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Douglas’s 2025 Year in Books
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Douglas Summers-Stay
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January 2008
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SteamPunk Magazine #9
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What I remember about the book was the things he invented, and how they compared to the actual things that existed in the present (Heinlein's future).
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| This had a lot of bleak parts. The beginning, where they are marooned on an island, running out of food and attacked was very intense. The two girls orphaned by smallpox. Australia is shown as a horror of imprisonment and torture and desert landscape ...more | |
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
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Right-- that's the "something else going on here" that I mentioned. Evolution spreads out and diversifies, it doesn't head toward one goal.
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| It felt to me like a retelling of Disney's Beauty and the Beast as a Regency romance, but the parallels between that story and the story of Hades and Persephone (which is the connection the author wanted the reader to make) were interesting to me. T ...more | |
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| I assume the title is because this is the thirteenth book in the series. For a couple books it has been hinted that the Surprise would go on a diplomatic mission to South America. They do end up sending it, but without Aubrey and Maturin! Instead, th ...more | |
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Douglas Summers-Stay
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Be Funny or Die: How Comedy Works and Why It Matters
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It sounds interesting, but I can't find it anywhere for less than full price. What is his explanation of how it works?
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"I am no expert on humor or the study of it. So the fact that I'm very impressed and convinced by Morris's conclusions about what makes things funny and what humor is even for probably says more about my ignorance than about his arguments. However, hi"
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| Jack has been kicked out of the navy. Freed from following orders, and simmering with anger and desire to regain his honor, he becomes a privateer and proceeds to capture a lot of ships-- and since capturing ships is my favorite part of these books, ...more | |
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| This is a coloring book-- there is nothing to read. It has 100 pages of Stout's beautiful pen and ink illustrations of dinosaurs. Stout has a small problem that his dinosaurs often look "shrink wrapped"-- you can see their skeletons through their ski ...more | |
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| This took place pretty much all on land. It was pretty clear to see what was coming, and I think Maturin would have spotted it too if he weren't so upset about Diana. The scene in the stockade near the ending was great. I wonder if it helped inspire ...more | |
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
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“Sections in the bookstore
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- Books Made for Purposes Other Than Reading
- Books Read Even Before You Open Them Since They Belong to the Category of Books Read Before Being Written
- Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered
- Books You Mean to Read But There Are Others You Must Read First
- Books Too Expensive Now and You'll Wait 'Til They're Remaindered
- Books ditto When They Come Out in Paperback
- Books You Can Borrow from Somebody
- Books That Everybody's Read So It's As If You Had Read Them, Too
- Books You've Been Planning to Read for Ages
- Books You've Been Hunting for Years Without Success
- Books Dealing with Something You're Working on at the Moment
- Books You Want to Own So They'll Be Handy Just in Case
- Books You Could Put Aside Maybe to Read This Summer
- Books You Need to Go with Other Books on Your Shelves
- Books That Fill You with Sudden, Inexplicable Curiosity, Not Easily Justified
- Books Read Long Ago Which It's Now Time to Re-read
- Books You've Always Pretended to Have Read and Now It's Time to Sit Down and Really Read Them”
― If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life:
The Lord of the Rings
and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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[Kung Fu Monkey -- Ephemera, blog post, March 19, 2009]”
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“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
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