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John’s 2025 Year in Books
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| As a political jeremiad, cry de coeur, manifesto, Atlas is more prescient today than when it was written in '57. Its calls for the greatness of capitalism, the misguided attempts to sacrifice for others, and the victimization of those who achieve can ...more | |
"This one goes on my list of the Top Ten Worst Books Ever Written.
Hate spews out from this book on almost every page. It's not even worth my time to write a review. It isn't Sci-Fi, it's a rancid piece of filth attempting to start a "race war." " Read more of this review » |
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"I just can't anymore and have to call it quits at page 76. I don't know what's going on, there doesn't seem to be a clear plot. Maybe I'm just not in the headspace to read this book - but for now, nothing is making sense and I don't want to devote an"
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(1.3)So Goliath has some writerly style…that’s all I got… The story take place in the 2050s but the america that remains is more like the 1970s in tech and 1920s in racism. White folks went to space colonies, have gravity bombs, domes to block radiatio ...more |
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| As a political jeremiad, cry de coeur, manifesto, Atlas is more prescient today than when it was written in '57. Its calls for the greatness of capitalism, the misguided attempts to sacrifice for others, and the victimization of those who achieve can ...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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| I make it a point of not reading about parents dealing with dead children…too dramatic, too exploitative…but this is the last book of the ten Jeselnick put on his list of best of last year(I only read eight bc these were library books and the other t ...more | |
“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.