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| Holy overuse of Holy, Batman. Sure the book is rather sophomoric. The characters conform to the constraints of the Romance genre(I think). The chaste young woman meets the dazzlingly handsome young, but still obscenely wealthy man. A man who when he' ...more | |
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(2.6) if you pretend the dragons are just super powered people the book goes down easier… I’ve played the game for decades so this gave some depth to the lore. My one major objection is the whole killing dragons in war but forswearing the death penalt ...more |
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(2.6) if you pretend the dragons are just super powered people the book goes down easier… I’ve played the game for decades so this gave some depth to the lore. My one major objection is the whole killing dragons in war but forswearing the death penalt ...more |
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(3.8) read David Reich’s new book on this topic that uses polygenic analysis to effectively prove this book’s suppositions. Evolution did not stop 240 or 140 or 40,000 years ago. In fact, evolution seems to have accelerated once men started farming. Th ...more |
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(3.8) read David Reich’s new book on this topic that uses polygenic analysis to effectively prove this book’s suppositions. Evolution did not stop 240 or 140 or 40,000 years ago. In fact, evolution seems to have accelerated once men started farming. Th ...more |
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So I’m sometimes criticized for my rather eccentric rating scale. Books tend to fall on a bell curve where 2stars is the center and 3,4,and 5 stars represent an almost logarithmic escalation… Well, this is why I rate as I do bc giving this five stars ...more |
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(3.9) is this a Greek tragedy? Is Oedipus hubris less than that of Bernie Madoff who pulled off the greatest con ever and then watched as Oedipus did the devastating dissolution of his family. Like so many strange events, Luck is king… Madoff gets in e ...more |
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Sylvanas is a bit like Hannibal Lecter or the Joker…attempts to explain their unrelenting evil diminish them. I have just a few more of these to read and I will not weep when they are completed…these books elide over far too much of the story to act a ...more |
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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.