David David Katzman
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A Greater Monster
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2012
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Death by Zamboni
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The Kickstarter Letters
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One of Murakami’s most energetic and irresistible stories, Kafka on the Shore is hard to put down. As you might expect from Murakami, this novel is surreal, allegorical and strange. Get comfortable with ambiguity because there’s a lot here that is nev ...more |
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Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take it Back
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Corporations are sociopathic entities. They are legal, abstract, intangible entities and yet they have more power in the world, in sum, than actual living-breathing humans. And these entities in-and-of-themselves have no emotions, no feelings and no ...more | |
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This is my third Egan, and I can say categorically that he’s good at triggering strong reactions. I loved Quarantine (review here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...) and hated Permutation City (review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho ...more | |
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Started out promising but devolved. I found the plot compelling at first and wanted to keep reading, but the tide turned with too many cliches, character shortcuts, and lazy writing. It ended up feeling more Young than Adult. I won’t be continuing th ...more | |
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Hyper cyberpunk action set in decadent far-future, near-future and past Brazil. Rich in culture and style, Brasyl is non-stop vibrant energy. It’s subversive and defies expectations, delivering many surprises. A lot of fun. | |
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This review is for all three primary books in the Lord Valentine series. Reading the Valentine trilogy was a trip down nostalgia lane. I read the series in early high school and remembered it being one of my favorites. And honestly, i wasn’t disappoi ...more | |
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Reading Clausen is a treat, and this book was no exception. The Sage and the Scarecrow is split between two worlds. A realistic everyday mundane setting and an abstract imaginative dystopia. Both were fascinating in completely different ways. The real ...more |
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This is my second book by Tad Williams. I didn’t much enjoy The Dragonbone Chair, which I reviewed here. Based on recommendations of this series, I wanted to give him another chance. I fear Tad Williams just isn’t for me. City of Golden Shadow was a s ...more |
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“My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think the unstoppable juggernaut which is global warming demonstrates that processing natural materials on an industrial scale is a suicidal practice.”
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“It makes sense that your response to a bad break-up line would be to set someone on fire," I responded. "Fire is magical to us because it embodies the passage of time. We can never grasp time because it is invisible, unreachable and continually slipping from our grasp. Do we live in the present? How can we? The present is infinitesimally small. It can't contain human action. We teeter on the brink between our assumed future...where we will be in moments to come...and our memory of the past...where we think we just were. The present doesn't exist in a comprehensible way. Similarly, fire is something we can neither grasp nor touch, yet it has a clear effect...the decay and collapse of life, the acceleration of entropy. Thus when we stand mesmerized by fire, we are actually mesmerized by our own mortality.”
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“To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!”
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“Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively.”
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“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”
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“It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day visit it. The day we finally walked on it was celebrated worldwide as perhaps man's greatest achievement. But it was while we were there, gathering rocks from the moon's desolate landscape, that we looked up and caught a glimpse of just how incredible our own planet was. Its singular astonishing beauty. We called her Mother Earth. Because she gave birth to us, and then we sucked her dry.”
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
― Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

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BRB~~ stalking your shelves.

We do see to have numerous overlapping books but differing opinions. I like that in people. But I like your favorite authors and the fact that you've read oodles of things I need to devour (Warped Passages, At Swim-Two-Birds, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist, &c.) even more.



And I've got to read your Canada/Portland writing. I left my heart in Portland.

Which leads me to my point ---> Death by Zamboni


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