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Rated The Eye of the Bedlam Bride 8/10

Reading Foreigner: 10th Anniversary Edition by C. J. Cherryh

Added The Splintered Sun to Want to Read

Rated The Octopus Murders 10/10

Rated Out of the Drowning Deep 10/10

Reading The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

Rated Wohpe 4/10

Flat characters, erratic pacing, contrived and predictable plot, thin world-building, and a poor English translation combine to make this a disappointing read.

Finished reading Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

Reading As Good as It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

Wants to read The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Rated Der betörende Glanz der Dummheit 1/10

The book started with an interesting concept of reframing intelligence. Esther Villar proposes that intelligence isn't defined by being able to solve problems that could be easily solved by technology but by creativity, empathy and humor. Unfortunately the rest of the book reads like a hit-piece of a woman who is deeply dissatisfied with the world. Instead of building upon her idea of intelligence and strengthening her idea with research, Esther Villar seems to assume that everyone shares her definition and instead lashes out against people, professions and relationships while finding the most negative way to present those. We read this book in our book club and were very disappointed.

Finished reading The Butcher's Masquerade

Rated The Tainted Cup 6/10

Finished reading Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

Wants to read Politics and the English Language

Added A cor púrpura to Read Books

Reading A Millennium of Amsterdam

Wants to read The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Rated The Warlock 8/10

Wants to read Surrounded by Idiots

Wants to read Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By

Reading Im Licht des neuen Tages

Rated Lionhearts: Northern Ashes 10/10

It's worth noting that not only is Dan a good friend of mine, but I also designed the cover. None of which should discredit what I'm about to say: This is the best thing I've read this decade, an enthralling, exposed nerve of a book, propulsive in its writing, gut-wrenching in its audacity, and entirely vital to the conversation that us men need to have with each other. To say this walks a fine line would be an understatement, and there were many times I wondered just how Dan might stick the landing, but I needn't have worried. An extraordinary book.

Wants to read I, Robot

Wants to read Don Quixote