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This gets mentioned in a few of the reviews, but the print and the margins are smaller than what I'm used to.

Right at the end of book one a scene gets shoehorned in to justify a revolution a bit later and lends nerds a neologism that will last forever.

This is about where it gets all in your face about gender roles.

New goal is to finish it before I have to pack it.

reviewing CS Lewis has skewed my recommendations...

Fourth and final Hugo winner from Heinlein. The voice of the narrator is distasteful, apolitical, and unenlightened. But's its definitely the most gripping of the four.

Vegan culture and physical form has outstripped less enlightened eaters who ruined the planet. Stop exploiting animals, guys!

So far I could take or leave most of this. I'm both too much of a geek already and too easily frustrated with repetitive crit. But "The Man Who Knows the Game" was reasonably fresh.

Chapter 11: Jabir Ibn Hayyan and/or the various folks publishing under Geber over the centuries. This is allegedly where we get the word gibberish. Agreed.

semi-annual reread...

This gets mentioned in a few of the reviews, but the print and the margins are smaller than what I'm used to.

Vegan culture and physical form has outstripped less enlightened eaters who ruined the planet. Stop exploiting animals, guys!

Two words: armored cushions.

it's the little things, like the adversary revealing itself to the reader with one pronoun slip and the protagonist missing it

semi-annual reread...

semi-annual reread...

Surely everyone picks up a translated brick in the middle of two or thee other weighty books, right?

it's the little things, like the adversary revealing itself to the reader with one pronoun slip and the protagonist missing it

Two words: armored cushions.

Oh good, another maybe alone maybe crazy badass that beats up badasses and mocks Rick and gets a boot to the face for it.

Oh good, another maybe alone maybe crazy badass that beats up badasses and mocks Rick and gets a boot to the face for it.

She's pretty good at this.

So far, "Faking It" is the best chapter.

it crawls