Monday, January 30, 2012

2012.Book5 - The Sisters Brothers (DeWitt)

Good western. Not particularly literary, but marketed that way, I guess, to escape genre.

2012.Book4 - Traffic (Vanderbilt)

Pretty good non-fiction summary of traffic studies. Not super-interesting, but OK.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

2012.Book1 I Am a Strange Loop (Hofstadter)

Very good pop-sci. Another good explanation of Godel, too. Though I don't really accept that there's any kind of Godelian level mixing going on in conscious beings. But he has hit on the real "inability" of consciousness, like Bakker's "Consciousness is not an achievement."

Saturday, December 31, 2011

2011.Book60 - The Sorceror's House (Wolfe)

Pretty good Wolfe. Not too crazy. The twist fooled me, but I expected something weirder.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

2011.Book59 - Big Questions (Nilsen)

Very good graphic novel. Weird stuff with birds, snakes, owls, pilots, etc.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Monday, December 19, 2011

2011.Book57 - State of Wonder (Patchett)

Excellent novel. Highly recommeded.

Monday, December 12, 2011

2011.Book 56 - Home Fires (Wolfe)

Good Wolfe. Not too much under the surface in this one

2011.Book 55 - Moonwalking with Einstein (Foer)

Excellent non-fiction about memory athletes.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

2011.Book54 - Deathless (Valente)

Very good fairy tale fantasy. (Some small editing errors, surprisingly)

Thursday, November 24, 2011

2011.Book53 - Changes (Butcher)

Excellent Dresden fantasy. Non-stop action.

2011.Book52 - Essential Groucho (Marx)

Pretty good humour/bio. Groucho's humour wears thin after a while.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

2011.Book51 - Vimy (Berton)

Excellent history. "Was it worth it? No."

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Tuesday, November 08, 2011

Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Saturday, October 29, 2011

2011.Book47 - Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (Wodehouse)

Blandings is very good, elsewhere is OK. A little Wodehouse goes a long way.

Monday, October 24, 2011

2011.Book46 - Eating the Dinosaur (Klosterman)

(Mostly) shallow think about (mostly) interesting subjects.