I direct a flow of books to my booklog for posterity, thoroughness, bragging right. Mainly though it provides a framework to structure my thoughts (and feefees) on the them individually, and, through their connections, collectively. Was written initially in TeX, using the glossaries package. However a dearth of (input by me) obsequiously overindulgent in length subtitles led to title duplication, urging a switch to authors rather titles as entries, with their works as subentries. Eventually, that is, quickly, the package was overwhelmed. Likely due to my ineptitude with it, TeX, or large(r) projects. So I had to explore other possibilities: software, formats, conversion software. A terminal spreadsheet programs, visidata or sc-im, and a single .tsv file, easily generable via Perl enough subtition regexs from .tex ones, fit. Only barely working with the data⸻sum the read column; histograms of ratings, authors, titles, and I'm already hitting a wall...⸻, which itself was neither complex, nor numerical, I append rows, and add to the reds (as in past participles), that is adding 1s and rating glyphs. Good but not great, which is why I transferred to my text editor. If one craves bespoke eye candy, nothing beats TeX and elbow grease. But I was neither printing, nor publishing.
Regardless, before digitizing, as titles accumulated on the second or third paper-based booklog, lil' ol' me'd decided to
Three last notes: 1. a month through the ordeal, I'd accidentally sorted a part of the list, hence the first 130 items' alphanumerically ascending order; 2. I don't subscribe to any book or media cataloging system, and, torrenting the majority, I yank and paste what goes into the RSS feed, hence what the uploader deems correct, or find on the web, probably amazon, not the Library of Congress or the Vatican's, or ... I remove inane subtitles à la ^(A|The) (\S+ )?(Novel|Story)\b.*$
, overly long ones, and ones I simply dislike; 3. I also prepend titles belonging to a series with, 1, its official name or my take, and, 2, their chronological (by universe not by publication) place within, usually a number, in it.
Regarding taste, objectively, I enjoy the new and or novel: be it knowledge, opinion, argument, viewpoint, thought, or thought patterns; things, my head hasn't so far conjured in itself or others' accurately; and, subjectively, what I consider to be good writing, e.g., Chuck Palahniuk >>> Tolkien (among other false idols for trash people). Omitting textbooks and reference material, genre-wise I indulge in, in no order: extreme horror, horror, gorefest, true crime, suspense, thriller, philosophy, essays/commentary/thoughts, short story anthologies, most science fiction, some translations of 'greats' or classics', books without many characters or gratuitous detail, among others still. I dislike and have little-to-no use for: the trivial and known, the lazy, the stupid, the greedy, the easy and comfortable, the indulgent, the dogmatic, and the predictable; additionally, most series, most anything by a woman, jew-apologetics, war stories, and cringe. Fuck weak-willed, smooth-brained, auto-fellatory, ultimately stupid readers. Namely: /lit/-kiddies; underageds (in the 4chan sense, nonage hasn't much to do with it); females; soyboys; Marxists, and all their prostrating drone ilk on Goodreads, Tumblr, Twitter, FaceBook, literally anything Reddit, any 'left' platform/system/program; any'journalist'; just about any and all social sites, media, fora, and so on.
Also, disregard fuck Russian lit⸻a good >95% of what I've (tried to) read is very horribly predictable, stereotypical, class-based commentary from either direction, or Marxist propagandist waste. Russian 'classics' are overtly overhyped⸻better garbage than other garbage, maybe, disputable, but trash nonetheless. Burn. It. All. All the moreso for Soviet such.
And Japanese lit... . . . Most everything modern (that I have read) is (intolerably) bad⸻flooded in the sterotypes, cliché, which arose post-WW2; with little-to-no redeeming qualities, at least the latter are disparate from American and or European ones. Standouts in quality were written and or published around and shortly after WW2. Could, of course, be a translation thing. Complexity, subtlety, nuance lost. Funnily, that's less so for Korean, and much, much less so for Chinese. Coinkydink, or evidence of stagnant language and culture? Those touting these books don't partake of them in the original either, so it may be an intelligence thing.
As of writing this, 20210417T055800, I've gone through (finished or attempted) some 300 titles starting roughly 20201214. That was when I'd lost my external hard drive with some 1.5 TB of audio files, that I'd been collecting, tagging, organizing, listening to. For eight years. Around 2016 (or '17?) I'd been a music reviewer for a growingly popular metal site; I dropped out due to disagreements with management, but the experience had only intensified my obsession with music. It is-, or rather was.., my second passion in life. I lost, as if, a sizeable chunk of myself that day. Since realization doesn't impale You from the sky, but weedles in over time, it wasn't really a day, but weeks. But that too shall pass.
Most of my personal library had bitten the street years earlier, in a charming bureaucratic tragedy I like to call the Great Shitcanning. It involved credit card numbers and the storage locker into which I had filed too much of my life for far too long. By the time I learned that the locker was no longer under my name, and its contents had gone for landfill or used-store credit at the hands of employees unknown and untraceable, management of the storage establishment had rotated its usual five or six times and the misdeed was buried in ancient history, which was to say, more than one year ago. Along with my clothes, which had become moth-riddled, and my kitchenware, which had become obsolete, and my desk, which had grown senile from rot, had gone all of my books. I had put them where they could remain safe until I could decide about new living arrangements in another state, and they had been mugged en masse while I was out of reach. To rebuild was impractical, out of the question, absurd. I had already invested effort and love into the books which had died, or been executed, and my heart just wasn't into the idea of recapture until I opened one of those books at the garage sale and the smell hit me.
2c Worth
David J. Schow.
I've not much changed personality-wise, I think⸻I'd merely exchanged habits, similarly to addicts or the problemed traversing cognitive behavioral therapy. I've been cramming the then newly created chasm with the thoughts and opinions of others, as well my subsequent own, with fiction and non-fiction (~65/35 was my ratio around 202107XX), with ideals, knowledge, opinions, arguments, etc. Although I employ some of that, he'd still cringe at my efforts and goings-about. A lovely quote from him and an additional one:
A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones, for life is short.
The Art of Literature.
Arthur Schopenhauer.
Reading is a passionate act. If You read a story not just with Your head, but also with Your body and feelings and soul, the way You dance or listen to music, then it becomes Your story. And it can mean infinitely more than any message. It can offer beauty. It can take You through pain. It can signify freedom. And it can mean something different every time You reread it.
A Message About Messages
Ursula K. Le Guin
Another apt one on books and reading is Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
, which I recommend. Its expounding overlaps much with my own thoughts on the matter, and gave material for digestion with time. Brian Doyle's Reading in Bed
is passion pressurized⸻bibliomania or -philia..?⸻, it, rather he, gets it, gets me, so I feel a camaraderie. Jeff Deutsch's In Praise of Good Bookstores
is also a great choice, focusing on the role of bookstores throughout time, however, nixing a quarter, one's left with something resembling the preceding one. A Gentle Madness
by Nicholas A. Basbanes fits with these, but boring me greatly while dealing with a worthwhile topic, puts it at a disadvantage. In any case,
I've nobody to talk to regarding books, my opinions, thoughts, so it's rather lonesome when amidst blathering, infantile, predictable children in the bodies of adult Homo sapiens sapiens: be it on 4chan, lainchan, leddit, or the rather uncommon case of real-world reading person. The malignant, human-shaped tumors posting on the internet would necessitate multiple daily, hour-long beatings to begin to comprehending basics of how and why the world functions as it does.
If You have any objections, rebuttals, contributions, remarks, jokes, or would like to talk about any of the below books read and rated or not⸻their authors, titles, subject, and so on⸻, then do drop a line.
My reading is mainly done through my ears and eyes, that is, via audiobooks and pagers, with the speed cranked up to 13 (since mpv taps out at 4x, audiobook with slow readers get treated to ffmpeg -i ${q::=...} -filter:a atempo=2 ${q:r}.2x.mp3
, where values greater 2 are achieved multiplicatively via chaining; or to sox ${q} ${w} tempo -s 2.0
, where any ol' float'll do) and plain text files, paged. And, if no audiobook (torrent) exists, but a file does, I use a text-to-speech program, namely, flite (or piper). From all tested⸻all my repository's relevant packages save the few relevant snaps and flatpaks, all relevant, from-my-stupid-ass-buildable FOSS, and online services⸻these are best in terms of usability, speed, and output quality. The former I've used most with the below settings and most often the first of the following three voices, which can be downloaded via the make
option get_voices
: fem, slt, or the built-in kal16. That is, flite -voice /path/to/voice --setf int_f0_target_mean=90 --setf int_f0_target_stddev=35 --setf duration_stretch=$((1./1.95))
. The latter one, being released in 2022, is 23 years younger. Using neural networks and vast training sets, it consistently outputs better, while requiring less preprocessing (~60 PCREs, ordered). For some reason, the General American voices I find shite, and latch onto the deeper ones like, as I call 'im, English Alan (flite's fem), or Scottish Alba (piper). Again... So I use the deep male voice, en_GB-alan-low; the (cute) Irish/Scottish one, en_GB-alba-medium; another female one, en_GB-semaine-medium; and en_GB-vctk-medium. Alba, you munchkin, You
I listen to, and hence 'read', most books at ~700⸺900 words per minute. Less, ~500, if novelty and or (new) information dense, or particularly savory, and I've reined in my wantonness. I try to find, download, convert, process any title I'm listening to. Not always possible, and read along via less FILE
, scrolling down rather than leafing along. This bolsters concentration on heavier and or more tedious books. I've not held a physical book in my hands in quite some time. I've little space as is, and even less so spare money for something, I'd argue, should be free. Forbearing completion to savor virginal pleasures with the material happens to me; titles might fall behind or, fuck forbid, be forgotten. A quote from Brian Doyle's essay A Note on How We Slow Down Near the End of a Terrific Book, Reluctant to Leave That Wondrous World
from his aforementioned book:
Prosepause, storyslowage, readingreluctability, talewaiting⸻that exquisite sense of deliberately delaying closure, of stretching out the moment, of sipping and savoring and swirling the characters and world and the ambience and milieu around in Your heart before they become, inevitably, as they must, past tense, a book You just read; and while there is a great pleasure in rereading a fine book (after letting enough time pass that You half-forget half of it), it is never quite as salty and stunning a pleasure as the first encounter; ...
Reading in Bed: Brief Headlong Essays About Books and Writers and Reading and Readers
Brian Doyle.
Others still will have reviews or remarks: click the equilateral triangle appearing before the title to open these. Titles are in approximate chronological order of completion or addition, unless being presently read. Lastly, if an entry's fourth column is closer to zero, it is unworthy of my time; and if not quite 1, ending or parts have been glanced over or skipped; if greater than 1, whole or sections multiply read.
With unread visible via the navigation's togglable, rows in alterating shades of
What follows is some non-fiction works that are non-literary, that I've liked and or found good. Inappropriate for these to be located within the booklog, so here:
Scandalous House of Calydon, Book 2
. Mind You, more often than not, these shit tier potboilers are series running into the tens and sometimes twenties. More examples. Perhaps I prefer self-contained things, with thought and meaning invested to drawn out, inanities. Omitting chick lit and its male (airport novels, or worse, series like Jack Reacher) and teenage (flat, cheap power fantasies featuring adolescents) counterparts, this still holds. Likely due to the failure of American public education in 'the West', and or some combination of the success of Marxism and its derivatives (to self-propagate whilst impoverishing constituencies), government cronyism (falls into former), perceived monopolies in education by public, unscrupulous and short-sighted power and money grabs (again, Marxism). They can compose good stuff, there is both historical and present-day evidence of this⸻they should just stick to what they're good at not attempt to compete with men in unsuitable disciplines. Same goes for men⸻don't fucking write gay, furry, tranny, trap shit. Don't write (bad) power fantasies (where nothing happens), LitRPGs (anime's isekai genre put to paper), or series when You can't even spell Your damn name without shame.
For fuck's sake.
Glyph | Meaning |
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a | annoying |
b | boring |
c | cringe |
f | false |
g | agenda |
k | known |
p | predictable |
w | bad writing |
♀ | all of the aboveha-ha |
m | mediocre⸺decent |
✓✔ | good⸺great |
j | Jewish |
? | undecided |
Title | Author | Rating | Read | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A Head Full of Ghosts | Paul Tremblay | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | B | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Little History of the World | E.H. Gombrich | KAW | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Lush and Seething Hell | John Hornor Jacobs | GAb | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Medicine for Melancholy | Ray Bradbury | B | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Noise Downstairs | Linwood Barclay | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Small Town | Thomas Perry | Gwa | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Tap on the Window | Linwood Barclay | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Touch of Happy | Andrew Kanago | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Very Stable Genius | Philip Rucker, Carol Leonnig | wgfap | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets | Gregg Olsen | mb | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Airships | Barry Hannah | ga | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alone in the Fortress of the Bears | Bruce L. Nelson | bap | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Female Serial Killers | Brian Berry | mb | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Predator | Maureen Callahan | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Angrynomics | Eric Lonergan, Mark Blyth | mBa | 0.95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autopsy: Life in the Trenches with a Forensic Pathologist in Africa | Ryan Blumenthal | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad Moon Rising | Sherrilyn Kenyon | ♀apmwg | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big Boys Don't Cry | Tom Kratman | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blind Faith | Joe McGinniss | b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buried Beneath the Boarding House | Ryan Green | mb | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
By Night In Chile | Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World | Michael Pollan | mK | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Caliphate | Tom Kratman | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition | Collective Debt | GWAf | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cannibal Creek | Jon Athan | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Carmine the Snake: Carmine Persico and His Murderous Mafia Family | Frank DiMatteo, Michael Benson | b | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties | Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring | Ba | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders | Billy Jensen | Gbf | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conan the Cimmerian: The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian | Robert E. Howard | bw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Convenient Suspect: A Double Murder, a Flawed Investigation, and the Railroading of an Innocent Woman | Tammy Mal | m✓b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cool Hand Luke | Donn Pearce | Bm | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coyote BlueThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | bm | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the WorldThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Joseph Menn | mkap | 0.80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dawn of the DeadThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | George A. Romero | baw | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DeadbreakThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jorge Sanchez | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deadly ForceThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Misty Evans | Gf | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis ThreeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mara Leveritt | ♀apb | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline Equals FreedomThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jocko Willink | PKam | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Distracted and Defeated: The Rulers and the RuledThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mike Bhangu | kwag | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Donald Trump v. the United States: Inside the Struggle to Stop a PresidentThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Michael S. Schmidt | GFW | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dying Days 7The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Armand Rosamilia | gap | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eddie Flynn: 5 - Fifty-fiftyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Steve Cavanagh | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Elevator PitchThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Linwood Barclay | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological InjuriesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Guy Winch | KWf | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the Gas Station: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack Townsend | ✓a | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the Gas Station: 2The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack Townsend | ✓map | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the Gas Station: 2.5xmasThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack Townsend | map | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the Gas Station: 3The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack Townsend | AP | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
F*ck Whales: Also Families, Poetry, Folksy Wisdom and YouThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | George 'Maddox' Ouzounian | ✓KPMj | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat Vampire: 1 - Fat VampireThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Johnny B. Truant | ✓m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat Vampire: 2 - Tastes Like ChickenThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Johnny B. Truant | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat Vampire: 3 - All You Can EatThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Johnny B. Truant | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat Vampire: 4 - Harder Better Fatter StrongerThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Johnny B. Truant | pam | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat Vampire: 5 - FatpocalypseThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Johnny B. Truant | PA | 0.80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale SingsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | ✔ | 1.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flu: 1 - FluThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Wayne Simmons | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flu: 2 - FeverThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Wayne Simmons | bm | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FoolThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of OutrageThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Dan Crenshaw | PBAGfm | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DeadbreakThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jorge Sanchez | cpa | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 1 - The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire AccountantThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 2 - Undeath and TaxesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 3 - Bloody AcquisitionsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | pam | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 4 - The Fangs of FreelanceThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | PAwm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred, the Vampire Accountant: 5 - Deadly AssessmentsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | PAW | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frozen In IceThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Armand Rosamilia | mp | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fuck Yeah, Video Games: The Life and Extra Lives of a Professional NerdThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Daniel Hardcastle | cwa | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James Gleick | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotti's Boys: The Mafia Crew That Killed for John GottiThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Anthony M. DeStefano | b | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grandfather's HouseThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jon Athan | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hackers and PaintersThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul Graham | bawp | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hartmann the Anarchist: The Doom of the Great CityThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Edward Douglas Fawcett | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hiding from the Internet: Eliminating Personal Online InformationThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Michael Bazzell | km | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His EmpireThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Elaine Shannon | ba | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ice StationThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Matthew Reilly | Wba | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inside Broadmoor: Up Close and Personal with Britain's Most Dangerous CriminalsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jonathan Levi, Emma French | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IsolationThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | David Moody | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy MurdersThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
KokoroThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Natsume Soseki, Edwin McClellan (tr.) | ♀apBAP | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listen to Me NowThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | A.I. Nasser | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social ConnectionThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John T. Cacioppo, William Patrick | Wbk | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LovesickThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jon Athan | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Magic Ex Libris: 1 - LibriomancerThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jim C. Hines | APw | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's KillerThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James L. Swanson | ba | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ManifestThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Theodore J. Kaczynski | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old ChinaThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul French | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Midnight SonThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James Dommek Jr., Josephine Holtzman, Isaac Kestenbaum | mw | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mark Genevich: 2 - No Sleep Til WonderlandThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul Tremblay | m✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sammy and the Cheese: 1 - NoirThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American HistoryThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Peter Houlahan | bw | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian FairiesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Librivox | b | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet EarthThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | the Onion | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pale FireThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Vladimir Nabokov | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parents Who Killed Their ChildrenThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | R.J. Parker | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peeling the OnionThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Günter Grass | bm | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PerfumeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Patrick Süskind | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pine Cove: 1 - Practical DemonkeepingThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pine Cove: 3 - The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas TerrorThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Christopher Moore | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prisoners of Our Thoughts: Viktor Frankl's Principles for Discovering Meaning in Life and WorkThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Alex Pattakos | KWAf | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Pickton: The True Story of the Pig Farmer KillerThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Chris Swinney | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Screaming Eagles: 1 - The FrontThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Timothy W. Long | agpb | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American CultureThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | David Mamet | BAgj | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secret SlaveThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Anna Ruston | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sex SaysThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Max Monroe | baw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skeleton in Space: 1 - HistaffThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Andries Louws | bapw | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Small SacrificesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Ann Rule | ♀apbap | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Survivor SongThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul Tremblay | pbma | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales of the Madman UndergroundThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John Barnes | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The AbominableThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Dan Simmons | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Anime Trope System: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Alvin Atwater | CWPa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Anime Trope System: 2The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Alvin Atwater | CWPA | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cabin at the End of the WorldThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul Tremblay | ✓m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Candy Cards: The Shocking Story of Dean CorllThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Robert Brown | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Case Against EducationThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Bryan Caplan | Ka | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends who Shaped an AgeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Leo Damrosch | bm | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City NeighborhoodThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | David Simon | ba | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Curse of LonoThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Hunter S. Thompson | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Devil All the TimeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Donald Ray Pollock | B | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Devil and Karl Marx: Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and InfiltrationThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Paul Kengor | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Haunting of Alma FieldingThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Kate Summerscale | ♀apBw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Heroin Diaries: Ten Year Anniversary Edition: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock StarThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Nikki Six | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Jokes of Nafsreddin Hodja: The World Is Not a Tragedy, But a ComedyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Molla Nasreddin | mKPa | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York CityThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jennifer Toth | ♀apgab | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for SocialismThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Leigh Phillips, Michal Rozworski | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The RoachThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Rhett C. Bruno | pA | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sea Was AngryThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Armand Rosamilia | mpa | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of EnronThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Bethany McLean | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Stench of HonoluluThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack Handey | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TerrorThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Dan Simmons | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Toughest Prison of All: The True Story of Bank Robbery, Prison Escapes, and the Search for Love on the OutsideThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Floyd C. Forsberg | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The UnconsoledThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Kazuo Ishiguro | B | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Vory: Russia's Super MafiaThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Galeotti | mbp | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Woman in Apartment 49The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Ross Armstrong | b | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thirteen StoriesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jonathan Sims | bm | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Dark EarthThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John Hornor Jacobs | w | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy: 1 - TimothyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy: 2 - TimThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Timothy: 3 - Sliced, Diced and CubedThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Torchwood CoffeeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James Goss | bap | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Under the TrestleThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Ron Peterson Jr. | bm | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop MurdersThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Beverly Lowry | ♀apw | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of LifeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Lulu Miller | WB♀ap | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Worldship Files: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Erik Schubach | w | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zomblog: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | T.W. Brown | BW | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Think AgainThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Adam Grant | kAf | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Super Powereds: Year 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | pAC | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook CatastropheThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Roger McNamee | GPb | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Case of the Haunted Haunted HouseThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Drew Hayes | apw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
People MoverThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John David Card | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and DreamsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Matthew Walker | mkfa | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On BullshitThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Harry G. Frankfurt | mB | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batman: Dead WhiteThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John Shirley | A | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Shrouded World: 1 - WhistlersThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Shrouded World: 2 - AtlantisThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | mpa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Shrouded World: 3 - ConvergenceThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo | AP | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blue Ant: 1 - Pattern RecognitionThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | William Gibson | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blue Ant: 2 - Spook CountryThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | William Gibson | bam | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nothing Good Happens After MidnightThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jeffery Deaver, Lindwood Barclay, Rhys Bowen | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Logan Jacobs | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 2The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Logan Jacobs | mcp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 3The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Logan Jacobs | mpc | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Skulduggery: Building a Criminal Empire: 4The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Logan Jacobs | pCm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Make Something Up: Stories You Can't UnreadThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Chuck Palahniuk | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ocean GraveThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Matt Serafini | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BreachThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Nick Cutter | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ServantThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Robin Maugham | M✓b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The DeepThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Nick Cutter | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No-No BoyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | John Okada | Map | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batavias Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest MutinyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mike Dash | mb | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Twas the Nightshift Before ChristmasThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Adam Kay | ✓Mj | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Is Going to Hurt: Diaries of a Junior DoctorThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Adam Kay | ✓MApj | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horus RisingThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Dan Abnett | AP | 1.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FulgrimThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Graham McNeill | AP | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Luke Smitherd | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 2The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Luke Smitherd | ✓Ma | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 3The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Luke Smitherd | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
:In the Darkness, That's Where I'll Know You: 4The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Luke Smitherd | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
113 MinutesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James Patterson | apc | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ReWired Brain: Free Yourself of Negative Behaviors and Release Your Best SelfThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Ski Chilton | ka | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Curse of YigThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | H.P. Lovecraft | pam | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Never See Them AgainThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | M. Whilliam Phelps | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mephiston: Blood of SanguiniusThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Darius Hinks | bwac | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 5 - Lorgar: Bearer of the WordThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Gav Thorpe | wcaB | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 6 - FulgrimThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Josh Reynolds | B | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Horus Heresy Primarchs: 7 - Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of MedusaThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | David Guymer | B | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Animal KingdomThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Iain Rob Wright | mwp | 0.88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dirk Gently: 1 - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective AgencyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Douglas Adams | ✔✓a | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Underground the Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese PsycheThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Haruki Murakami | bw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rip-Off!The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | V.A. | abw | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BleedThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Tufo, Chris Philbrook, David Moody | wm | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey ShermanThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Kevin Donovan | B | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Scarlet PlagueThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Jack London | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
YouthThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Isaac Asimov | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wings of SorrowThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Iain Rob Wright | mcwp | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The MoorThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Sam Haysom | b | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Scarifyers: Dinner Date with DeathThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Roland Moore | bm | 0.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free SocietiesThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Rysard Legutko | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Toilet of Doom: 1The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Michael Lawrence | mb | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pink MadnessThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | James Hillman | ✓m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital and IdeologyThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Thomas Piketty | FJG | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dear Mr. MThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Herman Koch | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ChokeThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Chuck Palahniuk | ✔✔ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HauntedThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Chuck Palahniuk | ✔✔ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Running from the DeadThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mike Knowles | m | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Space TaxisThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Adam Frosh | JG | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bone WhiteThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Ronald Malfi | baw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of MenThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Harold Schechter | wma | 0.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Satellite LoveThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Genki Ferguson | map | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short Stories from JapanThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Rebecca Otowa | ♀pba | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Into CharybdisThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Alex White | wap | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark RideThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Iain Rob Wright | bw | 0.17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capital Realism: Is There No Alternative?The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Mark Fisher | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fly-By NightsThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Brian Lumley | bw | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales Of Mystery and the MacabreThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | W.W. Jacobs | mbw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Khai of KhemThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Brian Lumley | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TantamountThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Blaine Lee Pardoe, Victoria R. Hester | ♀ap | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Perfect PeopleThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Peter James | mwa♀P | 0.32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong IlThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Michael Malice | ✓MPak | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Savage DeadThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Joe McKinney | wb | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CharlatansThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | Robin Cook | wB♀ | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Overruled!The only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | V.A., Hank Davis (ed.) | mwb | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pendragon: 06 - The Rivers of ZadaaThe only C.M. book, so far, that I've found rather boring. >inb4 it gits gewd rait afta ya finish eet | D.J. MacHale | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
D.J. MacHale | Mp | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christopher Moore | m | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bret Easton Ellis | M✓ | 1.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adam Kay | agwj | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American SupermarketsJust great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient. | Benjamin Lorr | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show BusinessJust great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient. | Neil Postman | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Naked Truth: Using Shameless Honesty to Enhance Your Confidence, Connections and IntegrityJust great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient. | Daniel Munro | MKP✓ | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Conspiracy Against the Human RaceJust great. Information, good resources, well-cited, good interviews, good descriptions. Writing style at times on par with Palahniuk's. Sufficient. | Thomas Ligotti | M✓k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darkness at NoonJust real good. Top candidate for a screenplay. | Arthur Koestler | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Weird and the EerieJust real good. Top candidate for a screenplay. | Mark Fisher | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You Will Love What You Have KilledJust real good. Top candidate for a screenplay. | Kevin Lambert | bwmA | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Find You FirstJust real good. Top candidate for a screenplay. | Linwood Barclay | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
F*cking History: 111 Lessons You Should Have Learned in SchoolJust real good. Top candidate for a screenplay. | The Captain | mAPJ | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern DiseaseDescribes in too much detail big pharma's shenanigans. | Gary Greenberg | mWB | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Heart of DarknessSlow. More so in a good rather than bad way. Not much happens. Good descriptions and 'feel', or 'vibes', as the zoomies and those shilling to them call it. Style over substance, to me, at least. | Joseph Conrad | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High RiseDangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | J.G. Ballard | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cannibal ReignDangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | Thomas Koloniar | W | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HaterDangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | David Moody | wb | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MIND: A Unified Theory of Life and IntelligenceDangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | Frank T. Vertosick Jr. | Fp | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Road to Revolution: The Complete and Authorized UnabomberDangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | Theodore J. Kaczynski | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Keepers of Limbo: The Range: 01Dangerously based at times. Good read for modern day cities. | Yuri Ulengov | cw | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Consolation of PhilosophyStuff I figured out alone before graduation (though I'm not from the 6. century nobility). You could say, it's a good read if you've never thought and or are under 18. Also, fuck all your god shit. | Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius | MKPAFG | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Consolations of PhilosophyImmature, self-centered, superfluous examples and stories. Yo, this ain't a bio. kys. | Alain de Botton | maf | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Liberalism FailedGreat read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time. | Patrick J. Deneen | ✓Mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Wicked and the DamnedGreat read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time. | Josh Reynolds, David Annandale, Phil Kelly | Pwb | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Chaos Space Marines Audio CollectionGreat read, if you've not heard the arguments⸻I hadn't. Tad dry and theoretical, in that not all's grounded in reality. Worth a reread in .5⸺1 years' time. | V.A. | mpb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hold Up the SkyHonest-to-fuck, (prolly CCP-sponsored/backed) chink scifi. Propaganda seeps thru, and is felt constantly. People 'act' unlike evolved creatures, or bogstandard hoomans. | Cixin Liu | bmwp | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time SpikeTimeline mixing⸻new to me, wanna see it explored more, supposedly alt. history is the genre. Although I'd love to read about the 'bad' parasites winning, instead of the 'good' ones. Rather unsaleable, and paperweights don't pay the bills, nor are nutritious. | Eric Flint, Marilyn Kosmatka | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental IllnessNice layman's dive into the shitsea that is psychiatry and, exponentially so, the now defunct psychosurgery. Often over-detailed but great nonetheless. | Jack El-Hai | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the WorldBemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating. | Slavoj Zizek | FGpa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time LostBemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating. | Slavoj Zizek | FGpa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Planet of SlumsBemused, infantile rantings of an old man trying to make sense of things using communism derivatives, postmodernism, history of old dogma and authority, and often times objectively false reasoning and premises. As a fellow hooman bean, sad. As sb w/ an bigass audience- spreading unknowledge, misinformation, regardless of pseudonym, annoyingly infuriating. | Mike Davis | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alpha and OmegaStory revolved around jews... Inclined on boring you and wasting your time. | Harry Turtledove | jb | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Give Me Back My Legions!: A Novel of Ancient RomeTo be honest, I should've given this on more time, however, too many names, and I don't care who's who to whom in Rome. Implying, any writer or historian worth a grain of salt would write about household 'struggles', and boring shit, meanwhile⸻actual tribal genocide, burning and pillaging, but nah, weddings and brother-in-law 'n shit. Fuck this dude. Alt. history my ass. | Harry Turtledove | b | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dictionary of DemonsTo be honest, I should've given this on more time, however, too many names, and I don't care who's who to whom in Rome. Implying, any writer or historian worth a grain of salt would write about household 'struggles', and boring shit, meanwhile⸻actual tribal genocide, burning and pillaging, but nah, weddings and brother-in-law 'n shit. Fuck this dude. Alt. history my ass. | M. Belanger | bm | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Against Nature (A Rebous)I'd read this, not listened through it, years ago. What had motivated me, I cannot remember. But given it took me ~1.5h of my usual speedy listening, before I caught the drift: Hey, don't I know you? The book is so devoid of meaning and content, I barely remembered anything about it. Because there was nothing to remember. Well, fuck you, Huysmans. | Joris-Karl Huysmans | apb | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass KillerI'd read this, not listened through it, years ago. What had motivated me, I cannot remember. But given it took me ~1.5h of my usual speedy listening, before I caught the drift: Hey, don't I know you? The book is so devoid of meaning and content, I barely remembered anything about it. Because there was nothing to remember. Well, fuck you, Huysmans. | Harold Schechter | ✓Map | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rational Male: 1 - The Rational MaleBraindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist. | Rollo Tomassi | Kafc | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rational Male: 2 - Preventive MedicineBraindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist. | Rollo Tomassi | kafc | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rational Male: 3 - Positive MasculinityBraindead. Copy-pasted collage of MRE tryhards, doing absolutely nobody a favor. Should be hung publicly by the balls for being so pussywhipped. Did the abook, had all three, and listening to parts of each chapter of all– fewer than two paragraphs sufficiently summarize the reasoning, goals, visions, mindsets and everything possible. Dude's more legible than a tower of Babel sized W at the ophthalmologist. | Rollo Tomassi | kafc | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big BusinessHadn't seen/been shown the economic face of matters alongside the political/cultural one, this book is a good introduction. I'll have to reread it, since I've already forgotten whether or not it makes any predictions (other the obvious ones), or just describes history- ya no, the easy part. | Stephen R. Soukup | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unfu*k YourselfHadn't seen/been shown the economic face of matters alongside the political/cultural one, this book is a good introduction. I'll have to reread it, since I've already forgotten whether or not it makes any predictions (other the obvious ones), or just describes history- ya no, the easy part. | Gary John Bishop | KP | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Secrets in the CellarRepetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie. | John Glatt | ✓mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Caller of the BlackRepetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie. | Brian Lumley | mb | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of InvisibilityRepetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie. | Kevin Mitnick | kMa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Labyrinth of Ice the Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar ExpeditionRepetition through the book and insufficient detail lower score. Otherwise great, would make one helluva movie. | Buddy Levy | mbp | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Out of MesopotamiaPerhaps my first modern Middle Eastern novel. Not half bad, predominantly caused by the foreignness of (civil) war in one's own country, the not jungle|city|space|high-tech|low-tech setting, just plain ol' Toyota Hilux and domestic and foreign terrorism against all people you deem unworthy. Boring whenever the interpersonal, or rather man-woman?, or 'civil'? or merely familiar?, occurs. The rest is fine by me. | Salar Abdoh | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Shadow of GoldPerhaps my first modern Middle Eastern novel. Not half bad, predominantly caused by the foreignness of (civil) war in one's own country, the not jungle|city|space|high-tech|low-tech setting, just plain ol' Toyota Hilux and domestic and foreign terrorism against all people you deem unworthy. Boring whenever the interpersonal, or rather man-woman?, or 'civil'? or merely familiar?, occurs. The rest is fine by me. | Michael Kenneth Smith | b | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Horrors of Fox Hollow FarmBoring, bad writing, wantonly fallacious. | Richard Estep, Robert Graves | cb | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An Old CaptivityWritten in 1940s by airplane engie, one the is first novels (I think), it's enjoyable, pacing could -be better in spots, be less foretelling overall, the last 20-30% were albeit decent, very predictable. Still, nice for a one-time read. The next novel will dictate the subsequents' lives on my drive. | Nevil Shute | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Evil Is a Matter of PerspectiveThe woman author massacred beforehand mediocrities in such a show of force, it whet my critique's edge such that within the ~1' I'd given each subsequent story, not a piece was left. Shit authors. To be expected of a woman, they shouldn't write about what they cannot comprehend- pick something you know, like knitting or emotional bullshit, chick lit and woman power fantasies⸻lit. 90% of audiobookbay's inventory. | V.A. | bw | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IshmaelIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Daniel Quinn | ✔g | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 1 - New YearIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 2 - BrutalityIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 3 - DonnyIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 4 - MazeIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 5 - New GuyIntroduced to me by Alex Jones on the second (or first?) podcast with Tim Pool. 'I am a gorilla⸻murder yourself.' Yeah, but turns out it really is a book, it really does have a following, the author's made a pretty penny selling propaganda. And, what can I say, it's some of the best written propaganda out there. Rather far from the perhaps jocular suggestions the show gave impression of. I'd've not thought about it, til I saw the site... | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Games: 6 - Game OverDid the 13h abook of all six, dude apparently shits these babies out like a queen bee. Very little depth, likely self-published, couldn't easily find reading material to go along. He thinks in series; each introducing new element(s) or character(s), un-shy about 'gore', albeit tame and shallow compared to Chuck Palahniuk, not descriptive, yet not verbal/action-based. Immature as a writer, imo- maybe that's his niche. | Sea Caummisar | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rabbit, RunLike(d) the style, but the main goon riots, has no redeeming qualities, neither do any of the non-elderly characters. Could be a manual on how to be shit human. It's like all the nigger, small American city, actually probably all ethnicities given there're several follow-up novels, fit into their stereotypes, the ones prescribing bad qualities, mostly. Author blacklisted. | John Updike | ✓MA | 0.80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HungerFuckin' A. My kinda of kino. Second read. | Knut Hamsun | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rich Dad Poor DadRather condescending writing, catering to either bigger audience under publisher pressure, or actual malice, albeit the rich dad was supposedly the bad guy. Platitudes, garnished with too-detailed-to-be-real example from 'real life'. Nothing you can't figure out yourself before hitting 18, practicing it is another matter- and that's nothing to do with books. Also, contains falsehoods, flawed argumentation, and false premises. Of zero intellectual worth to >90-IQlets. | Robert Kiyosaki, Sharon Lechter | KaWf | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Most Remarkable CreatureRather condescending writing, catering to either bigger audience under publisher pressure, or actual malice, albeit the rich dad was supposedly the bad guy. Platitudes, garnished with too-detailed-to-be-real example from 'real life'. Nothing you can't figure out yourself before hitting 18, practicing it is another matter- and that's nothing to do with books. Also, contains falsehoods, flawed argumentation, and false premises. Of zero intellectual worth to >90-IQlets. | Jonathan Meiburg | mba | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lost WorldAbook, actually greatly done. Lovely writing, humorous and witty, some new words for myself, very believable and consistent. Although I know criticisms of his main work, s.h., perhaps from seasoned, hard-boiled crime novelists and the like, but this, the first of 5 novels w/ prof. challenger, essentially a series, this books seems like an excellent package. | Arthur Conan Doyle | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SnowNothing within (so far) suggests Nobel-prize-worthiness. Occurs in modern day Nowheresville, Turkey with its current issues. Boring though, and slow to boot. These 30% I've read could've'n a 1⸺2 paragraphs, action-wise, aaand the description or narration isn't worth my time. | Orhan Pamuk | mb | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Poison BeltSecond book of Doyle's Prof. Challenger series. Abook again, and this time I didn't feel like opening up the text, inferior to the preceding one- the ending is heralded before act one is half done. Appreciable epilogue though- some discussion around the topic of ether and additional anti-nuc.war propaganda story. | Arthur Conan Doyle | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotta Get Theroux ThisIf you've seen his documentaries, his mannerisms, the way he conducts himself, the question he asks and how he goes about everything, you've read some this book, at least, everything up to his 20s and career start in the US. Smart guy, but indoctrinated leftie in need of subjugation to harsh truths. | Loius Theroux | mkpba | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dead Man Can't Complain and Other StoriesCollection of short stories but in a unprecedented fashion, I liked each and every one. Either I've only ever had bad luck starting stories, or the stories just are original in concepts, content, and feature good writing. Glad I gave the guy a shot, I'm dl'ing his other works hoping quality wasn't sacrificed for depth and longitude. | Peter Clines | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of LiteratureBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Arthur Schopenhauer | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Story of BBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Daniel Quinn | G | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Last ExilesBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Ann Shin | ♀wb | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's RussiaBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Timothy Frye | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ex-Heroes: 1 - Ex-HeroesBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Peter Clines | b | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Eerie Adventures of the Lycanthrope Robinson CrusoeBased and pilled. Has decent advice and ideas to consider for author and reader alike. | Peter Clines | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of IntrigueGives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law. | Ryan Holiday | MJ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zero to OneGives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law. | Peter Thiel | mb | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cruel DoubtGives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law. | Joe McGinniss | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Killer Inside MeGives a decent to great view, indirectly for the most, into how a good and mature mind goes about tackling a strong foe. David vs. Goliath. However, here Goliath lacks his natural strength, instead hiding behind a system disallowing people without massive amounts of money to play. The first amendment, and freedom of '''press''', both in from the 2000s to early 2020s so very often misused, that lawyers specialize in this overlitigated law. Whereas before companies strove to shut up the the press, who then more frequently sided with the common folk and the average joe, currently things are exactly backasswards. Well, with Project Veritas' BIGASS cases against the jew jork times and cnn, soon the titanic Gawker case might be joined by two other leviathans in case law. | Jim Thompson | ac | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Serge Storms: 24 - Tropic of Stupid
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The Coldest Case
| James Patterson, Aaron Tracy, Ryan Silbert | w | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Chimes
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Threads of Life: A History of the World through the Eye of a Needle
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Paradox BoundI do love a time-traveling novel that's also closed off, that loops into itself, explaining more through different timelines, sets of eyes and eyes. This one also has nice ideas about the American dream, as if it were something physical, making myth out of the founding fathers' creation. If it'd employed better writing, less foreseeable or predictable- I'm always a paragraph ahead of where I'm at-, it could've been a full checkmark. | Peter Clines | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary EditionThe book gets better, and better, and better. Maybe the hostility from 'Fortunately the Milk' has withered (maybe I should give it another go..?). It weaves together strands from various cultures, geographies, and times into an American story told from the settler on the continent far before the country's founding. Like Under the Volcano, it has a dreamlike, continuous, or stream-of-consciousness-like quality that I quite fancy, and similarly simultaneously find it hard to put down, and myself unwilling to go faster to avoid completion, to prolong virginal self-indulgences. | Neil Gaiman | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last Orgy of the Divine HermitThe stream of consciousness in this is gorgeous, it never stops. Even more so than Under the Volcano maybe. The matter of fact delivery, the similarities with the real world both make this extremely enjoyable and re-analyzable. | Mark Leyner | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nightmares in EcstasyGreat body horror short stories. That is all. | Brendan Vidito | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media ManipulatorNice to hear what some had long been suspecting, me too albeit I've didn't care as much, but was nonetheless fascinated about the length people would and do go to for money and or power. Just power, actually, all things that be exchanged for in the book can be seen as power within some domain⸻financial, political, personal, etc. Personally, my first big insight into media manipulation, deception, and play on all team for gain. What ticked me off that he's a giant fucking jew, is how his unscrupulousness and unruefulness. That he sees James O'Keefe is fraudulent⸻this was most damning. He becomes the exact same person he claims to be short- and long-conning, the misinformed reader, the blogger. Showing no evidence, no sources, nothing but spurious claims, (same could be said about handing various other American '''news''' outlets compliments such as 'credible'). He's is no better than these people. And he's a long, long walk from doing anything of worth. | Ryan Holiday | MKJf | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ego Is the EnemyAuto-fellatory. | Ryan Holiday | Jfba | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark FantasiesWritten in England during the 80s when cheap, explicit gore was all the rage (was it any good tho?), this gentleman's collection of what he call 'dark fantasy', offers a jab back. Were it you cup of tea, you might call it decisive blow, but the 7 first stories within did not grasp me. Dark or creepy, or spooky, they are not. Quaint, sure. Tolerable, even not too boring or predictable, just not enough happening to warrant the time currently with so much on the reading table. | V.A., Chris Morgan (ed.) | mb | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happy Endings: The Tales of a Meaty-Breasted ZilchHard to believe this guy's a comedian, because this books is a good joke you can hear once, and it's good. And then it's repeated til the second book cover. It functions more like a friend one know well, whose stories all bare a certain tinge, nuance, flavor, that you enjoy, but recognize from afar and whose end you can spell out. | Jim Norton | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Empire of the SunToo mild. More historical through a child's eyes, than good fiction. Too sentimental, or human, or what would be a better way of putting? Normal, predictable? Were the war, world, characters all fictional, I'd've not cared and dropped it before the hour-mark. | J.G. Ballard | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat, Not a Sour PussToo mild. More historical through a child's eyes, than good fiction. Too sentimental, or human, or what would be a better way of putting? Normal, predictable? Were the war, world, characters all fictional, I'd've not cared and dropped it before the hour-mark. | Pam Johnson-Bennett | ♀ap | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CertaintyI really could not bring myself to caring about anybody or anything within the first 1.5h of the audiobook. It's boring and bland. | Victor Bevine | b | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stillness Is the KeyI really could not bring myself to caring about anybody or anything within the first 1.5h of the audiobook. It's boring and bland. | Ryan Holiday | Kam | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary RescueIf you were paid attention at the beginning, you'd know how it ends. I hate it when true crime novels-, I had to, had to look back to see who that other fucking author was who did this-, IT WAS JOHN GLATT; FUCK YOU, JOHN GLATT!⸻, He did this with A Confederacy of DuncesFrom the foreword already I'm hooked by the irrelevant to the book backstory of the author. From the first paragraph, it's a style of writing that regales me. Witty, good storytelling. This text is phonetically thickens speech with nearly everything embedded in an accent⸻here, that of New Orleans, Louisiana. Understandable unlike 1996's Now, this passage, albeit written in the 80s, demonstrates the type of thinking, at least superficially, present among modern-day lefties. Although satirical, somehow the author had had enough either fore- or insight, or had already witness this in his time. The ideas should have already taken root in American higher education then.
I like to laugh from a non-human perspective, because from a human one, it's just sad, disappoint, suboptimal, grotesque. I'd like to laugh knowing I've never stated or opined (only to not be heard or regarded) and turned out wrong. I'd like to, but I'd rather be wrong and have humanity be better for it, others, the ones I interact with. But no. I'm right, but for my own sake, and I mourn for society every waking moment in the presence of others.
..Anyways, it's a great read, it's reread-worthy. No wonder it's a cult classic of southern US. John Kennedy Toole | ✔✔ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Value(s): Building a Better World for AllFrom the foreword already I'm hooked by the irrelevant to the book backstory of the author. From the first paragraph, it's a style of writing that regales me. Witty, good storytelling. This text is phonetically thickens speech with nearly everything embedded in an accent⸻here, that of New Orleans, Louisiana. Understandable unlike 1996's Now, this passage, albeit written in the 80s, demonstrates the type of thinking, at least superficially, present among modern-day lefties. Although satirical, somehow the author had had enough either fore- or insight, or had already witness this in his time. The ideas should have already taken root in American higher education then.
I like to laugh from a non-human perspective, because from a human one, it's just sad, disappoint, suboptimal, grotesque. I'd like to laugh knowing I've never stated or opined (only to not be heard or regarded) and turned out wrong. I'd like to, but I'd rather be wrong and have humanity be better for it, others, the ones I interact with. But no. I'm right, but for my own sake, and I mourn for society every waking moment in the presence of others.
..Anyways, it's a great read, it's reread-worthy. No wonder it's a cult classic of southern US. | Mark Carney | fg | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children of TimeDecent concept and dull storytelling at the (audiobook's) length of 16h, or ~2e5 words⸻uh, yeah, nah, cunt, I'm good. Not fucking waiting for more sub-par plot delivery. MNEEEEXT! | Adrian Tchaikovsky | bm | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An Ancient EnemyNo fucking clue what the fuck is supposed to be happening. With zero on-boarding, hearing strange names (jacobarian..?), etc. is off-putting. I thought alt. history was supposed to deal with real historical things, not made up ones. Regardless, without the text in front of me⸻and I sure as shit wasn't giving it a chance with that delivery⸻, big no. NEXT! | Olan Thorensen | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MirrorshadesFirst story had this nice passage:
That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no. | V.A., Bruce Sterling (ed.) | b | 0.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Destroying AngelFirst story had this nice passage:
That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no. | Richard Paul Russo | b | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My IndiaFirst story had this nice passage:
That aside, these stories bore. The editor, himself a famed author in this direction, is enthralled however. I can't reconcile what kind of a person would actually find these monotonous, drab, snoozefests, i.e., cyberpunk-, interesting. Or anything positive really. Visionary in predicting future technologies and or ideas⸻sure. Entertaining, enjoyable, pleasant⸻no. | Jim Corbett | B | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TroopThird novel of Cutter I've read. This one, like The Emperor's Consciousness: 1 - AspectedThird novel of Cutter I've read. This one, like Dead InsideOften tries for dry delivery, but fails more often than not. The feel, or texture, the thought patterns are somehow wrong. Not uncanny, they just don't make sense. Maybe it's trying for gore/horror comedy..? However, nice little passage somewhat make up for it:
Note⸻this is the most modern-day, brainwashed, cock-carousel, pseudo-feminist woman statement. Men, if they feel like it, take, they don't comment about it, they don't write in their journal, blog, diary, talk to their friend about it and lead month-long inane discussions.
Halfway though, I'd say the biggest problem is characters are shallowly explored. Again, an attempt is made at dry delivery, but it comes off as... off. A lot more side-points, -experiences could've been explored similar to to Victor in Dirty ThirtyA cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time. Asa Akira | mbp | 0.50 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Defense of LootingA cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time. | Vicky Osterweil | GF | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Law of LinesA cocktail of 1 part interesting, 1 part bland, and 1 part sad, frustrating and disappointing. I've only ever watched one Asa scene, I'm not into anal, or (pseudo-)rough stuff, or any of her strong parts. The surgery make her look fake, alien, uncanny, definitely all south of neutral, let alone arousing. Regardless, her name is recognizable and one can hear this or that over the years about her, the industry, specific other performers. So I was expecting to hear some depressing shit of 2. gen American immigrant youths squandering opportunity, being shitheads, and horrible people. Correct-o. I expected some cool, or interesting stories though. I know it's a profession like any other, but when you work with people you get to do more getting to know, more locations, more scenarios, idunno. Likely, this is her very first long-form text. Says she wanted to be a writer before becoming an addict and even more of whore. The work is stereotypical of a woman⸻{ aforementioned adjectives }; and either her nib has many miles more of paper to cover before something decent emerges, or, and this is subjective, I don't like autobiographical shit, esp. female. The repetition become more frequent, and predictability increments lockstep. After the first third, you can close the book content to not waste any more of your time. | Hye-Young Pyun | ♀b | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Only Good IndiansFor a horror/thriller/suspense novel⸻it's shit. I should've trusted my instinct, my disgust, revulsion at Stephen King's endorsement of this mediocre trash. Cut out three quarters, make it punchy, do something, for fuck's sake. Reads more like a a stereotypical midlife crisis⸻flirtation at work, bumps in marriage, trouble with family/heritage, increasing paranoia about meaningless, irrelevant shit. Pace is frozen solid compared to where it should be. And the reader? Bored, gets a middle finger. NEXT! | Stephen Graham Jones | bm | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gods of the Dark WebFor a horror/thriller/suspense novel⸻it's shit. I should've trusted my instinct, my disgust, revulsion at Stephen King's endorsement of this mediocre trash. Cut out three quarters, make it punchy, do something, for fuck's sake. Reads more like a a stereotypical midlife crisis⸻flirtation at work, bumps in marriage, trouble with family/heritage, increasing paranoia about meaningless, irrelevant shit. Pace is frozen solid compared to where it should be. And the reader? Bored, gets a middle finger. NEXT! | Lucas Mangum | w | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A ManAnother boring Jap novel. Most characters are predictable. Up to the quarter that I'd reached, unexpected only was the main release in act 1. Beginning pages are way to rocky. Actual ground is missing, not 'rocky', if I were to continue with a metaphor of a vehicle driving you to the all the essential info of act 1. Also, way too many characters and plot points or lines introduced in too short a time span. I'm not decoding bad writing. Even when I eventually caught up to roughly what was happening, it's still falls flat. I could wait for 'the good stuff', or actually get a good book. | Keichiro Hirano | bwm | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's FoundersMy kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import. Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs. I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences. | Dennis C. Rasmussen | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulerable, and What We Can Do About ItMy kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import. Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs. I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences. | Marc Goodman | k | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Epicurus of Samos: His Philosophy and Life: All the Principal Source TextsMy kinda book, about highly intelligent, prophetic, endeavor-ous (coining this til a sub swims up), who were right about almost everything, and whom nobody listened to regarding matter of most import. Today, one gets single-sentence, single-word, or, worst of all, emoji replies. Back then, good-faith discussion in long form, in 20-page letters was normal. Thought was expanded n-fold, refined m-fold both written and oral. Somewhere in the technological frenzy, probably since the invention of the telegraph (paraphrasing quote from another book): 'What the fuck does Maine care about Missouri?'. This book is also my first encounter with founders' texts. I do have The Federalist Papers, but the amount of monographs, epistles, speeches given by these four dudes astounds. I've ever only twice spoken in front of people, both failing either time from being under-prepared, and nervous (having failed the first time many years ago). My dude Hamilton gives out five-hour speeches, ffs. I find the 4-four showcasing of only the currently examined founder's statements lamentable, albeit, it's supposed to be about their hesitancy, despondency, worry, not their correspondences. | Hiram Crespo | M✓w | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stop Saving the Planet!: An Environmentalist ManifestoNice critique and analysis of environmental problems and problems with environmentalists. Although it does get rather floaty after ~2/3, and becoming increasing irrational, petulant, and the type of person she was hating on beforehand. | Jenny Price | Mgf | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret CorruptionDangerously red-pilled. | Alex Marlow | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fortunately the MilkFor children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying. Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too. | Neil Gaiman | ✓M | 1.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Night of the MannequinsFor children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying. Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too. | Stephen Graham Jones | wm | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Global Jihad: A Brief HistoryFor children, I'd hope, I think?, otherwise unfunny and or annoying. Alright-y, months later and in a better mood, I relistened and reread. It's actually quite nice for a short story, family friendly too. | Glenn E. Robinson | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western SuccessReading this at first, I was struck by new-ness of the ideas, or narrative presented. I looking up ol' Rodney in audiobookbay to find that, lo and and behold, dude writes exclusively about religion. Fine, maybe the complete selection elucidates the connection with religion⸻and it does. A journalist turned sociologist, currently some distinguished prof. of it at some uni or religion-oriented institute, he writes about rel. diverse topics, mostly human ones regarding history, Christianity, etc.: from wiki 'Stark has written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome.' My only gripe is regarding assumptions for the emergence of 'science' in the Middle Ages being due to Christianity, Catholicism specifically. I grant you, no other society with or without religion succeeded in isolation to getting to it. But, just because I wore a mauve sweater today and it didn't rain on me, doesn't mean that: it didn't rain elsewhere, it would have rained on me had the material or color of the sweater been different, or the article, or had I gone bare-chested. An affirmative conclusion from a negative premise. It wouldn't be prudent, nor expedient, to takes thousands of modern-day hunter-gatherers, and observe them enough time in similar enough conditions to allow for a development of religions, and a progression of that development⸻as he points out, Christianity is the (perhaps?) only orthodox (i.e., based on correct interpretation/opining) religion, whereas others are orthoprax (i.e., based on correct execution of rites and practices): Judaism, Islam, Taoism, and even pseudo-religions such as whatever passes for Marxism these days. It is logically fallacious to assert that it is the sole contribution of Christianity. That it played a big role, however, crucial even, is substantiated sufficiently. The book is consistent through and through, covers history from around the 8th to the 18th century without unnecessary jumps; topics are chaptered well, and these in turn⸻well sectioned. Assuming his references are in check (and I've no reason to assume they're not), this book deprives wanton 'debunkers' and agenda-pushers, most of which he himself points to whenever relevant. Well written, presented. I will also check out some of the titles considered heavily biased, and demonstrably false by ol' Rodney 'ere. | Rodney Stark | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zombies, More Recent DeadReading this at first, I was struck by new-ness of the ideas, or narrative presented. I looking up ol' Rodney in audiobookbay to find that, lo and and behold, dude writes exclusively about religion. Fine, maybe the complete selection elucidates the connection with religion⸻and it does. A journalist turned sociologist, currently some distinguished prof. of it at some uni or religion-oriented institute, he writes about rel. diverse topics, mostly human ones regarding history, Christianity, etc.: from wiki 'Stark has written over 30 books, including The Rise of Christianity (1996), and more than 140 scholarly articles on subjects as diverse as prejudice, crime, suicide, and city life in ancient Rome.' My only gripe is regarding assumptions for the emergence of 'science' in the Middle Ages being due to Christianity, Catholicism specifically. I grant you, no other society with or without religion succeeded in isolation to getting to it. But, just because I wore a mauve sweater today and it didn't rain on me, doesn't mean that: it didn't rain elsewhere, it would have rained on me had the material or color of the sweater been different, or the article, or had I gone bare-chested. An affirmative conclusion from a negative premise. It wouldn't be prudent, nor expedient, to takes thousands of modern-day hunter-gatherers, and observe them enough time in similar enough conditions to allow for a development of religions, and a progression of that development⸻as he points out, Christianity is the (perhaps?) only orthodox (i.e., based on correct interpretation/opining) religion, whereas others are orthoprax (i.e., based on correct execution of rites and practices): Judaism, Islam, Taoism, and even pseudo-religions such as whatever passes for Marxism these days. It is logically fallacious to assert that it is the sole contribution of Christianity. That it played a big role, however, crucial even, is substantiated sufficiently. The book is consistent through and through, covers history from around the 8th to the 18th century without unnecessary jumps; topics are chaptered well, and these in turn⸻well sectioned. Assuming his references are in check (and I've no reason to assume they're not), this book deprives wanton 'debunkers' and agenda-pushers, most of which he himself points to whenever relevant. Well written, presented. I will also check out some of the titles considered heavily biased, and demonstrably false by ol' Rodney 'ere. | V.A., Paula Guran (ed.) | Bw | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third MartiniI'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment. | Mark Leyner, Billy Goldberg | K | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hitler: Anecdotes, Myths and LiesI'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment. | Jose Delgado | bm | 0.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Great Again: How to Fix Our Crippled AmericaI'm not layperson when it comes to medicine, but I'm also no ER doc. This is mediocre. Almost all of these questions are easily answerable from an old corpus of scientific knowledge, or from thinking rationally about them, scientific method, bitch. What a waste of time. Speaking of time, I've'n thrusted longer religious sect pamphlets than this. A writer's and doctor's combined effort results in a pop-sci Q&A and old-wives-tales 'debunking'/explaining. Any search-savvy teen, non-idiotic teen could get to these answers sans the faux entertainment. | Donald J. Trump | km | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Devil's ChaplainFucking snoozefest, atrocious writing style. At least put the good stuff up front, for fuck's sake. Waste of time. | Richard Dawkins | mwba | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Books Do Furnish a LifeFaux condescension, the wording of every fucking sentence, annoys to the bone. Nothing of worth is said. This is below trash. And so is Dawkins regardless of all his previous work. | Richard Dawkins | Akpf | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Antifragile: Things That Gain from DisorderT.R.A.S.H. One of these days, I'm gonna stop considering all self-help books altogether, same as anything by a woman, or in a series. And this guy's supposed to be fucking smart? Smart in extracting money from trash humans stupid enough to forfeit their money for this garbage. NEEEEEEEEEXT!! | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | wAPK | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dead HusbandSupposed psychological thriller writer. Yeah, and I'm a tram. I gave it, like, 5 chances, and it never fails to disappoint. Regarding the rating, as they say, if it walks like a duck, and talks a duck... | Carter Wilson | ♀ | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Third Annual Best Horror Stories of the YearSupposed psychological thriller writer. Yeah, and I'm a tram. I gave it, like, 5 chances, and it never fails to disappoint. Regarding the rating, as they say, if it walks like a duck, and talks a duck... | V.A., Orson Scott Card (ed.), Martin H. Greenberg (ed.) | m | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Noise: A Flaw in Human JudgmentThe first quarter-to-third (or -half) of this book is extremely weak compared to Kahneman's other books, if I recall correctly (I'm not rereading that shit, yo.). To anyone who's had a statistics class, paid attention, and done the work, this is wholly superfluous. Is the intended audience really stupid people? Uneducated people incapable of autonomous thought? Children..? Similar applies to the quotes appended to every chapter. These often occur within paragraphs of their 'source', and if you've working memory at all, you quotes to half a page back are pure filler. ... which is my next gripe. So far, character count can but cut by half without loss of information or narrative flow. Next gripe: unnecessary terminology⸻noise this, noise that⸻, and obfuscation of already perfectly clear concepts from statistics by changing established terms can or does confuse anybody who's ever dealt with them. Lastly, there's is a slight not full woke, but clearly leftie-drone drag about race and sex that continues reappearing. My stupid nigga, stereotypes exist for very good reasons: because they are very often, on the whole, true or truisms. And whatever cards one's dealt at the start of life, one should blame, whine, and finger-point, but do whatever's in one's capabilities. Not all X arguments are platitudes as much as stereotypes, but therein you see the double standards (again). Also uses female pronouns for general and neuter cases (you, one, person)⸻I fucking hate this shit so fucking much. Also fuck you stupid cunts for referred to the 'covid' thing as a pandemic, something objectively false by definitions of that word up to 2020, when the shills at WHO changed it.
To give the book its due: it is a nice reminder of what one must always keep in mind. Albeit, having a paper copy of Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad OnesSame old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss. James Clear | paw | 0.20 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ShedrowSame old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss. | Dean DeLuke | bm | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Think Like a Roman EmperorSame old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss. | Donald Robertson | KP | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Neil Gaiman at the End of the UniverseSame old garbage. Predictable, annoying, platitudinous, common-sense, unhelpful, waste of time. I won't again consider or download a self-help book. I'll rapid-fire go through every single one I've saved, just to reduce space and be content. Deletion s-s-s-satisfiessss. | Arvind Ethan David | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Day of the Donald: Trump Trumps America!Over-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read. | Andrew Shaffer | ✓Mg | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mapping the InteriorOver-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read. | Stephen Graham Jones | b | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted HackerOver-the-top parody/satire of the fecal fanfare that is US politics (be on a local or federal level, as seen by natives and foreigner from abroad and at home), albeit kinda leftie-biased, albeit not fully trump-derangement syndrome. Still though, all around good–great short, one-time read. | Kevin Mitnick | Apkjm | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 08 - The CallerFound this in my dir whilst looking for some fiction, something to forfeit my mind to in pleasure. Welp. this Brazilian-born strange dude self-described as having been a criminal behaviorist/psychologist, been a 'musician' with famour glam rock bands (I've never read up, heard up, seen, experienced person describe themselves as such, rather they choose the more apt instrument-er/ist) and somehow settled from the US to London, of all shit places.., to become a (thriller) author. His major work is 10 novels with an L.A. detective Robert Hunter in the 'ultra violent crimes' division. There are no clear ties, or feelings of missing something, regardless that this is the 8. one. All in all, is was alright or good. Two flaws in the writing which haven't been fixed (and I'm hoping aren't intensified retroactively) are that: 1. faux drama⸻a very toned down version of Indian soap opera reaction shots and utterances that are distracting, non-plot-developmental and inconsequential, and, worst of all, jarringly out of character (for the main guy, at least); 2. 65 chapters, really? slightly redundant with former point, but they're structured like soap episodes, all but the epilogue end on suspenseful moments, that I wouldn't always call cliff-hangers, not even author's teasing. Annoying if anything, because you don't get all the information at the same time, or even in the same chapter. This staggering messes with suspense-release on > tracks, which I'd call bad. All that being said, given how shit the competition most often is, it a good thriller, or crime-novel. Gore good. | Chris Carter | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 01 - The Crucifix KillerThinking back on the past 7 books, one, that is, I really do | Chris Carter | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: .5 - The HunterThinking back on the past 7 books, one, that is, I really do | Chris Carter | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 02 - The ExecutionerCompared to 01, much more complicated plot, and even though I paid more attention, the amount of characters (and you know author hand out only distinct, unique, hate-your-parents sort of names to facilitate remembrance) is ~4⸺5x that of 01. A lot less cringe, but the over-dramatized things still bug me. Given their presence in 08, it's likely a feature, not a bug, as Todd would say. I don't do good with history (dates), and names, much better with ideas, abstractions, actions, rather than descriptions. I think the following characterization will persist in all titles, even without the series: filler à la Indian reaction shots, that is, exclamations (on the other hand, it makes it more cheesy, which sometimes works in its favor, like the new bitch boss of the police department with cliché overflow), a few catch-phrases that all three so far read have used 2⸺4 times, and something that probably has a name but I don't know it, namely, more or less '*overenthusiastic trailer/announcer voice: from an early age, this genius was abused (echo abused), he suffered trauma (..-ma.. -ma), and now, he's back for revenge!'⸻copy-paste with different extrema for for the main, support, and all villains. But it worth it, a nice plot. T h i c c. | Chris Carter | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 03 - The Night StalkerCompared to 02, less interwoven plot, less characters and fewer plot points to resolve. Sadly, less gore and violence, too. Nonetheless, worth a one-read, enjoyable. | Chris Carter | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American LeftI'd long thought about the American left (the European, British, and Australian follow suit with some delay) as cryptonazies and cryptofascists. I just didn't know how deep this shit ran. And how far back. Fucking hell. It is thoroughly disgusting what humans will do to each other. This books provides the herd leftists' perspective in its best light⸻already abysmally wan⸻, and of some unbiased or intellectually honest, morally uncorrupt scientists/academicians/historians that just do their job. It's not hard to see the vying for power, control over others and the lying, cheating, stealing, covering up, minimizing and apologizing for used to achieve American cryptonazies and cryptofascists have utilizing across all playing fields when you see the results alongside the whole of of historical evidence, and the many side-by-side comparisons. Hypocrisy somehow always materializes (within humans) to gunk up any and all human endeavors, true; I take that as a given. But mistakenly assumed not total incompetence, mischievousness, and hypocrisy of the left. That they had ≥one good deed, something of merit. Yeah, well, nope. The prominents play for power only. 'Career politicians' you could say, those exist on all sides, true, but truer of than than of others. The book is rather neutral, the support I've noticed in the author's words or wording is that of Christianity (he does have a 1 or 2 books about why it's great regarding America..). There has yet to be a single (more than a capitalist counterpart) successful state in the last 5000 years as far as I know. They degenerate, an intricate network of corruption is woven from the very top to the very bottom, lone cogs suffer, smaller groups suffer, the honest and hardworking suffer, the state rots, putrifies, and eventually dissolves, because excesses of the pyramid atop the pyramid cannot be upheld, but until then 'might is right', possibly beyond that as well, so long as the stupid unyieldingly stupid children are provided bread and circuses. On point, not too breath-y, and based. | Dinesh D'Souza | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of PredictionA deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in The Catalyst: How to Change Anyone's MindA deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in The Future of UsA deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our PlanetA deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in DetourA deeper look into the superforecasters mentioned in Robert Hunter: 04 - The Death SculptorUp til ~2/3 was weak, not as deep as the previously read ones. A lot less suspense and release throughout, and, say, 3⸺5s of the mystery/plot see the Sun rapid-fire within 2 chapters around the 90%. Less gore. Again, no character development as if, the first book was strongest there. You can make the case as with other detective novels, that cases happen separately, as if in their own Everett universe. Shorter too.. Chris Carter | M✓ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American LeftRobert Hunter: 05 - One By OneThe slope from 3 to 4 was downward, and steep, but tolerable. This jump was in the same direction and of the same magnitude. We're not quite vertical, but it's pretty mediocre. Explanation repetitions, long wind, and the same issue plaguing 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Another unused cast of characters. Too little action, gore, which are the only reasons I liked this series, I've not had any exposure to gore novels, maybe I should research and find some. Chris Carter | m | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Age of Wood: Our Most Useful Material and the Construction of CivilizationThe slope from 3 to 4 was downward, and steep, but tolerable. This jump was in the same direction and of the same magnitude. We're not quite vertical, but it's pretty mediocre. Explanation repetitions, long wind, and the same issue plaguing 8, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4. Another unused cast of characters. Too little action, gore, which are the only reasons I liked this series, I've not had any exposure to gore novels, maybe I should research and find some. | Roland Ennos | bm | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood PalI like the jabs, and jokes. But I fucking hate jewry, and religious anything. The jesus char getting everything served on a silver platter, whilst whilst playing innocent is too annoying, to infuriating. These people should be shot. Given the current state of affairs at home, in the EU and US, there is little-to-no reason to tolerate this fuckery. Great writer, bad topic, or too much worship. Fuck him for this. First ch moore book I couldn't finish, ffs. I'm mad.ss | Christopher Moore | ja✓ | 0.17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from Outer SuburbiaI like the jabs, and jokes. But I fucking hate jewry, and religious anything. The jesus char getting everything served on a silver platter, whilst whilst playing innocent is too annoying, to infuriating. These people should be shot. Given the current state of affairs at home, in the EU and US, there is little-to-no reason to tolerate this fuckery. Great writer, bad topic, or too much worship. Fuck him for this. First ch moore book I couldn't finish, ffs. I'm mad.ss | Shaun Tan | a | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 06 - An Evil MindMajor game step-up. The last two were weak, as if written in financial need and or quick succession. What I dislike about this one is the incongruence within all significant characters: being professional, then amateurish and or childish; being omniprescient, then⸻surprised; keeping their cool, then losing it. Robert Hunter is not believable, but the killer, the antag, my nigga is not perfect, but very close. Very nicely constructed. As much as I hated all the predictable interactions between the 'good' toons with and within themselves, and their surroundings, 3⸺5-fold more was my pleasure in scenes with antag in control, with thing going according to plan, with the stupid fucks incapable of independent thought. Putting aside plot armor, hypocrisy (again), and inconsistent morality: it is extremely кино. Tad disappointing ending though. We need more authors with ball to kill off main characters, and let the 'bad' guys win. Not great for a running series most likely. | Chris Carter | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apocalypse and ChillMajor game step-up. The last two were weak, as if written in financial need and or quick succession. What I dislike about this one is the incongruence within all significant characters: being professional, then amateurish and or childish; being omniprescient, then⸻surprised; keeping their cool, then losing it. Robert Hunter is not believable, but the killer, the antag, my nigga is not perfect, but very close. Very nicely constructed. As much as I hated all the predictable interactions between the 'good' toons with and within themselves, and their surroundings, 3⸺5-fold more was my pleasure in scenes with antag in control, with thing going according to plan, with the stupid fucks incapable of independent thought. Putting aside plot armor, hypocrisy (again), and inconsistent morality: it is extremely кино. Tad disappointing ending though. We need more authors with ball to kill off main characters, and let the 'bad' guys win. Not great for a running series most likely. | Neil Bimbeau | cw | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Version ZeroNice idea, but either aimed at children/teens and or very naively and amateurishly executed with a rather palpable left-wing bias. From main to support to accidental, all characters are shallow and predictable. Also has false allegations, and cringe-worthy, unwarranted jabs at Trump, the US 'right', and the older parts of internet culture. I'd bet top dollar Yoon is either very old or younger than myself, in either case both uninvolved and very unknowledgeable. He might have good intentions, but that's worth fuck all, esp. so when the both means and results are mediocre at best meanwhile disseminating unhelpful, baby ideas and motivations, and (re-)stating falsehoods. NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEXT!! | David Yoon | mGfap | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How the West WonThis book was publish 7 years after | Rodney Stark | ✔K | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zeno's ConscienceI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | Italo Svevo | abw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dumb Luck and the Kindness of StrangersI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | John Gierach | b | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Standing in a River Waving a StickI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | John Gierach | m | 0.71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy DietI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | Nina Teicholz | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence UsI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | Donald Trump Jr. | M | 0.89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Refugees: A Very Short IntroductionI hate nearly all people within this novel. Pretentious, nagging, inconsistent. Other than human prediction and modelling practice, this novel offers nothing of value to me within the first 15%. Fuck you, Freudian shitknob. Fuck you too, Joyce. | Gil Loescher | wb | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 07 - I Am DeathThis was a treat, and it even had a bit of what 8 does. Great plot, and very nice and subtle twist(s) at the very end. Satisfying. | Chris Carter | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clown World Chronicles: The Human Primate in the 21st CenturyWhen one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day. | Vince McLeod | FG | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mood ElevatorWhen one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day. | Larry E. Senn | wa | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard OfWhen one is this deluded, and wrong within less than 5 pages, the book would be an exercise in pointing out mistakes. I'm not teaching a class, and I'm not educating idiots, so that'd be less wisely spent time. Fuck you, Vince. Though I hope you learn some day. | Harold Schechter | mb | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic PartyCui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..? | David Horowitz, Richard Poe | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad SignsCui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..? | R.J. Ellory | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
New Found Land: The Long HaulCui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..? | Austin Grossman, Neal Stephenson, Sean Stewart | aw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short IntroductionCui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..? | Eric Rauchway | bk | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Travis Chase: 1 - The BreachCui bono?, or 'follow the money'⸻the book. Even though it was written in 2006, it explain in detail how Soros acts, and how Soros benefits. Quintessential evil jew, smart enough to use Marxism-derived shit to make money hand over fist over hand over... The amount of foreshadowing, prescience is scary. Or rather, it's been the same since the 60s (and earlier still), the intensification of everything, acceleration has been getting out of hand as if..? | Patrick Lee | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wasp FactorySomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | Iain Banks | Maw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Astrobiology: A Very Short IntroductionSomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | David C. Catling | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mysterious Stanger and Other StoriesSomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | Mark Twain | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Travis Chase: 2 - Ghost CountrySomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | Patrick Lee | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kilgore and Co.Somewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | Edo Van Belkom | aw | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Titus AndronicusSomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | William Shakespeare | aw | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment SystemSomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | E. Fuller Torrey | b | 0.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Travis Chase: 3 - Deep SkySomewhat interesting story, or rather interesting from the point of view that it's a nothing author from a shit country with shit writers (about as much as Ireland) making a story about a sociopathic child/teen inflicting harm on various living subjects for no discernible reason other than plot. Deus ex machina, divine intervention, plot armor, blind everyone, etc., all seem to be typical of 1970s–80s–90s whereversville, scotland. This is bad writing that's good enough for for somebody who occasionally reads, and has never thought for himself in his life. That some people might think this is normal sociopathic, or psychopathic, or any kind of consistent human behavior is appalling to me, but hypocrisy, that is, self-serving and often malevolent self-inconsistency reigns over most humans. | Patrick Lee | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 09 - Gallery of the DeadGood enough, not as strong as previous two. Great reminder of why women should be barred from mens' work (and vice versa), and why emotions are mostly useless, unhelpful trash. Ridden with same issues as previous 9. | Chris Carter | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kill SomeoneAmateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life). The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in The Executive OrderAmateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life). The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in The Enemy WithinAmateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life). The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in Down with Colonialism!Amateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life). The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in The Lost WeekendAmateurish at times, it seemed to me, but I think, given the author's afterword in the audiobook version, this was perhaps what he sought. Not mediocrity but rather to provoke thought in readers, which he said would consider the novel's success. Would I have done better, otherwise, or the same? What it all have played out the same? Armchaim philosophy wouldn't help here much. The character supposedly were chosen such as to fit a particular never explicated profile (which I loosely gathered to be loser/failure with no desires/ambitions/achievements/prospectives in life). The idea of 'choice and consequence' was explored in David Kepesh: 1 - The BreastThe Metamorphosis but funnier and with more exploration of sexual matters. Philip Roth | ✔ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Overcoat and Other Russian TalesAlthough I fucking hate Russian literature, I've had Gogol stories in school lit curriculum, and have attended one of his plays as well. All I remember was 'The Overcoat', and that everything else was mind-numbingly boring. The audiobook version's translation is horrible (Isabel F. Hapgood, a fucking cunt a woman again ruins shit), given the amount of of existing ones. I mean, for fuck's sake, how often do you see beetles in the Russian winter indoors? From Kafka's Metamorphosis (in the original southern German), Ungeziefer would translate as vermin, pest, bugs, wild animals, how any translator would substitute a beetle in these' place and expect pay is beyond me. Anyways, I fucking hate Russia. All of it forever and always, regardless, at this particular point in time A.A. is an utter loser, wholly irredeemable. Self-improvement? Nah. Status? Nah. Friends? Nah. Family? Nah. Hobbies? Nah. Goals? Nah. Et cetera. The Gutenberg printing press has existed from a some 200, 300 years and these niggas still be using copyists to further fatten to bureaucracy. I take this despicable story as a tragicomedy for weak, shallow men, losers. Fuck Russia, and fuck Russians. | Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Isabel F. Hapgood (tr.) | ma | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: CovenantBit of a while it took me to make concrete wherefrom remembrance was nagging me. The latest Alien franchise movie is based on this very novel (or vice versa, who fucking cares). However, whereas it was exponentially underperformant compared to the already diminishingly returning Alien3, this vivifies that sterile money grab, redeemed by its visuals only. Even though characters were too numerous for me to keep track of (personal flaw stemming from difficulty to relate to human matter⸻my guess), they were distinct in their motivations, alliances, relations, attitudes. To me, that, rather than some rando future space names, made them. Aboard the crashed ship and within the cathedral the movies hands-down outshines the book's descriptions. The latter's layout of the plot is substantially denser, more explicit, detailed (assuming it's the same). | Alan Dean Foster | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Mark Manson | K✓ | 0.74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 ProjectI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Peter W. Wood | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the AlternativesI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Edwin Black | Gfa | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Guide to the Good LifeI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | William B. Irvine | Ka | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 10 - Hunting EvilI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Chris Carter | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liberal Privilege: Joe Biden And The Democrats' Defense Of The IndefensibleI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Donald Trump Jr. | KM | 0.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Arab ConquestsI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Justin Marozzi | FG | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Story of Us: A New Look at Human EvolutionI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Lesley Newson, Pete Richerson | FG | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Science and Religion: A Very Short IntroductionI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Thomas Dixon | ka | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real WorldI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Matt Parker | km | 0.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Covenant OriginsI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Alan Dean Foster | bAGw | 0.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Humble PieI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Gordon Ramsey | km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HungerI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Alma Katsu | wb | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Standup Comedy's Golden EraI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | William Knoedelseder | ba | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
America: Imagine a World Without HerI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Dinesh D'Souza | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Truth Bombs: Confronting the Lies Conservatives Believe (To Our Own Demise)I first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Steve Deace | wa | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Matter: A Very Short IntroductionI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Geoff Cottrell | K | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump PresidencyI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Michael Wolff | gfWa | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the EndI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Manel Loureiro | Gfa | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm A Joke And So Are YouI first rest this on my kindle back in, say, 10. grade, could've been 11. or 9th. It was a big turning point in my maturation, intellectual and emotional. I took much to heart and unconsciously acted and thought accordingly for the following 4⸺5 years, or til around when uni started getting too involved, me depressed and bogged down by circumstance, etc. Proper focus lacks in my life currently. Feelings of overpowering loneliness and malaise and disappointment constrict me with shrinking periods, blotting out hours up to the whole day. So I thought it prudent to 1: keep handy this book as a .txt file; and 2: revisit the sole worthwhile self-help book ever written. This, I think, is something to keep in mind and not forget. And I've forgotten some shit. Fuck me, I know. Comparing to others in the genre, two things soar out. First regards quality: it's not pretentious, self-righteous, absolute, nor condescending. Second regards style: no baby language, no exercises, summaries, key points/notes/takeaways or other filler. It is curt, albeit the examples are annoying and unrelatable, and well-structured: example, thesis, argument, and possibly another example. The use of 'fuck' (or other expletives) is not too juvenile, more everyday, or tryhard so. I'd recommend this book⸻more accurately, the first 25⸺50% of it⸻to anybody growing up, having problems, or having forgotten its advice. | Robin Ince | Ga | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard PlaceFucking hell, what an cunt this guy is. Everything opportunity in life, every chance turning out lucky for him, fucking hell, fucking hate self-entitled cunts like this, so fucking much. Fuck you. Spite aside, descriptions were mired, beleaguered with a handful of words used frequently enough to produce a positive afterimage in my when reading other material. Barely tolerable. | Aron Ralston | Abm | 0.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man's Miraculous SurvivalAlong with | Joe Simpson | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death in VeniceThe fuck is this⸻ | Thomas Mann, Michael Henry Heim (tr.) | MCa? | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Deep RigThe fuck is this⸻ | Patrick Byrne | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump LostThe fuck is this⸻ | Michael C. Bender | kb | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ever WinterThe fuck is this⸻ | Peter Hackshaw | am | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Go the F--k to SleepThe fuck is this⸻ | Adam Mansbach | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: AlienThe fuck is this⸻ | Alan Dean Foster | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Basic Laws of Human StupidityThe fuck is this⸻ | Carlo M. Cipolla | KGaf | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
David Kepesh: 2 - The Professor of DesireThe fuck is this⸻ | Philip Roth | ja | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Think BIG and Kick Ass in Business and LifeThe fuck is this⸻ | Donald J. Trump, Bill Zanker | aw | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trump: Think Like a Billionaire: Everything You Need to Know About Success, Real Estate, and LifeThe fuck is this⸻ | Donald J. Trump, Meredith McIver | wb | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the WorldThe fuck is this⸻ | Vaclav Smil | mk | 0.66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Secret of VentriloquismThe fuck is this⸻ | Jon Padgett | wa | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LolitaThe fuck is this⸻ | Vladimir Nabokov | ✔✔✔ | 1.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HuntingThe fuck is this⸻ | Stephen Leather | w | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales of the Weird 3The fuck is this⸻ | Tom Slemen | w | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What MattersThe fuck is this⸻ | Steven C. Hayes | mka | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mental Floss History of the World An Irreverent Romp through Civilizations Best BitsThe fuck is this⸻ | Steve Wiegand | mka | 0.39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cracked: The Unhappy Truth About PsychiatryThe fuck is this⸻ | James Davies | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tell Me a Story: Science Fiction OneThe fuck is this⸻ | V.A., Paul Williams (ed.) | m | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy DemocracyOn-the-ground reporting, or documenting of Marxist infantiles destroying property, tradition; injuring/killing police officers/civilians, and, ultimately, making everything worse for themselves and anyone in their vicinity. This is no historic look-back, scholarly or theoretical work, as the other books on the subject that I have or have read. It's not new information, but nevertheless, the perspective it offers is one of a target and of just another blackbloc in the crowd. | Andy Ngo | MK | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm a Therapist, and My Patient Is Going to Be the Next School Shooter: 6 Patient Files That Will Keep You up at NightOn-the-ground reporting, or documenting of Marxist infantiles destroying property, tradition; injuring/killing police officers/civilians, and, ultimately, making everything worse for themselves and anyone in their vicinity. This is no historic look-back, scholarly or theoretical work, as the other books on the subject that I have or have read. It's not new information, but nevertheless, the perspective it offers is one of a target and of just another blackbloc in the crowd. | Dr. Harper | ma♀ | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania TrumpSlightly one-sided biography. I get the drift once, and it keeping the very same every so often. Listening to Donald Trump Jr. talking about his grandparents was far more content-ful. The modelling world has changed much, if at all, I think, in the last 40 years. Despite the matter's potential, the author bored. | Mary Jordan | ♀mb | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Read and WhyIf you're the prominent a writer, as your foreword suggest, you fuck, why does nobody know your name? Regardless, the advice seemed at first (didn't leaf through to confirm) to be based on the class of the work with 'short stories' heading it. I assume novels, poems/sonatas, etc., follow but it was dogmatic, authoritarian, pontificating, and one-sided. What some mean by 'academic' in its worse sense, is precisely this. | Harold Bloom | wa | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The North WaterSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Ian McGuire | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Beautiful Poetry of Donald TrumpSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Robert Sears | gwm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atheism: A Very Short IntroductionSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Julian Baggini | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Palm Springs NoirSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | V.A., Barbara DeMarco Barrett (ed.) | W | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Real Food on Trial: How the Diet Dictators Tried to Destroy a Top ScientistSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Tim Noakes, Marika Sboros | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The New GothicSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | V.A., Patrick McGrath (ed.), Bradford Morrow (ed.) | b | 0.44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Protocols of the Elders of ZionSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | ? | GFWc | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lethal KissesSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.) | bm | 0.58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark MatterSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Blake Crouch | mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unexplained Disappearances: Bizarre Missing People Stories That Baffled The AuthoritiesSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Joseph Exton | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Secret of Crickley HallSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | James Herbert | mpwa | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Adventures in Cryptozoology: Hunting for Yetis, Mongolian Deathworms and Other Not-So-Mythical MonstersSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Richard Freeman | bm | 0.81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are MadeSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Jason Schreier | mk | 0.82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game IndustrySurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Jason Schreier | mbka | 0.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?Surprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Beverly Daniel Tatum | ♀fg | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close CallsSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Steve Rinella | ba | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RecursionSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Blake Crouch | b | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Addicted to the Monkey Mind: Change the Programming That Sabotages Your LifeSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | J.F. Benoist | wa | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lone Star RangerSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Zane Gray | b | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Asking the Ultimate Questions with the Great Thinkers of Our TimeSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Robert L. Kuhn | wa | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
F--ked at Birth: Recalibrating the American DreamSurprised to a see a 'boat kino' I hopped aboard. HBO or NetFlix had made a series or movie out of this, I later learned⸻likely why the audiobook came out synchronously. The author's sole entry in libgen is our here title. It has its moment, few as they may be. Some characters seem to be more black-and-white (mostly black) than what the real world presents, and I wouldn't allow a measly century or two to change all humans (in the book) into either cunts and saints. Being involve in the conspiracy exculpates the somewhat, but moral qualms or thought are more deficient the present nonetheless. Like a theatrical play, wherein everything is exaggerated, such that 6-year-olds can get the moral of the story, The North Water (title drop, lol), to me, seems more staged than plausible, only⸻the lesson to be learned is missing. Just a story. | Dale Maharidge | agf | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A History of Heavy MetalRather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to. | Andrew O'Neill | mkag | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting BullshitRather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to. | John V. Petrocelli | kaf | 0.67 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Man Who Owns The News: Inside The Secret World of Rupert MurdochRather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to. | Michael Wolff | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: 13Rather malinformed, Marxist cunt presents his opinions and the within the metal community popular, mainstream agreed upon views. Annoying for constantly spewing falsehoods and information that has nothing to do with heavy metal. Worthless if you've listened through majors and minors from the 50s onwards. Personally, I learned nothing, but needed something easy to listen to. | V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.), Terri Windling (ed.) | ♀Wa | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Out of the ShadowsIn media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Forensic Science: Beginners GuideIn media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Dinosaur SummerIn media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Fooled by RandomnessIn media, book or movie, I've rarely come across a well-placed, well-purposed amnesia. This book could've been written after all the rest were finished, and it'd've still been apposite, imo; it adds and never subtracts. Branching off the main storyline, this book connects Ripley to the events from Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged GloryFirst collection stories, of which all are good or great, I've read. Some remind of observational standup routines: deadpan delivery, absurdist themes and motifs⸻it does well to color them without ever harming the message, and de-pinkifying them, fore they are all mostly love stories, love of one kind or another. Overall great. I had annoyances with 2 stories, being gynocentric, -apologetic, and -enabling, also featuring degenerate human behavior as normal. Kind of 'leftie', but it's mostly skirting, and the majority of the stories' content is different from others I've read, and good despite the above. And even though others were told from the viewpoint of a female, which is a first for me (a collection of stories some 10 rows about I'd abruptly stopped for being bad, but was also from that POV and was so, so, so very weird, it'd been penned by one too). Lastly, fuck women. F-f-fuck women. Reading shit like this (part of how women are and men interact with women), in addition to seeing what the most 'modern', Marx-ball-sucking countries have allowed them to become (they for political power and financial gain), I've begun nursing a rejuvenated loathing for women. Humanity and evolution weren't enough. Raphael Bob-Waksberg | M | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm the Man: Story of That Guy From AnthraxFirst collection stories, of which all are good or great, I've read. Some remind of observational standup routines: deadpan delivery, absurdist themes and motifs⸻it does well to color them without ever harming the message, and de-pinkifying them, fore they are all mostly love stories, love of one kind or another. Overall great. I had annoyances with 2 stories, being gynocentric, -apologetic, and -enabling, also featuring degenerate human behavior as normal. Kind of 'leftie', but it's mostly skirting, and the majority of the stories' content is different from others I've read, and good despite the above. And even though others were told from the viewpoint of a female, which is a first for me (a collection of stories some 10 rows about I'd abruptly stopped for being bad, but was also from that POV and was so, so, so very weird, it'd been penned by one too). Lastly, fuck women. F-f-fuck women. Reading shit like this (part of how women are and men interact with women), in addition to seeing what the most 'modern', Marx-ball-sucking countries have allowed them to become (they for political power and financial gain), I've begun nursing a rejuvenated loathing for women. Humanity and evolution weren't enough. | Scott Ian | m | 0.98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic MedicineI didn't ask for your boringass, stupid, gay, inane bullshit life stories. Men Without CountryI didn't ask for your boringass, stupid, gay, inane bullshit life stories. Alien: River of PainWY made a colony on LV-223, where Ripley's crew found the delerict dog ship, the xenos, etc., Christopher Golden | ✔✓ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Judge Dredd: The PitWY made a colony on LV-223, where Ripley's crew found the delerict dog ship, the xenos, etc., | John Wagner | w | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Sea of SorrowsChronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | James A. Moore | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Best American Mystery Stories: 2000Chronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | V.A., Donald E. Westlake (ed.), Otto Penzler (ed.) | m | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in PeaceChronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | Dave Grossman | Kwfa | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Catcher in the RyeChronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | J.D. Salinger | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Neanderthal Opens the Door to the UniverseChronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | Preston Norton | wp | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good EvilChronologically publication-wise the first to have narration (or just view point) from the other side, that of the xenos. Although the quality of mr. Moore's writing is below that of the Foster and Lebbon, about on par Golden, the storyline, taking place some 300a after the events of the Nostromo (or the David, trimonite mine planet, fuck me if I'm gonna read through 100 pages of alien wiki; also a GIANT fuck you for not have easily comprehensible novel timeline). Has some niceties about how humans fuck up everything, for everybody else and themselves, about the self-propagating and evolving nature of 'life', and other shit to think about. | Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson | FGw | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Power of the PowerlessThis section deserves inclusion in its entirety. Dandily a bullseye's bullseye, especially post 202003xx.
Rarely is material so stentorian. Rarely am I compelled to reread, rethread, relisten, remember every almost every paragraph. Easily one of the most important books regarding politics for the 20. and 21. centuries, one worthy of rereading a few times. | Václav Havel | ✔✔✔ | 2.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Curse of High IQI know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year). Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). | Aaron Clarey | MK | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When the Uncertainty Principle Goes to 11 Or How to Explain Quantum Physics with Heavy MetalI know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year). Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). | Philip Moriarty | Km | 0.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time to Get Tough: Making America №1 AgainI know, right?: the book, for me (kinda, I'm no genius). I (supposedly) have ~137 according to a trusted online test and an official, botched MENSA test. Defo not shelling out for another one. It's normalized such that 100 is the baseline, for the testees of that (or previous..?) year). Although slightly announcing, I found the book describing a significant chunk of my problems in life from highschool onward. Purporting to offer solutions, I didn't find any offered.. Mostly an encouragement to keep on doing the activity most likely to produce desired outcome. Pretty useless as a book, if you do or do not have the IQ score. At best, one, who is experiencing issues derived from having 1⸺3 standard deviations the intelligence quotient above the rest could, rather than repeating one's position and arguments therefor, suggest the forgetful parties to read through this short title to get their answers (for the umpteenth time). | Donald J. Trump | K | 0.71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ArachnoidAmateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost. | Michael Cole | wmb | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daddy's Little GirlAmateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost. | William Malmborg | m | 0.98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fifty Shames of Earl GreyAmateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost. | Fanny Merkin, Andrew Shaffer | mwp | 0.81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, And More Tell Us About CrimeAmateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost. | Val McDermid | M♀ga | 0.89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: AliensAmateurish work. It's like observing a person trying his hand at lying⸻details, interesting nobody, serving little-to-no plot purpose, tedious, being offered at every new location, character, plot point, etc. It's like watching people go about their day in anticipation of something, related to the plot of the book, happening. New author, I'd hope, but I'm not checking to get disappointed, enough time lost. | Alan Dean Foster | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Illuminatus!: 1 - The Eye in the PyramidNow this... THIS. IS.⸻, well, not Sparta, but Crisis MoonNow this... THIS. IS.⸻, well, not Sparta, but Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American EliteAnnoying Yalie shite pointing out conspicuities about the American tertiary education system, and graciously proffering fuck all solution-wise. The hope tree bears naught for anybody (with a brain) having above common knowledge about the current sich and, roughly, the history. Really liked the below 4 paragraphs or the third part at around 67%. Claws on the door to the answer of how I feel about recorded thought.
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Enjoy the DeclineBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Aaron Clarey | ✔Mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American HunterBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Steven Rinella | b | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live WellBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Meik Wiking | a | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hagakure: The Book of the SamuraiBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Yamamoto Tsunetomo, William Scott Wilson (tr.) | b | 0.80 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happiness Is A Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair ManualBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Dennis Prager | jm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apocalypse MachineBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Jeremy Robinson | wc | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Island 731Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Jeremy Robinson | mw | 0.47 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Decadence: A Very Short IntroductionBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | David Weir | b | 0.95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 11 - Written in BloodBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Chris Carter | mMp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 1Briefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.) | ✔M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MoonglowBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Michael Chabon | B | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ages of LuluBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Almudena Grandes | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More DoneBriefly going over some of the results of 'democrats'' policies and decision taking effect in America throughout Obomgo's presidency, being succinct albeit lacking some argumentation (which can easily found in, say, Dinesh D'Souza's books), the book provides the likeliest circumstances with the biggest, simplest solutions and obdurate, infallible reasoning. It's also candidly based. The same author's To quote myself⸻ | Elizabeth R. Ricker | ♀ak | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Everybody Is Wrong About GodAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | James A. Lindsay | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 2An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | V.A., Wrath James White (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.), Randy Chandler (ed.) | M♀cw | 0.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tokyo Decadence: 15 StoriesAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Ryu Murakami | b | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Horses TaleAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Mark Twain | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chasing The BoogeymanAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Richard Chizmar | Wbm | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Way of the Wolf: Become a Master Closer with Straight Line SellingAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Jordan Belfort | pck | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Necro Files: Two Decades of Extreme HorrorAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | V.A., Cheryl Mullenax (ed.) | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zombie JesusAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Edward Teach | mM | 1.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For Any Other TruthAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Denzil Meyrick | b | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chaos: A Very Short IntroductionAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Leonard Smith | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bizarro Starter Kit: PurpleAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | V.A. | ✔ | 1.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghost at DuskAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Kevan Dale | wc | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The LoopAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Jeremy Robert Johnson | bc | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American JournalismAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Tucker Carlson | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retreat: 1 - PandemicAn exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Craig DiLouie, Stephen Knight, Joe McKinney | mb | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Alien3An exploration of the question: why conversations pertaining to religion (almost) always go sour for either or both parties tacitly or vulgarly explicitly. A far greater divide than that resultant from arguing with a Marxist, which has been described aptly as two people in same cinema watching different movies simultaneously but thinking the other is watching, and indeed perceiving (concentrating on) the same thing. This is like that, only the two people don't recognize they're both wearing VR headsets, and aren't even sharing the physical space, that is, they're arguing on incommensurable levels. Reminds why church and state are separate, and why church should be so when talking about community, education, morals, rites, etc. Clear-cut argument, well-written. | Alan Dean Foster | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: ResurrectionVery nigga. P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with. | A.C. Crispin | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don't Know Much about World MythsVery nigga. P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with. | Kenneth C. Davis, Sergio Ruzzier | km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your HealthVery nigga. P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with. | Ken Berry | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mask: I Pledge Allegiance To The MaskVery nigga. P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with. | Christopher Cantwell, Patric Reynolds, Lee Loughridge, Nate Piekos | aw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Proper Care and Feeding of ZombiesVery nigga. P.S. Fuck me, the movie was bad: Ripley looks like an aged skeletor with hair; all interiors are smothered in socialist drabs (brown and gray), whilst also looking decared older than the first Alien movie's; the cast are reduced to one-paragraph memecicles or themself, as if. The weird thing for me is that the novel came later, meaning from that did Mr. Crispin create this. And this is much, much better is showing each's motivations and desires, history, relationships, making them more intense and less stereotype-y or comical than the movie does. The costumes and effects used for the xeno are also markedly worse off⸻using as if multiple nozzles to drown their heads in what should be saliva, comes off as cartoon-tier sweating, their movements (and numerous camera cuts to clothe how bad it looks in 'action') and bodies look stiff and rubber-y/plastic-y, respectively. Perhaps it was rushed, perhaps money was unwisely spent, or was never enough to begin with. | Mac Montandon | cw | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Have Impossible ConversationsIf ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development. The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it. | Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 3If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development. The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it. | V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.) | m✓b | 0.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Daft Wee StoriesIf ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development. The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it. | Limmy | b | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Hangman's Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573-1617If ever there was a book for me and my oh,-im-so-gay,-i-wanna-foster-goodfaith-and-long-term-commitment-in-people, this'd be it. The unproductive, or otherwise stated, asshole-y, conversational methods, that I employ in real life, and much more so on the internet (evidenced by my 4chan posts and my neocities page) are featured in many a study by Peter Boghossian (et. al.), showing just how futile, counterproductive, and hence profligate, they are. Boghossian is a professor of philosophy, while Lindsay is mathematician-turned-critic-of-Marxism's-newest-development. The content of this book is platinum-gilded paladium. Written for man, period; not an adjective man, the this/that group. Advice within is wildly sane and applicable to any person with an IQ above ~80 for any conversation. I feel like I should be rereading every chapter, section, paragraph, going outside, and practicing with so-called 'people'. Some of it seems annoying or coddling, but so far with 3 people it has helped, albeit 2 of which were just more productive and not doubt-in-belief-instilling. I'd highly recommend this, and I'll very soon be rereading it. | Franz Schmidt, Albrecht Keller (ed., tr.), C. Calvert BA (tr.), A.W. Gruner MA (tr.) | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Genetically Engineered PandemicConcise presentation of the motivations and reasons (again). Ivor Cummins had a great podcast episode with guest Gabor Erdosi, who explained in more detail the virology and biochemistry in the latter half of it, and the chances of it being 'lmao, just nature, lol. accept the bat facts'. This was in March '21. | Peter Tremblay | ✓k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear During the COVID-19 PandemicHaving followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc. | Laura Dodsworth | ✔k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eat the Yolks: Discover Paleo, Fight Food Lies, and Reclaim Your HealthHaving followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc. | Liz Wolfe | ♀agK | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghost VirusHaving followed the situation in the UK and Ireland with Ivor mostly, little was new to me, information-wise. Reading it in a single sitting⸻well, two actually, since it's so fucking depressing to read what humans do to each other⸻, overextensions and overreachings, double standards, otherings, dehumanizations, privations, economic turmoil, etc., etc., etc., etc. But I did allow me some more perspective of the common man, since I am abnormal in a few ways. Written by a female, it only occasionally juts up, rarely even, she kept her cool and did, lo and behold, actual journalism by talking, inquiring, reading, comparing, etc. | Graham Masterton | mwbg | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: IsolationNovelization of the eponymous video game. My second meeting with Amanda Ripley, daughter of best mommy Ripley, initial being in | Keith DeCandido | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dead StudentNovelization of the eponymous video game. My second meeting with Amanda Ripley, daughter of best mommy Ripley, initial being in | John Katzenbach | mb | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and HowUncle Ted book. Examines the characteristics of successful and un-such revolutions/activist things. Of course, propaganda to a degree, but also an educational handbook for how to organize movements. Although I don't think an anti-tech revolution is ever to happen, since what the fuck is a technology and who fucking decides, and all that jazz, just creates more problems than it solves. And given the problem-solving nature of engineers and scientists all around the world for the last several thousand years, I'm sure that them knocking their head against the reinforced concrete will eventually suggest a weak spot, as it has in the past. Kinda sad to see him citing the same things, it's as if the penitentiary won't lend out books, or inquire for more. | Theodore J. Kaczynski | mGb | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The October ListNice premise for a book: chapter delivery in reverse, that is, reverse chronological plot unvealing. However, it's a fucking woman again and shit revolving around her, her child, and the cucks orbiting this slovenly whore. Fuck you, Deaver. | Jeffery Deaver | wapb | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dead SetNice premise for a book: chapter delivery in reverse, that is, reverse chronological plot unvealing. However, it's a fucking woman again and shit revolving around her, her child, and the cucks orbiting this slovenly whore. Fuck you, Deaver. | Richard Kadrey | b | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Naked and the DeadSweet mother of fuck: | Norman Mailer | Bw | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House of a Hundred WhispersHow not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Graham Masterton | mwb | 0.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 4How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.) | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nightmare Collection: Volume 1How not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Lee Mountford | wp | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death By Food Pyramid: How Shoddy Science, Sketchy Politics, and Special Interests Have Ruined out HealthHow not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Denise Minge | ✔k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Switch HouseHow not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Tim Meyer | wp | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That's Your LotHow not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Limmy | m | 0.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 Percent Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and HappinessHow not to tell a story: 1. take your damn-ass time unrolling the exposition with your impotent tiny, gay, woman hands; 2. extend coversations for filler with shit nobody cares about. I was play a game while listening to this, otherwise I'd've launched much sooner. That being said, every minute of the first 1.5h I was reconsidering quitting. This being my second chance to the author of | Alanna Collen | Km | 0.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You See the MonsterMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Luke Smitherd | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
World War C: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and How to Prepare for the Next OneMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Sanjay Gupta, Kristin Loberg | FG | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zero Lives RemainingMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Adam Cesare | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clown in a Cornfield: 1My third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Adam Cesare | M✓p | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ExponentialMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Adam Cesare | mpb | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I See YouMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Gregg Hurwitz | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost ColonyMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Lee Miller | b | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nowhere ManMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Gregg Hurwitz | c | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The SurvivorMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Gregg Hurwitz | M✓p | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Con SeasonMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Adam Cesare | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darkness on the Edge of TownMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Brian Keene | cpmb | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don't Look BackMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Gregg Hurwitz | ap | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dying CitizenMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Victor Davis Hanson | ✓k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's Only Slow Food Until You Try to Eat It: Misadventures of a Suburban Hunter GathererMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Bill Heavey | mpc | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You Might Be a Zombie and Other Bad News: Shocking but Utterly True FactsMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Cracked.com | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Legion versus PhalanxMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Myke Cole | mB | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Driver's Guide to Hitting PedestriansMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Andersen Prunty | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DeliveranceMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | James Dickey | mb | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: EchoMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Mira Grant | ♀Wpga | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Far NorthMy third book from this dude. Indirectly centered around emotion (and controlling them or making use of them) and, vaguely, a few ideas. All (natural) characters drag mental baggage with every step of the plot, struggling til the end, wherein all is resolved. I find the character all unexceptional, normal, maybe a third of a standard deviation above the nation's average, but certainly not bright. The ideas of both tacit and explicit complicity in 'evil' and 'horrors', of rules, and of overarching, bigger-than-thyself things were well trod. I didn't enjoy the content as fully perhaps because 1. I'm so emotionally distant, or numb, or rational (whatever that means; think the word's lost all meaning nowadays...); 2. Smitherd's vocabulary isn't either well-utilized, or well-suited for horror, or tension: local climax felt improperly heightened/intensified; 3. people. | Marcel Theroux | mbw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American CommunityA wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | Robert D. Putnam | Mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Before and LaughterA wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | Jimmy Carr | am | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eat Fat, Get Thin: Why the Fat We Eat Is Key to Sustained Weight Loss and Vibrant HealthA wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | Mark Hyman | Kwm | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bomb MakerA wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | Thomas Perry | mpc | 0.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
InterceptsA wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | T.J. Payne | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Should the Tent Be Burning Like That?A wealth of information collated. Book itself slightly bores, given the format of 'year/s relative inc/dec, possible reasons' ad solitum vomitum. Although not presented as such, it well may (help to) explain many a trend in the US, as well as other countries. I'm no statistician, certainly I'm the doing the work of looking up all data sets and seeing if all the controlling supposedly done was proper, but it seems more true than false on most accounts. | Bill Heavey | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin CitiesWholly missing the point and shilling ineffective, self-destructive politics using faulty, objectively wrong reasoning. Fuck you for ruining the one country that could've be good on this shithole of a planet. | Michael Shellenberger | Kgfmb | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Suspect ZeroWholly missing the point and shilling ineffective, self-destructive politics using faulty, objectively wrong reasoning. Fuck you for ruining the one country that could've be good on this shithole of a planet. | Richard Kadrey | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Under the VolcanoStream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists).
Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than Hell: Prison DiaryStream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists).
Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than The Secret Teachings of All AgesStream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists).
Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than The Color PurpleStream-of-consciousness: I'd seen the cover many a time on in /lit/ threads, knew of the style just like 'slam poetry'. Only later did I realize I'd read something similar quite some years back, about a dude that got drunk in a Mexican tavern, went through an attic door inside it, ended up in a whimsical, nonsensical world, that ends up merely a mirror of the real one⸻politics, sex affairs, sexes' affairs, feuds and wars, clashes, revolutions and resolution, youth and senility: same package, different wrapping.In the drinking aspect, Mexican'ness, and partially the writing style, it is similar, although I cannot remember that novel's title (and I checked out all of wikiepdia's novels set in Mexico in addition to 3 other lists).
Molloy Samuel Beckett ✔ 1 Extensively rambly, round-about-y, beat-around-the-bush-y, long-sentenced, long-winded, consistently inconsistent, on the fence and unsure. Even more stream of consciousness than The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the FutureThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. Geoffrey Cain | ✔✔ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Amityville HorrorThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | Jay Anson | wc | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Year's Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 5The dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | V.A., Randy Chandler (ed.), Cheryl Mullenax (ed.) | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The CollectorThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | John Fowles | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The DoorThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | John Holt | pmw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Confessions of a BooksellerThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | Shaun Bythell | mab | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If You Didn't Bring Jerky, What Did I Just Eat?: Misadventures in Hunting, Fishing, and the Wilds of SuburbiaThe dystopian future isn't a future. It's has been happening for at least years already. And it's being legalized, uncontensted, unprostested, even accepted, in most of the rest of world: North and South American, Europe, Asia, Oceania (Africa has other problems on its hands). Since some 2e8 weren't enough, let's see if just how many really have to die to get there⸻the no place. A must-read. | Bill Heavey | M | 0.93 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GhostThe book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G. | Piers Anthony | Mg | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than ThatThe book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G. | Ben Goldacre | kamb | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dirty WeatherThe book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G. | Gregg Hurwitz | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The PlagueThe book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G. | Albert Camus | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Iceman Always Comes on TuesdayThe book very lighty explores these themes: race, guilt, duty, respect, entertaining of ideas; sex and love and trustfulness some. I don't know if on purpose, but the future written is filled with misinformation, agenda about the environment, energy and various matters pertaining the that, hence the G. | James Masse | w | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Can Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous With DestinyOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | William Strauss, Neil Howe | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our LivesOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Michael A. Heller, James Salzman | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Very Hungry CaterpillarOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Eric Carle | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ControlOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | Mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PornOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WhoreOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | Mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wheat BellyOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | William Davis | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ConsumedOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ClownOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | Mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don't ReadOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SeedOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cabin: 1 - The CabinOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | MWP | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cabin: 2 - AsylumOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | MWP | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zero Hour: Omnibus EditionOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Eamon Ambrose | wc | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the WorldOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | David Deutsch | kapM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Midwich CuckoosOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | John Wyndham | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mariana TrenchOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information AgeOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Jame Dale Davidson, William Rees-Mogg | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their TanksOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trouble with LichenOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | John Wyndham | baM | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sick BastardsOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SickER BastardsOver the past week I had heard references to both Neil Howe and the 'fourth turning', so I looked into it. Written in '97. In the introduction both authors are oblivious or could not have then named the Marxist forces behind the show, which makes for an innocently neutral look on the (then) present. | Matt Shaw | mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TickI've seen author's name a few times only, I now see why. His work regards child exploitation and pornography, and sexual deviancy, depravity, deformation, and degeneracy in a rapid-fire onslaught of brutality that you can't easily sell to 99.9% of readers. The work is divvied into sections A through G, each pertaining to 1 or more real-world, (un-)solved crimes in America of violent and sexual nature, with questions asked by some combination of an attorney, a psychologist, and a female magazine contributor, then answered by the⸻and I'm guessing here, since some, if not all, the crimes are unresolved⸻, criminals, that is, Sotos himself, using appropriate language throughout. On that note, I know nothing of this man: he writes on this topic exclusively, is handled by small publishers with few prints and often in scant quantities and editions, literally only Pornography is to be found readily online, containing 5 'novels' of his from '91⸺00, this being the first of the lot. I quite enjoyed the style, the brutality, and I think he did a few good job at trying to get into the heads of such individuals, I don't know how or why, but I would like to know. I'm actually considering dropping real money on this guy, but I really do not want to deal with physical media. | Peter Sotos | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FatherlandMore an alternative history novel, wherein NatSoc Germany 'wins' WWII, than a detective one, with the majority of the plot focus on events that took place. Eerily similar to present day China and its Uyghurs, or post-revolution Russian. In real life, national socialism's and fascism's apparent mogging of everything attempted in the East (bolshevism, menshevism, leninism, trotskyism, communism, stalinism, socialism, maoism, juche, aaand so on), I think, is due to both nations' prosperity beforehand (compared to despotic, feudalistic states) rather than the ideology, and certainly not any latent demographic superiority (the amount of decent to good or great citizen expelled, expropriated, or exterminated German citizens, let alone the conquereds' ones could have been used for the good of the many⸻instead potential was lost, for the worse of all). Does the ideas of national socialism justice in presenting them honestly, and American leftists' flirtations with them. A nice book on totalitarianism and authoritarianism. | Robert Harris | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Darkness VisibleMore an alternative history novel, wherein NatSoc Germany 'wins' WWII, than a detective one, with the majority of the plot focus on events that took place. Eerily similar to present day China and its Uyghurs, or post-revolution Russian. In real life, national socialism's and fascism's apparent mogging of everything attempted in the East (bolshevism, menshevism, leninism, trotskyism, communism, stalinism, socialism, maoism, juche, aaand so on), I think, is due to both nations' prosperity beforehand (compared to despotic, feudalistic states) rather than the ideology, and certainly not any latent demographic superiority (the amount of decent to good or great citizen expelled, expropriated, or exterminated German citizens, let alone the conquereds' ones could have been used for the good of the many⸻instead potential was lost, for the worse of all). Does the ideas of national socialism justice in presenting them honestly, and American leftists' flirtations with them. A nice book on totalitarianism and authoritarianism. | William Styron | cm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Place So WickedYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Patrick Reuman | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Child of GodYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Cormac McCarthy | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My Deadly ObsessionYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irene's CuntYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Louis Aragon | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adventures Of Jean-Fuck The CockYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Louis Aragon | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 StepsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Iain Rob Wright | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BittenYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My FamilyYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Psychopath for HireYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | bm | 0.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8d6Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Robert Bevan | mbp | 0.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 Hours to KillYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Andrew Bourelle | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trolley No. 1852Yet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
God's DemonYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Wayne Barlowe | Mpw | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rotting Dead F*cksYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | wpbm | 0.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ICUYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Grub-GirlYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GoonYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee, John Pelan | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In and out the Garbage PailYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Frederik Perls | w | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Going MonsteringYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The CavernYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Alister Hodge | mwb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Infected: 1 - InfectedYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Scott Sigler | w | 0.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places to Understand RiskYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Allison Schrager | ♀wp | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida Man: 1 - Florida ManYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Mike Baron | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Stick WomanYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida Man: 2 - HogzillaYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Mike Baron | m | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LazyYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Peter Sotos | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pendragon: 08 - The Pilgrims of RayneYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | D.J. MacHale | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bedtime Stories For CynicsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | V.A. | m | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pendragon: 09 - Raven RiseYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | D.J. MacHale | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pendragon: 10 - The Soldiers of HallaYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | D.J. MacHale | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Twelve Days of Winter: Crime at ChristmasYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Stuart MacBride | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Every Tool's a HammerYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Adam Savage | m | 0.95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Crime at ChristmasYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | V.A., Jack Adrian (ed.) | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Couple Found Slain: After a Family MurderYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Mikita Brottman | ♀a | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harold ShipmanYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Ryan Green | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Columbian KillersYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Ryan Green | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fred and Rose WestYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Ryan Green | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Kurim CaseYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Ryan Green | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
More Bedtime Stories For CynicsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | V.A. | ♀ | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GhoulsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brain Cheese BuffetYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Edward Lee | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TorturedYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | mw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TEDYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | mwa | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ArtYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw, Michael Bray | mw | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BunnygirlsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Simon Archer | Wcp | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dharma BumsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jack Kerouac | MAp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Island of the Sequined Love NunYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Christopher Moore | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sexual HealingYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lost SonYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keller: 1 - Hit ManYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keller: 2 - Hit ListYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Love LifeYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some Kind of Cu*tYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Matt Shaw | mwp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keller: 3 - Hit ParadeYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | bm | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keller: 4 - Hit and RunYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sacré BleuYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Christopher Moore | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Butcher RoadYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mr. SnuffYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Phantom PassionYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do Not Disturb: 1 - Do Not DisturbYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 DaysYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Camp BlazeYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Abuse of Ashley CollinsYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Social Media MurdersYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | Mpa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chip Harrison: 1 - No ScoreYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chip Harrison: 2 - Chip Harrison Scores AgainYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chip Harrison: 3 - Make out with MurderYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chip Harrison: 4 - The Topless Tulip CaperYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Lawrence Block | mb | 0.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of ConsciousnessYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Henri Bergson | mwb | 0.66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
An English MurderYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Cyril Hare | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Personal MatterYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Kenzaburo Oe | ✓Ma | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Poisoned Chocolates CaseYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Anthony Berkeley | am | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Family of ViolenceYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Jon Athan | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Late Night Horror ShowYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | Bryan Smith | wpbm | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Palm Beach MurdersYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | James Patterson | Wbm | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The NoiseYet another touch upon the ideal-for-a-scapegoat idea explored in Ursula K. Le Guin's | James Patterson, J.D. Barker | W | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Wayne Gacy: Defending a MonsterThe other book I did on Gacy went into detail criminal and or deviant aspects followed by dull milksop. This one, however, portrays a human being, presents a whole lost that had being covered by attorney-client privilege, but that Gacy wanted eventually told by said attorney, the author. Interesting character study, characters. Good read. | Sam Amirante, Danny Broderick | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned AnarchistSo, second book around, | Artonin Artaud | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fat ChanceSo, second book around, | Robert H. Lustig | ✓kM | 1.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The StrangerMy second read, first being the in-the-foreword-somewhat-beshaded one, translated by Stuart Gilbert some years ago. I have both copies, and I compared a few pages. Although I prefer this one's wording and vocabulary, the discrepancies are subtle. The book itself is one I take to heart, about acceptance, about the absurdity of life, of things happening and us going along with them, about shit happening. Could have been of a person doing the exact opposite and likewise caring little. | Albert Camus, Matthew Ward (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Power of Body Language: An Ex-FBI Agent's System for Speed-Reading PeopleUseful knowledge if you have to time to study the people, or have recordings of them, or good photographic memory. Some of information is obviously biased and or false/outdated, and I think the author has left omit a not insignificant of failures and embarrassments for himself and his agency. A nice read nonetheless, if one's collating such information from other sources. | Joe Navarro | MKf | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Handling the UndeadUseful knowledge if you have to time to study the people, or have recordings of them, or good photographic memory. Some of information is obviously biased and or false/outdated, and I think the author has left omit a not insignificant of failures and embarrassments for himself and his agency. A nice read nonetheless, if one's collating such information from other sources. | John Ajvide Lindqvist | bm | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A House in the CountryUseful knowledge if you have to time to study the people, or have recordings of them, or good photographic memory. Some of information is obviously biased and or false/outdated, and I think the author has left omit a not insignificant of failures and embarrassments for himself and his agency. A nice read nonetheless, if one's collating such information from other sources. | Matt Shaw | mbpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cannibal JungleA tribute to 80s horror/gore flicks à la | Jon Athan | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Death Wish GameA tribute to 80s horror/gore flicks à la | Jonathan Chateau | Wmg | 0.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To Kill a DroidUuuh, David Cage's Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. 9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe ♀gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it. | Jon Athan | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955Uuuh, David Cage's Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. 9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe ♀gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it. | Harald Jähner | Mg | 0.89 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The UnwelcomeUuuh, David Cage's Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. 9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe ♀gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it. | Jacob Steven Mohr | a | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American FamilyUuuh, David Cage's Most of Jon Athan's works reside around 40k words, this being one of the very few going to 55k, however, it suffers a few problem. Namely, the harried second half or second and third thirds, leaving no room for showing or telling, character development⸻you could say, these are androids and this is the future, hence rumination would be a calculation, possibly a recheck at a later time, no 'sleeping on it'. 9 Months Trilogy Matt Shaw mpw .54 This Is My Funniest: 1 V.A., Mike Resnick (ed.) ✓ 1 Hardwired: 2 - Voice of the Whirlwind Walter Jon Williams mb .06 Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants Garrett Ryan m 1.15 No Place to Go: How Public Toilets Fail Our Private Needs Lezlie Lowe ♀gm .22 Tesla Prime and the Regulus Event Douglas Equils wpm .54 Effacement Hieronymus Hawkes wm .25 Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders W .06 People Who Eat Darkness Richard Lloyd Parry mbpa .91 Written by a journalist, you can tell, it's fairly biased. It came in an ~ 13 hour audiobook, often void of critical or crucial information, requiring >3.5x listening speed. Didn't warrant reading, because it's shit. More than half the words are inconsequential, personal tragedy made into milksop, i.e., filler. Information of about the guy is the most interesting, but it comes too late, you're already tired of this shit and just want to get over with it. | John Glatt | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I Must Betray YouHistorical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements. Just like | Ruta Sepetys | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes ByHistorical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements. Just like | John Farris | bw | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ShadowsHistorical fiction well done. Even though the writer is a woman⸻seriously, though, what the fuck, Baltic countries? You call those names?⸻, bad tropes of (present-day) female writing lack, leaving but a small bearing of romance and (over-)dramatization around the climax. The level of accuracy struck me, left me convinced half the book, I was reading a novelized autobiographical work, i.e., sth of a 49-year-old Romanian male. Welp, no, but her research was either very fruitful or he childhood in communistic L. and USSR day has made concrete the austerity of Marxism-based movements. Just like | Jill Emerson | ♀wm | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Woman in BerlinIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Come With MeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Stay Awhile and Listen: Heaven, Hell, and Secret Cow LevelsIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through MineIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Weapon of A.S.S. DestructionIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Face to Face with Serial KillersIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through SnowIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Spit and DieIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Sweetman CurveIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Alien: Alien 3In the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Maltese FalconIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Anything for a Quiet LifeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Night ParadeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Truro MurdersIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through SinclairIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through You Think You Know MeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Heaven CallingIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Watching, WaitingIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The EndIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Diary of a Dead Man: The Final Thoughts of Ed BootheIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada and the End of the NorsemenIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Little HeavenIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through A Big Boy Did It and Ran AwayIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an EyeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through One Fine Day in the Middle of the NightIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Money Bible: Including the Ten Laws of AbundanceIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Parasites on ParadeIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information OverloadIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate PreyIn the very beginning of the book, when describing the bomb shelters' peoples' differing fears and practices, either of which unsubstantiated and or unreasonable, I was reminded of SARS-CoV2's shits⸻double-, no triple-mask! cloth! no, pvc! 1.5m! 1m! 3m! and so on and so forth; Funny how irrational stupid, content people become always. Anyway, listening through A Pillar of IronLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. Taylor Caldwell | Mb | 0.44 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tetris EffectLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Dan Ackerman | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The End of AliceLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | A.M. Homes | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American MuckrakerLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | James O'Keefe | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game-Changer: Game Theory and the Art of Transforming Strategic SituationsLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | David McAdams | wk | 0.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Season's Creepings: Tales of Holiday HorrorLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Ronald Kelly | m | 0.69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lives of Eminent PhilosophersLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Diogenes Laertius, Pamela Mensch (tr.) | Mm | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Take Your Breath AwayLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Linwood Barclay | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dresden: Tuesday 13 February 1945Lady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Frederick Taylor | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
More From LessLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Andrew McAfee | KM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Smellosophy: What the Nose Tells the MindLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | A.S. Barwich | BMw | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad AppetitesLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Jon Athan | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mason's TelevisionLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Jon Athan | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening WorldLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | David Owen | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PossessionLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | A.S. Byatt | ♀Maw | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vampire Hunter DLady's done her job quite well researching Latin sources, constructing an authentic, grandiose tower from which one sees into some 21 centuries backs with quite vivid everything. Quite long though, and goes into historical details I couldn't give a mite's ass about. | Hideyuki Kikuchi, Kevin Leahy (tr.) | WCm | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Industrial Society and Its FutureTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Theodore J. Kaczynski | ✔✔ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rickshaw BoyTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Lao She, Howard Goldblatt (tr.) | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Day of the TriffidsTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | John Wyndham | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GhoulTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Brian Keene | mw | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Stories: 10 Heinous True Crime Stories of Sickly Serial Killers, Murderers and SociopathsTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Travis S. Kennedy | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Better Future: How We Fix the WorldTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Tyler True | GFm | 0.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Forlorn RiverTeddy K.'s magnum fucking opus. This being my 2. or 3. reread, I'd like to make some comments: Reads not at all like ideological merry-go-round drivel unlike some later works, but as an essay: claims are stated, argumented, exemplified. Barely does it read like a manifesto, especially for '95. The name I find inapt, because it may well be argued that first-world countries are currently in the 'information age', that, or the later stages of the instustrial one scarcely resemble the fuliginously heavy-metal-laden, child-laboring, befactoried one of the 18. and 19. centuries. Yes, you could say we've exported all that to⸻and are hence exploiting⸻ 'lesser' countries, but that'd be wrong on a few levels. And, unless we need more time, the predictions about its 'future' are yet to happen, albeit I can't wait 'centuries' alive. Published in 1995, it has turned out as increasing, exceptionally correct in its observations on what it therein describes as 'lefties' and 'leftism' trait-, tendency/behavior-, motivation-wise; on some of the shortcomings of conservatives, and on the problems of the most technologically developed societies. It walks and talks like a harsh criticism with only a vague attempt at a solution. It also suffers from two of the problems that all Marxism-derived movements/ideologies/things share, namely, one, that it doesn't know how (the thing will happen; how we'll get to the utopia), and, two, that not all is clearly defined (what is technology, who gets to define it, why centralize?). He speaks of pre-industrial societies, namely tribal nomadic ones, or or pre-feudal village ones. But who's to say a bow or a wheel or fire aren't technology..? Perhaps I shouldn't be critiquing this as if it were is crowning work, | Zane Grey | mbw | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Smashed in the USSR: Fear, Loathing and Vodka on the SteppesWhy the hag gets top billing is ponderous, given her contribution consists of fore- and afterword. Ivan abridges his comings and going from various cities, villages, institution in a few USSR republics and oblasts, his dealings, misgivings, conversations, pleas, fights, meals, etc. with many people. He is, to a degree, a walking, talking example of a stereotype for Russians, but he hauls in the much needed absent context for the reasoning of the common folk of various groups at the time, bringing to life the Soviet and post-Soviet periods in these places. If you've experienced any of which, you'll get a good tragicomedy, otherwise the austereness may fly over your head, and the jokes you won't get (not that they're meant to be funny⸻the absurd attempts at poking fun is more human triumph than risible any play on words of these sad fucks can ever be, or very, very depressing, depending on your view on life and meaning). The brevity of the piece is disappointing, since it is quite an interesting read: if gulag and konzlager survivors could at write novel-length, this dude's life should've filled around 4 or 5 books of this one's length with observations and tales, albeit memory's a bitch when you're shitfaced most of the time, I'd wager. Great read. | Caroline Walton, Ivan Petrov | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of SpeedAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Carl Honoré | Wfp | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Night of the TriffidsAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Simon Clark | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Saturday Night Ghost ClubAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Craig Davidson | Mb | 0.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Stranger in the CitadelAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Tobias S. Buckell | wa | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Broken RoomAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Peter Clines | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
With TeethAbsolute shit. 35% in, void of the respect for that which it rails against has brought to industrial and post-industrial societies, or knowledge of the effects of what it pontificates for will about in these. benefit of the doubt would be horribly written by a child-minded, not would be intended malice. | Brian Keene | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Camp of the SaintsTo the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years. Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is. | Jean Raspail, Norman R. Shapiro (tr.) | GWmp | 0.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TerminalTo the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years. Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is. | Brian Keene | mpb | 0.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sh*t Falls UpTo the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years. Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is. | David Deutsch | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Los AngelesTo the fucking retard, slobbering over this work in /pol/, who would not⸻or if I were more cynical and or despondant⸻, could not engage what I put forth as questions and ideas for the shortest of time spans (the origin topic having but barely passingly in common with the book's)⸻, well, motherfucker, this book better fucking be good, because so far it's so fucking flat, so fucking bad. Fuck me, I hate stupid, naive, predictable, hollow 'people', if you can call these husks of flesh people. Rightoid, or leftoid⸻both historic terms that have little to no meaning, let alone consistent meaning across people, communities, countries⸻, if you rely on bad literature, badfaith argumentation, if you care not about higher ideals but would rather goodboi points from a higher authority of your choosing, your ingroup, or the like, then do humanity a favor and neck yourself, if you're so incorrigible as to listen to another viewpoint, to see reason, to act in goodfaith⸻, I'm tired. I'm too fucking tired. Writer isn't even all that prescient as it may seem to those lacking knowledge of politics and history over the past 200⸺250 years. Yes, it does make make pertinent criticisms about 'the left', be it the brain-washed or the malicious power-hungry variants, and truths or good arguments don't lose strength when amidst bad, mid-schooler tier prose, but whatever the message or intent, it gets muddled and lost, and will fall on deaf ears. This is not the way to convince a neutral party, let alone the opposing one, this barely is a way. And as literature goes? Well, one'd have to suspend any advanced brain processing, forget facts and logic therewith to make this seem believable. Alternative timeline maybe..? Idunno..., I could've written this fecal smear of a propaganda fanfic within a day or two, that how unnoteworthy this is. | A.M. Homes | bm | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anomaly FlatsZaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony. | Clayton Smith | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cutting the Cord: The Cell Phone Has Transformed HumanityZaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony. | Martin Cooper | GF | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PandemoniumZaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony. | Ryan Harding, Lucas Mangum | bwm | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Name of the DevilZaney⸻the (tryhard) novel, only that cartoons and even some movies have done it better, going off of memory. It didn't go in balls deep, lingering too much at times, killing pacing. As as string of skits around the same loose story would've done better. Neither exactly target child and teenagers, nor adult, I can see it failing at keeping either satisfied. The quirks and idiosyncrasies of the settings and characters are its distinguishing features and the lack of character development (in all but one) make this a rather lackluster one-trick pony. | Jon Athan | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music for TorchingA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | A.M. Homes | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AloneA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Brian Keene | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Witch: The Cursed ManuscriptsA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Iain Rob Wright | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kill WhiteyA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Brian Keene | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ComplexA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Brian Keene | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tell No OneA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Harlan Coben | wc | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AtmosphereA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Michael Laimo | mb | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manners Will Take You Where Brains and Money Won'tA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Donald G. James, Dennis D. James | gfc | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unknown Market WizardsA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Jack Schwager | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ripped from the Headlines! The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable CrimesA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Harold Schechter | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback WellA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen | mk | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letters to My Grandchildren: Thoughts On The FutureA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Tony Benn | mf | 0.84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The King in Yellow, Deluxe ed.A hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Robert W. Chambers | Mab | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CastawaysA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Brian Keene | mp | 0.75 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat DietA hey-what-if kind of novel of things that nag at us (or me) in live, doing them, and not getting caught, and continuing exploration of what it is to be alive actually. Why do we do this and not that? Why should we try this? Why can't we be like this? What the fuck is up with people? I loved it, very, very human novel. | Jimmy Moore, Eric Westman | Km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Insulin: The Crooked Timber: A History from Thick Brown Muck to Wall Street GoldDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Kersten T. Hall | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern EuropeDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Mark Mazower | gf | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Paradox HotelDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Rob Hart | acw | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One Night StandsDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Lawrence Block | mpc | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TeachingDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | T.O. Paine | ♀a | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ocean of ChurnDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Sanjeev Sanyal | mb | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Misfortures of Alfonso Ramirez: The True Adventures of a Spanish American with 17th Century PiratesDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Fabio Lorez Lazaro | b | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
VespersDocuments the many trials and few tribulation around the discovery, manufacture, patenting, sale, etc. of insulin from the very start. Meticulous work, possibly too much so for the lay, but well put together. | Jeff Rovin | b | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hulda: 2 - The IslandIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Ragnar Jonasson | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark Iceland: 1 - SnowblindIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Ragnar Jonasson | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Virtue of SelfishnessIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Ayn Rand | ✔K | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark Iceland: 2 - NightblindIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Ragnar Jonasson | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Castle of OtrantoIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Horace Walpole | b | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mother ShipIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Scott Bartlett | b | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ChrysalidsIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | John Wyndham | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Melmoth the WandererIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Charles Maturin | bm | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The MonkIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Matthew Gregory Lewis | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Politically Incorrect Guide to IslamIcelandic author become prominent in the Nordic countries enough to risk translation into English several times over. I'd seen his name here and there and new of his existence. On a whim for a fun thriller, I went for | Robert Spencer | mk | 0.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cat Who Saved BooksThe book childishly, in that cookie-cutter Japanese way, tackles what books are worth, what one's time is worth, how books should be interacted with. I recall an article that was objectively wrong in some of its author's assumption or presumptions, and more moralistic and holier-than-thou than informative, argumentative, comparative from what I recall; since the topic is dear to me, it left a bad taste in my mouth, that of missing out on a challenge, on something new, more, better. This short book presents that article's arguments in a way, as well as fictitious examples. I appreciate the book, I do. If you'd cut out the relationship with the girl and the other classmate altogether, and made the main either a normal child (rather than a Japanese one⸻cookie-cutter self-insert with B&W worldview), or just a hooman bean, it'd've'n a been great. Although I disagree with a child another person literally shouting out you 'no, you dont live books, bc i dont do that!' I like the ideas and challenges as food for thought. Think snacks. Brain gum. Ultimately, a combination of the first two labyrinths' masters' and the protag's reading styles, one'd get the best of all, since neither is endless repetition, with or without depth, inherently good, neither is ceaseless novelty chasing, neither is there sufficient time to read all books deliberately, carefully, taking notes, taking one's time. Commenting on the side of the publisher is hard, on authors' too. Some author have worked over one odd jobs for decades before 'making it', that is, making enough sustain theirselves and or families. | Sosuke Natsukawa | Mpc | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Midnight LibraryAnnoying, unappreciative, stup–-, irrational woman main that gets to have her cake several times over. And she doesn't fucking choke to death on it in the end. What a disappoint. Old idea, so-so execution, acts 1 and 2 are meh. Not all women are boring and stupid and predictable children; write a good woman character for fucking woman, for fuck's sack. T_T | Matt Haig | Mc | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old SchoolCould've'n a mix of The Catcher in the Rye and Dead Poet Society, but nah, let's be boring. 40% and nothing of note has happened, the main hasn't developed, regressed, progressed, changed.Unsatisfactory and offers nothing. | Tobias Wolff | bwm | 0.39 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ms. VengeanceEarlier novel, one of of the 3⸺4 that are in a shared universe (dr sadist, mr snuff, and sth else), each exploring the a character, setting, background. Is okay, but somewhat bland and predictable compared to other of his works. | Jon Athan | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PossessedMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Thomas Allen | b | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Or ElseMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Joe Hart | bwm | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inspector McLean: 03 - The Hangman's SongMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | James Oswald | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Physics of the DeadMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Luke Smitherd | mb | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dr. SadistMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Jon Athan | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reasons to Stay AliveMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Matt Haig | pwc | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ErewhonMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Samuel Butler | mb | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ruined CityMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Nevil Shute | b | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TempsMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Andrew DeYoung | wg | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st CenturyMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Kim Fu | mb | 0.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Colony WarMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | David M. Barnett | mb | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Crying of Lot 49More anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Thomas Pynchon | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lost in Tokyo: A Year of Sex, Sushi, and Suicide in the Real JapanMore anecdotes (and hearsay, as if) dryly reported than documenting events or weaving a narrative, or anything interesting (to me). The reluctance of the characters to be identified, open etc. doesn't help with that. So be it. The movie The Exorcist, based on the eponymous novel, derives from this case. More here. | Garett Wilson | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Jealousy Man and Other StoriesDamn son, this is some boring-ass, trash writing from Norway's supposedly most prominent writer, English-wise. | Jo Nesbo | Bm | 0.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Madness at Madison MallMain story kinda dragged out, suspense not often built up properly, releases also weak, making whole bland and easily forgettable. The few cards it had, were played suboptimally. But, this is one of his early novels, thank fuck. | Jon Athan | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Biography of the Pixel20h audiobook, would be ~2e5, does meticulous background checks on literally everything, which starts to get annoying given this is supposed to be a narrative, no encyclopedia. At a point, I just stopped caring what happens, to whom, or for what reasons. Great, if you're into history, maybe, I guess..? | Alvy Ray Smith | mb | 0.61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Hellbound HeartMeh, passable. Hard to believe this cunt is famous for this. Neither the gore is gore-y, nor the descriptions extensive, nor the intensity palpable. Take out the cenobites and it's a dump cheating wife story that takes place over a few paragraphs. The only saving grace is its brevity. | Clive Barker | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American DeclineGreat book. Critique tho: almost everything attempted to be interpolated from the events having occurred around 60s American (Ivy League) universities, which is not only oversimplifying, but missing key branches and looking at leaves only. The chapters on music/culture and abortion are also heavily moralized and one-sided, the former wrongly so, and would easily make one label Bork as 'an elitist old fart'. | Robert H. Bork | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Can Fish Count?: What Animals Reveal About Our Uniquely Mathematical MindsWhat is says on the tin, no more, no less, no politics, no inanity. Exactly what an M or bold M should be. | Brian Butterworth | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ContactFuck me, this is some really bad writing. Specialitous + annoying woman protag. Insufferable. | Carl Sagan | AW | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood through One Singular CareerNice, perhaps too-short-to-be-really-enjoyable telling of Nic Cage's life and career, published around his fourth decade in the business. I'm a Cage fan and have been intrigued by this cool weirdo since childhood. The appended to the book catalog terse reviews plus ratings of each and every flick he's participated in is well appreciated. Stays on topic without jumping around, but does bad to stick too much to officials. | Keith Phipps | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All the Lonely PeopleAt first, I thought it was annoying, or all too perfect, but gradually, mister author washed over his built up sand castle to reveal a withered, sandblasted branch holding the thing together beautifully. The novel's jacket was discouraging, but the second and third acts made up for it. The novel tackles loneliness, addresses its consequences and its sufferers with propositions for undertakings. It reads as believable to a great degree, albeit a too optimistically, too luckily, that is, IRL, it'd be (much) worse. Nevertheless, this is the sort of book to bring people like myself to action, be it for myself, or others. Characters were well-formed, fully formed, that is, with clear motivations for their actions and thoughts, with histories, with un-clear-cut attitudes and relationships. Pondering what I'd want better and how, little stood out before remembering the flashbacks or the episodes taking place in the past. These were prominent in the first two acts, and color in the contours etched by the present's happenings, however, being in the past, they've not the same impact or import, and often felt as if they were diverting attention from the main course more often. Chaining ~85% of these right after the introductory chapter or two would have made for a more straightforwards experience, I would argue. Otherwise great novel. | Mike Gayle | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
They're a Weird MobDefo find the audiobook! Has grade A voicing. The content itself is an entertaining travel-log/diary with funnies based on lingual and cultural misundertstandings, and stereotypes about an Italian magazine writer's 1950s relocation and ultimately establishing in Australia. | John O'Grady, Nino Culotta | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From Seas to Stormy SeasI got through two and change stories of the total seventeen. Fuck me. The editor's forward lines you up for disappointment. Maybe his editing style, taste, and appraisal ability are very far from mine, stronger in different areas, I don't know⸻but this is some mightily boring shit. I cared not about the setting, the characters, the premises, anything. Exerting yourself to be bored. Verily do I doubt anything would be different had I seen the paintings inspiring these stories. | V.A., Lawrence Block (ed.) | b | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horror in the WoodsSo, it's 201705XX and this shit gets published. ... Pardon me, but how exactly did this pass the cutting room, or is this the heavily edited version we're getting? The cabin-in-the-woods slasher has been done how many hundreds of thousands of times since the 1960s on the cinema screen or page? The cannibalistic family or 'family' story has been reiterated on film, television, and literature, cheap and well-known. In my last 1.5a of reading, I've come across 4⸺5 of the latter, and over 10 of the former. Not a single character, motive, settings, motivation, description, action herein has not been elsewhere done far better, and given when it was published, one would think the author would be familiar with the the genre, with the competition. Well, no⸻this reads like babee's first horror novel, and babee's equipped with the vocabulary arsenal, sentence construction complexity, and lack or failure at seriousness/depth of a late teenager, and the predictability and repetitiousness of a senile. Characters are static, no development over the few hours this takes place over, and what is reveals is exaggerated for the purposes of easier contrasting of the otherwise nondescript characters. | Lee Mountford | wmp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TormentedA play on the psychiatric hospital horror. Characters have some depth and enough distinction from one another to not blend into a nameless, faceless, normal in the statistical sense blob of fictional flesh. This one had some promise and didn't fail too-too badly. Prolongation of the novel again is a major flaw, suspense-release curve is mostly flat. | Lee Mountford | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Netherwell HorrorTakes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking. | Lee Mountford | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WebTakes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking. | John Wyndham | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghostland: 1 - GhostTakes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking. | Duncan Ralston | w | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Whisper ManTakes way too long to progress, leaving me wanting for something, anything of note to happen. No clues are there to be discovered. Nothing funny to be observed. Nothing spooky, nothing perverse, nothing special. Stereotypes, mediocrely to badly portrayed. The loop at the end really just tells me this cunt think's he's clever. Writing is again amateurish. An editor or three is lacking. | Alex North | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
StringersHm. Promising, slightly entertaining first act, tailed by a noticeable change in both pace and tone, both for the worse, and ditto for the third. We have the nice premise of creatures having past lifetimes' experiences, or memories, but mostly knowledge being hunted for various reasons, among which by some weirdo 'extra-dimensional' race, that are, for all intents and purposes, magic and survival-type evil. Not overly consistent, but whatevs. Begrudgingly, the one character featuring depth and actual character got necked by an idiot 'savant'. Our protagonist and the necked bro see most of the development, sadly, and I say that because there was the opportunity ample for exploiting memes, subverting expectations, slapstick, stereotypes, etc., but, no. The neck bro is consistent, at least. Our main? A pallid facsimile attempting to hit some of the marks his clone in act one made, missing more often than not. Using jargon to the reader unfamiliar and never explained is also a no-no, rendering sentences into baby-talk at times. Same with the 'science' bits⸻it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it doesn't attempt hard scifi, at least. Supposedly there's a romance at the end..? These two exchanged, like, 2 paragraphs over the whole book, with no insinuations of anything being there. Second novel by this bloke, I'm hoping the first is better, and, if not, the third (nonextant). 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner LeeHm. Promising, slightly entertaining first act, tailed by a noticeable change in both pace and tone, both for the worse, and ditto for the third. We have the nice premise of creatures having past lifetimes' experiences, or memories, but mostly knowledge being hunted for various reasons, among which by some weirdo 'extra-dimensional' race, that are, for all intents and purposes, magic and survival-type evil. Not overly consistent, but whatevs. Begrudgingly, the one character featuring depth and actual character got necked by an idiot 'savant'. Our protagonist and the necked bro see most of the development, sadly, and I say that because there was the opportunity ample for exploiting memes, subverting expectations, slapstick, stereotypes, etc., but, no. The neck bro is consistent, at least. Our main? A pallid facsimile attempting to hit some of the marks his clone in act one made, missing more often than not. Using jargon to the reader unfamiliar and never explained is also a no-no, rendering sentences into baby-talk at times. Same with the 'science' bits⸻it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it doesn't attempt hard scifi, at least. Supposedly there's a romance at the end..? These two exchanged, like, 2 paragraphs over the whole book, with no insinuations of anything being there. Second novel by this bloke, I'm hoping the first is better, and, if not, the third (nonextant). The Controlled Demolition of the American EmpireJeff Berwick, Charlie Robinson | Mgmkf | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sleepwalk | Dan Chaon | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nancy Goats | Weston Ochse | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Goats | Brock Cole | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Of Goats and GodsOld time pulp fiction series member, yet still just boring and meh. Gave it a wide berth, yet failed to make the tiniest of impacts. | Richard S. Shaver | b | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Leviathan: Ghost RigMediocre and bland, at the end predictable and just bad. | Lucas Pederson | mwp | 0.78 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buried in a Good BookAnnoying, woman writing. Slightly cringe too. | Tamara Berry | a♀c | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All's WellAnnoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her. | Mona Awad | a♀w | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The GuillotineAnnoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her. | Lucas Pederson, Tim Marquitz | w | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doomino's: Apocalyptic Pizza DeliveryAnnoying, obviously woman, bad writing. Wouldn't recognize depression, if it skullfucked her. | Lucas Pederson | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Men Who Stare at GoatsFuck me. Compared to the movie, which, let's be honest, gave a humorous take on the source, which is incidentally this book, it's just a shitton of hearsay alongside what was dug up during the mid-00s on the subject. It's dry, too dry, but it also has zero science or explanation. I don't know if this is how military reports are or war journalism is, but only getting to resolution of the journo's questions kept me reading on. Good material, suboptimally conveyed. It can read like a boring (to me) novel, or a investigative report by some one dude. | Jon Ronson | Mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The PhlebotomistHm, for once, a decent-to-good novel featuring three females as the main protagonists. It certainly reads as something written during SARS-CoV2 times, or from somebody aware of China-style Marxist takeovers of society. A 60-yo and a 40⸺50-yo are the the bigguns, and a 14-yo smallun. To be honest, our main character, through whom most of the story is told, is predictable and annoying. The the naive, daft cunt of a human. Stereotypically bestial mother, kind of a Karen too, although harmless, meek, and weak. She does one thing well, namely being good with blood, possibly a medical nurse before the first bomb. Weak point is the false dichotomization at times, and certainly the nigh cartoonish vilification and or characterization of the antagonists. Yes, pile on the hyperbole, the tropes, the stereotypes. Nuance would've not palliated the implied discussion on the subjects of mass subjugation, government propaganda, freedom, the impacts of centralized power and economy. | Chris Panatier | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Permanent RecordAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Edward Snowden | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Projections: A Story of Human EmotionsAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Karl Deisseroth | bw | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ErotomaniacAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Jon Athan | mMp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The WalkingAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Bentley Little | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aliens: InfiltratorAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Weston Ochse | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of BeingAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Erich Fromm | gpwk | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buyer's MarketAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Peter Sotos | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Want-Ad KillerAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Ann Rule | m♀ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lust KillerAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Andy Stack | m♀b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dinocalypse: 1 - Dinocalypse NowAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Chuck Wendig | mac | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 2 - The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseAutobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Douglas Adams | ✓a | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Fresh Hell Is This?!Autobiographical account of Ed's story. Good, it explains governmental inadequacies, shadow government type conspiracies your uncle may spout at every occasion; but, it doesn't go too deep in, it omits some, it is a whitehat whistleblower in action. I greatly appreciated him going through the steps taken to ensure inculpability, security, anonymization among others, and privacy. | Nick James | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The InfluenceBentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 | Bentley Little | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary PiratesBentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 | Des Ekin | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sell Without Selling out: A Guide to Success on Your Own TermsBentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 | Andy Paul | pwc | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dead Body DisposalBentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 | Jon Athan | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dead WorldBentley Little is a strange one. Two novels in⸻and the motherfucker has 32 | Lucas Pederson | wc | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Is a Woman?: One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a GenerationWay to show you bias, Matt, fisting them in at every obvious hole. Sheesh. Which is to say, the impact of the book is somewhat lessened, the reader put off, if not of the same persuasion and of lower standards of reasoning, which the author transgresses against every time the issue strikes a nerve, which, I'd say, is all too often. What you're talking about isn't bad because you espouse a mainstream religion (e.g., Catholicism, Protestantism, etc.), or whatever-the-fuck, it's bad because it doesn't work, hasn't worked, can't work, because it is internally inconsistent, doesn't hold any predictive power, is vastly more wrong/bad than right/good in its statements, predictions, actions. That small critique aside, I would say this is book portrays a man's attempt at grappling with a currently difficult to answer question by anybody on the Marxist left, anybody politically correct, or etc., and getting sidetracked into gender studies and its effects on children, adolescents, adults; the economy, public policy, and big pharma among others. While Matt doesn't give it a shake as fair as James A. Lindsay, he does try. The book is comprised of his thought process and various interviews with both victims and perpetrators; some history is covered in 2⸺3 individuals, but he got bogged down by the obtuseness of the language (mis-)used in their articles, is my presumption. | Matt Walsh | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial IndependenceA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Jacob Lund Fisker | mMk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abuse of Language, Abuse of PowerA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Joseph Pieper | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One Thousand Miles to FreedomA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Eusun Kim, Sebastien Falletti, David Tian (tr.) | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MonstersA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Peter Cawdron | wam | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackwater: 1 - The FloodA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Michael McDowell | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackwater: 2 - The LeveeA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Michael McDowell | Bm | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On Disobedience and Other EssaysA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Erich Fromm | mG | 0.84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Hacking of the American MindA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Robert H. Lustig | ✓ | 1.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Race MarxismA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | James A. Lindsay | ✓b✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SunblindA hodgepodge of collected (life-)hacks, as if, from a multitude of enthused, young, whippersnapper activists, hippies, nothing-writers from online-only magazine. Over 80% of the book is common sense- or knowledge-based arguments about cost reduction (how to deal with rain while running, clothing to buy, dealing with old stuff, shit to preferably buy), things that, in the end, I'd argue, won't save you even a quarter of the money required for 2⸺3 decades of official joblessness. The chief thing, for me, is to, for every product one buys, every activity one consciously engages in, every decision one takes, weigh the pluses and minuses in the context of your goal (which in the case of the book is either saving/not spending more money than you make, or vice versa). Decent–good one-time read for a frugal, or creative, or willing-to-spend-the-time person. | Michael McBride | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fleisch ist mein GemüseVery entertaining for me autobiographical recount of a German musician-turned-writer/humorist born 1962. Maybe it just appeals to my sensibilities, likings, maybe it really is funny. Not documentary, nor dry, handles more with episodic stories, i.e., names, places, characters needn't to be kept track of. I had fun, and would reread it too. | Heinz Strunk | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary UnderbellyFavorite of many TV chef and household name, I finally learn why so many like this bastard: the 60s' sex, drugs, and rock n' roll attitude, that of rebelling against decency, normalcy, or established anything, or its own sake, of beating and poisoning your body, and, ultimately, of being superficial (by which I mean, it was reactionary in being defined through what it opposes, out of which an aesthetic was born, which stuck unlike the attitude towards the' other', which didn't⸻because the latter changed (not gonna say 'evolved', lol)), that is, until he realized he may want to live a little longer and more stably, as he states around the end. He traverses his own history, pressing pause to tell stories, embellish, really, the minutae of the world. Somewhat of a snapshot of 70s, 80s, and 90s (coastal or big-city) America, its culture; and it's your kooky uncle Tony doing the exposé. Entertaining even if you don't like the guy, comme moi, but, to some degree, tolerate/excuse the actions/thoughts. I wish it were more vulgar, and longer, and had more stories, but no uncle is forever. | Anthony Bourdain | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Psychology of TotalitarianismAn interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in | Mattias Desmet | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bullshit JobsAn interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in | David Graeber | AKwm | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
OffspringAn interesting take on the origin and perpetual propagation of totalitarianism, or the centralization and misuse of power preordained in all derivatives of Marxism. Author is a psychologist by profession, hence the title, and although theory isn't as expansive and explanative as Mises' in | Jack Ketchum | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl Next DoorAtheist Answers: Rational Responses to Religious QuestionsIs what is says on the tin: 1-to-few-sentence-long answers to common/normie/stupid questions an atheist may get asked. A few times expands upon answers, but the gist can be gotten from a few pages, really. Possibly helpful to a new one experiencing issues with dogmatics or authoritarians. Funny You Should Ask…: Your Questions Answered by the QI ElvesIs what is says on the tin: 1-to-few-sentence-long answers to common/normie/stupid questions an atheist may get asked. A few times expands upon answers, but the gist can be gotten from a few pages, really. Possibly helpful to a new one experiencing issues with dogmatics or authoritarians. Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total WarPainfully prescient. Nothing significant has changed since its publication in 1949. The totalitarian, etatist/statist push of Marxian ideologies and movements was meticulously explained and substantiated back then. It is rather eerie... Common sense, basic economic theory and human psychology, and history are utilized to construct a single, clear train of thought that smashes through NatSoz sympathizers' baby claims and arguments, and likewise for fascists, socialists, communists, etc., etc., etc. Banger of a book. Ludwig von Mises | ✔✔ | 1.76 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 01 - TrollslayerFourth (or still-less-than-tenth) attempt at getting into WH40K literature. The Black Library. The Boring-Cringe Library, more like... For once though, the writing is at least above mediocre and, at times, decent. Trollslayer is a collection of about 4⸺5 interwoven stories, that have naught to do with trolls, but provide the background paragraphs on the settings and the two main characters. There is a noticeable decrease in quality of novels by the same author over time. Extending a few fights taking place over a few days or months or years to 8e5 words with neither character developing anyhow is probably souldraining. The second of the presently nineteen (19) novels sticks way too much to its title. Josh Reynolds, who's written so seriously boring trash for the universe takes the reins from Nathan Long, whom I'm unfamiliar with. I didn't want to write a 1-sentence remark.. | William King | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 02 - SkavenslayerFourth (or still-less-than-tenth) attempt at getting into WH40K literature. The Black Library. The Boring-Cringe Library, more like... For once though, the writing is at least above mediocre and, at times, decent. Trollslayer is a collection of about 4⸺5 interwoven stories, that have naught to do with trolls, but provide the background paragraphs on the settings and the two main characters. There is a noticeable decrease in quality of novels by the same author over time. Extending a few fights taking place over a few days or months or years to 8e5 words with neither character developing anyhow is probably souldraining. The second of the presently nineteen (19) novels sticks way too much to its title. Josh Reynolds, who's written so seriously boring trash for the universe takes the reins from Nathan Long, whom I'm unfamiliar with. I didn't want to write a 1-sentence remark.. | William King | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 03 - DaemonslayerWelp, Daemonslayer was, as if, mostly non-combat and more of the same type of writing, slowly getting on my nerves. Again, overly long; in the Wastes several things made no sense as they were described, but that could be excused becuase muh Chaos. You could very well summarize the entirety of plot in 1⸺2 paragraphs. Worse still than Skavenslayer (which was mostly memeing on skavens. Which, it would seem, as I'm writing this after having finished Dragonslayer, exist mostly as a joke in the WH40K universe. Ha-ha, good joke, real kneeslapper⸻let's repeat it at ev-er-y skaven verbal exchange and opining). Every further title, the trend is, reads more unpleasantly than its predecessor, very noticeably so, and this isn't burnout, it's shabby, uninspired, second-rate work. | William King | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 04 - DragonslayerAnd Dragonslayer, which I am thirdway through with presently, is even worse: 3.3e5 words for what amounts to 2 sentences tops plotwise. The incessant overexaggeration (from the first book onward, mind you) reminds of Dragon Ball's power creep, only here we don't even get visuals, just a reexploitation of already stale words and phrases. I'm on the fence about allowing oppotunities for redemption to the interstitial novels and giving Nathan Long a go, reading this is tiring. | William King | bmp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brutal KunninOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Mike Brooks | wmca | 0.32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Infinite and the DivineOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Robert Rath | wca | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Funny You Should Ask… Again: More of Your Questions Answered by the QI ElvesOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | QI Elves | kmf | 0.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age of Sigmar: DominionOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Darius Hinks | bcw | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ZenarchyOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Kerry Thornley | cfgm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 05 - BeastslayerOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | William King | bm | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BachelorsOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Muriel Spark | B | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Memento MoriOrks have British football hooligan/chav language and culture..? And the Adeptus Mechanicus are illogical, hypocritical/inconsistent, self-serving ultimately? These are standard normie, shit human qualities, they only talk like nerds, or try to, rather. It's kinda cringe-y. I wish the universe, its races' languages, dialects, cultures, etc. had been better fleshed out by craftsmen, not amateurs. It takes itself seriously, adding to the internal inconsistencies. Were it at least (more) tongue-in-cheek, had the author introduced some fun, puns (or nuns) it'd've'n better for it. An unwilling to exert themself adolescent might like this or get into the franchise with it, but the hardcore WH40K books are even more stuck-up, cringe-inducing, and annoying or inconsistent. The Black Library's great pollution can be traced to a several names, contributing a surfeit of novels. | Muriel Spark | B | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reality and DreamsNigh readable, but ultimately too slow and boring. Too English, and hence annoying, English in the stereotypical way, focuses (along with the above two books) on interpersonal relationships, but they're remote from what is human, or normal, or interesting... Altogether, I wouldn't say MS is my cuppa. | Muriel Spark | mb | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Orville: Sympathy for the DevilNigh readable, but ultimately too slow and boring. Too English, and hence annoying, English in the stereotypical way, focuses (along with the above two books) on interpersonal relationships, but they're remote from what is human, or normal, or interesting... Altogether, I wouldn't say MS is my cuppa. | Seth MacFarlane | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vector BorneFuck me is this a tedious read: 3⸺4x the length its plot's worth, everything is needlessly prolonged, without throwing the reader a bone for their squandered time. A spoopy, ancient virus infects civilizations or peoples, disappears them in angst, panic, confusion, bloodlust. The last surviving members had had to seal away, burn, destroy, etc., those infected or themselves. And now it's happened again, who could've foreseen it, human arrogance spawning from perceived mastery over nature, over others. | Michael McBride | mbwa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HandymanWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Bentley Little | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HauntedWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Bentley Little | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The VanishingWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Bentley Little | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The TownWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Bentley Little | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Alvin Schwartz | Wc | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour BookstoreWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Robin Sloan | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RageWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Stephen King | Mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant AmericanWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Nick Offerman | mGa | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sun and SteelWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Yukio Mishima | cW | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RoadkillWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Dennis E. Taylor | mg | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SourdoughWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Robin Sloan | mbg | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ShibumiWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Trevanian | b | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Million Ways to Die in the WestWow-y, here's a novel, that bullseyes (or, at least, scores very high on) the discomfort and unease boards, at least, in my case. Conveying them, because of their vagueness perhaps, is neither easy nor straightforward. Characters' experiences pendulate between the wishy-washiness of surreal dreams and blunt, cold, hard reality, often imperceptibly so. I'd say this is more psychological horror/suspense rather than a gorefest, action-thriller, or other, more traditional spins. To forgo spoiling the plot, saying that it revolves around handymen is sufficient should suffice. This is thus far my favorite Bentley Little opus. | Seth MacFarlane | Mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ancient EveningsThe setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system. | Norman Mailer | ✓b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BackwoodsThe setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system. | Edward Lee | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl in the AtticThe setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system. | Jon Athan | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The GroomerThe setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system. | Jon Athan | M✓p | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 08 - OrcslayerThe setting of (Ancient) Egypt I've read of and or listened to only in Lumley's Kai of Khem. Story was predictable⸻I wouldn't call it an isekai, but it is both a power fantasy and a time/location-transfer, so yeah... I like the the descriptions of the geography, nature (significantly wetter 4e3 years ago), traditions or rituals of another people. Ancient Evenings is fucking huge at a third of a million words, and it's books/parts may well have been reworking into 3⸺4 separate novels for how distant to each other they are. Proceeding over a few days in the afterlife of Meni, our protagonist, in the necropolis in the Luxor valley along with his great grandfather (also dead), the Egyptian mythology is laided out, that is, how the gods came to be and what they patroned, their relationships among themselves, with the world, its people. Parts of Meni's childhood we read about, wherein rites and rituals, and the power structure of Ancient Egypt are described or observed, including the latter's various positions' everyday, familial relationships, culture, value system. | Nathan Long | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stick a Flag in It: 1000 Years of Bizarre History from Britain and BeyondHumor aside, I'd bin it, since history is tediously boring. Otherwise, tolerable and almost enjoyable. | Arran Lomas | Mb | 0.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Am I Beautiful?This novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is. | Jon Athan | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 09 - ManslayerThis novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is. | Nathan Long | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 10 - ElfslayerThis novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is. | Nathan Long | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Communicate with Mastery: Speak with Conviction and Write for ImpactThis novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is. | J.D. Schramm, Kara Levy, Joel Peterson | wc | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 10.5 - Slayer of the Storm GodThis novel was toned down from his usual, and relied much more on the psychology, that is on the emotions rather than gore: fear, anticipation, tension, panic. And it succeeded with the 'if I can't have X, then nobody can' spin. An all too human story given some extra weight is all this is. | Nathan Long | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party GamesA recent-ish one by jonboy, that, for the second time in my reading history of him, contains a more plausible plot, less edgy, extreme, or maybe you could call it more mundane, if not more realistic, since both occur only to differing rates. His influences are very clear, even if you've never watched the movies, as he states in the afterword, affirming what I'd thought throughout. I think, without having watched the movies, only seen trailers and having thought the concept predictable scare porn, he executed it very well, differing in that he focused not (only) on the victims, but mostly on the doers, presenting the other side. It was also of he shorter works, around 4e5, usually he goes for double that. | Jon Athan | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 06 - VampireslayerCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | William King | mp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 07 - GiantslayerCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | William King | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Is Communist Anarchism?Cringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | Alexander Berkham | GFc | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 11 - ShamanslayerCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | Nathan Long | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Into the Wolves' DenCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | Jon Athan | Mpbc | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Praise of ShadowsCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | Junichiro Tanizaki | cfm | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The SummoningCringy, and getting predictable, and does absolutely nothing new (for, what, 3⸺4 novels now?). I'll tunnel to other two authors in the series. William King is dead to me. | Bentley Little | Map | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unshattered: Overcoming Tragedy and Choosing a Beautiful LifeNice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of Who Are China's Walking Dead?: A Personal Journey into the Strange World of Communist Culture and OfficialdomNice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of The SmokeNice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of The Quiet Man: McGarry StatesideNice spin on area 51 and aliens; respectively plot- and tone-wise reminiscent of Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics Are Making You Fat, Sick, and InfertileMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. Anthony G. Jay | ✓k | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Clown in a Cornfield: 2 - Friendo LivesMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | Adam Cesare | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 12 - ZombieslayerMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | Nathan Long | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just the ArgumentsMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | Michael Bruce, Steven Barbone | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Age of Surveillance CapitalismMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | Shoshana Zuboff | kMBW | 0.79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark Imperium: 1 - Dark ImperiumMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | Guy Haley | CW | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Court of the Blind KingMore so a layman's compendium of varying in difficulty dos and don'ts than 'hey, this is the science,man'; not that the claims aren't backed up, just that I'd've preferred a more in-depth examination of the hows. Maybe I'm just whining. Anyway, for those not already privvy to the info, is nice, otherwise, kinda meh. Keep yourself and your close ones safe(r), famalamazoids. | David Guymer | cb | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Josh Chin, Liza Lin | mbkw | 0.43 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
C.L. Werner | cbw | 0.03 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
James Rollins | bwf | 0.05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dean Allen Haycock | m? | 0.38 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Josh Reynolds | mba | 0.32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Digital MinimalismWay to state the obvious, nigger. | Cal Newport | Km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 14 - The Serpent QueenWay to state the obvious, nigger. | Josh Reynolds | m | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood SugarDid not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho. Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past. | Daniel Kraus | ✓✔ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Limitless: Upgrade Your BrainDid not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho. Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past. | Jim Kwik | Kcam | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Separating You: A Self-Help Book for the Lost, Lonely, and Psychotically ObsessedDid not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho. Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past. | Jason Carson | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: AnthologyDid not expect this variety of English from an author of such a name, but hey, maybe he's versatile? It's very nigga and street/urban, current (early 2000s for sure; 2010s maybe?), kid-friendly, in that it's believable, gets at both the overt and still-buried, under-developed emotions of soon-to-be adolescents and adults. It is quite human and well-written, these knowledge of the subject(s), their language and mannerisms. A few things are off⸻the epistles between the main characters and whoever the fuck they're writing, are abrupt breaks in the story that break the flow and contribute little. They provide backstory, color or enhance already there moments, but they should've been used more delicately, sparingly. Jarring are also the very discongruent moments of clear thought with the druggy, nigger behavior. Still worth a read, tho. Sadly, attempting to write him an email, his contact page has the following: Rereading recently after having seen it pop up again on audiobookbay, I again liked it whole lot. Some of the above is invalid, a bit, having paid more attention this time around, and reading alongside, the characters don't develop throughout the book, seeing as it's something like a weekend or day, but shows how they got to where they are through correspondences and conversations that allude to the past. | V.A., Christian Dunn (ed.) | m | 0.71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Truth About CryptoWay to regurgitate very biased, bullish-only level-above-normie info. Did not assuade my uncertainties, did not answer any questions of mine, asked no question. Normie book at best, bad advice at worst; it's another chump riding the hype train. | Ric Edelman | Kcfm | 0.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SuccubiWay to regurgitate very biased, bullish-only level-above-normie info. Did not assuade my uncertainties, did not answer any questions of mine, asked no question. Normie book at best, bad advice at worst; it's another chump riding the hype train. | Edward Lee | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beautiful YouVery strange novel for Chuck. It reads like a lonely woman's poor, shitty chicklit. Horribly annoying too in featuring everything insufferable about twentieth century women, especially from the last few decades. I really want this to turn around, but how much do I have to invest? Not in the least enjoyable, absolutely nothing novel. Disappointing. | Chuck Palahniuk | Aw | 0.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Truth About Your FutureSo, you're good start off your 7. or 8. layman finance-focused book by listing praise by a bunch of nobodies, foreword/s of no content, and an unnecessary introduction? And you're gonna follow that up with 5 chapters of nothing financial, or advisory, or new/novel/insightful? How. in. the. fuck. did this stupid cunt get published 8 times? How brain-dead are other people?! I am astounded, yet again. | Ric Edelman | awcfg | 0.17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mindreader: The New Science of Deciphering What People Really Think, What They Really Want, and Who They Really AreAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | David J. Lieberman | K✓Maf | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Thorn, White RoseAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.), Terri Windling (ed.) | ♀wba | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mysterious Sea StoriesAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | V.A., William Pattrick (ed.) | bm | 0.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aliens vs. Predators: Rift WarAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | Yvonne Navarro, Weston Ochse | b | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Walled CultureAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | Glyn Moody | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pandemic, Inc.: Chasing the Capitalists and Thieves Who Got Rich While We Got SickAlthough it assumes obvious falsehood due to its wide strokes, it nonetheless would be a great starter for knowing what to look for in others. | J. David McSwane | Fg | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dawn of a Nazi Moon: 1I picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie | Douglas MacKinnon | w | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Procedural Content Generation in GamesI picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie | Julian Togelius, Noor Shaker, Mark J. Nelson | wm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial AfricaI picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie | Adam Hochschild | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On AnimalsI picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie | Susan Orlean | wa | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsI picked this up, hoping it'd be over-the-top moustache-twirling as the 2012 movie | J.W. Ocker | m | 0.74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Journey to the Northern OceanObserves and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' | Samuel Hearne | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Carpet PeopleObserves and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' | Terry Pratchett | m | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dream Universe: How Fundamental Physics Lost Its WayObserves and explains explorers, colonists, frontiersmen, tribal native Americans (the so-called Indians), as well as local flora and fauna. Stout and curt, reminiscent of [Dan Simmons' | David Lindley | km | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We Have Been Harmonized: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Controlκινο, also fuck greeks and or greek. | Kai Strittmatter, Ruth Martin (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Universe from Nothingκινο, also fuck greeks and or greek. | Lawrence M. Krauss | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 12 - Genesisκινο, also fuck greeks and or greek. | Chris Carter | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Search of ExcellencePlatitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy. | Thomas J. Peters | kc | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Day of the LocustPlatitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy. | Nathanael West | ?m | 0.61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the WorldPlatitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy. | Peter S. Goodman | kmgf | 0.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume 03Platitudes and excuses therefor woven into a hot garbage taffy. | V.A., Stephen Jones (ed.), Ramsey Campbell (ed.) | m | 0.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Burnt TonguesThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | V.A., Chuck Palahniuk (ed.), Richard Thomas (ed.), Dennis Widmyer (ed.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inside Job: Treating Murderers and Sex Offenders. The Life of a Prison PsychologistThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Rebecca Myers | wm | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal SystemThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Ted Cruz | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, OregonThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Chuck Palahniuk | mb | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jesus, Prince of HellThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Adam Weishaupt (x) | mwc | 0.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Illuminati's Six Dimensional UniverseThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Adam Weishaupt (x) | Wc | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 VaccinesThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Alexander Zaitchik | mk | 0.17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tower 57This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Drew Platt, J.T. Cacibauda | mp | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
India's Legal System: Can It Be Saved?This short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Fali S. Nariman | B | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medical Terminology Made Simple and Easy: A Comprehensive Review of the Language of Medicine for Medical Professionals and Nursing StudentsThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Anna Curran | mb | 0.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We Have Always Lived in the CastleThis short story collection is the very first that is consistent banger after banger, even the females ones do a great job. Its foreword by good ol' Chuck P. is also (from ..?) toppest of shelves. No one is supernatural or too fiction-y, all dreadfully 'real' in their endings. This warrants a reread in 1⸺2 years. | Shirley Jackson | Am? | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FlickerReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Theodore Roszak | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World DominationReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Mark Bergen | Gfw | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
From Satori to Silicon ValleyReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Theodore Roszak | mM? | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Triumphant: The Movies and Meaning of an Irrepressible IconReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Alex Pappademas | mga | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Large Measure of SnowReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Denzil Meyrick | m | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Free CultureReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Lawrence Lessig | mb | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Drink: A Cultural History of AlcoholReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Ian Gately | b | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wired for Love: 1 - Re-WiredReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Greg Dragon | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wired for Love: 2 - Single Wired FemaleReading this, my rating when from m to M to ✓ to ✔, it's like Shrek says, | Greg Dragon | mb | 0.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Dies at the End: 4 - If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong UniverseWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of Sammy and the Cheese: 2 - RazzmatazzWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the WestWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left's Assault on Life, Marriage, and GenderWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent ChristiansWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About CapitalismWell, this was a treat, and wouldn't'cha know it (needs more apostrophes, ikr) it's the last in a series. Reminds of how I really liked, added the behead of My Dark VanessaHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
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The Murderbot Diaries: 1 - All Systems RedHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| Martha Wells | bp♀m | 0.36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some Fruits of SolitudeHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| William Penn | Gwm | 0.61 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How Religion Evolved: And Why It EnduresHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| Robin Dunbar | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LeechHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| Hiron Ennes | MA | 0.73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Doll HouseHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| Edward Lee | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of TerrorHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| August Derleth | Mmp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lurker at the ThresholdHere's an interesting one. As recommended, or at least talked, about by ma boi (P.S., R.I.P.), this 1.5e5 word novel is da thicc (to use the bad joke/phrase from Our curly-haired redhead ( V.'s impetuousness overlaps significantly with Lo's, although the latter was much, much younger, and her mental development, it could be argued, was halted until she'd escaped, and, again could be argued, never was completed. I wouldn't say the former's childhood was sacrificed, nor stolen; something was lost/exchanged, but⸻and I do think this is a fault of the author, that is, this is bad writting, imo⸻nothing significant was gained by either party. Is the reader seriously to believe that an intense, 6-month relationship, whose skipping, on-and-off status for the next seven years ruined one-to-two lives? I'm not convinced. Having had a half-year, acute relationship with somebody 12 years younger, who fascinated me/I loved intellectually firstly, and physically afterwards; I again personally related to, commiserated with, felt various facets of this time's Humbert, his circumstance; I had to finish this. Enchanted with (and by⸻ha!) The novel to me reads as a love story gone wrong inamicably and bilaterally. There were a few great quote, and I also chortled twice. I wouldn't reread it, but I will give out the second, which I'd remembered to save (
| August Derleth | Mmp | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irrational Man: A Study in Existential PhilosophyA look of how existentialism came to be, the whole history and key figures. Slightly above decent for a one-time read, at times boring due to focusing on, to me, irrelevant details of said cunts. Minus points for skipping by Kafka. | William Barrett | Mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious DiariesFocuses strongly on the people, but the narrator is boring, although the story is nice. Gave me some outrageous (for the 70s and 80s) fic to read. It'll be shit, I'll do one a later today before retiring to something decent (Beatrice Sparks). | Rick Emerson | Mmb | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher NolanMuch of the Interstellar and Dunkirk bits I fastforwarded, since I like neither thematically, and the former musically especially. Was nevertheless interesting to hear the man's thoughts and process, albeit there really isn't much to it, he just good in a field dominated by safe choices. | Tom Shone | Mm | 0.87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Go Ask AliceYeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s. | Beatrice Sparks | WPg♀ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jay's JournalYeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s. | Beatrice Sparks | WPgb♀ | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It Happened to NancyYeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s. | Beatrice Sparks | Wgp♀b | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the StreetsYeah, no 14-year-old turning 15 uses both 'blah' and 'nary' within 2 paragraphs, right? I know of at best one 15-year-old with a good vocabulary, but This is an American lassie from the 1970s and –80s, publically educated, so⸻err, no. Knowing beforehand that this account is wholly fictional and sensationalized (s. | Beatrice Sparks | wgb♀ | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Social Costs of Pornography: A Collection of PapersPart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| James R. Stoner Jr., Donna M. Hughes (ed.) | g♀fm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finding Katie: The Diary of Anonymous, a Teenager in Foster CarePart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| Beatrice Sparks | wb♀ | 0.44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Friendly Orange GlowPart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| Brian Dear | mb | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 Animals That Can F*cking End YouPart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| Mamadou Ndiaye | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Geronimo's Story of His LifePart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| Geronimo | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Harlem Detective: 1 - A Rage in HarlemPart uno is about alleged harm caused by pornography, most of it is trash. 1. paper was just plain bad, unless I haven't seen enough porn, or 2008 was radically different porn-wise; it's a big heads-up for all the upcoming female 'scholars'. Good to start off with the disappointment. The 2. paper is okay-ish; 3. & 4. feature faulty argumentation and use fallacious studies, which are attempted to be passed off as crime statistics. These all ring like the hysteria stirred up by a few parents, preachers, or otherwise Karens, when rock and metal were gaining footing, becoming normal (or any new, edgier, or more extreme genres). Jack Thompson (campaign against video games) all over again to a significant degree. The professions of female persuasion are oblivious to the gynocentric Western world they and their clients live in, they only bitch and whine, and possibly make matters worse. Okay, I'm generalizing and strawmaning, fine. It tires keeping with everything wrong in what I'm reading. It is astounding how many unfounded claims about pornography are made, which, I guess, are hoped to be forgotten by piling on new ones..? How any of this could have been published in a journal, or even a proceeding is beyond me: poor scholarship, deficient intellectual humility, arrogance and moralization, arguably lies.
| Chester Himes | M | 1.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Street of CrocodilesA small short story collection, all composed astoundingly beautifully. Bruno Schulz was described in the foreword and his wiki article as a national treasure of a Jewish Polish writer, and even past Celina Wieniewska's translation, I would believe that. Had I the time to learn 1930s Polish, I would, just to read this. Critically however, he goes overboard in description⸻words, wordings, comparisons, literary devices used in every sentence cloy. It is only the virtuosic variety and novelty employed that somewhat mellow it out. As the foreword says, the tales are autobiographical in nature, all about the author's quaint hometown, his childhood memories. Style reigns here, whereas the substance of each could charitably be decocted to a paragraph.
| Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska (tr.) | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Pickle for the Knowing OnesCount Dankula released a video on this bloke recently. Someone so under the auspices of a guardian angel to have elevated (dumb) luck to a new plane, one I had to visit. So, like a good little Asian tourist boy/be-middle-age-crisised man, I took out my camera, put on my best Hawaiian shirt, leather sandals and kneesocks, and I hoped on over to project gutenberg where one can find many an old document, this title included. Now, since nineteenth century English is a tad different from present-day ⸻ and whatever carnage of that the self-pronounced Lord spoke would be harder to enunciate, I had to use a flite to get some audio for this. And, oh boy-o, I was surprised that it the blasphemous spelling sieved through the rules for pronunciation results in a surprising amount of corrects. Really. What the poor engine slarterd (slaughtered) was the lack of any punctuation, which made for paragraph-long sentences, separated by newlines, in a veeeery slowly falling intonation. Like, cosmically glacially. Capitalization isn't sporadic, but isn't regular either. You need a buffer maybe 5 times the size of your normal reading's one to keep track of the noisom fray's hardly spotable threads, to piece together, to hopefully make sense of a part of a paragraph. But, it reminds also of speaking to normal people, in a way. Fucking hell I hate people. So, I could present here my translation of the drivel, with possible interpretation; however, even stream-of-consciousness novels aren't this, this disheveled. Dankula, or his producer, was right in assessing Timmy to be a masterful troll. There is no interparagraph continuity, and often enough no intra- either. The tone is at least not smugly highfalutin. You question the man more than yourself. Just like crosswords are more routine common knowledge retrieval, this too is mentally challenging in a very simple way, neither dangle any reward, nor deceive you. A novelty, sure, but also a one-trick pony. | Timothy Dexter | MmW | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness IndustryCount Dankula released a video on this bloke recently. Someone so under the auspices of a guardian angel to have elevated (dumb) luck to a new plane, one I had to visit. So, like a good little Asian tourist boy/be-middle-age-crisised man, I took out my camera, put on my best Hawaiian shirt, leather sandals and kneesocks, and I hoped on over to project gutenberg where one can find many an old document, this title included. Now, since nineteenth century English is a tad different from present-day ⸻ and whatever carnage of that the self-pronounced Lord spoke would be harder to enunciate, I had to use a flite to get some audio for this. And, oh boy-o, I was surprised that it the blasphemous spelling sieved through the rules for pronunciation results in a surprising amount of corrects. Really. What the poor engine slarterd (slaughtered) was the lack of any punctuation, which made for paragraph-long sentences, separated by newlines, in a veeeery slowly falling intonation. Like, cosmically glacially. Capitalization isn't sporadic, but isn't regular either. You need a buffer maybe 5 times the size of your normal reading's one to keep track of the noisom fray's hardly spotable threads, to piece together, to hopefully make sense of a part of a paragraph. But, it reminds also of speaking to normal people, in a way. Fucking hell I hate people. So, I could present here my translation of the drivel, with possible interpretation; however, even stream-of-consciousness novels aren't this, this disheveled. Dankula, or his producer, was right in assessing Timmy to be a masterful troll. There is no interparagraph continuity, and often enough no intra- either. The tone is at least not smugly highfalutin. You question the man more than yourself. Just like crosswords are more routine common knowledge retrieval, this too is mentally challenging in a very simple way, neither dangle any reward, nor deceive you. A novelty, sure, but also a one-trick pony. | Jon Ronson | mka | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tender Is the FleshInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (tr.) | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Dies at the End: 1 - John Dies at the EndInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | Jason Pargin | ✔ | 1.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark SanctuaryInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | H.B. Gregory | mb | 0.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex An Unexpected HistoryInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | Samantha Cole | g♀ | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese Girl in the GhettoInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | Ying Ma | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Butcher and the WrenInterdarsting. I didn't not expect a woman, let alone one from Southafuckingmerica to emit something so sweet. First of all, So, what does one learn from this novel? One, scarcity opens up avenues for innovation and (black-)market openings or expansions, that is, creates new opportunities whilst severely obstructing or shutting down people, businesses. Two, necessity dictate morality for nigh all cases for nigh all, this is partly an addendum to conversations concerning Maslow's need hierarchy. Possibly three, revenge and absolution are motivators, powerful strong enough to conveniently veil reality, truths. Lastly, 'never let a good crisis go to waste' plays out for the umpeenth time, thank fuck, it's fiction, but it is also fiction that informed all the moustache-twirling Marxists in our present. I have more to say, in a way, but I deeply wish to whet my ideas against another person's, or rather just another person... and it's been like a month since finishing it. Senile. The end. Okay, to finish off, as almost always, I few excerpts worth mentioning (I really should begin a separate file for quotes for everywhere, but the prospect of going through some 700 fully read bookos to rediscover tidbits is daunting and ,likely, an unworthwhile one.):
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art Don Thompson mb .65 A Bear Called Paddington Michael Bond aw .1 Reap3r Eliot Peper gc .13 An Immense World Ed Yong aM .96 Portrait of a Psychopath as a Young Woman Edward Lee, Elizabeth Stefan ✓ 1 A Psycho and his Disciple Jon Athan Mm 1 The Harbinger of Vengeance Jon Athan M 1 Darkness John Saul mwb .37 Just how run-of-the-mill can you get? Le spooky hick swamp monster in all seriousness called 'the Dark Man'? I have it a wide berth of a chance, but this is just disappointing, literally nothing of interest: flat characters; no development or change within the time spent with them either; horror is absent for me (single dagger insertions⸻srsly now?). First taste of John Saul, who's churned 37 thriller novels, by the way. Can't wait for the let-down. :)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) | Alaina Urquhart | mw | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trout Fishing in AmericaNever heard of this bloke, but the two forewords strictly put him in the beat generation, who writing I kinda like, well, the less pretentious, commie, and idiotic of the bunch, at least. But here was a cunt who was already aged when it was coming about, not a lost adolescent or twenty-something, somebody old enough to have a two–three grandkids. So I bit, hard. | Richard Brautigan | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Welcome to NowhereNever heard of this bloke, but the two forewords strictly put him in the beat generation, who writing I kinda like, well, the less pretentious, commie, and idiotic of the bunch, at least. But here was a cunt who was already aged when it was coming about, not a lost adolescent or twenty-something, somebody old enough to have a two–three grandkids. So I bit, hard. | Caimh McDonnell | m | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Talk About Books You Haven't ReadNow here is a book well worth reading wholly.
I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it. I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one | Pierre Bayard | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Books Before TypographyNow here is a book well worth reading wholly.
I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it. I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one | Frederick W. Hamilton | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A Step-by-Step ProgramNow here is a book well worth reading wholly.
I take offense with the recommendations and suggestions that one should vainly praise another's work. Classic or no, you are depersoning yourself, if you do this. In a way, yes, an opus is truly great, if it appeals both to a philistine and a longtime critic, however, you should have actually experienced it, rather inanely regurgitating niceties; it'd like feigning relishing somebody's recount of a wind draft having transited a spritz of boutique (as if these exist anymore in 21. century corporate shareholder hell) eau de Cologne. Just say 'idunno' and be done with it. I agree, having come to much the same same conclusions, that reading is a process, a journey not a a destination, that the first is not equivalent to the second, that time, place, mindset, education, background, all context can/does matter, and can make or break an reading for any one | William J. Knaus | Kpc | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HopscotchSo! Second reading of Hopity Scotch, this time the second of the two author-suggested (canonical?) chapter sequences, the one supposedly elucidating the prot's madness. The book can be separated into parts by location: Paris, France and Montevideo, Argentina; by time: past, present; by focal point/perspective: the clochards, the Circle's members, randos, infants, animals, the city. Rather than predictably alternating chapters following protagonists and or antagonists, the frame shifts hecticly, and (almost?) all see some personification, corporification. At after around half, and mind you, this is a 185k word novel, I'm feeling more lost than found; I'm not the dots, I'm not even seeing the dots. The interspersions, I don't find, color in the blanks created by the misordering. I'm too impatient and am feeling like shit every day, and not taking care of myself, so reading something that prerequisites neuron utilization was perhaps a mistake. Third time could be the charm, I guess..? Anyway, I'm still enjoying this entangled medusa head of a novel. There is somewhat of a pretentious element too. As well as a Marxist one. They mingle, of course. I'd realized this on listening through two guys' 'opinions' on the books from yt. And, upon rewinding, yes, yes there are such elements. South America had a rocky twentieth century with violent coups d'état, militarism, civil wars, half the Marxist ideologies from Europe, dictatorships, cults, idolatry, and same ol' poverty; so it is understandable that the majority of its faux intelligensia would the same clowns. Julio lived in 1950s Paris, another great procrustean bed of absurd serious silliness. The 'intellectual' conversations held within the Circle mostly constitute dragon-chasing, (auto-)fellating, and garrulous inanity. Exercise for the hell of it. La Maga is perhaps the one worthwhile character in the entire novel. Note, I seem to have deleted part of the review while editing something else. Not paying attention during work with multiple selections. fixme | Julio Cortazar | M✓p | 2.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No Longer HumanRight off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous. So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential. What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:
Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. | Osamu Dazai | acM | 1.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Psychopathy: A Very Short IntroductionRight off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous. So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential. What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:
Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. | Essi Viding | kM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nip the Buds, Shoot the KidsRight off the bat again, since this is my second attempt at reading this shit, this d00d is alien to my experiences with humans, my expectations and models of them; nobody IRL acts like this, other than, say, spoiled children of the rich and or powerful. That, and or Japanese society is fucked beyond recognition. I get that quite a few Eastern countries, at least the major ones: China, Vietnam, Japan, Thailan (unsure, really)⸻are Confucian and collectivist, but our prot, and hence Osamu Dazai himself, doesn't square into that. Not at all. He is on the one hand an individualist in pursuing a career as an artist/cartoonist/pornographer; a sort of try-hard rebel..?⸻I'm struggling to find a suitable noun or adjective⸻, disobeying and not listening to and disrespecting authorities, elders, family, 'friends', others, but also deeply desiring pleasing them as a eunuch slave. His being decocts to a shallow, unapologetic/irredeemable, unoptimally hedonistic, kinda oleaginous. So, I'm an outsider, say, 2 standard deviations from my highschool and two uni's matrikeln mean. I was closer to the outsiders, rejects, weirdos, fallout than to normies, although I ultimately pushed those away as well, to be le isolationist loner. And I've read a bit about druggies and hobos here and there. This doesn't make me an expert, especially since 99% of these regard NAm, [NSEW] European, some SAm, and some Russian chronological and geographical places. Now, our boi Yozo strikes me as a mentally damaged person more so than as any clochard stereotype, not even as an atypical one. This is a pretentious cunt of a human being, a coward, a hypocrite, a liar, a waste of atoms, a waste of human potential. What I also fail to understand is the fear to disappoint others' ideals or perceptions of him, since he neither derives lasting satisfaction or contentment with successful masquerades, nor stupid, ecstatic highs. He's not LARPing as a spy, he has no goal, no mission, so where from or how did this irrational phobia originate? Two pertinent excerpts:
Wrong, motherfucker. It is never too late to do well by yourself or by others. | Kenzaburo Oe, Marion Boyars (tr.) | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In Praise of Good BookstoresVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Jeff Deutsch | M✓j | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jesus' SonVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Denis Johnson | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gaunt's Ghosts: 1 - First and OnlyVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Dan Abnett | cwp | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Konrad Curze: The Night HaunterVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Guy Haley | wcp | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lemon ManVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Keith Bruton | wc | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Old Sparky: The Electric Chair and the History of the Death PenaltyVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Anthony Galvin | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last DrinksVery jewy at times, sure, but it's not pushed, and the whole is a very passionate text about books and their role in human society. Attempts to present a vertical slice of the history of the book, pre- and post-Gutenberg; and the bookstore through accounts. Idealistic and but somewhat successful, which is commendable. I am somewhat ashamed that I haven't since starting reading almost exactly two calendrical years back, bought a single book, material or digital. On the other hand, my wealth and my circumstances have also not in any significant way improved... Nothing has. But solipsism and absurdism are my saviors. Ha-ha. | Andrew McGahan | mb | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional PsychosisI found this food interesting because it, like Torture MomI found this food interesting because it, like Man-EaterI found this food interesting because it, like PestsI found this food interesting because it, like Trust MeI found this food interesting because it, like Black WidowI found this food interesting because it, like Hojoki: A Hermit's Hut as MetaphorI found this food interesting because it, like The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True HermitRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly The Flat Earth ConspiracyRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video GamesRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly GanglandRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Reading in Bed: Brief Headlong Essays About Books and Writers and Reading and ReadersRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Harlem Detective: 2 - The Real Cool KillersRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Harlem Detective: 3 - The Crazy KillRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cyberpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's InformationRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Understudy for DeathRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Aliens: 1 - Earth HiveRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly You're Him, Aren't You?Rarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Harlem Detective: 4 - The Big Gold DreamRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly Blood MusicRarely do I read of, about and or from somebody similar to myself. Christopher Knight, a.k.a. 'the North Pond Hermit', fits the bill somewhat, say, to 50⸺65%? The author is journo, with only one other book to his name in libgen. We seems to have done his research relatively well, and to have kept to standard (in the olden days, at least) journalistic practices. Indeed, his extensive reads at the end of the book, which I added without forethought⸻yes, even the female ones⸻, to my booklog, since I have so few of my own exploring this, e.g., the wanderer/hermit novels of Knut Hamsun (among others..?), possilbly The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt to Clarify Some Issue about the So-Called Psychopathic PersonalityReally liked the neutral retelling of various psychopaths' lives in their, their or the (author) psychiatrist's words. Informative with regards to the methodology of psychiatry, and just a good insight into these mishappen humans. Hervey M. Checkley | ✓M | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WakeNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Shelly Burr | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghost EatersNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Clay McLeod Chapman | mag | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Very Irish ChristmasNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | V.A. | b | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Woods Are DarkNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Richard Laymon | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FleshNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Richard Laymon | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Way It Is NowNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Garry Disher | bm | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wyatt: 1 - KickbackNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Garry Disher | bm | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nine Minutes, Twenty SecondsNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Gary M. Pomerantz | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Everyone in My Family Has Killed SomeoneNice detective procedural in third person, neutral too, and from a woman. Very neutral, in a good way though: without an author's onus of agenda or emotion. Also, 'Straya. | Benjamin Stevenson | m | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes But Some DoFailing good, the nov⸻, self-help book. No, seriously. I waded through some 60000 words, repeatingly decocting to 'learn from failure'. It has a few examples, but not enough; it fallaciously intrudes into others' psyche, and it introduces dispensable, and worse, worse than the existing one, terminology; it rambles on, and worse, does so for things it itself claims are permanent. | Matthew Syed | KMpa | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yama: The Pit1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? 1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? 1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? 1920s Russia, middle-sized, interior town suffering early twentieth century vice. We are treated to my favorite insufferable Russianism (or is it just snowniggerism?): shallowness, hypocrisy, pseudo and or faux erudition, and inane piffle. But also to whore life. I can't speak as to how truthful it is, given my experience as (a? the? Hard science fiction writer. His stories appear mainly in | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beware of DogsHard science fiction writer. His stories appear mainly in | Elizabeth Flann | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 8thInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Slave Girls of RomeInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Serial Killer Couples: Bonded by Sexual Depravity, Abduction, and MurderInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans AskInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Cold Turkey How to Quit Drinking by Not DrinkingInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Beyond Cruel: The Chilling True Story of America's Most Sadistic KillerInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Baby's First Book of Seriously Fucked-Up ShitInterestingly, a decent, if forgettable book by a previously blacklisted name. Reminiscent of of Cultish: The Language of FanaticismFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: Amanda Montell | mM | 0.66 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Liturgical Music for NihilistsFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Brian Hodge | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dark MountainFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Richard Laymon | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Blake: 1 - Little Girl LostFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Richard Aleas | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Blake: 2 - Songs of InnocenceFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Richard Aleas | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Be a ManFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Chabuddy G | cw | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The LakeFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Richard Laymon | mab | 0.95 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Ascent of ManFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Jacob Bronowski | mb | 0.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rape of the Mind: The Psychology of Thought Control, Menticide, and BrainwashingFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Joost Meerloo | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The StrangerFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strange Weather in TokyoFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell (tr.) | mp | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Diary of a VoidFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Emi Yagi, David Boyd (tr.), Lucy North (tr.) | ♀c | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The AscentFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | Ronald Malfi | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inspector McLean: 01 - Natural CausesFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | James Oswald | mp | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wall Street NoirFocusing on one aspect of missing the point or oversimplifying, whilst injecting her own views⸻actual quote: | V.A. | Mm | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TristessaA deranged, romantic, beatnik stream-of-consciousness about a junky in Mexico. Like, really fucking continuous⸻no pulled punches, no holds barred; achieving a level just below that of Peter Sotos with the following 1926-glyph '''sentence''' (the latter's maximum from the 5-novel
It is rambley, sure, and nonsensical, yes, indeed-y; but he colors wildly, overzealously with with baroque and nonstandard words, phrases, punctuation, phrasing, wording. I can easily imagine somebody, stoned outta their spine, unable to cogently or at least coherently guide a single thought to the end. I say that having observed my thoughts and thought patterns whilst in prolonged hypoglycemias. Journey not destination, style without substance, that is, I have little fucking clue what really is going on or what he's trying to say, convey, hint at too often; yes, there is a plot; no, I don't really think it'd matter if there wasn't and he was talking about or to Kashan rugs...
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Cats Have No LordI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Will Shetterly | aw | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Da Vinci's CatI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Catherine Gilbert Murdock | bm | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House at the End of the WorldI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Dean Koontz | m? | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Axeman of New OrleansI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Miriam C. Davis | mb | 0.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Convenience Store WomanI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.) | c | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Procedural Storytelling in Game DesignI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | V.A., Tanya X. Short (ed.), Tarn Adams (ed.) | wk | 0.79 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Game Dynamics: Best Practices in Procedural and Dynamic Game Content GenerationI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | V.A., Oliver Korn (ed.), Newton Lee (ed.) | m | 0.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Procedural Generation in Game DesignI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | V.A., Tanya X. Short (ed.), Tarn Adams (ed.) | w | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Garden of Abdul GasaziI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Chris Van Allsburg | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Aesop's FablesI can't get into it at all, more confusing than anything really, but not in the 'pretentious way, just plain, ol' what-the-fuck-is-going-on,-are-you-blathering-about: too many characters introduced within a few pages. | Aesop, V.S. Vernon Jones (tr.) | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Courage to Be DislikedThis book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying. Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them. As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention. Save grasping for false and or | Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga | KMw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trust Me, I'm Dr. OzzyThis book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying. Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them. As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention. Save grasping for false and or | Ozzy Osbourne, Chris Ayres | mM | 0.97 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by SquirrelsThis book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying. Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them. As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention. Save grasping for false and or | Bill Adler | Am | 0.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bodies in Barrels: The Snowtown MurdersThis book details the ins and outs of Adlerian psychology? The psychology is presented, taught through a series of dialogs between a philosopher and Joe Blow, here in increasing chronologic order, that is, with progression rather than being disparate⸻a Socratic/Platonic dialog. To cover most ground these will necessarily severely dumb down the common man, so that he may, where convenient, ask questions, express doubt, rage, content, other extreme negative emotions, aaand really anything to further the lesson, since he is supposed to be an amalgamation of conversees the philosopher has addresses through the years, and Ichiro at the end admits to as much, that he's had these convos, that is. This eases the reader with no beforehand knowledge into this foreign framework, sure. But it's also annoying to read conclusions you'd come to in your first and second years in university, and some before that too, being argued from a know-it-all old fart and emotionally unhinged, inconsistent in thought young fart. Very annoying. Paring it all down: 0. no etyology, only teleology; 1, (you) do youself and or don't care about others; 2, deliberate/choose how you react; 3, all problems are interpersonal relationship problems; 4, be a net positive to the whole. Just as Freudian and Jungian psychology shouldn't (and cannot effectively) be used for all cases, likewise so does Adlerian, at least as presented by the authors, fail at certain junctures. 3 is a claim, rather than an an order or recommendation. Neither necessarily wrong, nor strictly helpful: I wouldn't have said the Cold War was an IRP (interpersonal relationship problem), and I would have said it was a problem. The combinatorial nightmare of resolving the IRP of every pairing of American and Russian or communist and non-communist would have last likely lasted more, especially if forced. Teaching or forcing Adlerian psychology tenets upon them, just just leaving them with the book could have durated longer or shorter, but I don't see it as a guarantee that it'd've made evil or non-evil, true-believer Marxists realize their mistakes and fixed their way. Press X to doubt. Yeah. It's not the right framework, scalewise at least, for all inter- or intrapersonal pu-ro-bu-rems, as the Japanese call them. As I've exemplified, its absolutist takes do not help its cause, and may lead to both absurd claims and explanations, and unsuitable fixes for its misdiagnosed problems. Being absolute and widely generalizing never ever seems to work out. Causailty is severely frustrated by having the locus always be the actor. Child skips skips school, mouths off to 'authority figures'? Must be because he has an inferiority complex, want to feel easily superior and want to be treated specially by those subjected to its inanities. Japanese hikkomori⸻shut-ins, who often mooch off of their parents and or the government, and who refuse to contribute or interact with society⸻, are a recurring example issue discussed. It prescribes unconscious motives and desires, for comfort, greed, superiority, and so on, to anybody not executing his or her 'tasks', as the books calls/translates them, (point 1 in my listing, assumed duties, rather than self-imposed ones, to one's own or the whole's benefit, like learning to read when a child, studying and learning for the knowledge rather than one's parents or other externals). This can increase responsibly, goodfaith, and incentive by putting the onus for everything on the person, but it will fail at mending ultimately stemming from without the person. It's like treating all your patients as Münchauchen symdromees, to use an analogy from medicine, sure, not all aches are serious, but one out of, say, twenty sniffles or headaches might require actual attention. Save grasping for false and or | Jack Smith | mb | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
After Sound: Toward a Critical MusicPost-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry. | Douglas Barrett | cgW | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime: Homicide and True Crime Stories of 2016Post-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry. | Jack Rosewood, Rebecca Lo | abmg | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unsolved MurdersPost-modern, try-hard gobbledygook. Like take the architect scene from the third Matrix movie and realizing the meme. Most, if not all, who I've encountered, see that see as intellectual hogwash and or linguistic wankery, thought on my first viewing, probably around 2017, the last in a sequential viewing of the franchise's three major releases, I found everything understandable and coherent, even if unnecessarily worded. Valueless sophistry. | Emily G. Thompson, Amber Hunt | Mmk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The SnakeheadI'd initially went into this book and author not knowing true crime was what it was and they wrote, respectively, genre-wise. The thing, that hoisted the red for me, was the complexity, that, in a run-of-the-mill fiction book, could have more easily be achieved through fewer plot lines, using fewer characters and dry details, which ostensibly come from the in the final ~30% of the plain text file (when wrapped at 96) of the book legal documents among other references. I had the feeling that simultaneously a lot of ground was covered, but none of it satisfyingly deep enough⸻characters develop, issues new arise while the old resolve, but the delivery is meager and would leave most readers in want for substance and or detail, even if inconsequential, more fluff. I've read of coyotes in | Patrick Radden Keefe | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Unsolved Child MurdersI'd initially went into this book and author not knowing true crime was what it was and they wrote, respectively, genre-wise. The thing, that hoisted the red for me, was the complexity, that, in a run-of-the-mill fiction book, could have more easily be achieved through fewer plot lines, using fewer characters and dry details, which ostensibly come from the in the final ~30% of the plain text file (when wrapped at 96) of the book legal documents among other references. I had the feeling that simultaneously a lot of ground was covered, but none of it satisfyingly deep enough⸻characters develop, issues new arise while the old resolve, but the delivery is meager and would leave most readers in want for substance and or detail, even if inconsequential, more fluff. I've read of coyotes in | Emily G. Thompson | mMa | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Morning of the MagiciansThe Last StormNothing sets one up for disappoint like reading authors', who you've read and whose writing you like or aren't appalled by (note: I don't think it's legal to use a relative clause on a genetive, but they cops aren't lookin'), praise a book. It then ends up a familial, magic-y nonsense, low-tech, future, survival b.s., with a non-insignificant agenda for preservation/environment/green, whatever that whole... thing is called, and, anti-capitalism, whatever the fuck that may be. To top it off⸻you have a fucking druggie, that doesn't behave like an addict, and a Mary Fucking Sue as our key actor. The premise of: Earth weather's gone to shit ('n we're to blame for of, ofc, ofc), that is, of more frequent intense events such as flash floods, mega drought, etc. is okay, but not new territory, of man turning fellow man and being a dick⸻vastly explored, and with better execution too. What's brought to the table is concept 'rainmakers': dei ex machina, putted straight outta Timmy's cancerous colon. Each construct his or her own portable deus ex machine, an 'apparatus'⸻of course, could we have ever a non-contrivance? I'm not waiting til the end of the book for timmy to explain away this bullshit. Tim Lebbon | amg | 0.43 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Different Class Of MurderI was aware this going to be a crime committed by posh British cunts by 1, the title; 2, the audiobook cover; and that it was probably not going to be my cup or tea by 1, female author; 2, female reader. I was right. This is the sordid story of lord Lucan, the major points of which I was introduced to in a video by Dankula. The audiobook was 16 hours in length, and the speakers RP, or airs, or I don't really know what, made listening at the usual breakneck speed impossible, because all you'd hear was faux indignation, scoffing and puffed cheeks. Anyway, criticism: too many parentheses opened for not tangents, but also not crucial information. As if its length needed more puffing up? 44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love Sylvia Shults bBm .49 Eighteenth century, Uhmurrican frontiers. The book handles a Ms. Rhoda Derry, a eighteen-year-old cursed by who beloved's mother, to then have the breakdown of the state. The book is far too thorough for my liking by going into where Illi-fucking-nois fucking is, what the native tribes were paid for their land and what they were eating, what cash crops were, how fertile the land was, that is, what the general situation was like 250 years back, the who/what/when and where of construction and purpose of the very first mental asylum in the state, the history of the Derry family, and then only one generation of the other family, whose name already escapes me. Details about not on the case. | Laura Thompson | ab | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mad Madame LaLaurie: New Orlean's Most Famous Murderess RevealedI was aware this going to be a crime committed by posh British cunts by 1, the title; 2, the audiobook cover; and that it was probably not going to be my cup or tea by 1, female author; 2, female reader. I was right. This is the sordid story of lord Lucan, the major points of which I was introduced to in a video by Dankula. The audiobook was 16 hours in length, and the speakers RP, or airs, or I don't really know what, made listening at the usual breakneck speed impossible, because all you'd hear was faux indignation, scoffing and puffed cheeks. Anyway, criticism: too many parentheses opened for not tangents, but also not crucial information. As if its length needed more puffing up? 44 Years in Darkness: A True Story of Madness, Tragedy, and Shattered Love Sylvia Shults bBm .49 Eighteenth century, Uhmurrican frontiers. The book handles a Ms. Rhoda Derry, a eighteen-year-old cursed by who beloved's mother, to then have the breakdown of the state. The book is far too thorough for my liking by going into where Illi-fucking-nois fucking is, what the native tribes were paid for their land and what they were eating, what cash crops were, how fertile the land was, that is, what the general situation was like 250 years back, the who/what/when and where of construction and purpose of the very first mental asylum in the state, the history of the Derry family, and then only one generation of the other family, whose name already escapes me. Details about not on the case. | Victoria Cosner Love, Lorelei Shannon | bm | 0.77 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
City of OrangeWriting this at the 10% mark, I must admit that the writing of our Korean fellow has much improved since
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Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies | Kristian Niemietz | kbm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saving Normal: An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life | Allen Frances | kmb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nothing But Blackened TeethExquisitely worded, Bruno-Schulz-esque, in my opinion, that is, in fact. | Cassandra Khaw | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Candy HouseExquisitely worded, Bruno-Schulz-esque, in my opinion, that is, in fact. | Jennifer Egan | b | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ConsumedMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | David Cronenberg | ✓ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Science and Human ValuesMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Jacob Bronowski | mM? | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dead of WinterMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Stuart MacBride | Aw | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Them: Adventures with ExtremistsMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Jon Ronson | fw? | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We Sold Our SoulsMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Grady Hendrix | wcm | 0.17 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Common Sense of ScienceMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Jacob Bronowski | mM? | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Happy Passion: A Personal View of Jacob BronowskiMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Anthony James | kp | 0.69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Decagon House MurdersMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Yukito Ayatsuji | ma | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HollowsMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Daniel Church | am | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Oregon TrailMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | Francis Parkman | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depraved: A True Story of Murder in the HeartlandMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | John Glatt | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Prince of ParadiseMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | John Glatt | bm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On DialogueMystery, kind of bizarro, love story under guise of horror. Very neat and very human. | David Bohm | mkM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Babysitter LivesColor me surprised. The man did it. An actually good (note from future: first half of a) novel. An actually creepy or scary at times novel. With actually believable characters. Well, to me, so pinch and salt the jazz. Little anchors it historically other than the extremity of Halloween costumes, that is post-early-2000s candy scare, possibly the homosexual relationship, which is also done okay. Now, to the meat and potatoes, that is, to the meat, because fuck your potatoes and fuck the Irish. This is a story of a haunting for the most part, two, or rather multiple, worlds coexisting with the house, wherein all occurs, serving as a gate of sort. Stupid arbitrary rules always come into play, so they're excused. The gist is this: children killed by mother, who then suicides, the consequences of this thing play into the rest of the story, the all three of characters speaking up. What for me was the gavel that re-sentenced this to, well, not mediocrity but decent-ness (non-negative twist) was the second act, which was dreadfully languorous. It was a list of simple sentences, descriptions of actions and thoughts of no consequences, little was learned by the readership, protag, or antag; and the change of pace didn't do it any good either. She was in limbo, and so were we. Anywho, the first 40⸺50% deserve praise, compared the two I've read by sgj. He's not exactly pretentious, nor is he mainstream, but might just not be my cuppa. | Stephen Graham Jones | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Be EatenA collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read. | Maria Adelmann | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Addiction: A Very Short IntroductionA collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read. | Keith Humphries | k | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lonely CrusadeA collection of 5 stories sharing a theme, their narrators are the their protagonists, all of them taking place in the same world; told from the first person. These 5 women aren't compliments of each other in the color wheel sense, novel wouldn't fail without one, nor with an extra, but they are way too distinct, too lifelike, somewhat stereotypical but also fuller or subverting expectations. The audiobook is read by Lauren Ezzo, and she's one of the few good ones. She did a great job imprinting character, credibility into each of the women (males always mottled). I feel like fucking watching an Attenborough documentary, him audibly documenting the browsing antelopes in the savannah. The theme is, crudely, predation/victimhood/trauma. There is an absurdist or surreal quality to both the world and each story, some characters. Perspective and memory play roles is most of them, and I enjoyed the exploration. How the fuck do I write more without spoiling..? Very worthwhile read. | Chester Himes | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hannibal Lecter: 1 - Red DragonCharacter studies. | Thomas Harris | Mb? | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hannibal Lecter: 2 - The Silence of the LambsCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | Thomas Harris | M? | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hannibal Lecter: 3 - HannibalCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | Thomas Harris | apm | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Local Girl MissingCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | J.A. Baker | bw | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Loving Someone with Suicidal Thoughts: What Family, Friends, and Partners Can Say and DoCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | Stacey Freedenthal | Wa | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
One Eye OpenCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | K.G. Lewis | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into ExistenceCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | David Benatar | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesCharacter studies again, only more concentrated, being series' four's first. Well-rounded. Very 'okay'. | V.A., Otto Penzler (ed.) | aAw | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coin Locker BabiesThird novel of Ryu Murakami, published 1980 in Japan; my second work of his. Beloved by nippophiles, and people without (a refined) taste⸻at least, much more than he deserves to, I think⸻he exemplies what I dislike about heavily westernized Japanese artistic media: trope-heavy, at best with some expectation subversion; mired in symbolism and philosophy, more often foreign, misunderstood and convoluted and sloppily regurgitated all over those fancying any 'Japanese thing' more than 'thing' for no reason, arbitrarily, unsubstantiated. To be quirky, to fit in⸻, sorry for that. I'll leave it in because it is relevant though. Tokyo Decadence, a short story collection by the same is the only other I've read by him, was just boring garbage but in Japan, with Japanese, about Japanese (people). I'm probably convoluting him with others like Dazai, and misattributing. I have the rest of his pirateable shit, and I'll give them a fair shake in due time too. Don't worry about it. Just about everybody gets a fair shake with me. This was pleasantly unexpected. In the back of my mind, open-minded and without expectations or not, I went into it knowing loosely the person who'd expressed like it, it had provided them comfort. It's a Bildungsroman about these two boys discovered by the general public, locked in coin locker storage boxes. The book can be divvied into 4 parts, I would say, with the first two being an act each, and the latter two comprising a poorly executed, tonally muted, unsaturated, and hobbling third. For the sake of distinction from the mundane, the world is too vibrant, or rather tries to tries to be. I recognize an attempt by its failure: 1, Anemone, the love interest of the one boy, is unrealistic compared to already contrived, puddle-shallow Japanese 'idols'; 2, Toxitown is a few blocks of real estate inside Tokyo, not the greater metropolitan area, guarded by (armed) military police..? And yet a shitton successfully squat there..? Gharials/gavials⸻seriously now? I'd overlook these two among others still, were they not crucial to the plot and its development. Adhocism isn't ever excusable nor acceptable. I did like its first act, like the person who'd mentioned it. A world unveiled by two lads. Narration happening from the third, yet I didn't feel that extricated from either perspective. Alternation of first-person accounts, I think, could have worked too. I wouldn't call it comforting, but the tone switches from sombre to puerile, at which time it ca be wholesome too. Too little time was spent on them growing up, on experiences particular or generalized. The perspectives of the two were enforced, separate, and made for a more interesting reading, unlike acts two and three, where the narrator's camera, as it were, the framing was increasingly distanced, with me caring not in the least if or how the whole thing would end after passing aroudn 55⸺60%. Their two love interests and the relationships established therewith were also interesting. Both were non-standard, but had they not their histories and quirks and retained their personalities and human qualities, it would have still worked. Reba, Dolarhyde's love interest in Book of Longing
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Righteous Indignation
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Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowA female Jew's desires stamped. Promiscuity, admiration, adulation, disregard, maltreatment, and arbitrary forgiveness for these. Unrealistic. And rather annoying. Had a few nice lines, as if effort was put in. Showed its grimace quickly. Fucking women are fucking cunts a-fucking-gain. Yes, I am currently angry, how could you fucking tell? If you're a female, give it a try, writing good. If you've a dick, and a man's head, don't bother. | Gabrielle Zevin | maMwj? | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears them DownA female Jew's desires stamped. Promiscuity, admiration, adulation, disregard, maltreatment, and arbitrary forgiveness for these. Unrealistic. And rather annoying. Had a few nice lines, as if effort was put in. Showed its grimace quickly. Fucking women are fucking cunts a-fucking-gain. Yes, I am currently angry, how could you fucking tell? If you're a female, give it a try, writing good. If you've a dick, and a man's head, don't bother. | Jonathan Gottschall | g | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysMeaning drivel. Mostly. I'm not sifting through 12h, 105k words for one gem. Writing's shit. Nothing worthwhile, in what was read. | Susan Sontag | ♀wa | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Several short sentences about writing.Meaning drivel. Mostly. I'm not sifting through 12h, 105k words for one gem. Writing's shit. Nothing worthwhile, in what was read. | Verlyn Klinkenborg | ✔✔ | 2.71 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm Glad My Mom DiedThe vivid memories of a child actor outgrowing mental and emotional trauma, blackmail, abuse, disorders. Poignant, witty, sharp. I like detailed, brutally honest diaries, memoirs written timely, not when memory's fuzzier than a Persian cat, and Death's impatiently tapping his foot, glaring down his sandglass. Hats off to Net, she overcame adversity, the cruel arbitrariness of life. Wasn't a massive cunt along the way too.
>This is my first time visiting Mom's grave since her birthday, last July. My visits have become less frequent through the years, even though I promised Mom, per her request, that I would visit her grave every day. In the beginning, I visited once a week and felt guilty about it, like it wasn't enough. But with time and with reality, the visits have become less and less, and so has the guilt.
>I sit cross-legged in front of her grave. I take a longer look at the words on her headstone.
>Brave, kind, loyal, sweet, loving, graceful, strong, thoughtful, funny, genuine, hopeful, playful, insightful, and on and on…
>Was she, though? Was she any of those things? The words make me angry. I can't look at them any longer.
>Why do we romanticize the dead? Why can't we be honest about them? Especially moms. They're the most romanticized of anyone.
>Moms are saints. Angels by merely existing. NO ONE could possibly understand what it's like to be a mom. Men will never understand. Women with no children will never understand. No one but moms know the hardship of motherhood, and we non-moms must heap nothing but praise upon moms because we lowly, pitiful non-moms are mere peasants compared to the goddesses we call mothers.
>Maybe I feel this way now because I viewed my mom that way for so long. I had her up on a pedestal, and I know how detrimental that pedestal was to my well-being and life. That pedestal kept me stuck, emotionally stunted, living in fear, dependent, in a near constant state of emotional pain and without the tools to even identify that pain let alone deal with it.
>My mom didn't deserve her pedestal. She was a narcissist. She refused to admit she had any problems, despite how destructive those problems were to our entire family. My mom emotionally, mentally, and physically abused me in ways that will forever impact me.
>She gave me breast and vaginal exams until I was seventeen years old. These “exams” made my body stiff with discomfort. I felt violated, yet I had no voice, no ability to express that. I was conditioned to believe any boundary I wanted was a betrayal of her, so I stayed silent. Cooperative.
>When I was six years old, she pushed me into a career I didn't want. I'm grateful for the financial stability that career has provided me, but not much else. I was not equipped to handle the entertainment industry and all of its competitiveness, rejection, stakes, harsh realities, fame. I needed that time, those years, to develop as a child. To form my identity. To grow. I can never get those years back.
>She taught me an eating disorder when I was eleven years old⸻an eating disorder that robbed me of my joy and any amount of free-spiritedness that I had.
>She never told me my father was not my father.
>Her death left me with more questions than answers, more pain than healing, and many layers of grief⸻the initial grief from her passing, then the grief of accepting her abuse and exploitation of me, and finally, the grief that surfaces now when I miss her and start to cry⸻because I do still miss her and start to cry.
>I miss her pep talks. Mom had a knack for finding just the right thing in a person to get them to light up and believe in themselves.
>I miss her childlike spirit. Mom had an energy that could at times be so endearing. Even captivating.
>And I miss when she was happy. It didn't happen as often as I would've liked, it didn't happen as often as I tried to force it to happen, but when she was happy it was infectious.
>Sometimes when I miss her I start to fantasize about what life would be like if she were still alive and I imagine that maybe she'd have apologized, and we'd have wept in each other's arms and promised each other we'd start fresh. Maybe she'd support me having my own identity, my own hopes and dreams and pursuits.
>But then I realize I'm just romanticizing the dead in the same way I wish everyone else wouldn't.
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The Tatami Galaxy(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel. So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole? It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice. | Tomihiko Morimi, Emily Balistrieri (tr.) | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
American Drug Addict(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel. So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole? It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice. | Brett Douglas | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Classic German Short Stories: Volume 1(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel. So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole? It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice. | V.A. | b?mw | 0.72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Wild Animal Ate a Person in the Woods: Fables(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel. So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole? It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice. | Adam Craig | ?w | 0.57 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ancient Fables(The) Tatami Galaxy holds a special place for me. One of scant rewatch-worthy anime (~5 such⸻I'll leave you guessing (or you can reach out :p)). Whose art style, humor, plot, and characters are all great. The tits. And all this after translation into a non-character-based language, or just a CJK one, since Ancient Egyptian pictograms probably won't cut the mustard. I relate to each and every named characters in some significant way. Being a novel, the crazy, exaggerated visuals of both anime and manga are lost. The portayed scenes are projected onto my eyeballs, the writing is that similar, that good. The author has successfully converted double- or triple-digit volumes of comics into a novel. So what's good about it, coming from having seen all the anime twice or thrice? It's faithful to the tone, feeling, setting of the anime, which itself is likewise to the manga, while grafting further details for locations, thoughts, emotions. Disengaging the visual aesthetics of the latter two media, is this approachable? Yes, just not as enjoyable. If you're not using an audiobook, each of the principle cast's members' moods and qualities will be either entirely lost, if you're lead. Or will require acquaintance with them, which in turn ⸻ some intelligence or emotional insight or thought, effort. The story is an n-fold repetition using the same characters with the same archetypes with details changing for plot-irrelevant purposes, for fun, like a musical theme and variation. If you can dig fables, you can this too. (Don't ask me what fable digging is.) If you don't, maybe not. People being (too) serious in jest, and too un⸻, bacchic, whimsical. I'd like to say, 'If you've experienced or observed student life for your average student at uni, you'll get this.' I should apply to, what, 3/4s the whole? It's also one of even fewer romances I like. Though you see no wooing, no 'action', no spats, no make-up sex, no marriage, no part of an on-going relationship, you do see a boy and girl realizing their emotions, manifesting their desires, coming together at the very last scene. It's heart-warming. Too, for an untouched organ like mine. Also heart-breaking. Since I'll never be happy and have anything like that happen ever again, or manifest it, or force it, and it makes me think of the the time spent in depression, in wallowing, in despondency, in self-pity, in time-squander, the time spent studying, spent drinking, spent alone, in gaming until I couldn't experinece fun anymore :|, in playing tetris until I crashed against my biological limitations, my age, in isolation, in hermitude, in vice. | Wu Min | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Travels in SiberiaFinished Travels in Siberia. Apparaently the circuit's been done by at least 15 different Ohioans within some decades of the the its writing. As well as as far back as the 13 or 16 century from various other explorers and travelers. Dude did his research and included a bibliography, so muchos kudos for that. Too often long-winded. The Russophilic aspect grates me so obscenely that I'd attached an 'annoying' mark to my rating of 'above mediocre but not quite decent either'. The history of region, that is, the history of the politics of monarchical Russian from its establishment to dissolution was included. In more detail than needed, I'd say. Not much in the way of fun or whimsy or share-worthy-around-the-camp-fire. Plain observation from a guy in his 50s, rarely interspersed with profound or naïve or American. Eh. At 1.8e5, roughly 2 novels' length, could have been decocted into something more potent. The genre of travelog(ue) is⸻, or rather has been too commercialized in the past few 5-ish decade. This is from 2001, so 1 post-collapse. The ones done by George Kennan aroun 1870 should be much more interesting, both are to be found at archive.dot in not great scanned condition. The TTS output is gonna be garbage. | Ian Frazier | mMba | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PopishoLeone Ross is Jamacian-English author with five-ish novels under her belt. Only three skittering on mobilism.org and the libgen mirror speaks to her previous success. The quality of writing here pushed me to give the other two a chance as well. The writing is very, very colorful, lively, vivid, alive, vibrant, am I using enough to words to convey the action? She does that, only half-n-halves it with Jamacian cant. Which to me is a new taste of English, so I appreciate it. The book is dense in that much that happens is relevant somehow. The language as mentioned is a pleasure to partake of. But this thickens the soup to a stew! Chonkification furthered by there being six gorillion plot-revelant toons. Tolkien all over again. I can't keep track of more than, say, 5. Maybe it's a female thing? I have sharper visual and ideal or ideational memories, a dull one for concretes, names and dates. At least at ~45%, there's no time travel and branching paths explored. Gave up on Popisho. I'm fucking hating women or anything vaguely feminine, so judging over 4 characters, emotions, and shit being unrealistic, impossible even is inacceptable, and the Jamacian cant is fucking annoying me since the reader of the audiobook varies her speed from 1x to 3x. I'll give the other half a shot in a few weeks, but the flite-version rather that the reader. Fuck me. The Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce ✓ 1 A compilation of his casual-remarks-turned-wittisms on imbued meanings of and connotations in everyday words during his years as a columnist for periodicals. It's short and sweet. A mild bitterness, bad-faith, despondency in humanity I notice. Cynicism perhaps? But uncalled for, too much of it. Up to the letter M, for example, there wasn't one 'hey, people can be nice too'. The exaggeration is neither subdued, nor cartoonishly overdone, it's half-way between snide and sarcasm. | Leone Ross | ✓MA | 0.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Third GenerationI'm not sure what Chester Himes was attempting with this novel. He was a black American author born at the start of the 20. century, celebrated for his hard-boileds, and ones with commentary on the racial tensions and dynamics within and without his 'black' race. The Harlem Detective series didn't strike me as engaging, given the choice I have at hand, but his 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help Benjamin Wiker Wg .37 A bad-faith, bland, benefiting from present-day, first-world hindsight top 10 list by one of those American faggots that thinks having a Ph.D. next to one's name is a stamp of correctness. Offers nothing new, offers nothing really. A stupid, unread religidrone may like this? Misrepresents as a child would positively impactful, key to the human development scientists,philosophers, economists to pat himself on the back for reassuring himself about his close⸻, or rather absent-minded, dogmatic, and predictable to a T 'faith'. Can't see being his nose. Alice, you whore cunt, you'd actually like this and think yourself oh so smart for having read it.
| Chester Himes | mb?w | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Crystal Child: A Story of the Buried LifeI'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted. tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-?
| Theodore Roszak | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dangerous ConnectionsI'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted. tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-?
| Pierre Choderlos de Laclos | B? | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Iodine CrisisI'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted. tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-?
| Lynne Farrow | kmw | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and ReinventionI'm disappointed this supposed big-dick scholar hasn't more of many published works amidst libgen's stores. And the one bot on #bookz on undernet on IRC, who did have something else, namely Dreamwatcher, didn't respond. Despite that, this is my second novel of his, and third work. Again an interesting premise: progeria kid turns wunderkind turns his own cupid. Explore sexuality, and age, disease, mortality, time and their relationships. Greek mythology and some prominent art throughout the past 2500 years as well. Ones encountered not by my senses, my mind. I'll get around to them. I apprehend callow I still am and will inimically sour these so-called classics for the future or forever. I'd rather shun incertainly surmountable first impressions. Food for thought. Questions I'll tooth myself since I'm unacqainted with the worthy. I bid you, prove me wrong! I'd be delighted. tfw no commasticant :t ikr? Kino word. Also, why the fuck do we need: co-, con-, com-?
| Chris Duffin | cwa | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Girls of a Certain AgeWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Maria Adelmann | wbm? | 0.27 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Billionaire GrumpWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Misha Bell | ♀cw | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pyramid of Lies: Lex Greensill and the Billion-Dollar ScandalWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Duncan Mavin | bm | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alex Delaware: 38 - Unnatural HistoryWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Jonathan Kellerman | mpb | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purgatory MountWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Adam Roberts | wa | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American HistoryWhat is this about? I have no idea. From the start no discernible to me order I read: a chronologically descending countdown by year about her love life and selfimage around mastectomy or cancer; a her anxious break-up thing which is dubiously mutual; her moving out; her brother being introduced caring for her after her breakdown due to hormones due to, and I quote, 'baby-kill-pills' she willingly, knowingly took; a childhood flashback with pet and friend, who she was envious of, with 1-2-3 exposition dump of poverty, missing father figure, strained relationship family; lesbianism and or feminism..? The chapters comprizing the first almost third of this work share only the main character. Too episodic with sparse continuation. Mental baggage? Okay, but show character, something admirable. Development of something somewhere. There's little to care about; presentation is bad. | Andie Tucher | mb | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Second ComingJohn Niven, I think, wanted to use all the puns, jokes, stereotypes, any miscellaneous religion knowledge from the past 250 years of America's white-man-settled existence. And he kind of succeeded. A sitcom with development in 4 (OR 5??) arcs. How the 3 standard acts fit over these⸻the first 20% are the exposition, plot commensement of intoduction, and the second and third are very intensity plot-wise. I'm reminded of this manga/anime. This lends predictability to the characters, you're not brining anything new to table, not subverting expectations, knowledge. Since all characters⸻yes, even the tertiary ones⸻are cookie-cutouts, the positive strong initial impression is unimpressed; the story and humor lose steam. After a third, I stopped caring about anything, or being able to. As did the author, realizing he's out of easily insertable memes, Bible excerpts, etc. | John Niven | M✓w | 0.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Killers of the Flower MoonFocus on victims and their lives? Seriously, again? Bad David, bad! It's call true crime, not true grief. These fuckers almost succeed in making 80s VHS dating profile of real people. It's not presented well. It's not done well. It's mostly the prime-time resurfacing of (badly) buried trauma of overly emotional, irrational indirect minor victims with all the folly that time stacks on a brain. And it's boring. Just learned Scorsese directed and co-produced a 2023 release based on this book. | David Grann | bmw | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ali in Wonderland: And Other Tall TalesFocus on victims and their lives? Seriously, again? Bad David, bad! It's call true crime, not true grief. These fuckers almost succeed in making 80s VHS dating profile of real people. It's not presented well. It's not done well. It's mostly the prime-time resurfacing of (badly) buried trauma of overly emotional, irrational indirect minor victims with all the folly that time stacks on a brain. And it's boring. Just learned Scorsese directed and co-produced a 2023 release based on this book. | Ali Wentworth | ab | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About YouCool book on how to analyze others' possessions. Very lay however, hence approachable and salable, but with little, to me, new bullshit. I would have liked more either more examples, or ways of testing oneself. | Sam Gosling | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Midshipman BolithoA 16-year-old in navy. Swell gig for a poor English fuck. When you were 16, how vibrant, eye-popping was everything, assuming you're not a chemical sedate? The 15% I'd read of this, is had the tone and cadence of tiring-from-life, 40+-year-old man. The blonde lad from the | Alexander Kent | bm | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Half EmptySupposedly a freelancer's exploration of his own pessimism and others' take on pessimism in general. Or something..? I wasn't attentive, but it wasn't engaging either. Read more like the whinery of a middle-aged, amidst-mid-life-crisised male of poor life choices. Directionless, if at all going somewhere. | David Rakoff | ?m | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dresden: A Survivor's StorySupposedly a freelancer's exploration of his own pessimism and others' take on pessimism in general. Or something..? I wasn't attentive, but it wasn't engaging either. Read more like the whinery of a middle-aged, amidst-mid-life-crisised male of poor life choices. Directionless, if at all going somewhere. | Victor Gregg | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fuck You Very Much
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Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in HollywoodWhat is says on the tin. Like Keith Phipps' | Gavin Edwards | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Everything Reminds Me of Something: Advice, Answers…but No ApologiesWhat is says on the tin. Like Keith Phipps' | Adam Carolla | aw | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in AmericaDisappointing to me in having little of her escape, everything surrounding it, conditions in the DPRK, or crimes against humanity therein. The books shines in constrasting the people who've suffered under Marxist governments with and 'first-world' or 'Western', humanities-educated, contributing-nothing-of-value-to-society cunts who haven't. | Yeonmi Park | Mmk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Perfect MessSaying nothing in so so many words. Not even in platitudes aplenty. No citations. No own research. Who would anyone read this, let alone buy it? Pointingg out minor inconsitencieswe | Eric Abrahamson, David H. Freedman | kwbm | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Good Prose: The Art of NonfictionBadly written in that in 3⸺4*1e4 words you said nothing. Not quite fluffef up platitudes. But nothing new, nothing too old either. I listened only. That there was no download over at libgen speaks for the desire of the public for this non-fiction, almost self-help (in that it's common knowledge) collection of vowels and cononants that left no impression. And what there was, wasn't good. | Tracy Kidder, Richard Todd | w?m | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us AllA how-to on how to say nothing and dispraise a not too bad profession. Shame on you, Marilyn. | Marilyn Johnson | bw | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Craigslist Confessional: A Collection of Secrets from Anonymous StrangersThe most normie of stories. What I'd hear riding a train in this country, or in Germany. Anonymity would allow for some lies, tall tales⸻you'd think, and you'd be wrong. It's just boring shit. Imagine 15⸺25-year-olds? Bore them up. And basic, human stories? Pass that through bad 100 IQ writing you'd do for a fucking CRAIG-FUGGIN'-LIST AD, and you get this shit. Fuck me. No, seriously. I need to jerk off. AND EVERYTHING IS SO. FUCKING. OFF-PUTTING. FUCK ME IN MY SLEEP. | Helena Dea Bala | bw | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Betrayal In Blood(Yes, I'm copying, sue me. Also, hi :j.) | Michael Benson | B | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood DreamsToo frequent and unmarked diegetic time-hopping lost me. The story about a boy and his slightly abusing and annoying grandfather, whom he kiss with gas and an electric heater in the 1970s as a 13- or 14-year-old. Lying to relatives and play the good boy, and then schoolmates or neighborhood folk..? Already forgotting. Bland, unstriking in any way though it's been less than 2 days even I remember 3 characters and their qualities, which could have been an episode of a cartoon: exaggerated and one-dimensional. | Jack MacLane | mb | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AbandonBlake, what were you going for here? Because a quarter of those 9e4 words and I was more confused than invested by too many characters and too many (possible) plotslines. Time-travel, western, haunting/curse, family reunion. 6 in the present, about 8⸺12 in the past? Like I had trouble keep tabs on who's who in Tolkien's The Suicide Club: You Are Not Alone Matt Shaw Wm .96 Oh my, another log by the turdmeister? And a recent one no less. He redeemed himself with the cromulent A too brief explor⸻, glance at the possible value of existence. As contrasted with nullibiety. I'm still reading Adam Phillipps' The Suicide Motor ClubInitially reminiscent of Christopher Buehlman | w?bm | 0.11 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Suicide Clubx. time's the charm, it'd seem. And from a male, female-targeting romance writer no less (reviews' first sentences and books' blurbs didn't preent it as 'chic lit'). While the writing isn't praiseworthy, it does its job. The title fits better than the last two. Characters and plot cohere and develop. Little fluff, decent length. Its one sex scene with pre- and postludes was in comparison to all others prolonged a chapter. 31 in toto, assuming equally lengthy, that'd be almost 4%. Was he flexing on lesser authors or something? Didn't sit well with me. Would've'n so without knowing his writing domain. Nigh fully plot-irrelevant. The next chapter is of a plot-relevant funeral. It was not as detailed, the various emotions of the 2⸺3 characters and the mass are more off-handedly handled. The second time it was handled appropriately to tone and context, to the plot: 9 sentences, 90 words. Well, spoken too quickly: post-coital sex is a thing for 40-year-olds in Gayle's mind. A few more paragraphs, though not a chapter. The quality of writing is noticeable when he deviates. He write suspenseful romance novels for women. This is neither police procedural, nor an antangonist-focused character study, nor an ego stroke, nor an orgy, nor a romance, nor a detective novel anyhow boiled. The few (as of 80%) 4-ish times the antagonist's perspective was taken, made it feel cheaper in a way. It'd be like watching a criminal expostulate his uncommited crime and make mistakes in perpetrationg, and watching Holmes firstly gloss over these then going 'aha!'. Because it's a choice by the author to focus briefly in the intent, but he chickens out as if. 'Cheesy' could be said of the ending; inexcusable despite being expected given what he writes to pay rent. Also, only two suicides? 'Club' is also deceptive; last 3 chapters tie together the antagonists, who've most acted outside the page up til the final showdown. One serving as an exposition, or rather debriefing, mule. The result is a 5⸺5.5/10 slightly 'suspenseful' police detective novel. | Gayle Wilson | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Way of Chuang TzuThe Suicide ClubOkay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in
Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years. Rhys Thomas | ✓ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Suicide ClubOkay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in
Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years. | Robert Louis Stevenson | bm | 0.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Is Your Brain on Depression: Creating Your Path to Getting BetterOkay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in
Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years. | Faith G. Harper | kwm | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It EasyOkay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in
Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years. | Daniel T. Willingham | km | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking LessOkay, this time's the charm. An actual suicide club! The protagonist is a 15-year-old boy in
Like Holden, he oscillates from manic to depressive, from soft to cruel or harsh, though H. wasn't ever intently from what I recall; a bit too smart or sharp (for his breeches) to childish, or kid-ish⸻those pre- and first teenage(-r) years from, say, 11 to 14? Too stark it seems to me, unsmooth; ultimately unnatural. I can't fathom how much editorial toil would be required to get this 'perfect', were such a thing possible. All in all, a good-to-great first novel on humans in their most turbulent years. | Adrian Chiles | m | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis (Expanded Edition)Waited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents. The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying. | Ian Brady | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century ParisWaited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents. The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying. | Nina Kushner | Bm♀ | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Prisoner of ZendaWaited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents. The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying. | Anthony Hope | Ba | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Shadow at the DoorWaited quite a bit to get to this. I shouldn't've! A good heap of my thought from the past decade directed toward humans, others can herein be found. Further formed, sharpened cemented into a wicket palisade that a normie would write of a cynicism borne of misfortune or misanthropy. Excused for lack of understanding, insight, exertion. It is seldom that I feel companionship with another, feel understood, not alone, not trapped in a solipsistic, hypocritical, tedious placid nightmare of human affairs. Ians gets it. I am made whole-r. I can return to this in the future when in need. About the book, he analyzes or offers his view, or spiteful comments for society, people of all roles, politicians, journalists, medical doctors, criminals, normies, averages joes. Mostly in an unflattering yet realistic light. He shies away not from being being blunt and forceful as a mid-swing wrecking ball. He knows his shit: his positions, arguments, detractors, distractors, discreditors, the majority of his opponents. The afterword is by Peter Sotos, whose writing I like for its material: real-world violence, child pornography and exploitation, drug use, and so on, and his disuse of punctuation to greatly intensify, make hectic the the actions. Scenes are non-voyeristic with him. I can't appreciate his throwing shade at Brady, his focusing on vicitims and victims' parents, and fee-fees. Shit that don't matter. In poor-er taste, bland, cheap. And to be expected of sensationalist news⸻the yellow pages of yore⸻and the actual 'news' of today courtesy of non-journalistists swiping and adding non-content as 'commentary' over twitter users' posts. Eh, could've'n worse, defo didn't add anything other than: The foreword by Colin Wilson was a smidge about 'meh'. Then again most so-called classics' both take of up signifant space, 05⸺33%, and add nothing of value to the reader⸻no information, no context, no opinions, arguments, etc. (Side-note: you can probably churn those mofos out with ChatGPT-likes and nobody'd find out. A worth-reading fore- or after-lude or -word is much, much harder.) The expansion, the concluding third by volume of the book, consists of various contributes. C.W.'s is first, a continuation of what he'd said in the fore-. He's cocksure and slightly annoying. | Tim Weaver | w | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Einstein's Fridge: How the Difference Between Hot and Cold Explains the UniverseOverfocussed on thermodynamics. It's publisher thought | Paul Sen | kmb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison LifeThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Nigel Poor, Earlonne Woods | bm | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Don't Burn This Country: Surviving and Thriving in Our Woke DystopiaThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Dave Rubin | Kw | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous HackersThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Andy Greenberg | bm | 0.63 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of CryptocurrencyThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Andy Greenberg | bBm | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek Gurnisson: RealmslayerThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Darius Hinks | Aw | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: Berthold's BeardThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Joshua Reynolds | b | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: Lost TalesThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | V.A. | b | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Age of Sigmar: GitslayerThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Darius Hinks | b | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: Marriage of MomentThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | Josh Reynolds | m | 0.87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: Myths and LegendsThis could have been so much more. But no, Nigel⸻A female? What is wrong with parents? Nigeline, Nigeleena, Nigelique, etc. were taken?⸻is a post-wall, no-family, dog-owner social worker/psychologist with an I-can-fix-him mentality. Her co-host? some black dude with an unimpressive criminal record, abilities and capabilities, charged with a rather minor for San Quentin, California offense. With neither nary a hot take. Nor an interesting one. This is mundanity. Why would anybody want to read this..? They have a prison-themed podcast. But not the cool, edgy variety, but the parole-board-milquetoast, minutely redemptive, salubrious kind? | William King | bm | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happy People Are AnnoyingI was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly.. | Josh Peck | m | 0.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: 15 - City of the DamnedI was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly.. | David Guymer | maw | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: ?? - KinslayerI was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly.. | David Guymer | b | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: Into the Valley of DeathI was a fat Jewish kid who made it very, very briefly, then unmade it and himself, now I'm doing comedy (?) and my agent doesn't know what to do with me, proposed a book, and I want to to more drugs and or eat food. Meh story told meh-ly.. | Frank Cavallo | mb | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ultra-Processed People: The Food We Eat That Isn't Food and Why We Can't StopThe way the book is written is infuriating. He's missing the point LCHF is making, he's makes no effort to understand the science, he's focusing on minutae, he starts about study design, and wholesale forgets all of it and takes groups with very conflicting interests' opinions and statements as truthful. What the fuck? | Chris van Tulleken | Kma | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Attack of the Killer TomatoesThe preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience. | Jeff Strand | mwMa | 0.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It Came from the Trailer Park: 1The preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience. | V.A., Sara Brooke (ed.) | Wp | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Re-AnimatorThe preamble of this was humorous, over-the-top exposition. With the stubby script and dinky movie budget, no deeply analysis is easily possible. Expansion, a fuckton of it, however is. But I can't now be bothered to research what rights the author is granted. Past the high of the introduction, the plot can't be too long, and couldn't deviate from the material much either. So one's left with a shallow and boring experience. | Jeff Rovin | bm | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Happy-Go-LuckyThe liberated, successful, first generation immigrant child experience? I write this as I found it not in libgen as a standalone. Seems to be a stitching together, since lacking narrative, of the author's best stories from recorded stand-up specials and his other books, which are also anecdotes. David is: now in his 50s; he is gay but it's not a central or too defining characteristic of him; haha, drugs are funny, or something like that; successful enough writer and to cover all levels of Maslow's; a mildly annoying (to me) lib. I don't like compilations, best-ofs. Not for music, nor for literature. I have a hard enough time context-switching, reinvesting when reading anthologies or short story collections. I got to know his style. I'll give his others a fair shake or 3. Frankly, he's a like a 5.5 or 6, entertainment-wise. He didn't me grin, giggle, chuckle, asperate, let alone laugh. But he wasn't actively *un-*enjoyable (assuming a 5's a median). I expect to get more of the same, only of lesser quality and with some diagetic coherence. | David Sedaris | ma | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How Documentaries Went Mainstream: A History, 1960-2022Who's more guilty: the uninspired, fake, placcid, non-human female reader, or the bland, authoring cunt? This is some boring shit. I like documentaries, I wanted to know why they exist, how they went about existing. They serve to broadly both appeal to, and to rope into science the more interested of the lay. Which would then unlay them. In both senses (unlay v. 1. (tr., intr.) to remove (somebody, oneself) from the group of laymen (for a specific area); 2. (tr., intr.) to not have sexual intercourse (with somebody) or to make (somebody, oneself) intelligible therefor) a of this newly coined by me (Don't quote me on that.) word (Already a nautical term for 'to untwist'.). | Nora Stone | Bg | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MetamorphosisWho's more guilty: the uninspired, fake, placcid, non-human female reader, or the bland, authoring cunt? This is some boring shit. I like documentaries, I wanted to know why they exist, how they went about existing. They serve to broadly both appeal to, and to rope into science the more interested of the lay. Which would then unlay them. In both senses (unlay v. 1. (tr., intr.) to remove (somebody, oneself) from the group of laymen (for a specific area); 2. (tr., intr.) to not have sexual intercourse (with somebody) or to make (somebody, oneself) intelligible therefor) a of this newly coined by me (Don't quote me on that.) word (Already a nautical term for 'to untwist'.). | Franz Kafka, Ian Johnston (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MetamorphosisDecent enough translation for 12⸺15-year-old, the newest flavor of degeneracy, the most targeted, easiest to sway, to sell to US demographic⸻, but lacks the vocabulary breadth and depth of the original. And its handsome Süddeutsch-isms. Awkward millenial edition..? I have an older audiobook of this title, hopefully of a better, older translation | Franz Kafka, Susan Bernofsky (tr.) | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
MetamorphosisDecent enough translation for teenager, but lacks the vocabulary breadth and depth of the original. And its handsome Süddeutsch-isms. Included some interlude I skimmed; didn't add anything. Which is to say, it subtracted. The rest 2/3s were criticism, the first of which was a yawn, and second started off as the very same, so I wrote off the rest confidently. They said nothing in many-many words also confidently. I read this while listening to Susan Bernofsky's (Or Ian Johnston's? Or are hers and Corngold's based off of his? They really should announce all contributors upfront, rather than at end, or, in the audiobook's case, not at all!) translation. The few notes weren't worth the effort of writing them, I'd think. To a 21. century, middle class, first or second world non-European (say, a snownigger, sandnigger, ricenigger, american, etc.), one without basic knowledge of then life, customs, traditions, that is, sans context, a tenfolding of their number would be necessary to better paint the picture. So, uuuh, Norton Critical Edition was it (already deleted it)? Go fuck yourself. | Franz Kafka, Stan Corngold (tr.), V.A. | ✔M | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Red DogThere's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.) | Louis de Bernières | bpm | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
You're NextThere's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.) | Gregg Hurwitz | wbp | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Before the Coffee Gets Cold: 1 - Before the Coffee Gets ColdThere's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.) | Toshikazu Kawaguchi | wam | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Road out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville MurdersThere's a movie based on this book, which itself is retellings of an Aussie rural worker with a red dog. The movie was at least pretty. Eye-candy. Reader sees nothing of Australia within the first fifth of the book. They get the eating and roaming habits of half-wild animal. Wacky hijinx to comedify and make salable. But it's the the sort of low-brow funnies I expect of primary schoolers, preteens. You'd know the moment in the watchable through the addition of foley. (Just now realized that canned laugh tracks are foley for real-life or present audience, whose reaction would then semaphore the unlive (or dead inside) audience.) | Anthony Flacco, Jerry Clark, Michael H. Stone | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Santa Steps outJust lovely. Immoral, cheeky, satirically human. Behavior showcased through some Christian and, more so, Greek mythologies. Sprinkle in child innocence and adult trudge. Unseriously desecrating Christians' highly hypocritic ideals and idols (LMFAO! The 'no [false idols/idolatry]' tenet of Judeo-Christian tradition? The one from Moses' slab? The more zealous the person, the more counts of this s/he can be charged with. Always. What a farce religious cunts are. Disgraceful.). (The) Tooth Fairy, Santa/Nikolaus Claus (of Myra), Lucifer, Anya/Mrs Claus, and (the) Easter Bunny are the the main characters. Each represents one character in both pantheons, that is two in toto. Wherefrom the hijinx and discrepancies, that and the move from Greco-Roman to Judeo-Christian in the Western world, that is Europe and Northern America. The writing is surprisingly good from an author I'd not read mentioned in splatterpunk or gore or wicked or edgy anthologies, not that I've read much. His | Robert Devereaux | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frozen HellJust lovely. Immoral, cheeky, satirically human. Behavior showcased through some Christian and, more so, Greek mythologies. Sprinkle in child innocence and adult trudge. Unseriously desecrating Christians' highly hypocritic ideals and idols (LMFAO! The 'no [false idols/idolatry]' tenet of Judeo-Christian tradition? The one from Moses' slab? The more zealous the person, the more counts of this s/he can be charged with. Always. What a farce religious cunts are. Disgraceful.). (The) Tooth Fairy, Santa/Nikolaus Claus (of Myra), Lucifer, Anya/Mrs Claus, and (the) Easter Bunny are the the main characters. Each represents one character in both pantheons, that is two in toto. Wherefrom the hijinx and discrepancies, that and the move from Greco-Roman to Judeo-Christian in the Western world, that is Europe and Northern America. The writing is surprisingly good from an author I'd not read mentioned in splatterpunk or gore or wicked or edgy anthologies, not that I've read much. His | John W. Campbell Jr. | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Missing out: In Praise of the Unlived LifeI'd recommend this book to all men, especially those in their 20s and 30s. Those having past, say, 25, when the tumult of hormonal carpet-bombing has concluded, after hitting our (first) energy wall, realizing 'oh, shit, i'm aging'; and those frustrated. We all⸻yes, that includes you, lizard alien jew illuminati overloads⸻, experience frustration. Frustrations. The author Alluded to in 018 and 019, it is (and later, possibly too much) is a heavy-hitter. The first part (of six) I read thrice before proceeding. Second and third twice. The other parts warrant another as well. The talk of frustration, frameworks of psychoanalysts and psychologists help define the problems many of us experience as people. I would recommend it any male in trouble, however defined in whatever domain. I'll revisit it again later. | Adam Phillips | ✔✔ | 1.47 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing FieldsI'd recommend this book to all men, especially those in their 20s and 30s. Those having past, say, 25, when the tumult of hormonal carpet-bombing has concluded, after hitting our (first) energy wall, realizing 'oh, shit, i'm aging'; and those frustrated. We all⸻yes, that includes you, lizard alien jew illuminati overloads⸻, experience frustration. Frustrations. The author Alluded to in 018 and 019, it is (and later, possibly too much) is a heavy-hitter. The first part (of six) I read thrice before proceeding. Second and third twice. The other parts warrant another as well. The talk of frustration, frameworks of psychoanalysts and psychologists help define the problems many of us experience as people. I would recommend it any male in trouble, however defined in whatever domain. I'll revisit it again later. | Wendy Lower | mkg | 0.84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ReaderA story about possible to rise moral questions from boyish love for/with an illiterate, female, former Siemens employee. Wenn der Siemens Betrieb Scheiß für die Nazionalsozialistpartei der Deutschen Republik hergestellte, ja? Oh, the things we do for booba. Bernhard Schlink's rather autobiographical, and sole worthwhile and notable (although I will give the non-serial others a shot, since I like the German language) work. I'm not being cheeky here, I do think it was the author's own contemplations. Fresh from finishing it. My then half-friend, non-serious friend Georg, who wasn't then, and, I'd bet a kidney on this, now, a law (history) professor, showed remarkably similar maturity in thought, actually more of it and actually more compassion and less 'brainwashing'. I use half-mock quotes; I'll explain later. At 47k words the length make more sense than at first (because German can be terse, perforce cutting the traslation's tail). The first act slightly overstayed its welcome (in hindsight was even long). Second felt both prolonged and shrunk, like a freak washing machine accident with a mixed weave garment. Third was felt cut short, ending half abruptly. I can tell, 2 and 3 have seen most reworking. Jerk, in pushing and pulling, in pacing, is especially noticeable in the middle. From fast-forward to fast-rewind. It's been rewritten many times. Insufficient time has past as if, not for the events, but for the author. Guilt, acceptance, repenting, repenting, punishment, if not more emotions arguing. I've seen these in 18⸺23-year-olds more settled and resolved (author was writing another generation after this had happened, and I'm writing this another atop (WW2->Nuremberg->paroles->parolees' deaths)), the amount at least reduced, with magnitudes less wildly oscillating. The author attempted to portay. Maybe he tried to ⸻ his emotive, opinion journey. In my opinion, post-break-up protag in story fails to convey most of his emotions (well) because of the scant actual events, emotions, thoughts he's had (that the author decides to put in). I didn't like: 1. not resolving the relationship and or the issues between the protag and the woman; 2. the conveniently blank protag esp. in later years; 3. Marxist-supposed crimes against humanity bad, mmkay?; 4. shit's subjective and or relative, yo. | Bernhard Schlink | ✓Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ManeaterIn tone, plot, prot- and antagonist, this mirrors his | Jon Athan | Mmwp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Natural BeautyIn tone, plot, prot- and antagonist, this mirrors his | Ling Ling Huang | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Money: A Suicide NoteMartin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' | Martin Amis | ✔✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Richard Oppenheimer: 1 - GermaniaMartin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' | Harald Gilbers | m | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mobshot: My Life and the MafiaMartin Amis recently died. While trying to fill the hole in my life I stumbled upon Chuck Palahniuk's 1⸺2 posts on his substack on him. Being paid, I didn't read 'em, but he spoke well of him in the first 2 paragraphs, so I decided to give him a chance. This is his best received novel, from skimming. What's it about? Money, obviously. A well-connected, wealthy, sleazy, unkempt, and unhealthy, cinema-industry fatfuck. Think middle-aged Harvey Weinstein? Add in some of the yuppie parody in Bret Easton Ellis' | Vince Ciacci | b | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maeve FlyA slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of | C.J. Leede | ✓Ma | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gotrek and Felix: ?? - SlayerA slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of | David Guymer | pbm | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of CarnageA slightly raunchy, slightly gory short novel by a woman. About women, with mostly woman primary and secondary characters. Written by a woman, that is, it passes the writing content test. It is most certainly female. It is also annoying. The 'I hate women.' kind of annoying. It bears mentioning, since this is one of its two flaws. Its other, greater one would be its hiding plot or substance behind snark, or addition in filler due to le emotion. Probably because it is a first-person narrative and divorcing that, the main's tone, character, would push it towards neutral, a third-person thing. It is not the author, who is annoying, the characters. Arguably this can be 'good writing', but I haven't a glyph for that, and that should be par course. What I'd said of its shortness? That too is excusable assuming forgone narration. The first act was strong. The second was less intense in pacing, description (sex and violence), more mundane. It requires tightening. My 'M' is due to this and the increased classic sex scenes. That is, none of Simone of | Nick de Semlyen | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
On the Third Day, They DieI've almost passed 11% of the whole. It's What it says on the tin. And nowhere near the quality of writing of his | Rhys Thomas | awm | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rokkaia ChroniclesAnother failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know. | Rhys Thomas | Bw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sam Holloway: 1 - The Unlikely Heroics of Sam HollowayAnother failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know. | Rhys Thomas | b | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hell HouseAnother failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know. | Richard Matheson | Bw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sir Henry Merrivale: 8 - The Judas WindowAnother failure of a novel. Tedium this time doles in 1e4 less words with a universe or rather a new mythology badly exposition-dumped up-fucking-front. While it could be worse (by having multiple characters do it, emotionally, during a spat), being neither extensive, nor fully explanative, it confused me, the reader. 7000 words down the drain. If it was to serve as introduction to terminology and names to be used throughout, then bad again. I don't see why I should be invested or care about literally 3 entities talking about some shit I don't give a flying fuck about. Cut to the past. Jarring? Yes. This is where it should have begun. Not great writing. Plot itself I could get into. Writing matters more than content, wouldn't you know. | John Dickson Carr | mb | 0.22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the WestA defector book again? Only this time, it is from a person born and raise in a multi-generational detention camp. The introduction was nice. The usual spiel of how author came across person, but also shedding light on others' quick to wane interest, let alone involvement or call to action, protest. The escapee's story is more violent than those of regular citizens', has more psychological abuse. The extensive of which can be see in his slow adaptation to South Korean and American life. | Blaine Harden | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Unseen Body: A Doctor's Journey through the Hidden Wonders of Human AnatomyI can't recall who it was, but another doctor, a pathologist (or coroner, for which you don't need to be a doctor of medicine in the UK (or was it the US of A?)), had written a book about, well, death. Those of his clients. Or maybe, since they're not paying up, that's not the right word. Regardless, he did so likewise, chapters being organs or muscle( group)s. | Jonathan Reisman | mMk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Captives and CaptorsJon watched 2013's | Jon Athan | Mwm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sinister SyndromesJon watched 2013's | Jon Athan | mbw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Creepy Pasta Collection: Modern Urban Legends You Can't UnreadJon watched 2013's | V.A., MrCreepyPasta (ed.) | wa | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Balkans: A Captivating Guide to the History of the Balkan Peninsula, Starting from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages to the Modern PeriodJon watched 2013's | Captivating History | km | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien Nation
Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
| Alan Dean Foster | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge
Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
| John G. Matsusaka | bm | 0.64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Story of the Eye
Passing the halfway point. Hold da phone. The conclusing sentence above is the result of poorly executed and prolonged (at ~32⸺35e3 words, or >50% of the total line-wise) first act. More dialog, more action, more funnies, more details about the so-called 'Newcomers' and their observations of humans, that is, Americans, that is, Californians. More decent writing, pacing.
| Georges Bataille, Joachim Neugroschel (tr.) | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
STFU: The Power of Keeping Your Mouth Shut in an Endlessly Noisy WorldCommon sense, common knowledge, bromides about keeping your mouth shut and noise. Then suddenly 'le people scared of untested experimental treatment more than flu-liek coronabairus' and 'le 2020 election was won fair and square'. aaand all respect for this human lost. You have been demoted to parasite. And you're objectively wrong. You got me listening for nearly an hour though, and you barely said anything novel. Fuck me. Fuck you, and your kind. Where is my slack? Veronicaaaa, where the fuck is my slack?! | Dan Lyons | kMmf | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blind to Betrayal: Why We Fool Ourselves We Aren't Being FooledSome interview or podcast I'd been listened had a reference to this. It turns out to be a nothingburger. Common sense, not doctoral, nor master's, nor bachelor's level of logic or though required. Obviously I was surprise. I squinted, thinking 'Why would I have added this..?' Then I saw it. Two female authors. Sheesh. The whole book, studies and works cited all heavily bias women, then children. Men get a fat fucking middle finger. They propagate bullshit, that is, falsehoods. They coddle and victimize. They used badly designed studies that would favor a battered woman syndrome narrative. And it is a narrative. Fiction. Abstract away the bias, and you get a mid layman collection of stories with some commentary. It was initally going to be between an m and an M. But it's insufferable trash. Pass. | Jennifer Freyd, Pamela Birrell | mak | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966A fleeting and slightly mature whimsy. Divided into six books, parts really, the first is very quaint and charming. It functions both as page-turner, and a page-soaker. (Don't look that up, it's not been coined. It'd be the opposite something you flip through in want of more. You can soak (get it?) in each sentence or segment of the whole.) The first act happens in book two and three, with the rest covering the second and third act evenly. Endearing (Third subjective term and a synonym of the second? Yikes.) in the Richard Brautigan way. Weird? Yeah, what did you, would you expect from this bloke? It's no realism, nor Charles Dickens, whiney fucking French faggot Baudelaire or Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Dostoyevsky. | Richard Brautigan | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revenge of the LawnA collection of <1000-word (short-short?) stories and bits. Reads almost like stand-up. Like most collections, it's a mixed bag. Some (the longer ones) have me giggling at every sentence, some (shorter one) read like failed observational comedy. Others like actual observations, writing never fit elsewhere, plugged here. to make a buck..? Unlike any of the Beat auteurs: Keruoac, Ginsberg, this can be oignantly humorous, the author rather. | Richard Brautigan | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Collected Short StoriesBetter than nothing stories and some good uns by a guy whose freely accessible works I'd downloaded en masse. The very first of his I'd found boring at 06%; the second an M at 1. His stories are or were featured in short story anthologies and collections. Compared with ones variously authored, it is not as jarring going between entries. The other require a reset, a reboot. They're like consistent forced minor context switching. These all are <1000 words, they function more like resolutions or terse descriptions of third acts. | Richard Kadrey | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek Lessons(Pardon the misdirection, convolution of sentences. I'm tired. I'll rewrite this in the future. Linearity. Some day.) | Han Kang | wmb | 0.49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Butts: A Backstory(Pardon the misdirection, convolution of sentences. I'm tired. I'll rewrite this in the future. Linearity. Some day.) | Heather Radke | ♀gmk | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Abortion ArcadeA collection of 3 novella-novelettes and a few short stories. I'd search for 'Abortion' in my booklog and came upon this. I'd added the dude's entire freely and illegally available bibliography, so something must've'n prompted me. I gave it a try. One of the bizarro or splatterpunk anthos must've mentioned him. Anyway, I had a few solid laughs. He used mostly short dialog, that is, 1-sentence-long messages. A sour thumb, too noticeable. Also a bitch to scroll through. Made characters a shallow or dumbed down. Another thing instantly noticeable is the high amount of chapterization, sectioning, delimiting. The longest, a 1.4e4-word story, had ~10 partitions. None were needed. The titles weren't funny compared to the writing. There was no recapitulation, no pacing acceleration and deceleration around their termini. That said, for shorties, they function like comedy episodes: they play their bits and leave stage without dragging. Worth it. | Cameron Pierce | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BigheadI start | Edward Lee | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RipeI wanted an easy read. I gave a woman with a non-agenda novel a chance. The right after the best novel of the year so far. What do I get? TREYSH.
Burnt would mean Maillard reaction: complicated, bready, rich, or just savory. Not sweet, not metallic. 'Sweet' is a taste not a fragrant; raspberries smell fruity not sweet. Sugar, nor any other carbohydrate has a smell perceivable by humans, not when pure. There is no sweet olfactory family, old or new. I know this before looking up the article for the purpose of not confusing smoothbrains who can't look up unknown, itching to write it off as bad writing or a mistake. First time I heard of welding silver. Not saying it's not a thing. Also, it doesn't have a smell. Flux I can get. Silver? Nah. This thing occurs throughout: sense/perceptions are convoluted, impossibilies are mentioned, inconsistencies abound, bits of science trivia are given and used as material of the main's thinking about the world despite her being a standard lowly bint. The discrepancies with the physical world I live in are too many to bear. Main is a hypocritical drug addict behaving contradictorily and or irrationally. World is modern-day Silicon Valley corporate hell. There is nothing alluring here. 'Silver-welded raspberry black hole' could at best be desert dish at molecular gastronomy snob eatery, but not something you be writing seriously about. | Sarah Rose Etter | wm | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ResortI wanted an easy read. I gave a woman with a non-agenda novel a chance. The right after the best novel of the year so far. What do I get? TREYSH.
Burnt would mean Maillard reaction: complicated, bready, rich, or just savory. Not sweet, not metallic. 'Sweet' is a taste not a fragrant; raspberries smell fruity not sweet. Sugar, nor any other carbohydrate has a smell perceivable by humans, not when pure. There is no sweet olfactory family, old or new. I know this before looking up the article for the purpose of not confusing smoothbrains who can't look up unknown, itching to write it off as bad writing or a mistake. First time I heard of welding silver. Not saying it's not a thing. Also, it doesn't have a smell. Flux I can get. Silver? Nah. This thing occurs throughout: sense/perceptions are convoluted, impossibilies are mentioned, inconsistencies abound, bits of science trivia are given and used as material of the main's thinking about the world despite her being a standard lowly bint. The discrepancies with the physical world I live in are too many to bear. Main is a hypocritical drug addict behaving contradictorily and or irrationally. World is modern-day Silicon Valley corporate hell. There is nothing alluring here. 'Silver-welded raspberry black hole' could at best be desert dish at molecular gastronomy snob eatery, but not something you be writing seriously about. | Sarah Goodwin | am | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CounterweightAnother Korean translate. Male, from the writing style and content, his other works support this. A science fiction, industrial-corporate espionage thriller thing. Occurs in a future Earth, when sky elevators are not only economically feasible but profitable too. Hard scifi this ain't, but what there is neither Asimov, nor Clark. Nanobots, brainworms, high-tec cybernetic surgertics and enhancements, Zuck's lewdest dreams, asteroid mining, space colonisation, and so on are a thing, yet people still use telephones and use flashlight 'apps'? Nigga, you serious? No new technologies or concepts employed herein comparing to the corpus of existing science fiction literature. That of early to mid 20. century for certain. This I can guarantee with the little reading in the genre that I've had. I've not read spy stuff to comment. It does bundle a few together with the thriller, grand plot keeping loose bits together. Neither harmonious, nor discordant. Common knowledge of Korean business, economics, and politics helps. Asianisms, Confucianisms aren't much found. Possibly since it's supposed to be Futurama grandpa voice da fjuchurrrr The plot is decent, but there is something about the writing that bugs me. A day later, and I'm still half-empty-handed. This these world, society, chaebols/companies, technologies function isn't explicated, no. Our nameless protagonist functions more as a narrator. A highly convenient expositionist-infodumper, but never at length. I began writing this at 30%; presently I'm at 69%. This is one of them stories wholly dependent on diegesis: the story could be 10⸺100-fold concentrated and you'd get the same. Because the tension over time/story curve is maintained by what is revealed. Narrator, that is, the writer doesn't want to spoil to whole, so he arranges a procession of crumbs interspersed with morsels leading to the main loaf. I hate these kinds of stories, the Sherlock Holmses (as written by A.C. Doyle) or Agatha Christie kind. Wherein crucial information is brought to reader's attention only when conventient. Content-wise at least, this is how a police-procedural differs from a detective novel. Also, there is an middle-school, anime either smugness or subdued-ness (superdudeness, lmao) to many of the characters. Some characters possess immense (anime-level) power, but irrelevants and extras are too frequently mentioned and used, showing a disparity, an uncredible gaping maw of imbalance. | Djuna, Anton Hur (tr.) | mMw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DespairOne of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered | Vladimir Nabokov | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Who Poisoned Your Bacon Sandwich?: The Dangerous History of Meat AdditivesOne of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered | Guillaume Coudray | Km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Paleblood HuntOne of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered | Redgrave | mk | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Anarchist HandbookOne of his Russian novels. According to recently deceased Martin Amis, it's he second best. Majority opine it is his best natively tongued one. Haven't read the rest, but he's remembered | V.A., Michael Malice (ed.) | Mak | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dutch HouseFinalist for 2020's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Agenda'd judges and referees, or shit vintage? Occuring in the past and present, an obviously female-wrtten boy and female-written girl, brother and sister in protagonism try to remedy, reconcile, revenge the past..? I'm a quarter in. The focus is pogoing from contrived or trivial familial drama to the house, with former ekeing out. Two thirds in, and the author still hasn't decided which rack to behat. And I doubt she will til the end. Religion and spirituality? And or morality? Or adolescent trauma? Or loss of a parent? Or of both? Or dependence and co-dependence? While not horrible, the book is diminished by its badly written male characters (all female) and strewn, ramshackle focus. Not too cohesive world either. The behavior of no one character, save Andrea, is reasonable. Pitiful and or pathetic, if this is the best women can do in 2020. I can't be invested in this, I'm dropping it for the above reasons. | Ann Pratchett | Mm | 0.64 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Resort'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Bentley Little | m | 0.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch Uncle'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Peter Pavia | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Anna Funder | ma | 0.87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Law of Retaliation'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doom Guy: Life in First Person'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | John Romero | Mmk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Masters of Doom'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | David Kushner | Km | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Little Book of Vaginas'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Anna Lou Walker | Gc♀f | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of Tea'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Kazuo Okakura | Wc | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Heartless Heart-Ripper: 1 - The Good, the Bad, and the Sadistic'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Heartless Heart-Ripper: 2 - A Fistful of Guts'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | mp | 0.45 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Black Lake: Tales of Melancholic Horror'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | m | 0.87 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | William Poundstone | kmw | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Ilham Tohti | B | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scattershot'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | Ma | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Last Lesson'Show, don't tell.' the novel. The first third led me to think: With 15 under his belt at this point, one'd think he knows or can do better. It's too explicit, prosaic to be accidental, I think. It's a play-by-play screenplay: where the camera should be pointing, what actors should be thinking and doing (not saying!), how it should sound, foleys and all. The second third has less of this, allowing the mediocreness of the writing to shine. Writing style isn't fancy. Characters are growthless, arcless. 0-dimensional objects in character space. The location, the resort, here is the main actor. Re-acting to the stimuli of the R&R-ers. At 115e3 words, it takes too long to get to 'the good stuff'. A prolonged 'mid'. | Jon Athan | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Venus and Her ThugsOdd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of | J.A. Nicholl | m?b | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gun, with Occasional MusicOdd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of | Jonathan Lethem | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shared by TwoOdd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of | Jon Athan | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Venus Is a Man's WorldOdd. Very. I'm four in: Arab tweens; Aussie tweens⸻both suspense (or horror..?) with proper cant⸻; a poem; a boring-ish (or subjectively so-so) story..? And I'm dropping this at the median. Average SS length is <6e3, they're short-ish, they all lack satisfaction, or bite. Snappiness? All lack. Length, content, world and or character development, (more) structure. Author dedicates book to wife, so either the rarely initialized man or a sapphic. Reading the fifth now, a country pub affair, I could see the publisher's insistance on the subtitle of | William Tenn | ?m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Venus in FursNot overly long, neither convoluted or complicated. The first fifth of this translation (and edition?) is a foreword by a professor of psychology. He glides over his field, its history, the title, its history, surrounding and similar literature, their history, providing mostly unnecessary context. The dude, a handsome moustachioed Austrian, contemporane-d (coining this; backformation from adjective) the infamous Oscar Wilde. Didn't have his putative writing talent. Or much of his own. (That or Joachim really liked the word 'dilettante'.) Would work better as a screenplay, a drama. A curio, no literary masterwork. Points at, reminds of the inconsistency, depravity or perversion of the human psyche and at/of sexual selection in human civilization (and its trappings). Poignant concluding paragraph on women, a neater recast of apex's Venus' statement-tirade-paragraph. Also, very not on the nose: “But what about the moral?” I asked⸻Aesop, an uneducated Phyrgian slave from 2500 years ago, unburdened by any written literaty tradition, nor by education, did morals better than this. | Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Joachim Neugroschel (tr.) | M? | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gods of VenusSo you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence. | Richard S. Shaver | W | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The CentreSo you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence. | Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi | agm | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Good Girl's Guide to MurderSo you want to write a woman-versus-man, soft scifi novel? Great. Lemme give you some tips: don't bother with introduction of: characters, locations, names, devices, technologies, flora and fauna; use comprehnsible, short sentences and dictionary scraps to combobulate 40⸺65-word sentences whenever possible; jump around without notifying th readers (keeps 'em on edge, paying attention). Execution is very poor due to editorial nonexistence. | Holly Jackson | b | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Politically Incorrect Guide to JihadDummies Guide to in that surface information and arguments about Islam and Jihad are provided. Enough, mind you, to disprove it, many time over. But not enough, if such a thing is possible (it is? thinking about Maajid Nawaz). The previous on topic monograph, Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial KillerDummies Guide to in that surface information and arguments about Islam and Jihad are provided. Enough, mind you, to disprove it, many time over. But not enough, if such a thing is possible (it is? thinking about Maajid Nawaz). The previous on topic monograph, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An IntroductionTwo novelettes by the CitR guy. No, not the sitar guy (recalling some Indian Tool and djent covers, 1⸺2-piece bands doing funky metal, at least back in the last 2010s, ah to be old and to have wasted your one fucking youth. tsik. tisk. tisk.), nor the cider one (apple cider, or is it applejack, is/was nice; reminds of how I most really like a strong apple vinegar). I'd trying reading this waiting once, waiting at the doctor's, and once more yesterday, a season later. I'd been at 5⸺10%, can't recall. But I'd immediately refelt the initial strangeness. I've read nothing else by JDS other than TCitR 20 odd times. It don't read like 'im. If he does have a style, and most if not all author do and althrough they progress, there be no jumps. Different how? I can't recall the full thing, of course, but it was a family or more communal affair. No introduction, I'm supposed to immediately keep track of main and his sibs' wants, states, past and present. Was roughshod sans need. Not a 'Another air raid, brother dearest? Oh, la-dee-fucking-da. Hope the ratoes don't eat me toast while we're in the bunker. Tell Timmy that Tammy built the thingamajig, but she used all the nails. Also we're out of jam again, blimey.'. Subversion could work to shock, would have better worked. I don't know what he was going for, what was going on. Pay-up-front or it-gets-good-toward-the-end things I'd argue aren't worth it or are examples of bad distribution or structure. Maybe years later I'll give it another spin. All I'd gotten now was strange, or just unusual and (me-)unsettling writing. J.D. Salinger | bm | 0.10 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Lonely Century: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That's Pulling ApartHey, let's talk about one of the major 2010s and -20s' Zeitgeist's problems, loneliness in the most bland, corporately safe, leftist, fraudulent way! Fuck me, talk about missing all the points, referenceing and quoting no-thing. I can hear the frantic soy handwaving towards bad studies and corrupt scholarship. Fucking women. Fucking always. In the 10% of the book, the one thing that at this point is has been a truism for nearly a decade, paraphrased is: 'social media and or internet over-use bad'. No shit, Sherlock. | Noreena Hertz | fgw | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NauseaThe foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment. Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected ( Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends. The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck | Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (tr.) | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ContagionThe foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment. Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected ( Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends. The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck | Erin Bowman | W | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Talk to Absolutely Anyone: Confident Communication in Every SituationThe foreword here was worthwhile in setting the tone, painting in context. Because I am more familiar with Camus' 'philosophy', ideas, and because they contemporaned, spoke the same language, I'd wondered whether they'd ever communicated. They had, and the it wasn't hostile, but wasn't friendly either, insufficient overlap to communicate. Comparing this to the other Frenchman (and his absurdism) as the forematter doesn, Sartre's take is (more) fatalistic (negatively), morose, disheartened, passive or unhappily abiding, weakly yielding as the forematter does. Whereas Camus' is accepting, fighting, unregarding of the past and less than half-wise of the present, hopeful that or happy in that the process (of toiling towards an impossible goal) leads to salvation, contentment. Longer than Camus'⸻certainly feels it!⸻, and nowhere near as eloquent. It is a journal of a man with a job beset by the present and rejected ( Regarding retitling, protagonist doesn't read like a sad character, isn't one. Neither does Dürer's eponymously titled (whence from the initial'd come) carving tonally fit. The pervasive, heavy burden of society or the whole human world, concentrated in one's immediate surroundings, is (or may be, fuck if I know for certain) the 'nausea' felt, alluded to. First act grasped and held on to it, demonstrated it, and introduced the 3 characters. Second lost the plot. Third knew not of it, just tied together all the frayed, loose ends. The stream-of-consciousness aspect I like, however, it is to the detriment of the text's purpose. Unlike Camus' novels and philosopheical texts⸻whatever the fuck | Mark Rhodes | Km | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Life in the CinemaFor a SSC, very nice. That it be published by
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The Gods of AtheismYou're in for a treat when Catholic, of all denominations of Christi-fucky-anity does anything. Let alone write a book or attempt to conjure a thought. All stereotypes down to a T? Check. Incapable of thought? Check. Dogmatic? Check. Fucker even uses his 'title' of 'father'. Fucking Ha! Fuck all organized and or centralized religion. Preamble over.
Skipping the foreword, the introduction starts off with something that one can argue about. Much. Firstly, what the fuck is a saint? Within different denominations or sects and religions difference abides. They are not made, that is, manufactured, but proclaimed. And atheists are made in the same sense that babies are, that is, it is the default, the default state, verb. Just like Christians, Muslim, Jews and so on are not born but are introduced into the culture, faith, movement with time and effort, so too are they not born. One is born into such and such a family or tradition, but that is different from being created one. If a child grows within a X society, the path of least resistance is its acceptance. However, humans as animals, rather than a, any, god's or gods', lowercase, creatures are by default faithless, creedless. So from the very start of the book, he's hammering his objectively wrong worldview onto readers. It's like talking to⸻, or more correctly being talked to from, since this is strictly one-directional communication, a zealot. They will at every opportunity, however sparingly overlapping with their religion, inject their virus. From wiktionary, the etymology of the word pertaining to the whole book: The first paragraph of the first chapter of the part presents a major crutch-argument. That 'a-theism' is the or a negation or rejection of a god, his god, the Chapter 3 is on Nietzsche. Either this man has never read him or even snippets of the text, or it doesn't a very low-effort take. N. was observing not proclamating. He wasn't ushering in Übermenschen. No religion, especially the Abrahamic ones, has any semblance of a chance of a fluff of a float of fleeting ephemeral whisper to stand on. The last 200 years, of the late HRE was barely religious. After the Inquisition and the inefficient rape and colonization of the Americas by the Spanish, it barely played a role on the world stage. Sure, some minor genocide occured in Africa, but nothing like ransacking, pillaging, murdering, christening thousands of square kilometers of land. He looks to supporting evidence rather than searching of unsupporting of his own (think theory falsification, black swans à la Popperianism). Continues tackling Nietsche, missing the point. Missing the point with National Socialism too. Talks of a Jesus as if he was there with him; L-M-F-A-O:
Next chaper's about Marx. A Jew, and a very shit human being altogether. It would seem that 'the gods of atheism' for the author are substitutions. He's grasping what for they are, since neither Nietzsche nor Marx used neither theological, monotheistic, nor religious frameworks for their theses. They are better described, explained, predicted otherwise. And he's again missing the point and creating a void he pours his god into, which would seem to be the leitmotif for the whole. Who's next Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins? | Vincent Miceli | Gfw | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WhalefallI really like The White Pill: A Tale of Good and EvilI really like Blowing the Bloody Doors OffI really like Forty Days Without ShadowI really like Das ReichI really like Under the Knife: Life Lessons from the Operating TheatreI really like ma | 0.62 | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad KidsThis is | Zijin Chen | mwab | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under TyrannyThis is | Witold Szabłowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (tr.) | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Taste of BloodThis is | Jon Athan | Mm | 1.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Department Q: 9 - The Shadow MurdersThis is | Jussi Adler-Olsen | m | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The MinotauressThe author tied this in with | Edward Lee | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial TurbulenceOn the one hand, this is written by a broad and deep thinker. On the other, it's very lay-oriented, seems overly restrained, repetitive and unnecessarily expounding. More ground could have been cover, deeper could've'n dug. Not as superficial as the | Benoit Mandelbrot | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales of Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Frontier SpiritOn the one hand, this is written by a broad and deep thinker. On the other, it's very lay-oriented, seems overly restrained, repetitive and unnecessarily expounding. More ground could have been cover, deeper could've'n dug. Not as superficial as the | V.A., Lamar Underwood (ed.) | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WoomI'd tried the author's One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite? | Duncan Ralston | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and BonesI'd tried the author's One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite? | Anthony Bourdain | mak | 0.81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghostland: 1 - GhostI'd tried the author's One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite? | Duncan Ralston | Wc | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who CookI'd tried the author's One of the more, to me, disgusting medical procedures, abortion, was done by an uneducation young African-American lady in one of the stories. And you thought Leonid Rogozov was hardcore, with all his fucking know-how, surgical tools, medical supplies, anesthetics, and so on? The best back-alley abortion depiction in art that I've experience was in A support to my stiching of 'extreme' short stories: both protagonists, or p and support, know of a Candy Rains, the first time there was interaction, the second⸻a mention. Either the hooker (it's not a non-hooker name) is well known to those both sides of fence, or it was sloppily reworked. To fit narrative. As a short story collection, it doesn't work, because they're too short, they're unpolished, unsatisfying. As a novelette of 3e4 words, it's decent. I've read but few short format works. Literature ain't just throwing words and publishing. This is why of the >95% of National Novel Writing Month entries are trash, and are either crazily short or too long. Pacing hard, amarite? | Anthony Bourdain | am | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to SitClassic case, I think, of loss in translation from a Sinitic language. The | Thich Nhat Hanh | wW♀m | 0.91 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Crowd: A Study of the Popular MindStrange introduction: speaking much of 'now' but never defined it, nor saying what year you're writing or publishing this. The raving of youths around Trump and Hilary from 2016 have nothing on those of the brown-, black-, red-, color-shirts of the later 19th. and early 20. centuries. Not in terms of violence, assassinations and public murders, vigilante, mob 'justice', rallys, crowds, property damages. And this guy starts off his book with predictions that populism, crowds, ((pro)active!) sheep herds are on the rise? After National Socialism, and Marxism, and Leninism, and Stalinism, and Maoism, and Juche, and at least 1.2e8 attested After that, I downloaded the text to find out that it was published in 1931. So now it makes sense, lends itself to hearing out.
Reading this in 2023, it eerily resembles a manual for not only crowd control, but crowd formation. The observations are astute. You can subtract the tinges of then still extant, seriously or academically, scientific Darwinism or views upon what a 'race' is, it holds up. Better yet, substitute 'race' with 'culture' or 'ethnicity', and it'd work'd be correct. Well worth the read. | Gustave Le Bon | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master SwordsmanAnother Zen Buddhist text. This time, aimed at swordsman for hire, that is, samurai in feudal Japan. Written in the middle of the 1500s, it commits the errors as earlier and later texts. The reputation is from Japanophilia, and military and philosophical fetishism. What errors, you ask. That of always being so vague as to be applicable to all situations, and hence inappliable at all. Well, not always, there are a few paragraphs pertaining to combat. The rest is indiscriminate. The | Takuan Soho, William Scott Wilson (tr.) | wW | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The LibrarianistThe title caught my eye. Then did author's surname's spelling, leading me to case-insensitively querying my booklog for it, to discover I'd had some of his added. Incorrectly, of course. Anyway, this novel is about a librarianist. Wouldn't you know, the title is relevant. Can we not bring that back? The language is colorful, evocative while consise, but not terse, and light, never heavy-handed: not Chuck Palahniuk, nor Cassandra Khaw, nor Bruno Schulz. I found a bit of myself in most of the characters. They are distinct, perhaps too much so, resembling set pieces more often than people to usher plot beats. That aside, this is fiction, are they are meta-truthful just like (some) stories from the various religious texts are on the whole truth rather than in each individual case with all its minutiae. Protagonist serves as main observer alongside the more neutral narrator. He is not quite deadpan, but rather matter-of-fact, casual observer almost; not dull, but certainly not exciting. The story is mundane, but it is well told. I'd recommend this to those who'd liked the aforementioned three authors (or the titles I've read of 'em...). It's charming, and it'd've'n so were it about Persian rugs. More style over substance. Fuck you, I liked it! I'd agree that diegetically isn't not great. But that is not what I wrote to you that I like within, nor what went into my review/remark. The 4 chapters comprise four segments at or around significant life events. The runaway episode was weakest, being only loosely tied to present⸻why did you feel those lovey-dovey feelings; what do you miss from the experience and why? The wistfulness is unearned, unexplained. Hard also to reconcile ~(72-24) years of nothing of note happening. Maybe you don't like language, or like it like I do, that is, as much as I did. Maybe you find meaning and or enjoyment in other qualities of writing. | Patrick deWitt | ✓✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rape of the LockThis was fondly mentioned in | Alexander Pope | ?m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Key to the LockThis was fondly mentioned in | Alexander Pope | ?m | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Floki's Blade and Other Dream FictionsThis was fondly mentioned in | Edward Lucas White | ? | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bone in the ThroatThis was fondly mentioned in | Anthony Bourdain | m | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Door-to-Door BookstoreThis was fondly mentioned in | Carsten Henn, Melody Shaw (tr.) | a | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other ObsessionsThe introduction or forword to the four essays, which are more opinion-thought-experience pieces in a Sunday column of better newspaper (R.I.P.), touches upon points I've tried to impress. I was going to recommend it, the preamble, but he quadruples the length, dulling any focus and pointedness. It reads like a hanargue, like a salable, long twitter thread from somebody with a following, that is, a small one. Not so much pretentious as un-self-aware of, clueless to his position in the various hierarchies. | Evan Puschak | wka | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Argument MattersI went into this thinking it a book on argumentation. Like the positive side of Pornography for the End of the WorldDon't have the punch and snap of other 'extreme' 'horror' short story collections, let alone novels. They lack polish and lack arcs, development, and hence all endings seem rushed and out of left field. Again, this may be a my indisposition toward short(-er) literary formats, or may have to do with Brendyboi's inexperience. I'd noticed his name elsewhere, remember having only an audiobook of the previous title by him. An SSC it was too, but I've either refined my taste and sharpened my understanding of lit, and or this hasn't seen the edition necessary to make most work. Calling them stories does the format a disservice, they more resemble vignettes, snapshots.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeGeorg, if you're reading this⸻what the fuck were you thinking liking this or recommending it to me back in 2017 or –18?! (Unless I'm misremembering what book he'd then recommended or said he'd been reading, though I'd bet my sack on the words dog' and 'night-time'. I'd've never more than glanced through this turd's title, let alone blurb. He-he, 'turd blurb'.) The protagonist, the defunct autist is both too literal, but inconsistently so. Example 1, It's as if he knows he is conscious but is not self-conscious. Doesn't realize himself capable of introspection. He is highly inconsiderate of others, behaves as if he were a boy punished arbitrarily by foreign automata. The boy doesn't go into philosophy, but I'd say he suffer's solipsism unconsciously.
There are three developments within the novel. Arcs? Yeah, uh, no. The father has a change aaand that's it. Yes, it's real stingy. Plot and narrative are scant. The whole fits within 5⸺6 sentences easily. Were this not a children's, primary-to-middle school book, I'd've called it an attempted character study of (gifted) autistic children (and their parents). He's 15 yet has the mental capacity and capability of a 9⸺12-year-old. Neither does he read as autistic as I know them. If you've ever seen a documentary and interacted with such people yourself, you'd know he's off. Obnoxious, diegetically pedantic, Gary Stu. Incongruence. Perhaps the only good things about the text were:
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Alone: The Classic Polar AdventureGeorg, if you're reading this⸻what the fuck were you thinking liking this or recommending it to me back in 2017 or –18?! (Unless I'm misremembering what book he'd then recommended or said he'd been reading, though I'd bet my sack on the words dog' and 'night-time'. I'd've never more than glanced through this turd's title, let alone blurb. He-he, 'turd blurb'.) The protagonist, the defunct autist is both too literal, but inconsistently so. Example 1, It's as if he knows he is conscious but is not self-conscious. Doesn't realize himself capable of introspection. He is highly inconsiderate of others, behaves as if he were a boy punished arbitrarily by foreign automata. The boy doesn't go into philosophy, but I'd say he suffer's solipsism unconsciously.
There are three developments within the novel. Arcs? Yeah, uh, no. The father has a change aaand that's it. Yes, it's real stingy. Plot and narrative are scant. The whole fits within 5⸺6 sentences easily. Were this not a children's, primary-to-middle school book, I'd've called it an attempted character study of (gifted) autistic children (and their parents). He's 15 yet has the mental capacity and capability of a 9⸺12-year-old. Neither does he read as autistic as I know them. If you've ever seen a documentary and interacted with such people yourself, you'd know he's off. Obnoxious, diegetically pedantic, Gary Stu. Incongruence. Perhaps the only good things about the text were:
| Richard Evelyn Byrd | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Spot of BotherMister author had been extensively railed for his Alone: Orphaned on the OceanOnly because it was today that I'd decided to forgo finishing Keep It in the FamilyOkay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me. John Marrs | mwab | 0.40 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When You DisappearedOkay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me. | John Marrs | wb | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Video NastiesOkay concept, six-footed by poor pacing. What do I mean? The story is progressively, rather than simultaneously, told alternatingly through mainly a husband and wife. The former's parents get increasingly involved. First, as narrators, to, you know, reflesh the yet to stale two. Oh, what's that, three? Because the elevator-pitch-turned-blurb couldn't keeps its pants on, becoming another PoV and antagonist. Diegetic carousel. John, ma boy, I'm giving you one more chance, don't blow it. The amount being not too great and not too small however means one thing. They all suck equally oo. of novels churned out indicates one of all share in same trash qualities, or are the some trash. Fuck, help me. | Duncan Ralston | bw | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Cook's Tour: In Search of the Perfect MealBut what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, | Anthony Bourdain | M✓? | 1.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No Encore!: Musicians Reveal Their Weirdest, Wildest, Most Embarrassing GigsBut what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, | Drew Fortune | m | 0.83 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The HoleBut what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, | Hiroko Oyamada | ?bm | 0.51 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Out of the ForestBut what of the book? Well, I'm happy to say this is the one it the passion shows. It was written around the series the carries his legacy, what people remember him fondly for. His autobiographical book, | Gregory P. Smith | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The PorpoiseWanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading. | Mark Haddon | ?ma | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Nightmare GirlWanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading. | Jonathan Janz | mbw | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled HistoriesWanted to get through the rest of Mark Haddon's titles, to deleted them, assured by my correctness. I start reading this. First thing that is different from many other books is the chapter-length prologue. Nice. He could have done a timeskip and later on or progressively tied it to the past. But no, he didn't. The prologue merely introduced the main (I assume, writing from 10%) character. Who over the course of a few pages and some weeks has had, to me, major personality changes. From a somewhat unfeeling, somewhat ruthless business manly man, to an in love yet wholly uncaring for parenthood dude, to a hopeless in love, mourning youth adult, to a bending-over-backwards, concerned parent. Roughly; I don't buy. Each one of these emotions in a real person would be uncredible, as if programmed in. A few things so far have been contrived: why the accident, the prologue, happened; who and when something will just be accepted or challenge as it. I'm starting to think that Marky Mark really likes his contrivances, arbitrariness for the sake of plot, or book thickness. Also, there is no hook so far. Literally nothing about the sea, let alone porpoises. Despite being a tenth of a book, what's occurred that is, or rather has been, relevant is 1⸺2 sentences. Talk about saying and doing nothing. The pieces aren't connected, I've no reason to continue reading. | Ross Petras, Kathryn Petras | KMm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Short Stay in HellWas recommended this, not because it was good, no. That would have been too convenient, too easy. Because they were reminded of me. The 'not because the prose is any good', that I'd gotten, is so fucking apt. The very first fucking paragraph of the fucking prologue is clumsy, with sentences' word amounts being 29 10 33 5 36. Fuck me, I wanna tear apart this shit-for-brains writer. A quick search later, aaand it'd not be impossible to get in touch with him. But it'd be an imprudent use of my time. He a Mormon⸻so that's a 'g', at least heavily informative of his whole past⸻and he writes recreationally, while being a 'professor' of 'biology', in quotes because American tertiary educational system is in shambles and ruins. So that's a 'w'. The very first sentennce has a fucking 36-word concluding sentence, that is heavy, overly worded, and middle-school-enthusiasm-like. Fuck me. The rest of of the prologue is no better, it's slightly cringe-y and it's overly long, like not having passed enough drafts, and it's juvenile (at least no (adult-age) chuunibyou, dude's graying!). | Stephen L. Peck | wW | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Wayne Cleaver: 1 - I Am Not a Serial KillerThe author is the one entity to praise John Wayne Cleaver: 2 - Mr. MonsterThe author is the one entity to praise Pictures of ApocalypseThe author is the one entity to praise Frank Burly: 01 - The Time Machine Did ItVery rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies. John Swartzwelder | ✓ | 1.40 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2c WorthVery rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies. | David J. Schow | ✓ | 1.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Burly: 02 - How I Conquered Your PlanetVery rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies. | John Swartzwelder | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Burly: 03 - The Exploding DetectiveVery rarely am I intentionally provoked to laugh. This book, what turned out to be or have become a series of 10 with 2 SSCs and 2 stand-alones, repeated made me laugh, or chuckle, or grin. To old 2016--'17 me, who'd come upon this and gave it the old downloadaroo, and didn't delete the incumbent 5 years, thanks. But what's it all about? Comedic detective novel with many subversions, and deadpan, observational humor. Is is mostly that, and glancing at the next one's first pages, it'd seem they're all humor, rather than overarching narrative with character- or world-building. Plot is perfunctory, it serves openings and setups for funnies. | John Swartzwelder | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
God of Hungry WallsNeither bizarro, nor splatterpunk, nor salable horror either⸻I can't tag this straightforwardly. Does reads as novice's serious attempt. It shows from the many frayed threads leading nowhere, the non-neutrality, the personality, the human-ness (not humanity..?) of the Abroad in JapanNeither bizarro, nor splatterpunk, nor salable horror either⸻I can't tag this straightforwardly. Does reads as novice's serious attempt. It shows from the many frayed threads leading nowhere, the non-neutrality, the personality, the human-ness (not humanity..?) of the Sleep DisorderOfficial audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories. (Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71
Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1
Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1
The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's Jack Ketchum, Edward Lee | ✓M | 2.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tales from the Gas Station: 4Official audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories. (Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71
Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1
Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1
The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's | Jack Townsend | maw | 0.56 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Burly: 06 - The Last Detective AliveOfficial audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories. (Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71
Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1
Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1
The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's | John Swartzwelder | m | 0.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frank Burly: 07 - The Fifty Foot DetectiveOfficial audiobook recently appeared on audiobookbay beside many all hallows' eve-themed, spooky, and horror books. So I decided to give it a relisten. A more critical one. This is a collection of 8 short stories, exacting malicious, cosmic reverge on whores, dudebros, young and old; and despicables and repugnants. Still remember 'em all. Fuck women. Fuck (most) people. I don't much like stories. (Un)Civilized Christopher Warren mM .71
Frank Burly: 04 - Dead Men Scare Me Stupid John Swartzwelder ✓ 1
Frank Burly: 05 - Earth vs. Everybody John Swartzwelder Mm 1
The Juliette Society: 1 - The Juliette Society Sasha Grey M✓ 1 Surprisingly good debut publication. I am reluctant to grope for anything the author has written before retirement from first career. The wiki page at least doesn't. Seeing as it's | John Swartzwelder | m | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Juliette Society: 2 - The Janus ChamberAs suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad! | Sasha Grey | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Then There Were NoneAs suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad! | Agatha Christie | am | 0.14 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I Wouldn't Do That If I Were MeAs suspected, quality takes a nose dive. We're at mediocre level. The 3 year gap wasn't used to devise a story, build on the previous. There are good lines, their density is over over twicely lower. Plot much there isn't, maybe 2⸺3 sentences' worth. Autobiographical, this one contains more thoughts outright. That is, these aren't presented through plot, they're mirrored in the protagonist. Which is lazy and boring. Still okay, though the third will be even worse. It lingers on the sexual, the religious upbringing, morals and ethics. You could say it's more personal, but it's not well novelized, well incorporated in the rather slapdash story, a lukewarm variant of all that'd happened in the first novel. Lazy. Bad, Sasha, bad! | Jason Gay | awm | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Guantánamo DiaryThe audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt | Mohamedou Ould Slahi | mMb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Truck StopThe audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt | John Penney | wmb | 0.69 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AsleepThe audiofile created with piper was better than flite one. Whoever, over a few thousand abrupt | Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (tr.) | bB | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The ApartmentAn interesting novel. Firstly, the name⸻the first quarter to third, the introduction, say, is about a person and his life abroad in some place, leading to his looking for a place to rent out. Putting a definite article before any noun makes primes for mediocre, cheap 'horror'. The cover art is of a teenaged boy⸻not a 41-year-old retired/discharged naval officer⸻, in what seems to be an English⸻not German; the present frame of the plot obviously, albeit tacitly occurs in Deutschland⸻, city during winter. They got the season right at least. A first-person account of relocation and rental residence hunting. Thrilling, I know. The issue is everything going too smoothly. Dude scores a cheap place to live initially, easily, with nice food and conditions. Dude has a pension at 41 for some reason or enough cash. Dude scores a 25-year-old girlfriend to do everything for him. The initial quarter, wherefrom I'm pausing to right this, resembles a child's mental snapshot⸻perfect, pink, pretty. There are not problem to overcome. The main is somewhere being woefully placid, apathetic to any negative. Where is the hook, Greg? It's a rarity for lack of chapters or any structural components. It's no stream-of-consciousness either, merely reads flowy-er, more continuous. 3-act structure doesn't quite fit here, since Greg forgot the hook. Could call it the protasis of a 4- or 5-act structure, though at 35%, assuming 5 equals in length, the second should be over half through, and it ain't. I don't get what he's going for; it's too neat (in a bad way), too meandering. Fuck you, Greg. I hate those fortunate, successful, content, happy. I hate, hate, hate the arbitrariness, what is commonly is perceived as cruelty, often both maliciously and cosmically exerted. | Greg Baxter | ?mw | 0.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex MurdererTrue crime novelization. Starts off taking the cookie-cutter, easy, safe and bone-sandingly boring path of focusing on victims. Part of the book, although until our guy is introduced, it serves as extended blurb, a prelude or foreward from within. I give no flying fucks about how stay-at-home Jim's sex life must be hidden from his knitting father, or McDunnagh's favorite beer in the one saloon, or any other shallow, inconsequential minutiae. They don't paint a better picture of the star of the show, nor do they much outline or color in the setting, that common to all residents. He's two more true crime books, I'll give 'em a chance too, mind you, dearest, short reader. So, mundane til the unsuble introduction of the one odd bloke, our guy. Thankfully, that lasts only the one chapter. The focus is never adequately where I want it still though. Trisected between law enforcement and town's going-ons, the victims and their lives, and the 'baby-faced serial sex murderer'. Rolls off the tongue, don't it? Not bad, but not never great, rarely good, and certainly not deep (Not balls deep. I alway tell these god-damned authors⸻we always gotsa be balls deep. They never listen.) or linguistically, artfully challenging, novel, other. At novel length, it even bores, given it's several decades of small murdie-wurdies. | John Coston | mMb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Munich AirportA mostly mundane stream-of-consciousness novel. Because of the format, I like it; so, subjectively, it's good. Makes me want to reread and relive all the ones I've read. I love those. Love! I pine for a semblance of happiness, contentment. Thanks, Greg, thank you. Objectively though, the writing ain't stellar, coated in layers of butter and honey, like | Greg Baxter | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The LostI don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g., Episode ThirteenI don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g., The Icepick SurgeonI don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g., Lord Miles in AfghanistanI don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g., Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100I don't well content with many characters. Mr Ketchum here introduces 30 named in toto, with about 10 recurring ones, in the first 16% of the novel-length book. Cold opening many, distinctive (or zaney) or not, is a surefire way to confuse the reader. Who or what is important? What should I be paying attention to, everything? The spigot's letting rip with both current and past events, and relationship details between all parties and secondaries. I feel lost; LotR all over again. Subjective, chapter-character-wise, albeit third-person narration tops off the confusion. What's more, rural, teenaged violence has been done much better by many, e.g., Full BrutalA light-hearted novel about a half-psychopathic, half-zaney (think le batshit insane, le im so quirky), sadistic, 16-year-old female, who lies, humiliates, dominates, betrays, and deceives. Veronica, as (You), you'd like this, briefly at least. (I had so much to rec you at one point.) The lack of explanation and or history coupled with the audiobook's giddy narrator makes for an inhuman, cartoonish main character. Since these are first-world children, I doubt solemnity and or (over-)dramatization would've a better result helped create. There's good reason why the successfulmost of serial killers and warlords aren't teenagers, but in thei late 20s or 30s. Being in on the joke, most, if not all, opportunities for unprovoked jabs, pokes, puns, and cruelty are seized. It's like a (okay-to-good) Adult Swim cartoon. Kristopher Triana | M✓ | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Body ArtWaffling between an M, a light checkmark, and an m on this. Slightly raunchy, slasher/gore/necro/erotica thing. Where it fails⸻1, too many 'just go with it's and not enough explanation; 2, consistently retarded pacing and no subversion, a (bad or old) joke sans punchline; 3, doesn't second second and third act are fused, undirected or confused. After half, reading on merely grants some slight resolution to characters, but it's just not worth it. Not worth it. It's not tight or punchy ever. Needs a rewrite, trim a third. | Kristopher Triana | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alchemical Journeys: 1 - MiddlegameWaffling between an M, a light checkmark, and an m on this. Slightly raunchy, slasher/gore/necro/erotica thing. Where it fails⸻1, too many 'just go with it's and not enough explanation; 2, consistently retarded pacing and no subversion, a (bad or old) joke sans punchline; 3, doesn't second second and third act are fused, undirected or confused. After half, reading on merely grants some slight resolution to characters, but it's just not worth it. Not worth it. It's not tight or punchy ever. Needs a rewrite, trim a third. | Seanan McGuire | aw | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cursed BunnyCollection of a Korean female's stories. They lack narrative structure⸻no 3-, 4-, or 5-act one, no obvious one, at least. Each drags on way too much to be a pretty snapshot of a character, a scene, an event. It's also anime, quirky for its own sake, and hence annnoying. I appreciate most stories being female. They not extremely, nor always successful, nevertheless interesting here or there. I wouldn't've given this, nor nominated it for the International Booker Prize, but I don't know how shit the competition is. | Bora Chung, Anton Hur (tr.) | ?M | 0.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number Go Up: Insides Krypto's Wild Rise and Staggering FallCollection of a Korean female's stories. They lack narrative structure⸻no 3-, 4-, or 5-act one, no obvious one, at least. Each drags on way too much to be a pretty snapshot of a character, a scene, an event. It's also anime, quirky for its own sake, and hence annnoying. I appreciate most stories being female. They not extremely, nor always successful, nevertheless interesting here or there. I wouldn't've given this, nor nominated it for the International Booker Prize, but I don't know how shit the competition is. | Zeke Faux | mMb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Juliette Society: 3 - The Mismade GirlThe conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring | Sasha Grey | mMbp | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Comte De GabalisThe conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring | Abbé N. de Montfaucon de Villars | wab | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tell Me I'm WorthlessThe conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring | Alison Rumfitt | bwg | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BrainwyrmsThe conclusion suffers all its predecessor's maladies to a greater extent. I'm writing this a 72%, what's occured plot-wise can be packed in whopping 2 sentences, 3 if you're reckon I use too many adjunct and argument clauses. That is it. The witty writing and the themes are what give this value worth. The second and third books' use of time skips, play with primary and secondary characters' import to the story, and jarring | Alison Rumfitt | gw | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Flowers of BuffoonerySeeing a title, this one, with this author⸻fucktard of a stupid shit, even by Jap standards, praised by weebos and pseudointellectuals⸻, with such a short length, I decided to gave him a chance to redisappoint. He did so. What I got from the third read: narrator is part of the plot somehow, symbolically, or exists within the same world. Main character is recovering from some accident in some hospital and has shallow (non-)friends the same way most Japanese media depicts them. I don't understand why their relationship exists, why he's there or what the accident was, why the other patients are focused on, the the point of any one thing is diagetically. Things just happen. But they're also extraordinarily mundane and the language used is bland, curt, and falsely dichotomous. Annoying for using tropes of Japanese culture or artistic media; bad writing for nothing doing anything with anything, being pointless. | Osamu Dazai, Sam Bett (tr.) | aw | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some RemarksSeeing a title, this one, with this author⸻fucktard of a stupid shit, even by Jap standards, praised by weebos and pseudointellectuals⸻, with such a short length, I decided to gave him a chance to redisappoint. He did so. What I got from the third read: narrator is part of the plot somehow, symbolically, or exists within the same world. Main character is recovering from some accident in some hospital and has shallow (non-)friends the same way most Japanese media depicts them. I don't understand why their relationship exists, why he's there or what the accident was, why the other patients are focused on, the the point of any one thing is diagetically. Things just happen. But they're also extraordinarily mundane and the language used is bland, curt, and falsely dichotomous. Annoying for using tropes of Japanese culture or artistic media; bad writing for nothing doing anything with anything, being pointless. | Neal Stephenson | bB? | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When Nietzsche WeptI feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future. Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next. | Irvin D. Yalom | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Psychology of RevolutionI feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future. Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next. | Gustave Le Bon | M✓mbB | 0.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Life Should Mean to YouI feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future. Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next. | Alfred Adler | aw | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Life Could Mean to YouI feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future. Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next. | Alfred Adler | wb | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Way of the Hermit: My Incredible 40 Years Living in the WildernessI feel at home, comforted, well, swell (almost), in good company when working, be it reading or problemsolving. Presently reading Irvin D. Yalom's I've been in Vienna for a week. Know of, remember some of places mentioned. Maybe romanticizing the past, rose-tinted glasses and all that jazz. Nostalgia-baiting this book isn't, and the author being a 'existential psychotherapist' according to Wikipedia, likely isn't flexing his authorial muscle. And I don't much like that particular city, if you must know. Perhaps I'm being too lenient and uncritical of Irvin, but he captured something that I connected with, was touched by. Whether it be an(other) aid in fellating myself, I can't say for certain, but this new idea about reflection and ego build-up and maintenance is something I'll grow into a larger text over the near to medium future. Realized I have said naught of the book. It's about Nietzsche, 2⸺3 years after his university of Basel post departure. He's still kind of figuring out what to do and how to do it. The author weds Sigmund Freud, Joseph Breuer (who existed IRL, yes, but in a much different capacity, difo reality), Nietzsche with the beginnings of psychotherapy. There's not that much in the way of history or philosophy or medicine. They're all there, but none dominate. It is much more a character study of 1⸺2 historical figures: Nietzsche, (and his sister, slightly, and) Freud. The protagonist doctor, almost a bit of a Gary Stu in the first act, is almost out of place at parts. I'd think flawing him further would've bettered the character, but not the story, which is already long at 1.2e5 words. Objectively not great, subjectively, I like it, but it has not much in the way of rereadability. Similarly to how (I find) reading all Platonic dialogues can be tedious. It is through slightly curtailed, but solid dialog that the plot progresses. All characters are consistent, believable. And that nuclear based bombshell of a third act? Guess I'll be adding to that list of cool non-practicing Jews again. And he's a book on Schopenhauer too, which will be next. | Ken Smith | m | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Schopenhauer CureNietsche⸻supposed lonest, supposed greatest philosopher of the past 2 centuries (as he reckons himself)⸻is right off the bat much more social, prissy, annoying, a simp, and a virgin than bigdick Schopenhauer. Like, by a lot, and this within each stage of life observed in book. Irvin seems spiteful toward him in portraying him, irregardless of age, as a know-it-all, albeit a correct one, and something between arrogant, snobbish, and inconsiderate. Instead he focuses on raising the cunt, his mother, and sister. Compare that to Nietsche's closest kin relations and their description in I was disappointed to find here no next (alternate/alternative) historical psychiactric-psychological-philosophical novel, one where dialogue, introspection and observation move along all. Instead one has two timetimes, both chronologically ascending. One of our handsome philosopher, one of the a present day psychiatrist⸻gotta have a self-insert and or narrative device, (my dude can't help himself, though I'd like to hope this won't be recurring in the 8 other books he's written) and an old patient of his, tied by contrivance. Both the present day protags are somewhat unlikeable, albeit they are credible, and the other folk seem human too. Funny how somebody paid to know and help people can write them (too). The problem so far is that is not as compelling or impactful or important-seeming. Yalom is uncharitable and unappreciative, and his 'fans', for lack of an immediate better, may also feel, not slighted, but disrespected. Subjectively, since I like Schopie, I like this, but objectively, the bad spin on him and the good one on his mother (and possibly later sister) is a turn-off. Despite its more past locations, none are as detailed or even described as in the aforementioned. Minus points. Despite also being about as long at 1.2e5 words, with its many commentary or interjection chapters from the author, addressing a lay reader, it seems shorter. Again, my bias shows, but so does the author's⸻this ain't no self-help book, nor a psychotherapy textbook, nor a philosophical work, which is why its unsavory, uncool. Where this shines is in the Schopie moment, of course, and therapy group members' small, yet fleshed out and distinct lives, and their interactions. These people without reason to associate, interact in the 'real' or 'normal' world, do so, and are better for it. This 'review' ain't good, I apologize, dear reader. | Irvin D. Yalom | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resiliently Happy: A Guide to Building Resilience and Finding HappinessNietsche⸻supposed lonest, supposed greatest philosopher of the past 2 centuries (as he reckons himself)⸻is right off the bat much more social, prissy, annoying, a simp, and a virgin than bigdick Schopenhauer. Like, by a lot, and this within each stage of life observed in book. Irvin seems spiteful toward him in portraying him, irregardless of age, as a know-it-all, albeit a correct one, and something between arrogant, snobbish, and inconsiderate. Instead he focuses on raising the cunt, his mother, and sister. Compare that to Nietsche's closest kin relations and their description in I was disappointed to find here no next (alternate/alternative) historical psychiactric-psychological-philosophical novel, one where dialogue, introspection and observation move along all. Instead one has two timetimes, both chronologically ascending. One of our handsome philosopher, one of the a present day psychiatrist⸻gotta have a self-insert and or narrative device, (my dude can't help himself, though I'd like to hope this won't be recurring in the 8 other books he's written) and an old patient of his, tied by contrivance. Both the present day protags are somewhat unlikeable, albeit they are credible, and the other folk seem human too. Funny how somebody paid to know and help people can write them (too). The problem so far is that is not as compelling or impactful or important-seeming. Yalom is uncharitable and unappreciative, and his 'fans', for lack of an immediate better, may also feel, not slighted, but disrespected. Subjectively, since I like Schopie, I like this, but objectively, the bad spin on him and the good one on his mother (and possibly later sister) is a turn-off. Despite its more past locations, none are as detailed or even described as in the aforementioned. Minus points. Despite also being about as long at 1.2e5 words, with its many commentary or interjection chapters from the author, addressing a lay reader, it seems shorter. Again, my bias shows, but so does the author's⸻this ain't no self-help book, nor a psychotherapy textbook, nor a philosophical work, which is why its unsavory, uncool. Where this shines is in the Schopie moment, of course, and therapy group members' small, yet fleshed out and distinct lives, and their interactions. These people without reason to associate, interact in the 'real' or 'normal' world, do so, and are better for it. This 'review' ain't good, I apologize, dear reader. | Jonathan Biggane | km | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Imitation of ChristA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Thomas à Kempis | kgM | 0.22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Read Now EssaysA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Elaine Castillo | wg | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The FishermanA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | John Paul Langan | aw | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pachinko ParlorA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (tr.) | b | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bartleby the ScrivenerA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Herman Melville | B | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cult of InformationA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Theodore Roszak | kbm | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Around the World in Eighty GamesA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Marcus du Sautoy | bm | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I Am a KillerA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Danny Tipping, Ned Parker | mb | 0.62 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Read a BookA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Mortimer J. Adler | k | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zone OneA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Colson Whitehead | ma? | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Pear-Shaped FuneralA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Dan Wells | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Red HouseA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Mark Haddon | ? | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood on the Coal: The True Story of the Great Springhill Mine DisasterA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Ken Cuthbertson | m | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sleep, My Child, Forever: The Riveting True Story of a Mother Who Murdered Her Own ChildrenA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | John Coston | b | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Spend a Trillion Dollars: The 10 Global Problems We Can Actually FixA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Rowan Hooper | G | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SmugglerA book about Christian faith, living, not so much religion. What I'd imagine a devout, 14. century, self-help guru, (too) much imbibed of his own Kool-Aid, would want to publish. Strip the mumbo-jumbo and hypocrisy, and you get mostly basic, how-to-be-a-relatively-decent-human-being advice. You know, things, that the lay, the stupid would nod their empty heads at when explicated; things and principles, they don't ever practice. Commits, of course, the commonmost of religioso fallacies⸻appeal to authority (with him being the authority, him knowing what there is to know) and appeal to faith. It's also not self-consistent, of course... Most of the appeal-to fallacies are to be expected of demagogues, cultists and the religious. Or just the stupid. On the other hand, it be pretty good lit for the 14. century, better than Boethius, which it resembles in contentl | Roger Reaves | mbB | 0.22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Rum DiaryToo many characters, too quickly introduced. The HST feel or charm is too toned down, as compared to his magnum opus. It's good; it's just not great. Like the former, has nice quotes. I'm watching the movie after this. Looking at metacritic, imdb, and rottentomatoes scores, it's going to be a smidge about mediocre, but forgettable and not as epic, or great as the aforementioned, namely | Hunter S. Thompson | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pier Falls and Other StoriesA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Mark Haddon | M | 0.59 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Quiet AmericanA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Graham Greene | b | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Love's ExecutionerA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Irvin D. Yalom | maw | 0.38 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd CasesA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Cory Franklin | m | 0.96 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Empire of the Scalpel: The History of SurgeryA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Ira Rutkow | bm | 0.49 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
White Trash Gothic: 1 - White Trash GothicA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Edward Lee | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Under the Knife: A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable OperationsA rare good SSC. The fucking 'Bunny' story is, like, goading me into unsustainable long with the the previously read book of 'The RUm Diary' which is a long dead habit, man I wish I had the money, and young man's metabolism, to sustain very, very bad life style. I'm recalling Lemmy's lifestyle up to his FUCKING 70s. It really is a willpower thing. Can life, or rather everything in it, that is, society, break you? Or rather, will you let it? I'm recalling⸻, fuck it, I'm not reliving, but reseeing all that Louie Theroux documentary footage. Of Rust Belt, heroine, homeless, relapse, tettering (that's not how you spell it, but you can't see that, chastise me, I can⸻I should but won't because I have a, a what? *here I go on a snickers, butter, and sugar eating binge*
) on ledge. whatever. whatever. I can do better. I should do better. Nobody wants me to do better the way I want to. So, so alone. Forever. Where they fall short: the stories are 15⸺20e3 words long, too long, and the pacing is always slow. I after the initial third or fourth, one can⸻or I can⸻, premonitions of the ending are all too clear, but it drags on. There is also needless complexity⸻you are telling a story or documenting fictionals' lives? Lastly, tranny story pushed me over the edge into dropping this. | Arnold van de Laar | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short Stories About Isolation and LonelinessThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | V.A. | Abw | 0.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and MadnessThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | Harold Schechter | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Human AnimalsThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | Frank Hamel | bBm | 0.32 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: BishopThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | T.R. Napper | b | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short Stories About SuicideThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | V.A. | B | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short Stories About Death, Dying and LossThese are tales of whiney do-nothings. Gogol's | V.A. | B | 0.24 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
If He Hollers Let Him GoI've read 5 of Himes' novels. Excluding the 2 potboiler, detective schlock, his 'serious' ones comment and try to neutrally document or vignette African-Americans' lives in 1940s and ⸺50s America. This was his debut. The foreword is more reactionary to or compensatory for an unfairly prejudiced past appraisal than deserving. I didn't finish the book, because it is boring. It also very much mirrors both | Chester Himes | bm | 0.26 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blender BabiesJohnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good. | Jon Athan | MBm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution and Moral ProgressJohnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good. | Peter Singer | kM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
William Blake and the Age of RevolutionJohnny-boy siring a shit or two from '19 to '22 noticeably affected his output. Negatively. Each from what I recall features a self-insert of stereptypical, white-knight, and or patriarchal quality; and is less: (credibly) gruesome, plausible, 'fun', and 'extreme' than any of his past oeuvre. I contend he's given up the 'grindset', after having: 1, married; 2, gotten the fuck away from both California and the US; 3, fathered. Now he treads only old ground, is doesn't kill or split families, the main one. The one he identifies with, I'd assume. Compared to before, it's less about less endurance, more about familial inconvenience. The family is less a character or a set of such, more a parasitic, monochrome symbiote. It bores. The the 'action' isn't great either. Motion portrayal is not his best suit, and here it takes up so much space. It's disgusting, disappointing, discontenting. Barely finished⸻even without paying attention, it is not (as) good. | Jacob Bronowski | mb | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A ShiningJon Fosse was nominated for and later granted the Nobel Prize for literature for 2023. I was recommended this title, a novelette, from somebody appraised it as 'good prose'. The author is mid-50s, has some feathers in his cap. I can't say I much understand who deserves a medal. I kind of get the STEM ones. New directions in the arts are, I'd off the cusp think, even harder to find, since getting into the science is hard-er. Under the Autumn StarWhat a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this. Knut Hamsun | bm | 0.25 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Shadows BeneathWhat a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this. | V.A. | B | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Letters from Father ChristmasWhat a shit day ._. Knut writing about remote, village Scandinavian relationships I don't care, that he doesn't care about. No reason to read this. | J.R.R. Tolkien | B | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
White Trash Gothic: 2 - The HomecomingFor this, the fourth book sharing a universe and locale, E.L. takes a different approach, one questionable. Where the previous had left off, this begins, only the speed of plot development is starkly reduced. He goes on these self-indulgent tangents, vomitting descriptions, details, backstories, alongside quips and jabs at himself, as if, and or less writers, as if. The 'as if's due to the main protagonist of the 2 thus far, and probably all 3 of the Bighead series, is a writer, aptly named 'The Writer'. The .5⸺3e3 word bombs are, or can be, enjoyable to read in isolation, or as anecdotes, epilogues, but 'gell' they do no with the little story there is. They're abrupt and interruptive. The intentional snark and or smugness aren't to be found elsewhere in the other 3 books. I don't know whether he'd wanted a continuation to the first and hadn't enough material, and had a contract to fullfil, or wanted to lay the groundwork for an actual one, namely the third. It doesn't read like the rest, and isn't as good. A few hundred words at most are what happens that tie the previous and the other books to this one. | Edward Lee | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bathed in Golden BludFor this, the fourth book sharing a universe and locale, E.L. takes a different approach, one questionable. Where the previous had left off, this begins, only the speed of plot development is starkly reduced. He goes on these self-indulgent tangents, vomitting descriptions, details, backstories, alongside quips and jabs at himself, as if, and or less writers, as if. The 'as if's due to the main protagonist of the 2 thus far, and probably all 3 of the Bighead series, is a writer, aptly named 'The Writer'. The .5⸺3e3 word bombs are, or can be, enjoyable to read in isolation, or as anecdotes, epilogues, but 'gell' they do no with the little story there is. They're abrupt and interruptive. The intentional snark and or smugness aren't to be found elsewhere in the other 3 books. I don't know whether he'd wanted a continuation to the first and hadn't enough material, and had a contract to fullfil, or wanted to lay the groundwork for an actual one, namely the third. It doesn't read like the rest, and isn't as good. A few hundred words at most are what happens that tie the previous and the other books to this one. | Annabelle Hawthorne, Ai Love | w | 0.23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The FishermanEldritch horror attempt in the late twentieth century or around modern times, involving two considerable narrations as backstory, or reason for the plot development. Told in the past, which I get was to make it more of a fisherman's story, but it doesn't work. For one, it's way too long, detail heavy, and, for two, the narrator changing to word-for-word regurgitate another's story (and this one had been conveyed him by yet another) makes it less believable still. Why 'attempt'? Because at a fifth or quarter that whole, a single sentence could have described all that's happened. A paragraph, all to easily. Too beat-around-the-bush-y so far. It reads as others' recollections and tales retold by the present-day protagonists. And that's no a horror story, it's rather a fictional history via anecdote of a Catskills township and specific city/village. Could have been an M, but bad delivery spoils it all. Protracting explaining the premise through fewer stories, and not being as wordy, or focused on backstory, would have made it stand on its horror legs more so than its historical ones. | John Langan | mwb | 0.44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CalicoEldritch horror attempt in the late twentieth century or around modern times, involving two considerable narrations as backstory, or reason for the plot development. Told in the past, which I get was to make it more of a fisherman's story, but it doesn't work. For one, it's way too long, detail heavy, and, for two, the narrator changing to word-for-word regurgitate another's story (and this one had been conveyed him by yet another) makes it less believable still. Why 'attempt'? Because at a fifth or quarter that whole, a single sentence could have described all that's happened. A paragraph, all to easily. Too beat-around-the-bush-y so far. It reads as others' recollections and tales retold by the present-day protagonists. And that's no a horror story, it's rather a fictional history via anecdote of a Catskills township and specific city/village. Could have been an M, but bad delivery spoils it all. Protracting explaining the premise through fewer stories, and not being as wordy, or focused on backstory, would have made it stand on its horror legs more so than its historical ones. | Lee Goldberg | Bm | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Trouble with HappinessHas that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman (tr.) | maM | 0.74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turtle DiaryHas that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Russell Hoban | Bb | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Riddley WalkerHas that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Russell Hoban | Aw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Christmas PresentsHas that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Lisa Unger | ? | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FloaterHas that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Gary Brandner | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976Has that distant, stilted, stuffy Scandinavian politeness, mannerisms, tone, setting, feeling. Stories aren't too short, but their morales are veiled, require picking at. 'Normal', human stories though, and I'm no a fan of most Scandinavian culture, and especially of Hygge and Jante-ism. They all deal with unhappiness of some sort, so that's great. Perhaps I'm hating insisting upon (old) stereotypes, suboptimal for the development in of a society in any one direction. | Frank Dikötter | ✓b | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pop. 1280Great example, in my opinion, of style over substance. A grand total of nothing happens, as if⸻characters are not developed, but revealed. The banal travesty of everyday life, how we make our own dramas.
On a reread, there is more nuiance. Yes, Nick is the main character, however his authority and power usage are mirrored in most everybody in town. Everybody tries to play to their advantage, to deceivedh | Jim Thompson | ✔ | 2.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The NestAt 88e3 words, this 'horror' novel is mostly about cockroaches. The author's wordiness obstructs the pacing, the flow of events, and, worst of all, dampens and smothers the 'horror'. This, to me, borders a tedious read despite the interesting premise. Iain Banks' Unit 731 Testimony: Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation ProgramMore dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay. Hal Gold | mb | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Altered PerceptionsMore dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay. | V.A., Brandon Sanderson (ed.), Robison Wells (ed.) | ma | 0.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990More dry history than novelized horror. The few accounts, reports, records sparsly used and those appending the bulk are okay. | Katja Hoyer | mbM | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cameron's ClosetAll set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it. | Gary Brandner | mpw | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Decoding Schopenhauer's MetaphysicsAll set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it. | Bernardo Kastrup | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Creatures of the PoolAll set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it. | Ramsey Campbell | Bb | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SubhumanAll set up within the first act was clumsily wasted in the next two. Self-indulgently, as if, prolonging all scenes, including superfluous dialog, description, memories, detail. Not succinct, and suffers for it. | Michael McBride | bw | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adventures of Augie MarchVoted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion. | Saul Bellow | mjMb | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Above SuspicionVoted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion. | Joe Sharkey | bm | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FirebugVoted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion. | Michael McBride | bp | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ImmuneVoted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion. | Michael McBride | b | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Free to LearnVoted 'Great American Novel' for some reason. It does read very Americanly though. Augie is one of 3 Jewish children, of a Jewish family, doing Jewish things. Subtract the Jew crap, and you get a coming-of-age-like novel, like a much worse Tom Sawer. Unless enticed by the Jew trimmings, I don't see what this offers. Substitute with any cult, I'd be about as annoyed. Fuck religion. | Peter Gray | mMk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ZeroesSo.. an Apple commercial in the first 5 minutes? Also from what I know, jailbreaking iphones ain't possible with many model past a certain year, probably less so in the future. Then you have the annoying, stupid (in execution) main character. You mean I have to endure this no-knowing brat? Chuck, you fail me at every opportunity. Who would read this?! Hire a technical or scientific advisor, for fuck's sake. The little of this I'd read was like an even more cartoony version of early 2000s movies⸻'I'm in.' | Chuck Wendig | aAw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Neon BibleA novel about 10-year-old boy written by a 15-year-old one. Occurs along the latter half the 1940s, in a central-southern-eastern American state, extremely like Louisiana (though never explicitly mentioned, hints are the river floods and clay-containing soil, and mentions of New Orleans, Biloxi, Mobile). Is, like his second novel, a picaresque. Has about as much color as a kid can muster, and some the knowledge of the adult of a teen are seen as (possibly?) profound insights here and there. It is more commentary on small towns of the said place time than a story. A colorful snapshot, though not with the high resolution of his later work. Judged on its own, as an adult novel, it stands well. To me there is however little worth rereading⸻insensity (of everything) is lacking, too little is built up. Excluding the fourth or fifth chapter⸻plot-irrelevant, over 90% is preacher's and believers' words, insufferable, skip it or do yourself and others a favor by tearing it out⸻there is no discernible, over-arching structure; spanning 3 or 4 years, it is more a series of loosely connected vignettes. It begins with the endings, so kudos. Each chapter furthers the plot, the world, the characters. Killer ending though. | John Kennedy Toole | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FascinomasAs a 13. book by a practicing medical doctor, I'd say this mofo has too much time on his hands. Most of the stories are by him and a few of his colleagues with some remaining anonymous, for whatever bad reason. Most are from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with some from the 90s. There're not the best of the best, given the title, nor very many, and it's written as if for the layest of the lay, with frequent repetition, as if this won't be read in 2 hours. I don't think this deserves an 'M', since it barely memorable. The stories themselves, their (missing) details, and the morale of each are, his writing is median+average. | Clifton K. Meador | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vital OrgansAs a 13. book by a practicing medical doctor, I'd say this mofo has too much time on his hands. Most of the stories are by him and a few of his colleagues with some remaining anonymous, for whatever bad reason. Most are from the 60s, 70s, and 80s, with some from the 90s. There're not the best of the best, given the title, nor very many, and it's written as if for the layest of the lay, with frequent repetition, as if this won't be read in 2 hours. I don't think this deserves an 'M', since it barely memorable. The stories themselves, their (missing) details, and the morale of each are, his writing is median+average. | Suzie Edge | bA♀g | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Medical Detective StoriesNice, but still too short⸻both too few stories and too little details. Compared to his | Clifton Meador | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate ChangeHey, kids, wanna see some common knowledge, lying by omission, bad and extremely constricted, economically uneducated-or-malevolent framing, and pushing of ESG for globohomo? | Thor Hanson | kfg | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Symptoms of Unknown OriginHey, kids, wanna see some common knowledge, lying by omission, bad and extremely constricted, economically uneducated-or-malevolent framing, and pushing of ESG for globohomo? | Clifton K. Meador | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army LifeA boots-on-the-ground, unromanticized, unpartizan account of all aspect of 'war'. Dry in delivery, but not sciencetific, that is made by the lay (or at least a conscientious, lucky-ish soldier) for the lay. | John Davis Billings | MbB | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of AuschwitzA boots-on-the-ground, unromanticized, unpartizan account of all aspect of 'war'. Dry in delivery, but not sciencetific, that is made by the lay (or at least a conscientious, lucky-ish soldier) for the lay. | Shlomo Venezia | jJgw | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to TinderWhile informative by expounding on the eras' and decades' sterotype around the 'civilized world' countries, she all to frequently focuses on women. I dropped it upon the, what, 3rd or 4th objectively wrong fact(oid), about women inventing contraception. Ffs. Why couldn't you just stick to your fucking title, you brainless cunt. Annoying and boring in addition through excessive and unnessesary demonstrations. Cite, reference, describe, for fuck's sake. Fuck me. Women tick me off. | Nichi Hodgson | bam | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The SleeplessOkay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like | Victor Manibo | gmw | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
High Concept: Don Simpson and the Hollywood Cultures of ExcessOkay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like | Charles Fleming | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949Okay premise, but execution is hampered by agenda of author. Written during the 2020⸺2022 SARS-CoV2 globally imposed farce, it contains gems like | Siegfried Knappe | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the HourglassThe second and last book by this author. Like the first, it is autobiographical. About half to a third are childhood moments, perhaps aged ~9⸺12, the other at when an young adult or age is not to be extracted. Angain it is extremely descriptively dense. Unlike it though, adjacent chapters/sections are loosely connected, whereas none of the stories are. There is a general progression of time from cover to cover. It is a collection of stories, were it not by now apparent. Sometimes an interlude, sometimes a skit, sometimes a subject change, sometime a big, fat conjunction, the longer stories are least effect. I don't like it, them, gauging what the author sees as important, as relevant is hard. Of course, frequency of occurances or mentions of thing reveal it postfactum. The subdivisioned stories tenuously prolonged, with one running to 60, maybe 10⸺15 of the whole, whereas stories may be 5e2⸺2e3 words. That there is little plot in most children's lives to begin start off, is true, and so it is for 20. century, quiet, shy, introverted, Jewish-Polish ones. The lack doesn't devalue this, nor does that of details, temporal unidirectionality. However, like hard drugs, you can only do so much of the good stuff. It is as heady, sprightly, intense as the first book. Translations of these two would, if done well, be very valuable to any language learner, enjoyer, afficionado. However, traversing this beautiful, literary bracken is tiring. For it is no botanical garden, park, palacial garden. In spite of the non-repetition, courtesy of the translatior, the constant novelty and meaning, idea, aesthetic, ??? densities without a plot's throughline can tucker a reader (like me) out. One story one beyond tedious. | Bruno Schulz, Celina Wieniewska (tr.) | ✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bright Lights, Big CityThe second and last book by this author. Like the first, it is autobiographical. About half to a third are childhood moments, perhaps aged ~9⸺12, the other at when an young adult or age is not to be extracted. Angain it is extremely descriptively dense. Unlike it though, adjacent chapters/sections are loosely connected, whereas none of the stories are. There is a general progression of time from cover to cover. It is a collection of stories, were it not by now apparent. Sometimes an interlude, sometimes a skit, sometimes a subject change, sometime a big, fat conjunction, the longer stories are least effect. I don't like it, them, gauging what the author sees as important, as relevant is hard. Of course, frequency of occurances or mentions of thing reveal it postfactum. The subdivisioned stories tenuously prolonged, with one running to 60, maybe 10⸺15 of the whole, whereas stories may be 5e2⸺2e3 words. That there is little plot in most children's lives to begin start off, is true, and so it is for 20. century, quiet, shy, introverted, Jewish-Polish ones. The lack doesn't devalue this, nor does that of details, temporal unidirectionality. However, like hard drugs, you can only do so much of the good stuff. It is as heady, sprightly, intense as the first book. Translations of these two would, if done well, be very valuable to any language learner, enjoyer, afficionado. However, traversing this beautiful, literary bracken is tiring. For it is no botanical garden, park, palacial garden. In spite of the non-repetition, courtesy of the translatior, the constant novelty and meaning, idea, aesthetic, ??? densities without a plot's throughline can tucker a reader (like me) out. One story one beyond tedious. | Jay McInerny | ✔ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human LifeI'd started reading this in 2018⸺19. Remember it being good enough to continue reading, but then le life happened. I recently deleted old files from my disused Kindle, making sure add to the booklog anything worth (re)checking out. It's a book on anathropological psychology, an interesting topic. Any field appended with that adjective can be, and many have been (say, 'ethnomathetmatics', ffs), infiltrated by pseudointellectual, slippery, tricky charlatans to preach their poison. It being both (sub)field-irrelevant and ideological. I'd read a few pages during a waiting and was pleasantly surprised, but didn't recall anything, so I'm redoing it wholly, and paying attenting. After about half the book, my dude goes on Jew taint licking spree to demonstrate preceding chapters' ideas or statements. Fucking disgusting. I'm listen at over 4x speed. This is like 4⸺5 chapters of just Jewiness. Dude's aware supposedly, maybe somebody told him, of much about himself⸻, Well, not it the moment. Only 20⸺30 years later when writing a fucking book. Then he starts talking about religion and make stupid claims, that don't deserve hearing. | Robert Trivers | kMg | 0.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Medical Detectives: Volume II'd started reading this in 2018⸺19. Remember it being good enough to continue reading, but then le life happened. I recently deleted old files from my disused Kindle, making sure add to the booklog anything worth (re)checking out. It's a book on anathropological psychology, an interesting topic. Any field appended with that adjective can be, and many have been (say, 'ethnomathetmatics', ffs), infiltrated by pseudointellectual, slippery, tricky charlatans to preach their poison. It being both (sub)field-irrelevant and ideological. I'd read a few pages during a waiting and was pleasantly surprised, but didn't recall anything, so I'm redoing it wholly, and paying attenting. After about half the book, my dude goes on Jew taint licking spree to demonstrate preceding chapters' ideas or statements. Fucking disgusting. I'm listen at over 4x speed. This is like 4⸺5 chapters of just Jewiness. Dude's aware supposedly, maybe somebody told him, of much about himself⸻, Well, not it the moment. Only 20⸺30 years later when writing a fucking book. Then he starts talking about religion and make stupid claims, that don't deserve hearing. | Berton Roueché | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Time ShelterA meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two). | Georgi Gospodinov, Angela Rodel (tr.) | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Brutalities: A Love StoryA meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two). | Margo Steines | g | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of Form and EmptinessA meta, commentary, self-aware⸻barbaricly I flail for the word, but catch not; I'm close though⸻novel about a person, the writer, and his special friend. Who may well of taken to be the very same from a different timeline. I write this at a fifth because the first act of 3 or 5 is somewhat through. I'm not feeling it, Mr Krabs. It is not thick with references, but there are almost 'many', with subtleties, required ccontext. Yes, but what for? 16e3 words, I think, should have fleshed out the world. Yet only its main concept, the hook has been. It's both distantly and casually told, the tone is just off. There seems, or rather feels to be missing information, characters, importances. Something. Like lying by omission only with the obvious try-hard elocution and try-hard erudition. It's compellation (of me to read on) waffles. The main protagonist is obviously a self-insert. The novel is (perhaps) his wrestling with, reconciliation or resolution of his, his country's, and Europe's pasts, and mortality, and senility. The intangibles of tone and atmosphere are much used, whereas concretes like the plot events and actors are few. On second thought, the novel may also be a detached's commentary on his country, its past, and mostly its people and their relationship with the various Marxist ideologies tried there (officially, Fascism and Socialism (incorrectly called Communism, but according to Marx's shoddy definitions, it wasn't (that, or it's unattainable)), unofficially, a loose kind of conservative/traditionalist/ethnic Nationalism around Tsarist times before the other two). | Ruth Ozeki | b | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hunting GhislaineAn detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible. | John Sweeney | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thrawn: 1 - Heir to the EmpireAn detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible. | Timothy Zahn | aw | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the WorldAn detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible. | Tyson Yunkaporta | bawg | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blood Beneath My Feet: The Journey of a Southern Death InvestigatorAn detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible. | Joseph Scott Morgan | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and BackAn detailed survey into Ghislaine, accurately pronounced .Guh'lane, and her family, mostly her father, Robert, Maxwell. Dry, almost un-journalistic were it not for his many slips, horrific this and monsterous that, where bias is evident. It's not unfair though. Most every bit of information had been attempted to be corroborated, its sources had been asked for verification, comment, where possible. | Sarah Ransome | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Death by WaterAnother (semi-?)autobiographical novel by this author. Another snooze. Everything said by characters, everything described by the author leaves me wondering⸻why didn't he expand that and why didn't he say the whole thing, why obfuscate? It's neither coy, nor subtle. If this is Japanese mores or Confucianism again, it's still inacceptable, because it doesn't make for any better reading. Just like being retarded doesn't grand you compensatory points for admission to MIT. I gave it 5%, and literally less than a page's worth occured⸻it's slow and without payoff. | Kenzaburo Oe | bm | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bullies and Saints: An Honest Look at the Good and Evil of Christian HistoryChristian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world. | John Dickson | agf | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Deep SkyChristian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world. | Yume Kitasei | w | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cure for Loneliness: How to Feel Connected and Escape IsolationChristian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world. | Bill Howatt | wgf | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sun Walks DownChristian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world. | Fiona McFarlane | agw | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Sound of a Wild Snail EatingChristian apologism through hand-wavering while preaching to the choir. Hence insufferable, intolerable. I'm surprised I give it that wide a berth to fail. Fuck me, these cunts should be hung. Just like stupid people. Incalculable burden on the human world. | Elisabeth Tova Bailey | am | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thrilled to Death: How the Endless Pursuit of Pleasure Is Leaving Us Numb
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like Land of the Deviant
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like Killers Amidst Killers: Hunting Serial Killers Operating Under the Cloak of America's Opioid Epidemic
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like Unholy Alliance: The Agenda Iran, Russia, and Jihadists Share for Conquering the World
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies
Scoring 41/45 don't seem too-too great. Excluding the irrelevant and unanswerable questions, it'd again be at the maximal grade. Yikes. Nothing relevatory, nothing new. The 'NOT PROFESSIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TOOL' warning I get, as well. Is it another sub-mediocre, common knowknowledge and trivial yet impractical, inapplicable advice handbook? Filled with useless exercises? Helping only the author grift some dosh? Is is like The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of LiteracyA thorough review of⸻wouldn't you know it⸻Marxists' textual records. Gotta love a cult, eh? The compensatory, snuck-in hahas about their liability for easily over a third of a billion deaths does not counterbalance the length and aridity of the book. Which is mostly due, I think, to the repetitious prolixity and (failed) attempts at being high-brow, erudite, prescient, knowledgeable, and the (successful) ones of tacit plagiarism of both ideas and texts. An exhaustive ideology need be complex, or rather, heavily convoluted, and or taken as gospel⸻this is why they are all victims be about as susceptible to reason and or objective truth as flat-Earthers or religionists. Well-researched, but, then again, the guy did devote more than a decade of his life to this. I'd like to hope I'm not following in him or James A. Lindsay in overtreading old ground. Despite it being still very, very relevant. Daniel Kalder | M | 1.00 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: The Rage War - 1: Predator: IncursionA short triology involving at least three loci and races, and, for me, too many characters. Tim Lebbon has had one hit and one big-ish miss according the booklog. This is the first of a trilogy that I won't be giving the time of day. It is of the alien-predator crossover universe. I'm actually uncertain whether they coexist canonically. Regardless, the novel, and hence probably series, has problems. Namely insufficient care in dealing with all 3⸺4 scenarios: human, human near pedator, human near alien, android/synth. It reads like a generic, that is, mediocre scifi. None of atmosphere of the better Alien franchise novels, that I have read. For sure, not all are good. But this wasn't compelling. I gave it nearly half, and it's just meh. Neither of the franchises deserves to be this lukewarm. | Tim Lebbon | m | 0.42 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical SketchesRather eloquoently worded, especially so for the more technically or scientifically disposed of humans. Short and enjoyable, does not dwell or bore, snappy. | Erwin Schrödinger | Mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
My View of the WorldA biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his | John Gribbin | mw | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic AgeA biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his | Gino Segre, Bettina Hoerlina | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled TimesA biographical work about Erwin Schrödinger, and hisotircal work as well. Unlike Erwin's own 3-paragraph summary of his own life bookending his | Azar Nafisi | wb♀ | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Perennial PhilosophyA pre-new-age try-hard cult-y/guru book about Hinduism and Bhuddism by a English fiction writer. It's bad. Has: absolutism, dogmatism and orthodoxy, and moral authoritarianism/grandstanding. | Aldous Huxley | W | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Whatever Happened to the Metric System? How America Kept Its FeetA giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit. | John Bemelmans Marciano | Waf | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find OurselvesA giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit. | Stephen Grosz | m | 0.90 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tao of PoohA giant, feels-first, beta shit-for-brains asinine railing against a better in every regard system of measurement. Thought it was going to be historical or objective. It's rather like a little girl throwing a hissy fit. | Benjamin Hoff | aw | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gross outDuncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters. | Duncan Ralston | w | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In the Belly of the BeastDuncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters. | Jack Henry Abbott | mGf | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Death ShiftDuncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters. | Peter Elkind | mb | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among UsDuncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters. | Robert D. Hare | Mkm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of LoveDuncan, my man, how old are you? This novel resemebles an increasingly senile man. He never gets to a or the point, if there ever was one. It as if he consistently opens parentheses, and never closes one. Characters venues, plotlines. And nothing. I'm at 12% of the whole, 2 chapters complete. No hook, an introduction that doesn't go anywhere in 3 chapters. | Ovid, Rolfe Humphries (tr.) | BmM | 0.19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book EatersA Texan-Hong Kong(ian?)-Yorkshire female with poor literary taste debuts with a 'gothic fantasy'. The book is certainly not gothic in the classical sense; is at best tainted by that movement, but isn't dominated by it. No, it's just a 'yes, but what if X?' sort of novel. Immediately two things are very annoying⸻a focus on class- or caste-based society and the vocabulary used, which is badly silly⸻like a child trying to ram a joke in a square hole⸻because the premise allows it (but doesn't require it!). That it's a gynocentric, female-protagonisted story don't help any. Trash author, trash, story, trash world. | Sunyi Dean | a | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book That Wouldn't BurnAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like The Suicide ClubAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like The Suicide ClubAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like Root FracturesAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like ComemadreAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like The Road to RoswellAnother incredible (in its literal sense) novel with unrealistic humans? Centered on a fucking twat like On RevolutionWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). Hannah Arendt | mbM? | 0.48 | | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless LanguageWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | Nicola Gardini | mk | 0.88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit: Why That Is And What You Can Do About ItWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | Steven Pressfield | km | 0.88 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous DeceptionWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | Emmanuel Carrère | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 Minutes in HellWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | Charles Bukowski | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal GeniusWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | David Pietrusza | bm | 0.16 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bears Discover Fire and Other StoriesWhile this essay is is about revolution on the surface, by title, it goes (much, as if) history and art as its arguments and conquents. But it, that is she, does lead anywhere. Not that I noticed, and I read almost to the median page. I don't think myself that distracted, nor would've I thought her writting that subtle or fine, or ... convoluted? What they teach in secondary educational instutions in literature and or (mother) language classes has eluded Ms Arendt. Namely how to write an opinion piece: (introduction), premise/hypothesis, argumentation, examples, (conclusion). | Terry Bisson | ? | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost FuturesOveranalyzing, overinterpreting, dense. Exhausting. Perhaps I should approach his writing chronologically, or very otherwise. | Mark Fisher | bw? | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first CenturyOveranalyzing, overinterpreting, dense. Exhausting. Perhaps I should approach his writing chronologically, or very otherwise. | Josh Cook | G | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portrait of a MurdererToo social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman? | Anne Meredith, Anthony Gilbert | a | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Portrait of an Addict as a Young ManToo social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman? | Bill Clegg | mMa♀ | 0.70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's ResourcesToo social, too many characters, too much focus on class. Not necessarily bad writing, but this is as boring as Tolkien's diatribes and adjective laundry lists. What did I expect from a woman? | Javier Blas, Jack Farchy | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
John Ralston Saul | gfMm | 0.11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ben Neihart | m | 0.16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward Humes | kmb | 0.68 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Anthony Withers | wg | 0.13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kat Timpf | kp | 0.09 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Creature from Cleveland DepthsAbsurdist, satirical, futurist, fast-paced or frantic, dense novella. The author gets whitelisted. Also, like many an author, got the a few key things right about the future. Sadly, nobody listened. Read more, ffs! | Fritz Leiber | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Creature from Beyond InfinityAbsurdist, satirical, futurist, fast-paced or frantic, dense novella. The author gets whitelisted. Also, like many an author, got the a few key things right about the future. Sadly, nobody listened. Read more, ffs! | Henry Kuttner | wp | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Buried SecretsAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Edward Humes | bmM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
BurnedAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Edward Humes | bmM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late CapitalismAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Heather Berg | gf | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Three Stigmata of Palmer EldritchAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Philip K. Dick | M✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The House That Cheese BuiltAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Miguel A. Leal | a | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobility in Small Things: A Surgeon's PathAt 1.6e5 words, this is thorough. Going into each character's dig-up-able story and information and mixing them with others' without giving up chronologicity. He attempts to balance 'plot' with reams of information. Both are interlaced, one will quickly notice. Their proportions are unbalanced, to me, making it much less compelling, readable as a true crime piece, and more documentarian. There are no liberties ostensibly taken in the 'novelization'. As a sequela, the whole suffers a tedious dryness. | Craig R. Smith, Braden Wright | fga | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Capitalism, Democracy, and Ralph's Pretty Good GroceryA rather room-temperature defence or support or argument for capitalism. | Joehn Mueller | mk | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Tao of Alibaba: Inside the Chinese Digital Giant That Is Changing the WorldA rather room-temperature defence or support or argument for capitalism. | Brian A. Wong | G | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested SurgeriesInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | David Benatar | mM | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 1Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 2Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 3Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 4Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 5Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 6Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad PharmaInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Ben Goldacre | kbmM | 0.82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for BooksInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Nicholas A. Basbanes | mBM | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eaters of the DeadInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Michael Crichton | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CongoInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Michael Crichton | mp | 0.55 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Less You Know, the Better You SleepInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | David Satter | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NagasakiInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Susan Southard | ♀m | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dear LeaderInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jang Jin-sung | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 7Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 8Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True Crime Case Histories: 9Interesting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Jason Neal | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
True StoryInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Michael Finkel | mbM | 0.84 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art ThiefInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Michael Finkel | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SovietistanInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Erika Fatland, Kari Dickson (tr.) | Mm | 0.94 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of Fritz LeiberInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Fritz Leiber | mb | 0.53 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Early LightInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (tr.), Donald Keene (tr.) | am | 0.28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Art of the HeistInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Myles Connor Jr. | a | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hitler's Art ThiefInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Susan Ronald | bmB | 0.48 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Perfect GirlfriendInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Haley Smith | pam | 0.22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Such a Lovely CoupleInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Haley Smith | m | 0.41 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
QuozlInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Alan Dean Foster | ma | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Doll HouseInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | John Hunt | am | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Myth of Chinese CapitalismInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Dexter Tiff Roberts | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Third TwinInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Ken Follett | mb | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Plague on Both Your HousesInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Robert Littell | am | 0.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goodbye, ThingsInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Fumio Sasaki | a | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Boy Who Played with FusionInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Tom Clynes | am | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Eye of the NeedleInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Ken Follett | ma | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Paper MoneyInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Ken Follett | mM | 0.43 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bad ScienceInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Ben Goldacre | Mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Robert M. Pirsig | aA | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The BorderInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Erika Fatland | maAkM | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Last Kind Words SaloonInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Larry McMurtry | a | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
X-Files: 1 - Trust No OneInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.) | m | 0.85 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 Habits of Highly Defective People: And Other Bestsellers That Won't Go AwayInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Cathy Crimmins, Thomas Maeder | m | 0.76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
X-Files: 2 - The Truth Is out ThereInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.) | am | 0.52 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just My TypeInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Simon Garfield | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
White Line FeverInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Lemmy, Janiss Garza | M | 0.98 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
X-Files: 3 - Secret AgendasInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.) | ma | 0.37 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fatal ForecastInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Michael Tougias | m | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How Evil Are Politicians: Essays on DemagogueryInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Bryan Caplan | kgm | 0.20 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nothing but the RainInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Naomi Salman | A | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Man Who Wasn't ThereInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Anil Ananthaswamy | ak | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Preparation for DeathInteresting-ish collection of mostly benign, common-sense texts about the ethics of various types of surgery. Minus points for not seeing male and female (child) (unanesthesized) genital mutilation/alteration/cutting/surgery as immoral, criminal, and harmful⸻mostly due to not accounting for evolution (that is, history, how we got to where we are, rather than a measly 2e3⸺5e3 years of religion-cult history) and merely stating that there exist opinions on boths sides rather than citing metastudies (assuming those existed when this was written). I'd still vote in favor of nature rather than cult, false dogma or orthodoxy. I vividly remember the arguments of Eric Clopper at Harvard, this video, many years back. The tldr; father chosing his woes, maladies, sins be forced upon his son as an act of ultimately ineffectual, yet self-perpetuating reverge against one's parents, religion, society is harmful only. A bias mysides, definitely. The guy is ostensibly emotional, albeit he substantiated his arguments from what I recall. The former doesn't sit well facing attempting-to-be-objective medical studies, good or bad. Chapters 1 and 2 cite studies, and that's all to easy, sadly. Finding a suitable study to defend one's thesis is far too easy in the US. This isn't moral outrage at the authors, the philosphers, but rather confusion, and a slight, impotent anger at continuation of harm toward (very) young men. Apt quote from the second chapter:
Touché, Timmy. The opinions herein seem too removed, too cool for their severity. The term 'armchair philosophy' comes to mind. | Greg Baxter | ✔✓ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors and Other True CasesWhy, yes, am I going to be a patronizing, motherly, pearl-clutching, boring cunt. How could you tell? Ffs. | Ann Rule | am | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FatalWhy, yes, am I going to be a patronizing, motherly, pearl-clutching, boring cunt. How could you tell? Ffs. | Harold Schechter | mb | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish Fairy TalesClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | William Butler Yeats | aA | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When She Was BadClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | Patricia Pearson | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All the Lonely People: Conversations on LonelinessClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | Sam Carr | ap♀ | 0.25 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Crime of Sheila McGoughClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | Janet Malcolm | Bb | 0.18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Brief History of AnxietyClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | Patricia Pearson | fgw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Looks Can KillClassism and arbitrary 'luck' and mischief. For folk tales, these'd be shit, as they (can) teach nothing. I found nothing significant, nor magical, nor fay in what I read. The few Gaelig words herein is what I can appreciate. | Riam Shammaa, Patricia Pearson | Mmk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For When Everything Is BurningGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | Scott Eilers | kMm | 0.92 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Feeling "Blah"?Good-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | Tanith Carey | Km♀ | 0.74 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Renegade at HeartGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | Lorenzo Lamas, Jeff Lenburg | mpM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Bad WomanGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | James M. Cain | bm | 0.66 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HighGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | Erika Fatland | mabM | 0.34 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Irish Fairy and Folk TalesGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | William Butler Yeats | Aa | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SeveranceGood-ish, but not very helpful. Puts forth some questions one may ask oneself, or work with a '''specialist''' or '''professional''' towards, has little take-aways. Chapters are bookended with (his?) patients' as if concluding words about their disorder, disease, or (treated) problem. Has the intellectual integrity to admit his faults and ignorance, and that of the bulk of the psychiatrists, the world over. | Ling Ma | a | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
To Cook a BearDigusting religious text. Doesn't include, of course, the atrocities commit by the papistry, the destruction of yet another culture and tradition, and paints them, roughly, as good. | Mikael Niemi, Deborah Bragan-Turner (tr.) | agf | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Book of Five RingsFor once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely. | Miyamoto Musashi | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A River in DarknessFor once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely. | Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi (tr.), Martin Brown (tr.) | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl with Seven NamesFor once, a Buddhist/Japanese text that 1. is not shit, and, 2., in addition, is half-decent (especially when compared to its (contemporaneous ±200 years) peers). Contains some mumbo-jumbo, vagaries and wishy-washy bullshit. Can sound like a pseudointellectual comfidently expounding verisimilitudes to somebody, the poor fucker, about something he comprehends not, understands not. So, just imagine a reddit mod with all the negative connotations. On its own, though, as writing on the marial arts, I don't see it as all that valuable. Akin to offering/applying (what I regard as) common sense for/to (all of) life. But I'm not martialist, as they're called, I'm sure. Also, writing 'You should investigate this thoroughly.' or the like so frequently is a crime against language. 'Studied poetry'⸻my ass. Dude can't tell good writing from his foot, I'd bed my internal organs. If everything is important, then nothing is. If the concluding sentence of each stanza or paragraph were counted, that'd enlist a hundo half again, likely. | Hyeonseo Lee, David John | m♀a | 0.60 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: PrototypeThe Alien franchise is one of the few pieces of cinematic-turned-literary media, that features a fully formed, human, le strong, likable female protagonist. Somehow this was perverted into every member in the series, irrelevant of medium, having at least one such character, only much more scuffed. Vasquez in Aliens was such a perversion, for example. Likewise with the 'They mostly come out at night. Mostly.'-girl and Ripley's daughter, if going by the main trilogy of movies. This, on the other hand, is a grotesque. The story begins with a hook in the form of cold betrayal⸻assassination for the purpose of robbery, done convertly over 18 months. Little miss perfect is presented as a spy, martial artist, and pirate. I'm sure she was a 5.0 GPA and during her 4 doctorates. Any negatives? Nope. Tim-o had the balls to make her a graceous cunt by not killing the people she'd fucked while they are sleeping. Woah. Timmy's getting blacklisted. Terrible hook, because this is a main character, not a deplorable (or comedic respite) to be food for xenomorphs. | Tim Waggoner | aw | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien: Bug HuntToo many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike. | V.A., Jonathan Maberry (ed.) | ma | 0.54 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous SurvivalToo many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike. | Daniel Finkelstein | Ja | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Marching PowderToo many too long stories, all featuring bland marines, and always 1⸺2 le stronk females ones, because reasons. Maberry's introduction states that he'd turned down about 100 authors. Disgusting. The readership, I guess, has to settle for mediocre goyslop, rather than experience new talent and or takes on the universe. T'was his aweful idea to focus on marines rather than, you know, plot or something significant. Maberry's getting a big fat strike. | Rusty Young | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Reminiscences of a Stock OperatorNice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading. | Edwin Lefevre | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ways of EscapeNice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading. | Graham Greene | mb? | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Often I Am HappyNice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading. | Jens Christian Grøndahl | bB | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing HouseNice, but goes deep into the weeds too often, when it is written as an autobiography, not a speculator's treatise or an economical textbook. It also doesn't take every opportunity to do so, which makes for slightly disjoint reading. | Patricia Pearson | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hello, ShadowlandsEstablished in South-Eastern Asia, comfortably living journo decides to write a book about drugaroos. My abook had 15⸺20-minute afterword, padding the preceeding material some. It nevertheless doesn't fit the terminating, Vietnamese chapter about revenging dogs' being eaten around February, an rough equivalent of entering the new year with a clean moral slate or (successfully) bribing relevant local gods. The rest of the book ostensibly and casually revolves around drugs⸻how to acquire, use, purify, and dilute them, without the interesting me technicalities. That would have mightily elevated this about its peers. It've'en what Shulgin's | Patrick Winn | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 13 - The Death WatcherDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Chris Carter | mM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Frost FairDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Edward Marston | bm | 0.21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
When She Was BadDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Patricia Pearson | Mm♀ | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing with FireDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | John Glatt | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What's Eating the Universe?Dwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Paul Davies | kK | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Project UnLonelyDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Jeremy Nobel | fg | 0.06 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tiananmen SquareDwells too much and too often. This 111e3-word novel is slow*-er* than its series breathren. Snappy no one was, yet a monotonically increasing progression in style or writing prowess is not evident. Taken is every opportunity to retard rather than expedite or embellish it. Carter is taking steps backward, surely none forward. The last 4⸺5 books had overarching plot beats about Hunter's brother. Here remissing, the absense is like person in the room. Instead, thirteen does Carter's default of gradually increase pace until the the third act, when all cyclinders are fire and the and the engine's in sixth gear. The guy needs a lession, or twenty, in tension, or whatever like word you may choose, and resolution. It shouldn't be a fucking, unsolvable, Sherlockian enigma, wherein you have an infinitely expandable or contractable unusable set of clues to be revealed as the author sees fit that post hoc are with great force and inelegance molded to the static outcomes the author has chosen. Either giver your reader the tools and information to solve the mystery, or fix your dynamics, because slow-slow to giga-fast is not going to impress itself favorably upon anybody. You can't have it both ways and get excused because some violence happens. | Lai Wen | a | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Putin's PeopleHas a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side. | Catherine Belton | Mmg | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Opening Heaven's DoorHas a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side. | Patricia Pearson | ab | 0.04 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The WitchstoneHas a 'libshit' agenda in that it rails against Donald Trump for nearly a third to a fourth of the whole. It otherwise is a CNN-like spun 'Putin bad', wholly missing the point at times, on either side. | Henry H. Neff | ba | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
GollitokA bleak-ish, alternative history attempt at horror and or suspense. The world-building is, at a glance, aluring. Then one starts inquiring after this and that, and much remains unanswered. The world is insufficiently (or just too slowly, only when plot-abutting) exposed. The plot is tied to exploration. The writing is passable, not once exceptional or even impressive. Andrew has to work on his craft, because the delivery is what most is missing herefrom. | Andrew Najberg | m | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Culture of NarcissismMissing the point, as if. Focused on wholly irrelevant inanities too often, and, worse, is openly Marxist, with an agenda. This facilitates craving the corpse, at least. | Christopher Lasch | gfw | 0.30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mobius DoorMultiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans. | Andrew Najberg | wm? | 0.05 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A World Without Men: An Analysis of an All-Female EconomyMultiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans. | Aaron Clarey | kmM | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic PeopleMultiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans. | Ramani Durvasula | mw | 0.29 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SawfishMultiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans. | Rick Chesler | m | 0.47 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Bookshop WomanMultiple perspectives, yet all young/infantile or female. The pitch concept, that of a hole, not door, forbidding any sights, sounds, odorants, and so on, though not thrown rocks or traversing humans. | Nanako Hanada, Cat Anderson (tr.) | ♀A | 0.09 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Horror MovieA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Paul Tremblay | M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Believe MeA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Patricia Pearson | M | 1.13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Practical Meditation for Beginners: 10 Days to a Happier, Calmer YouA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Benjamin W. Decker | mk | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some GirlsA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Jillian Lauren | mp | 0.40 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I Am the Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our FutureA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Michael Molcher | gpm | 0.31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
How to Steal a Presidential ElectionA compelling first act, without deficient information. Not a rarity, but one with the 2 remaining acts, assuming a 3-act structure, others fall short all too frequently. Being written as a screenplay isn't novel, but it is slightly annoying. Intersplicing past and present⸻has been done both better and worse, though this is good enough (, I'd think? for normies? for brainlets..?). | Lawrence Lessig | bm | 0.50 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Feeling GoodI nice book by somebody dealing with the depressed, who wishes to both inform the general populace and to throw something afloat to those actively yet painfully slowly drowning. Contained tried and tested methods for dealing with biases, depression, and others. | David D. Burns | Mm | 0.82 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Just GoI nice book by somebody dealing with the depressed, who wishes to both inform the general populace and to throw something afloat to those actively yet painfully slowly drowning. Contained tried and tested methods for dealing with biases, depression, and others. | Drew Binsky | pm | 0.08 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lost ConnectionsBook initializes with a boy suffering from depression. Which gets 'treated' with with Zoloft. Ineffectually and inconclusively. After talk with some 'experts', reading some books and talking to their authors, and reading some research, he understands all is not well and clear. Not with him, nor any other depressed person. What is to be done? Learn more. My dude is 47 and good took his time compiling this book's contents. Expect to discover why pharmaceutical companies shill these dysfunctional drugs, the nine reasons why depression exists, and what you can do about it. | Johann Hari | Mm | 0.12 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval EyesSlightly annoying due to the author's insistence upon upkeeping his faith and religion. Otherwire a collection of fewer than 10 people's writings from 1300⸺1450. Very non-spectacular and ordinary. The sources themselves would have been a more interesting ot lively read. | Anthony Bale | ma | 0.27 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Real North KoreaA(n intellectually) honest person, who has well studied the subject write what he has learned, frequently stating sources. The book attempts to provide both sides of events from Korea was one until 2013, the publication year. | Andrei Lankov | ✓M | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WarlockAfter my depression allayed, I got back to this book. Somehow I'd read 3⸺4 chapters of it without taking notice of: the town, the people, the roles, the plot. Upon restarting it (and paying attention), I must say it is quite the nice Western. All characters have a malleable character and change, be it through alcohol, their emotions or other. All feel like definite real people, living in that that time in that dusty, dusty desert. For atmosphere, this gets a golden star. The story is collected by several of the partakers, who supposedly would have so-called journaled, and is hence somewhat colored. Rather slow to unfold with the happenings of most each day retold in too much detail, without them at the time seeming to matter much to the whole. A very nice portrayal of (Western) American nature or temperament. I appreciate the spread out importance of characters, more so making hearty characters of Warlock and Bright City. At nigh 2e5 words, it has | Oakley Hall | ✓M | 1.07 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All the Worst HumansFor a convert life/how-to/something book, much detail, fuck, much information are deficient. Keeping one's allies, colleagues, and others under wraps is one understandable thing, forgoing information, be it fluff or not, is another detestable one. Reads rather as a magazine article. | Phil Elwood | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SemicolonUnfortunately the book while having some nice parts becomes bogged down into history which could have been made palatable, but was not. | Cecelia Watson | Mm | 0.33 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of ChinaReads more like a folksy collection of (bad) short stories or rather try-hard fables than anything remotely Sinitic. | Lu Xun | wb | 0.02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Songs of a Dead DreamerFew stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience. | Thomas Ligotti | Mm | 1.00 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Freiheit purFew stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience. | Horst Stowasser | ? | 0.03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Logically FallaciousFew stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience. | Bo Bennett | ✔ | 0.15 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Illuminatus!: 2 - The Golden AppleFew stories of considerable length, not what I would designate as short. Often having unexpected turns that keep it alive, but always slow to develop. Language is good like the ones of his read prior. They seem off, like unfitting leftovers. I would trim them much for an expedited experience. | Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea | ✔✔✔ | 0.68 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dictionary of Obscure SorrowsJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | John Koenig | M✓a | 0.65 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Dawn of EverythingJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | David Graeber, David Wengrow | ✓M | 0.58 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will EndJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Neil Howe | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TimelineJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Michael Crichton | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Man Who LaughsJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Victor Hugo | ✓ | 0.10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A River in DarknessJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Masaji Ishikawa, Risa Kobayashi (tr.), Martin Brown (tr.) | 0.02 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alien Sex: 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark FantasyJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | V.A., Ellen Datlow (ed.) | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long IslandJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Colm Toibin | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Expert Political JudgmentJust like any good reference book, hard to read cover-to-cover keeping your interest. I love that its minting words, you grasped for in the past, think | Philip E. Tetlock | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Signal and the NoiseNice statistics, rule-of-thumb type book. Boring at times, like the baseball chapter. | Nate Silver | Mb | 0.11 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIANice statistics, rule-of-thumb type book. Boring at times, like the baseball chapter. | Patrick Winn | ? | 0.01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The True BelieverMost of the book is on the money. I take issue with the anti-individualist and collectivist stance espoused in chapter 33. I would wonder how much hindsight is benefiting me. Individualism presently most prominates in the North American colonies, what is to become the United States. It has been expressed in continental Europe, all members of Britain and its overseas colonies, Russia, and others. The long-standing (1500+ years) feudalism of Europe (including Scandinavia, Britain) and Asia is well-documented. Its people were rarely content, let alone happy. I'm not advocating for hermeticism of all. But it would seem to be that that is what the author sees himself to be up against. Claiming that nationalism, or any similar flocking under a loosely defined common banner, is for the wider good of the same, is very misguided. Some of 35 too is in great error.
| Eric Hoffer | ✓M | 0.70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A Movie Making NerdReally? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem. | James Rolfe, Robyn Schelenz | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'm Just Here for the FoodReally? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem. | Alton Brown | 0.01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Robert Hunter: 14 - The Silver Snarling TrumpetReally? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem. | Chris Carter | 0.05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
? Cannot be right._Really? You're not going to include the hyphen, whose presence be mandated by the English language, as it has been used since the 18th century. I know you began the book as your spare, shit notes, inconvertable to video (ideas), but still. The recent Folding Ideas video brough attention to the man. The audiobook version of his book also kindled that flame. So, I'm to read a shit book, by a mediocre human just to tear him a new asshole. Because seventeen just isn't enough, it'd seem. | ? | 0.00 |