Book Reviews and Commentary | |
Mason and Dixon is a novel by Thomas Pynchon. | |
My notes on the book | |
Mason and Dixon on gopherpedia | |
London Review of Books review by Jenny Turner May 1997 | |
A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout is what it sound | |
My review | |
John Ousterhout on gopherpedia | |
Calcutta is a travel diary by Amit Chaudhuri. I finished it around | |
Amit Chaudhuri on gopherpedia | |
American Pastoral by Phillip Roth. Finished 10/2024. Good. I enjoye | |
into the world of a 1960s NJ Jewish family and participating in the | |
between conservatives and radicals during a time when it probably f | |
country was headed towards a disaster. | |
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov. Finished 11/2024. Good. I read | |
after Trump won the election and I felt a bit too much like a Russi | |
watching their world get destroyed. lol. | |
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed by Eric H. Cline. Finish | |
enjoyed learning about the Bronze Age. I'd never given it much thou | |
happened to visit a Bronze Age exhibit in a museum this summer and | |
cool to see how the human artifacts jump from crude stone tools to | |
like combs and cooking pots during the Bronze Age. When you read Cl | |
the world is surprisingly rich and complex. Sometimes it's a little | |
gets into not just the dates of events during the Bronze Age but th | |
dates of the archaeological excavations that discovered these sites | |
other hand, it was fascinating to learn about how the pieces contin | |
together and how hypotheses are revised as new evidence becomes ava | |
Sometimes the explicit parallels the author draws to today's world | |
much. | |
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham. Finished 11/2024. Vinson d | |
time working on the Obama campaign when he was a young college drop | |
just a couple of years older than me and I enjoyed the approach. Hi | |
Obama are somewhat vague, partially because he was young at the tim | |
clear what was going on in the moment, and partly due to the fog of | |
passing. On the other hand you get some insidery knowledge that is | |
of confirms the memory, which is that Obama was a lot of hype. We w | |
in the hype but what was it and why did it let us down? Cunningham | |
of his religious upbringing and perspective as a black man thrust i | |
echelons of fundraising and that provides more food for thought. | |
The Suffrage of Elvira by V.S. Naipaul. Finished 12/15/2204. An ear | |
novel about an election in Trinidad. It follows a campaign, the bri | |
superstition and so on. It's mainly in dialect. Frequently funny. |