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Category Archives: Bookses
Reliving Your Life Over and Over Endlessly
Reddit, or somewhere, told me that I had to read The First 15 Lives of Harry August by Claire North. So I downloaded a copy to my Kindle. And it stayed there for a while. Somewhere along the way, I … Continue reading
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Tagged book, recomendation, Recursion, The First 15 Lives of Harry August
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A 1904 Odyssey
For over three months now, I’ve been reading Ulysses by James Joyce. I gave it four out of five stars. It could use a good editor. It’s a fascinating book, but there’s just too much of it. The first three … Continue reading
A Goodby That Was Pretty Long
I once found Dashell Hammett’s Maltese Falcon in a used book store for a quarter. It was an old paperback, apparently printed to be distributed to soldiers during World War II. It was a thin book and I read it … Continue reading
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Tagged book, movie, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler, recomendation, The Long Goodbye
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My Darling Frankenstein
This was not the book that I’d thought it’d be 40 pages in, I was thinking that there’d been some error and I was reading the wrong book. There is no Dr Frankenstein, no monster, no big frights, no hordes … Continue reading
Magarita Master
Amazon has been telling me to buy this book for ages, much as it did with Wind Up Bird Chronicles. Then I noticed folks on Reddit recomending it, although to be honest folks on Reddit end up recomending everything to … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Mikhail Bulgakov, recomendation, The Master and Margarita
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Cowboy Books
I was at my brothers one day, and his TV was on as always. It was John Wayne’s next-to-last movie ( I think) The Cowboys. There was the movie back in the 70s, and a brief TV show. Some of … Continue reading
Lincoln vs The Bardo
Fancy, award-winning books can be very hit-or-miss. Sometimes they win the award for the wrong thing, like because the story is timely or the storytelling is stylized. Sometimes a book wins an award because another one didn’t, and somebody thought … Continue reading
Hidden Wind Up Camera Bird Chronicle
+ = 3 Several years ago Amazon suggested that I buy a book called The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. I obediently ordered it. Put it on the shelf, for years. Somewhere else along the way, Amazon suggested that I … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Haruki Murakami, recomendation, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Priming the Intuition Pumps
I had an interesting experience when I read Daniel C. Dennetts’ book Consciousness Explained. I couldn’t figure out what it was talking about. I’d read a chapter, and have no idea what he was getting at. Mainly, it seemed to … Continue reading
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Tagged book, Daniel C. Dennet, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, recomendation
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John Dies Full of Spiders
While my wife was away one recent week, I started watching all the scary movies that she doesn’t like to see. I gave up on Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. It just didn’t grab me like I’d hoped. I almost … Continue reading
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Tagged book, DVD, John Dies At the End, movie, recomend, This Book is Full of Spiders
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