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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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So I never had a corporate job and I never found Dilbert funny…and then Adams became outspoken about politics and got cancelled. Other than agreeing with his politics he then announced he was dying and proceeded to continue his podcasts…his bravery wa ...more |
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So the new Jim Crow is always a book the Left demands everyone read to understand the plight of the black man. So I did. Alexander’s book is not as one note as the likes Kendi or Coates. She often acknowledges the counter argument, though she quickly di ...more |
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(1.5) truly bad stuff…the ersatz law and order courtroom with its objections and heresay…the ridiculous rulings—Hellscream is on trial but the court lets in testimony about Thrall’s dad—oh that’s relevant… The wrapped up conclusion in just a few pages ...more |
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…IQ is real…average IQ by race is unfortunately also real and has great explanatory power… To believe that Homo sapiens who existed for 300,000+years and then diasporad out of Africa over the last 100,000 years haven’t been subjected to evolutionary p ...more |
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| First, I loathe the scenario when serious literary authors write science fiction. Though in their hands it's always Speculative fiction. Almost universally, one has to then hear the hosannas of the mainstream critics hailing this work as if others ha ...more | |
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Suffused with Cormac McCarthy, Flesh has the dry flat affect of do many of his works… How this won the a Booker Prize is a mystery…the two most dramatic moments are skipped over and the character is so remote from most of his life it’s hard to believe ...more |
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| (3.2) My grandfather survived this earthquake as a mere tyke and he liked to tell the tale of what he recalled as his very first memory…keeping the family lineage of being around when there’s shaking I was present for the SF quake that stopped the Wo ...more | |
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Can a hagiography ever be well deserved? Thomas Mutter was an unparalleled surgeon, and a man of science who advocated for the use of anesthesia, the germ theory of disease, the surgical hospital, the Socratic method for medical schools and the idea o ...more |
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Yeah, I used the same review for all 9 books bc I read them long before goodreads
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| Simply the best space opera, and the best series of novels I've ever read. This is the first of the nine, and while the last three show signs of fatigue, these novels capture a cast of characters, and one in Marc Remillard, that are truly memorable. ...more | |
“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.