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The most badly-written work of non-fiction I have seen in a long time. If this is really a hit with Britain's top judges, as claimed on the back, I am seriously worried for their literacy. Nothing interesting in here. Serial killers bad and we are shocked. You'll find better stories on wikipedia.
Measuring the World (German: Die Vermessung der Welt) is a novel by German author Daniel Kehlmann, published in 2005 by …
Patrick O'Brian: Joseph Banks: A Life (1987)
Joseph Banks: A Life (1987), is a biography by Patrick O'Brian of the 18th-century English naturalist, botanist and explorer Joseph …
"Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses …
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and now a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, The Emperor of All Maladies is …
Dune is a 1965 science-fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert, originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. …
Mysterious book I have at home for some reason. Nothing on the internet tells me what might be inside.
The Quincunx (The Inheritance of John Huffam) is the epic first novel of Charles Palliser. …
A huge book, described as "eccentric" on the back blurb. A postmodern pastiche of Dickensian and gothic tropes, arranged in a fractal fivefold structure if one is looking for it. At the same time, it's pretty readable linearly as a story, without knowing any literary theory. It's brilliant how everything just feels slightly off. Every Dickensian storyline is played almost perfectly straight, but we just know it isn't meant that way because of the shape of the whole assembly and underlying hints. I guess this is postmodernism. As the author afterword says, as much about the cumulative effects of decades of austerity in the UK as the ostensible setting. The characters slowly descend from one terrible housing situation to worse, and now I'm permanently afraid of the modern equivalent. Somehow very dark and scary - about poverty, social conditions, and betrayal - below the apparent adventure-novel surface. Unlike the source …
A huge book, described as "eccentric" on the back blurb. A postmodern pastiche of Dickensian and gothic tropes, arranged in a fractal fivefold structure if one is looking for it. At the same time, it's pretty readable linearly as a story, without knowing any literary theory. It's brilliant how everything just feels slightly off. Every Dickensian storyline is played almost perfectly straight, but we just know it isn't meant that way because of the shape of the whole assembly and underlying hints. I guess this is postmodernism. As the author afterword says, as much about the cumulative effects of decades of austerity in the UK as the ostensible setting. The characters slowly descend from one terrible housing situation to worse, and now I'm permanently afraid of the modern equivalent. Somehow very dark and scary - about poverty, social conditions, and betrayal - below the apparent adventure-novel surface. Unlike the source material, no relief and no happy endings here.
Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell …
The Shining is a 1977 horror novel by American author Stephen King. It is King's third published novel and first …
Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell …
In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan …
waiting for the paperback
Things got almost incomprehensible in the second-to-last chapter because I don't know about philosophy terms like phenomenology. Also because Foucault likes to throw out a word salad of contradictory terms which I'm 80% sure isn't saying much, and it intensifies as he tries to describe the modern situation. Lots of spatial positioning metaphors too, maybe all this "outside of" and "on an axis" canonically means something to philosophers. Still, it is causing me to have some thoughts.
World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the …
