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Mysteriarch 📖 rated The Assassination of Lumumba: 4 stars
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Scattered Minds: 4 stars
Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) has quickly become a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated The rise and fall of ancient Egypt: 3 stars
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Kitchen Confidential: 3 stars
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated How Not to Network a Nation: 3 stars
How Not to Network a Nation by Benjamin Peters
How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated The Dispossessed: 5 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated How Civil Wars Start: 3 stars
How Civil Wars Start by Barbara F. Walter
The influence of modern life on the civil wars, with an emphasis on grievance, faction and democratic backsliding.
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Religion within the bounds of bare reason: 3 stars
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Rogue Protocol: 3 stars
Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto: 4 stars
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto by China Miéville
In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels's apocalyptic vision of an …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Internet for the People: 4 stars
Internet for the People by Ben Tarnoff
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because …
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Ringworld: 3 stars
Ringworld by Larry Niven (S.F.Masterworks S.)
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Satan Burger: 1 star
Mysteriarch 📖 rated Cursed Bunny: 2 stars
Cursed Bunny by Anton Hur, Bora Chung
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung. Blurring the lines between magical realism, …