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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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(2.7)Some thoughts on this work: Rushdie survived an attack that took almost thirty years to come to fruition…he’s quite commendable… “but a knife attack is a kind of intimacy, a knife’s a close-up weapon, and the crimes it commits are intimate encount ...more |
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So more on my fiction journey following the recommendations of the comic Jeselnik… Stag is a collection of stories; the first is a fine science fiction story of a lady boy and a butch trying to navigate a relationship amidst the backdrop of a contagio ...more |
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A book who's rating has see-sawed more than any other. Does it have brilliance and bravissimo coupled with indulgence and logorrhea - Yes. Wallace does what writers like Mailer and Elroy have done by showing other writers a new way to write. Essential ...more |
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(3.4)So my foray into fiction got better with this entry…this book is dark but it’s written well and the novelist knows just how much to get cute with the language and not overdo it. But tabernack this book is dark.. And the Man is overkill and too muc ...more |
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So I’d read Razorblade fears and it was silly, and predictable, and filled with the Woke… But the comedian Jeselnick put this on his top ten of 2025 and I haven’t read much fiction so I’ve been going through some of his recommendations… Well, at least ...more |
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I would’ve given this two stars but the big plot twist is as obvious as it is ridiculous. So this is what a popular successful novel looks like in 2021. A short 300 pages with 45 chapters. A series of plot twists that get exponentially more improbable. A ...more |
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(1.7) So, I start reading this and I think I’ve been bamboozled. This isn’t serious scholarship…this guy claims he’s got a model that predict civil wars. He’s like one of those techno-historians from Asimov’s Foundation series, but no, he’s serious. H ...more |
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Nicholson is an excellent turner of phrases…too many examples abound but describing confusion as too much fudge and muddle is on point or American combers for big waves. The book sets the time and place, the conflict between anglicans, Protestants, an ...more |
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.