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I'm a mid 20s PhD student, read a good mix of history, sociology and the odd fiction.

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Tim Marshall: Prisoners of Geography (Hardcover, 2015, Scribner, imusti)

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning …

Review of 'Prisoners of Geography' on 'Goodreads'

Pretty interesting explained the why of a lot of things that happened previously.

Would have been cool if he’d been able to use that knowledge in a more predictive manner, other than “this will be important”. Playing out a scenario given some assumptions would’ve been a nice way to walk through the same logic

reviewed The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)

Dan Simmons: The Fall of Hyperion (Paperback, 1991, Bantam)

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits …

Review of 'The Fall of Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'

Was a bit of an effort but quite good in the end. Think I’d need to read the next one to fully get why the things that happened happened but I don’t know if I will yet

reviewed I, Robot by Isaac Asimov (A Bantam Spectra book)

Isaac Asimov: I, Robot (Hardcover, 2004, Bantam Books)

Isaac Asimov's I, Robot launches readers on an adventure into a not-so-distant future where man …

Review of 'I, Robot' on 'Goodreads'

Like a commentary on society in a novel, kind of. Nothing like the film, v good