Re-reading Planetary (…and other things)
Planetary is still really, really good.
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"Does it improve upon the silence?"
Been pretty quiet around here
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Books of 2017, #12 & #14: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue With His Century, by William H. Patterson, Jr.
Biography or hagiography
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Books of 2017, #13: The Collapsing Empire, by John Scalzi
Interesting, if not entirely self-contained
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Books of 2017, #15: The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, by Bill Bryson
Bill Bryson Bill Brysoning
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Books of 2017, #16: The Dispatcher, by John Scalzi
A novella, or maybe a novelette. A short story? Dunno.
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Books of 2017, #10: One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band, by Alan Paul
Southern roots run deep
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Books of 2017, #11: Miniatures, by John Scalzi
Err, so I kinda forgot it….
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Books of 2017, #9: The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes
Sucking the fun out of life
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Books of 2017, #6: Nemesis Games, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #5)
A far more fun outing
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Books of 2017, #7: Babylon's Ashes, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #6)
Maybe a little bit too mux Deus in your Machina?
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Books of 2017, #8: Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon, by Peter Ames Carlin
If you meet the Buddha on the road…
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Books of 2017, #5: Cibola Burn, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #4)
Keep on keepin' on
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Books of 2017, #4: Abaddon's Gate, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #3)
Loosing steam
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Books of 2017, #3: Caliban's War, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #2)
More of the same, but we like it
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Books of 2017, #2: Leviathan Wakes, by James S. A. Corey (The Expanse #1)
Starting down the path
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Books of 2017, #1: Last Year, by Robert Charles Wilson
It's a Robert Charles Wilson novel
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Books of 2015, #51: "A Fire Upon the Deep", Vernor Vinge
Travel back to the pre-Internet
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We all had favorites, right? Right?
I shouldn't find it so easy to recognize so many of these
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Books of 2015, #50: "The Three-Body Problem", Cixin Liu
Nihilism
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Books of 2015, #49: "Make Me", Lee Child
It's like a bad addiction
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Books of 2015, #44-48: The "Tiffany Aching" Discworld novels, Terry Pratchett
So sad, no more Terry Pratchett
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Books of 2015, #42: The Book of Speculation, Erika Swyler
Speculation about what?
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Books of 2015, #39: Fables, Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham & others
Epic, maybe?
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Books of 2015, #37: The Annihilation Score, Charlie Stross
A little bit of a letdown
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Books of 2015, #32-36+: The "Laundry Files" novels, Charlie Stross
Another lightning re-read
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Books of 2015, #31: The Blue Place, Nicola Griffith
Jack Reacher as a woman?
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Books of 2015, #30: The End of All Things, John Scalzi
Less of a cliffhanger
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Books of 2015, #29: Unfamiliar Fishes, Sarah Vowell
Boy, some days it is hard to love our country
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Books of 2015, #28: Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind, Josh Karp
Film really isn't my thing
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Books of 2015, #23-27: The "Old Man's War" novels, John Scalzi
Kind of an omnibus entry
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Books of 2015, #21: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
We've all got to go sometime
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Books of 2015, #22: Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
Taut thriller and then what was that again?
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Books of 2015, #18: The Affinities, Robert Charles Wilson
Are you in the group?
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Books of 2015, #19: The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, Elio Garcia, Linda Antonsson
I've also read the Encyclopedia of Middle Earth
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Books of 2015, #20: Radio On: A Listener's Diary, Sarah Vowell
Such sarcasm
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Books of 2015, #17: Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
The one that started it all
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Books of 2015, #16: Without You There Is No Us: My Time With the Sons of North Korea's Elite, Suki Kim
In case you really thought Democrats were turning the US into a police state
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Books of 2015, #13: Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales
And updated version of a book I read years ago
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Books of 2015, #14: A Death on Diamond Mountain: A True Story of Obsession, Madness, and the Path to Enlightenment by Scott Carney
Spirituality gone wrong
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Books of 2015, #15: So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
Is this really the civilzation we're making?
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