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Ok, done! Tainter's work is an opus. How could it be otherwise with a title like that? Yet, it lives up to the title: aiming and broadly succeeding to argue the causes for collapse. It's a little ponderous to read, because it is documented and reasone...more |
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| I've just finished Cat's Cradle with predictable results. I feel sad and hopeless. After choosing this book because of a reference to ice-9 and genuine interest in the "fun" of sci-fi speculation, I was not disappointed in those aspects. Though brief...more | |
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I'm just 30 pp in to it. This is not some swashbuckling beach read, it's a deep historical dive with lots of detail. Here's an interesting excerpt: "..the Navy was by far the largest and most complex of all government services, and indeed by a large m...more |
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| Eighty pages in, Cleopatra's secured Egypt's position as a protectorate of Rome. Perhaps not much else was possible, but who would rule Egypt was at issue, as she and her brother were fighting over it when Caesar arrived with an inadequate advance fo...more | |
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The Strange Story of the Quantum. An Account for the General Reader of the Growth of the Ideas Underlying Our Present Atomic Knowledge
"More, please? What was your reaction? I'm intrigued by the book: do you recommend it? There's quite a paucity of reviews."
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“She found the page, cleared her throat and began to read, " 'There was nary a doubt that I had ever seen such big ones, round and ripe. My teeth ached to bite them' " God, what tripe! ”
― Johanna Lindsey, Gentle Rogue
― Johanna Lindsey, Gentle Rogue
“He was staring hard, not at his wife and me but at his daughter watching us. In his cold pupil, in the firm twist of his lips, was reflected Madame Miyagi's orgasm reflected in her daughter's gaze.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
“Now and then goldfish splish and gleam, like new pennies dropped in water.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver
“Beg pardon?" I detected large deposits of vanity. Vanity is the softest of bedrocks to sink shafts into.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
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