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A sci-fi noir detective story with good world building, an interesting crime and way too much gratuitous sex that really gets in the way...

The Barrens is the first story in the collection. An accountant who grew up in the remote Pine Barrens of NJ agrees to lunch with an old college boyfriend. Mac agrees to help Jonathan Creighton with his research on the Jersey Devil. They find more than they bargained for. A good well-paced story that captures the edge of reality of the Mythos.

Like anthology, there's some good stories and a few odd ones. Loved Lonegan's Luck and Monsters out of these first 6. Father, Son and Holy Rabbit & So Perfect were also good.

Looking forward to the rest

So apparently this book is related to the Bill Hodges trilogy which I had not read yet... Boo.

Wish I had caught the fact that the author is married to Sam Harris. This book seems to track along the same ideas as his book Free Will. It starts off with a relatively vauge definition of conscious. It's followed by a reliance (at least so far) on Libet's experiments (the brain chooses to act before we decide) without any mention of Schurger's experiments that suggest other interpretations of the data.

Only two chapters in, and finding this book to be outstanding! A very lucid and thoughtful examination of moral philosophy.

Thanos trying to impress Death: Yes.. That is what must be done. If proof of my depravity is what is needed... so be it!

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

starting this one over...

Hello fellow book enthusiasts. I'm participating in a project called ‪#‎savetheculture‬ which encourages people to read. You mail one book, any book of your choice, to someone and you get a book back for each person who joins.

It's a Ponzi scheme; but a good one. Like this post and I will give you the details.