarchy-by-justin-taylor.html">Glorified Love Letters</a>)

Rated The Golden Compass 10/10

Finished reading Dungeon Crawler Carl

Rated The Omega Factor: Series 01 8/10

<div>I wasn't as into the last story as I was the first three, but this is still quite good.</div>

Added The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy