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The Monkey Wrench Gang is a novel written by American author Edward Abbey (1927–1989), published in 1975. Abbey's most famous …
Perfect Sound Forever (2004)
Perfect Sound Forever: The Story of Pavement is a 2004 biographical book written by Rob Jovanovic about the 1990s indie …
The author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and …
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan …
Really liked it. AI in the 80s of an alternate timeline UK
Karl Deisseroth has spent his life pursuing truths about the human mind, both as a …
Jason Fried blogged about it.
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by anthropologist David Graeber that argues the existence and societal harm of …
Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our …
"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an achingly beautiful, wildly suspenseful second …
The Owl Service
I enjoyed it pretty well. The mystery of local legend, and the class/culture tension in the story was really compelling. At the end I was left feeling a little dissatified. But a good read.
"Peter Heller, the celebrated author of the breakout best-seller The Dog Stars, returns with an …
This one is a page-turner with quite a bit of action to it... a little outside of what I usually read (my mom gave me a copy because she liked it), but I enjoyed it. The pacing really keeps your attention, and the book really had me wondering how it would all tie up at the end, which it does pretty well.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when …
