Re-read. I am thanked in the introduction. That surprised me
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I like non-fiction.
Sometimes, I scroll through the "Random" feature of Project Gutenberg for unusual e-books, which I read on my hopelessly outdated Kindle.
The most frightening Twilight Zone episode is "Time Enough At Last," but fortunately, I take off my glasses to read.
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Ride Theory rated Knott's Preserved: 5 stars
Ride Theory commented on Knott's Preserved by Christopher Merritt
Ride Theory commented on Songs from the gallows by Christian Morgenstern
Ride Theory rated The Daynight Lamp and Other Poems: 5 stars
Ride Theory finished reading The Daynight Lamp and Other Poems by Christian Morgenstern
Ride Theory rated Little Lulu: 5 stars
Little Lulu by John Stanley
Collects the humorous adventures of seven-year-old Little Lulu and her friends and family.
Ride Theory reviewed Traveling in Place by Bernd Stiegler
A book that goes nowhere
2 stars
How can you write about someone under house arrest without telling the reader why the prisoner was arrested? There are multiple lacunae of this kind throughout the book, and this makes it a frustrating read. I had to Google a lot of back stories and biographies the author just didn't think were important enough to include.
It's essentially a bibliography divided into categories, with each chapter being just an introduction to the books that fall into that category. Taken at that face value, I guess it could be useful for further study, but it's not very good in and of itself.
Pretty turgid prose. Not the worst academic book I've ever read, but that's faint praise.
Ride Theory rated The Benchley roundup: 5 stars
Ride Theory rated From the velvets to the voidoids: 3 stars
Ride Theory rated Redshirts: 4 stars
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since …