MONO reviewed Crossed Volume 1 Hardcover by Garth Ennis
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3 stars
walking dead meet marquis de sade
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Review of 'Robert Anton Wilson Explains Everything' on 'GoodReads'
5 stars
sold me on Joyce.
MONO reviewed Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus by Franz Hartmann
Review of 'Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus' on 'GoodReads'
1 star
Yikes - I'm 100 pages in & the only thing Paracelsus has gotten right is that most thought experiments produce bullshit. I'm inclined to think most of his supernatural claims were made tongue in cheek - blaming evil thoughts for birth defects, claiming women's blood is akin to boors'.
I kind of expected this when he vehemently objects to humanity originating from the stars, but I was hoping he would still be interesting in an Aleister Crowley way. I suppose he is in an almost heroic way - going against the grain of willfully ignorant powerful Christians.
MONO reviewed Facing the Shadow in Men and Women by Robert Bly
Review of 'Facing the Shadow in Men and Women' on 'GoodReads'
α: In the library, I stumbled upon Bly's lectures on Yeats & his father that apparently don't really count as books, but the male/female dichotomy is worth looking into more as are the shadows.
MONO reviewed The Feeling of Life Itself by Christof Koch
Review of 'The Feeling of Life Itself' on 'GoodReads'
α: mitpress
Σₐ: IIT(integrated info theory) + panpsychism = not computable consciousness
ᴥ: Wolfram on consciousness
MONO reviewed Incest and influence by Adam Kuper
Review of 'Incest and influence' on 'GoodReads'
3 stars
Apparently Darwin was obsessed with incest as much as evolution. Even has a book on it: The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication. Seems like there would be more science on this, I'm probably not looking in the right places.
Looked into a few other books but they were only concerned with psychology.
MONO rated Entangled Life: 5 stars
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…
Neither plant nor …
MONO rated Catullus' bedspread: 4 stars
Daisy Dunn: Catullus' bedspread (2016)
Catullus' bedspread by Daisy Dunn
"Daisy Dunn's vivid narrative rediscovers the life and poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first "modern" poet, a dandy who …
MONO rated Burnt tongues: 4 stars
Burnt tongues by Chuck Palahniuk, Richard Thomas, Dennis Widmyer, and 1 other
A collection of short stories from the transgressive fiction genre feature tales about taboo subjects from the horrific to the …
MONO rated The Futurological Congress (from the memoirs of Ijon Tichy): 5 stars
MONO rated One human minute: 4 stars
One human minute by Stanisław Lem
Contains three essays; One Human Minute, The Upside-Down Revolution, and The World as Cataclysm from science fiction master …
MONO reviewed Ages of Discord by Peter Turchin
Review of 'Ages of Discord' on 'GoodReads'
alpha - the atlantic
MONO reviewed End game by David Baldacci
Will Robie returns home from a mission overseas to discover that his boss--codenamed Blue Man--has …
Review of 'End game' on 'GoodReads'
3 stars
I wouldn't be surprised if by 2050 - Gates, Musk & Bezos are ruling the world from space...
Oh yeah, the 'MIT' students were just too stupid.
Then again the reality distortion field would need to be cranked past 11 for any of this to work >.>
