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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.
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