Friday, December 17, 2010
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Book 45 - A Million Little Pieces (Frey)
Very good addiction recovery story. In retrospect, pretty clearly fictionalized.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Book 42 - An Exaltation of Larks (Reed)
Very good. Not as weird as Jo Walton says. Some excellent ideas. Characters make the wrong choice in the ending. The turtles were right: an eternal infinite universe would be better than single finite universe.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Book 40 - Disciple of the Dog (Bakker)
Very good thriller. But would I like it so much if it wasn't Bakker?
Monday, October 25, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Book 35 - Religion in Four Dimensions (Kaufmann)
Very good. But the promised existential and comparative dimensions are in somewhat short supply. Another essay by Kaufmann had some good stuff along the line of "the Buddhist can free himself of attachment and suffering and achieve a mild benevolence to all, but the Jew can take a tragic path to sacrifice himself for all people"
Book 34 - Stealing Jesus (Bawer)
Pretty good. But Kaufmann might tell Bawer his church of love is a fantasy.
Friday, September 03, 2010
Book 33 - Autobiopsy (Rubens)
Good literary fiction. Like Isherwood, not awesome, but excellent ending.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
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