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David Graeber: Debt (Hardcover, 2011, Melville House)

The author shows that before there was money, there was debt. For 5,000 years humans …

Review of 'Debt' on 'Goodreads'

This book started out good but sorta fell apart in the second half. Graeber's historical analysis leaves a lot to be desired. Seems to fall into all of the same pitfalls other anarchists do. Also, statements like "Communism = Love" and "Freedom = able to make friends" are eye-rolling.

Jules Verne: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Extraordinary Voyages, #6) (2002)

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, …

Review of 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea' on 'Goodreads'

A super cool adventure. I love reading science fiction from the 19th century. The dude does go on describing fish for paragraphs at a time though.