Blog, Page 60

The good Thrawn is a fantastic character. Some sort of combination of Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lector, and Captain Pickard. Brilliant, ruthless, cunning...

Did not finish. Heard a lot of good things about this, and I like the art style, but the content is not my type of book. Some kind of strange world with winged pe...

An interesting read that argues that deliberate practice is the single most important factor in elite performance—far more important than genetics, “god-given” ta...

Did not finish. I found it really difficult to get into a book set within the world of Greek mythology. There are gods, demi gods, nymphs, all with poorly defined...

Terraform: Up & Running, 2nd edition, has been published! The 2nd edition is nearly double the length of the 1st edition (~160 more pages), including two...

The good An interesting premise (minor spoiler alert): gods are real, apparently brought into existence by our beliefs, sacrifices, and faith. There are ...

A moderately entertaining thriller about a lawyer who joins a law firm, only to discover the firm is not quite what it seems.

This book argues that the popular narrative that, thanks to the spread of capitalism, the rates of global poverty and hunger in poor countries are going down, is ...

The good: Makes you realize how fragile humanity is and how quickly life could be changed forever due to a man-made disease. The not so good: There’s no...

This book clearly inspired George Orwell’s 1984. We was published more than 20 years before 1984, and Orwell even published a review of We a few years before publ...