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Into the Wild is a 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer. It is an expansion of a 9,000-word article …
It's a good story and there's a couple of moments that made me feel v smug and smart, but I did also sort of want to slap April May quite often. The ending fell a bit flat for me, tbh.
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
"Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, …
In The First 20 Hours, Josh Kaufman offers a systematic approach to rapid skill acquisition: …
The first couple of chapters are fine and short and common sense, but the rest is fluff.
WICKED above her hipbone, GIRL across her heart.
Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. …
I get it and all, but it's a real tedious and boring read.
White people in North America live in a social environment that protects and insulates them …
It's very good. I was defending myself and individualism in my own mind as I started reading it, and had all those defenses challenged by the time I'd finished, which felt like a valuable lesson in itself, if somewhat unmooring.
A couple times, I thought I'd accidentally flipped back a page or two, and was reading something for the second time but it was just the same story or point being re-written, so the editing could have been a little tighter for my tastes.
In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of …
Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie …
100% agree with the critiques re: editing. Once you start to notice the repetition, it gets hard to ignore.
Despite that, it's quite a fun romp and the activities largely move along at a reasonable enough pace to keep things interesting.
Did end up feeling like it was all sort of pointless, though. Like, there's no real hero/villain/wider-progress and nothing is achieved for anyone involved, bar dying. I suppose that's some message about war?
