Reviews and Comments

It's...hrmm

I don't know

I think this is a book for drivers. I mean people who never walk places, never have stared out a bus window, who are used to going from home to business or park without any other experience of the outside world.

I think if you're that kind of person this might be really really good in terms of opening your eyes to a lot of things

But, but, this book felt weirdly unedited too because there were so many parts that, like I said earlier, made me go "didn't I already read this part??" and no it's just that he repeats himself A Lot

and the book itself feels very meandering like it was a series of blog posts not really meant to be read as a book but rather just a bunch of loosely themed diary-in-retrospect entries

I feel bad that I think there's interesting bits of this book but a lot of it is just is just a miss for me, it feels very unedited and repetitive where I keep finding myself reading a sentence and thinking "wait, I already read this part...no it's just almost the identical text"

Still enjoying it! Fun breezy read, nice change of pace from what I've been reading lately

Cute so far, took me an embarrassing 50 pages in before I realized this was alt ww1

Interesting so far but I'm not sure I agree with some of the framing

Some of the stories in this were honestly fantastic. The Tower of the Elephant was awesome.

Then there were pieces like The Vale of Lost Women which is, just, incredibly racist in ways you can't ignore.

It's still worth reading for seeing how much of an influence Howard was on fantasy

It already feels a little dated but Ethan is legitimately thoughtful when drawing out the good and bad uses of modern LLMs for knowledge work.

It'll only take a couple of hours to read through, very breezy, but not dumbed down or inaccurate