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Presents the complete adventures of the demon-turned-paranormal-investigator, beginning with his attempts to discover his own origins.
This book is worth buying just for the pure snark. I don’t doubt this book put the fear into people, because it’s clear he has read and has an opinion on just about everything, and is very clear about what you should do at every point.
A breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, …
It’s good. It’s very... French, in a way. The main character is a rake and a cad and a gentleman thief who walks into high society with a smile on his face. The tech is a thin gloss on top, but it’s reasonable.
Starts off interesting, but almost immediately loses the thread by focusing on the idiot protagonist and his emotional issues to the exclusion of all else. There is never a time when Grant isn't talking about how he's fucked up and deserves everything bad that happens to him, and the entire story of everything happening is somehow connected to his marriage.
It says something about narcissism that a man can travel the universe and still not be able to get out of his own head, but it doesn't make for a great reading experience.
"How do you stage a mutiny when you're only awake one day in a million? …
This is a novella from the Sunflower cycle, so I’m not sure it makes sense in isolation. But I loved it, even if there are choices in there that make no sense (seriously, humans are very predictably outraged by cold equations)
"Two decades ago the U.S. Government rounded up the people of Innsmouth and took them …
A beautiful story where all the things that are scary to Lovecraft are perfectly fine and trying to live on their own terms, ideally without self centered white men trying to kill them for being different.
So very French that it could never have been written by a Frenchman. It’s like if Amelie were crossed with Catwoman.
Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride or rather, his parents are looking for one …
Is good fairytale comic book.
Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found.
From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF WEST, Secret …
HOLY SHIT.
Cultural commentator Stephen Marche examines the status of male-female relations in the twenty-first century, with …
This is not a great book. It’s supposed to be a book about feminism and gender equality from the perspective of a married man, with his wife providing notes.
Instead, it’s a collection of magazine think pieces. And what I mean by that is that the author is more interested in his sentences and his soundbites than in his thesis. His chapters on patriarchy and fatherhood are solid, where he talks about money and jobs and status... but it goes downhill very quickly in his chapter on porn (Dworkin? Really? Male sexuality fundamentally about brutality and power?) and cribs from Christina Hoffman Summers on his son... and then collapses completely with his utterly banal observations on housework and standards of personal cleanliness.
At no point does he attempt to go out and talk to other men and try to get other perspectives. It’s him in a room, and whatever books …
This is not a great book. It’s supposed to be a book about feminism and gender equality from the perspective of a married man, with his wife providing notes.
Instead, it’s a collection of magazine think pieces. And what I mean by that is that the author is more interested in his sentences and his soundbites than in his thesis. His chapters on patriarchy and fatherhood are solid, where he talks about money and jobs and status... but it goes downhill very quickly in his chapter on porn (Dworkin? Really? Male sexuality fundamentally about brutality and power?) and cribs from Christina Hoffman Summers on his son... and then collapses completely with his utterly banal observations on housework and standards of personal cleanliness.
At no point does he attempt to go out and talk to other men and try to get other perspectives. It’s him in a room, and whatever books he can get. His wife’s footnotes are actually the best bit as they provide much needed relief to listening to this man’s voice.
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
I can’t get past the second person grammar and the stilted Edwardian diction. Aborted.
