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Jerry’s 2025 Year in Books
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Not quite up there with A Light in the Attic or Where the Sidewalk Ends, but then, he’d been dead for over a decade so it’s definitely a feat. It’s still a fun collection of nonsense and not-quite-nonsense, or shaggy dog, poetry. While it’s marketed a ...more |
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"This is the fourth novel by Håkan Nesser that I am reviewing here. I absolutely loved his Hour of the Wolf and rated it with five stars, an unusually high rating for a novel in the police procedural genre. I found The Inspector and Silence very good "
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"An entertaining and illuminating read! Mark Forsyth presents the etymology of several hundreds of English words and phrases and often surprising connections between them. We begin with "book" and end with "book," which justifies the subtitle "A Circu"
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I didn’t realize what this was when I bought it; I’ve read The Book of Lost Tales #1 and it’s basically a story, albeit an abandoned one. This is filled with earlier versions of The Silmarillion. Like Lost Tales, it’s also filled with Christopher Tolk ...more |
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My first computer had 16k. When I upgraded it to 48k it was like slipping the surly bonds of Earth!
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""They were no longer in earth orbit. Apollo 8 had become the first manned vehicle to break the bonds of earth."
Robert Zimmerman's book tells the story of this phenomenal human endeavor, when three astronauts, Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders" Read more of this review » |
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| This is a fun retrospective of classic Las Vegas, spanning the era of the old western through the Rat Pack years and into the eighties. The “Lost” items are presented in order of when they were lost. So the first entry is the Arizona Club, “closed 19 ...more | |
“The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau.”
― Bureaucracy
― Bureaucracy
“I love the early hours of the day. It’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.”
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“A novelist who has to defend his creation by telling a reader *But that’s what really happened*, is a novelist who has failed.”
― Letters to a Young Journalist
― Letters to a Young Journalist
“The great hatred of capitalism in the hearts of the oppressed, ancient and modern, I think, stems not merely from the ensuing vast inequality in wealth, and the often unfair and arbitrary nature of who profits and who suffers, but from the silent acknowledgement that under a free market economy the many victims of the greed of the few are still better off than those under the utopian socialism of the well-intended. It is a hard thing for the poor to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it. (p.272)”
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
― Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power
“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.”
― The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
― The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern
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