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This book is incredible. It makes me want to go back and knock every single review I've made down by 1 star, because The Recognitions sets an impossibly higher standard for works of fiction. It really is something special. American. Modern. Mean-hearted. Beautiful.

Book is amazing. Difficult to read, difficult to absorb, so take notes.

The way to read this book is, in fact, 20 - 30 pages per day. It's so dense and straight forward that just a few dozen per day will give your brain the strange sense of another culture, another world. Highly recommended during the pandemic - grab your clients concubines and catamites - escape to Ancient Rome!

Much sloppier than the first 3 volumes of this series. Still a delight to read Hobsbawm's rambling meanderings (the guy is just so well read) but I will be skimming some chapters, mostly focusing on the chapters about the arts, and the breakup of the USSR.

GRRM bit this book so hard. GoT is derivative. Wolfe at least pays tribute to Vance, instead of copying elements wholesale.

So far so good. The tale is very tender compared to The Dying Earth.

Unfortunately Spatterlight Press did a horrible print job. The book is already falling apart on me. Cheap Chine glue. Many such cases.

One of those very rare histories of philosophy. A real treat. The author gathers up the fragments of our rich intellectual history via Montesquieu, Comte, DeTocqueville, and Marx. The author gets all the shards back to a crystalline state with an earnest, intelligent, accessible synthesis of the great 19th c. social and economic commentators. So far so good.