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Changer – Matt Gemmell
While I’ve enjoyed Matt’s writing online on his site, and even a bunch of his short stories, this book didn’t do it for me. In fact, I couldn’t even bring myself to finish the book. I made it about 15% in and then the dialogue was so cliche and the scenarios involved so unbelievable that…
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Heaven’s River – Bobiverse Book 4
In the 4th installment in Dennis Taylor’s series about a post-human society of “Bob’s” we get introduced to a new race called Quinlan’s as Bob goes searching for Bender who disappeared long ago. From explorations of post-scarcity utopia, to interactions with humans Pav, AI, and a group of computer replications of the original Bob’s brain,…
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Everything and Less – The Novel in the Age of Amazon
This is a fairly academic look at how Amazon has affected the world of literary fiction, and genre fiction. It takes a brief look at the enshittification cycle that Amazon is embarking on as it changes it’s stance from growing the sellers on it’s platform, to driving prices down and extracting as much profit as…
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Read Write Own
This is a techno-utopian look at how “blockchain” can solve all our social ills on the internet, by a man who has been involved in funding many of the companies that are bring the internet ills to us. Yes Chris Dixon is part of a16z which has helped fund many companies that are “disrupting” our…
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Between Starfalls – S Kaeth
Never leave the path, but if your son goes missing maybe all those dogmatic rules no longer make sense and you’re willing to risk everything to get him back. While I found the language a bit stilted sometimes, this was a great fantasy novel. I enjoyed the world building, and the world breaking as our…
Genre: FantasyStyle: Fiction -
Quill & Still
Like many books we start out with our main character getting whisked to a new world which they need to explore, but then Aaron takes a turn. Our main character is not the “hero of ages”, in fact they take up a regular job and we get to explore the world with them as they…
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A Simplified Life
Ley is writing a book, predominately to women, about how to simplify your life. Pair down your commitments, cut back on all the stuff you have in your house, don’t fall into consumer culture. This is a decent book in the genre, and only has a light touch of Christian overtones instead of throwing it…
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The Third Door
The author supposes that there is a third door you should be taking to success after the main door, and the secondary door fail. Ultimately, this is advice for rich kids that can take as many attempts at success at it takes because they always have money or family support to fall back on. I…
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Do the Work
Why don’t you do the work? According to Pressfield it’s because of the resistance and the more important an item is to our soul/survival the more the resistance will rear is head to stop us from doing the work. This short book is all about helping you encounter the resistance so you can do the…
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The Apple II Age
What choices made the Apple II such a juggernaut in the early personal computing days? How did it become the standard of personal computing that many people measured everything else by? Nooney takes a walk through the software that debuted on the Apple II and how it shaped personal computing from something just for businesses,…
Style: Non-fiction