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Emily McLean rated Feminism and masculinities: 4 stars

Emily McLean rated Reinventing Masculinity: 3 stars

Reinventing Masculinity by Edward M. Adams, Ed Frauenheim

Emily McLean reviewed Into the Storm by Maura Seger

Maura Seger: Into the Storm (1990, Grand Central Pub)

HE WAS A CULTURED FRENCH LORD; SHE WAS A SPITFIRE AMERICAN GIRL...

Her famous temper …

Review of 'Into the Storm' on 'Storygraph'

2 stars

Hot garbage; fun read though

Emily McLean reviewed Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann: Designing Data-Intensive Applications (Paperback, 2017, O'Reilly Media)

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need …

Review of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Extremely useful if I were an enterprise. I'm not, but this is still a good textbook for it's purpose

Emily McLean reviewed The myth of male power by Warren Farrell

Warren Farrell: The myth of male power (2001)

The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex is a 1993 book …

Review of 'The myth of male power' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

This book is worth a read at the very least for it's influence on modern "men's rights" movements. While I disagree with many of the points Farrell makes, it does make some salient observations.

Emily McLean reviewed Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier

Abigail Shrier: Irreversible Damage (2020, Regnery Publishing)

The "trans" epidemic sweeping teenage girls. Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria -- …

Review of 'Irreversible Damage' on 'Storygraph'

1 star

What a disgusting book. Shrier pushes fringe scientific theories and turns the suicide of a transgender woman into a chance to misgender her and make jokes about it. Burn in hell Shrier

Emily McLean reviewed Euthyphro by Plato

In the Meno, Anytus had parted from Socrates with the significant words: 'That in any …

Review of 'Euthyphro' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Euthyphro? More like Euthybro

Emily McLean reviewed The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback, 2001, Back Bay Books)

Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He …

Review of 'The Catcher in the Rye' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Although the book is a bit of a drag today, if read in the context of when it was released it's easy to understand why this is such an influential book

Emily McLean reviewed Cassandra by Eben Hewitt

Distributed Data at Web Scale

Review of 'Cassandra' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

Very clear and useful textbook on all the reasons you should avoid Cassandra at all costs

Emily McLean rated On Confidence: 1 star

On Confidence by Alain de Botton, School of Life (Business Enterprise) Staff

Emily McLean rated "Thus Spake Zarathustra": 3 stars

Friedrich Nietzsche: "Thus Spake Zarathustra" (Paperback, 2006, Nonsuch Publishing)

"Thus Spake Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche

A novel.

Emily McLean rated Ayn Rand Box Set: 1 star

Emily McLean reviewed THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO [ANNOTATED] by Karl Marx

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

One of the most influential political tracts …

Review of 'THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO [ANNOTATED]' on 'Storygraph'

3 stars

Eh, regardless of how you feel about the actual solutions proposed, it's undeniable that Marx is one of the most influential figures of modern history. It's worth a read for no other reason than that. I'm also of the opinion that the vast majority of critiques he makes of the capitalist structure is well founded, just not sure his answer was right.