Matty Roses finished reading Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar
An entertaining, enlightening, and utterly original investigation into one of the most quietly influential forces …
Great book, fuck them cars
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Matty Roses rated The Jakarta Method: 5 stars
The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the …
Matty Roses rated Shattered: 3 stars
Jonathan Allen: Shattered (2017, Crown, Broadway Books)
Shattered by Jonathan Allen
"It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost …
Matty Roses reviewed Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin
A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the …
Good read about platforms and hidden monopoly power
4 stars
Good read about platforms and hidden monopoly power
Matty Roses reviewed A Generation of Sociopaths by Bruce Cannon Gibney
Good diagnosis, bad solutions
4 stars
The case against the Boomers is made well here. But the centrist, libertarian solutions are just given out of nowhere, with no supporting case made for them.
Matty Roses reviewed Armada by Ernest Cline
Zach Lightman's dad died just before he was born, and he mostly forgot about his …
Just awful
1 star
Everything bad about Ready Player One, but worse
Matty Roses rated American Fascists: 5 stars
Matty Roses rated American Fascists: 4 stars
Matty Roses rated How Few Remain: 4 stars
How Few Remain by Harry Turtledove
From the master of alternate history comes an epic of the Second Civil War. It was an epoch of glory …
Matty Roses rated Cartoon History of the Universe 2: 5 stars
Cartoon History of the Universe 2 by Larry Gonick
The Cartoon History of the Universe is a book series about the history of the world. It is written and …
Matty Roses rated New York 2140: 4 stars
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
It is 2140.
The waters rose, submerging New York City.
But the residents adapted and it remained the bustling, vibrant …
Matty Roses reviewed Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
One of the most important books of our time
5 stars
Matty Roses finished reading Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
One of the most important books of our time
Matty Roses finished reading Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
With her shocking material and customary sharp wit and dark humour, Atwood projects readers into …
Reread, this is the most apt dystopia around
