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DNF. I made it about 10% of the way through and gave up. It was just nonstop rambling about some priest or bishop, some debates about the French revolution, and I...

A terrific read. This book truly changed how I think about senses, and, more generally, how animals perceive the world. In particular, this book taught me the con...

I enjoyed this book considerably more than the first book in the series Prador Moon. It has all the strengths of the first book—including great sci-fi concepts an...

I found Amusing Ourselves to Death to be deeply insightful and profound. Technopoly, much less so. There are a few great ideas in this book, as Postman is a stron...

The good Deep, interesting characters who feel alive. An interesting look at life in 1950s Naples. Well-written. The not so good...

I thought the first book in this series, Vicious, was great; I think I liked this second book even better. The characters are great, both the ones coming back fro...

The good Some cool concepts and premises: jaunting, or personal teleportation, that allows you to travel by thought alone; humans living across the solar...

Another entertaining entry in the series, with all the same strengths and weaknesses. What I wrote in my review of the 5th book in the series holds more or less 1...

An entertaining and interesting read on Lincoln’s assassination. It made me realize just how little I knew about this famous event. It’s reasonably well-written, ...

I enjoyed this one a bit more than the first book in the series: the characters are already introduced, so it’s much less all over the place than the last book. T...