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Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Ryan Lee
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Read more of this blog post »Excerpt from my book "The Exodus". books2read.com/b/The-Exodus
"With hardly a glance at its surroundings, the cat moved determinedly towards the dead animal carcass, picked it up in its jaws and with a graceful bound leaped back into the jungle from whence it came, vanishing like an apparition."Chew SY (@blackppardus.bsky.social) October 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The Exodus
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| This is an ambitious book to say the least. And Flannery is brave indeed to write it, from a non-native perspective. Perhaps this gives it more objectivity. The period covered is the Cenozoic Era, from the end of dinosaurs to our current civilization ...more | |
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Incidentally I just watched the 2001 BBC film adaptation. Very well produced and recommended. They did change some things but all for the better I fel
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| Don't be mistaken by the dramatic subtitle and cover of this book, it is a serious reference on the subject matter, with very thorough treatment on not just animals, but with opening chapters covering plate tectonics and the causes of the repeated gl ...more | |
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| Apparently the physical version of this book is in a very large format, so the nicely illustrated animals, each in a 2 page spread should really stand out. I read the ebook edition though, which had a major flaw in that some of the portrait orientati ...more | |
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| For a large format book, this contained quite a detailed account of the various largely extinct animals encountered by Homo sapiens as we spread across the planet after breaking out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. Each long chapter covered a majo ...more | |
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| A story book form narrative of the history of Rancho La Brea. The author describes in detail scenes of animal and human life in the area, beginning from forty thousand years ago with the megafauna and smaller creatures that inhabited the locality, ho ...more | |
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| Very informative account of both the human and natural history of this famous fossil site. No other place has come close to yielding the sheer quantity of animal remains from the late Pleistocene - thousands of individuals of dire wolves, sabertooth ...more | |
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| An informative and at times entertaining account of the natural history of this particular region of North America, which sits just above the arid southwest deserts of today. The author is an authority on the paleontology and archaeology of the Great ...more | |
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| A very well written story set in Ice Age Florida, aimed at young adults. The author was obviously very familiar with the local flora and fauna, describing the landscape in minute detail, the trees, flowers, birds, fish and geological formations like ...more | |
“They walked over land once forested for centuries. Farming had destroyed the trees; cities had destroyed the farms; time had destroyed the cities. The land remained, slowly covering its degradation with new plant life.”
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“An indispensable good transported to the far corners of the world, black gold had become the very vector of the industrial vascular network, the blood of human technology.”
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“The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“Donald Trump can do a lot of things I can't, but he can no more get out of the prison than I can”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“The capitalist shark breathes oil, but the ocean in which it swims is drying up.”
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
― Life Without Oil: Why We Must Shift to a New Energy Future
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Live in Singapore? Join us! Apart from talking about books, we have listings for author events, giveaways, and sometimes we even organize a book club ...more
Natural History & Biology
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This reading group will focus on natural history. We will immerse ourselves within the realm of organisms as we explore the biodiversity of the plane ...more
Happy to announce that my book 'The Exodus' is now on wattpad, where the first chapter has been published. Let me know your thoughts and please vote too.
https://www.wattpad.com/story/1770963...
Thank you!