4451moanaDec 16, 20213 min readDeath's End (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
4451moanaDec 9, 20212 min readThe Awakening of Intelligence (book review) Jiddu Krishnamurti 211208: maybe not five because it becomes repetitive. when he is on, he is great. i might prefer [book:Freedom from the Known|143877] as...
4451moanaNov 20, 20212 min readDesert (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio C. Dickson (Translator) if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 211120: decided to read this again, decided...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readCarmen (book review) Prosper MériméeGeorge Burnham Ives (Translation) 131218: everything you want in hopeless romantic dysfunctional love. and an opera...
4451moanaNov 17, 20212 min readThe Monk (book review) Matthew Gregory Lewis 170319: probably the most fun i have ever had with any book over 225 years old. except maybe the windmill guy. but then my idea of ‘fun’...
4451moanaNov 17, 20211 min readDivine Madman (book review) Dominique Rolin 220319: fun./review to come... ok review now days later. we lived in bruxelles when my father was on sabbatical so my parents really...
4451moanaNov 16, 20213 min readAwakening: An Introduction to the History of Eastern Thought (book review) Patrick S. Bresnan180220: excellent introductory textbook to an entire tradition of philosophical thought little known in the ‘west’. rather than the core...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Star (story) Arthur C. Clarke(The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke #3) 210107: from childhood. this still greatly emotionally affects me, i do not remember when...
4451moanaNov 14, 20211 min readThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (book review) James Hogg,Margot Livesey (Introduction) 140220: second reading. years (decades...) after first, so i knew what i was getting, as this is one of the...
4451moanaNov 14, 20212 min readTent of Miracles (book review)Jorge Amado, Barbara Shelby (Translator) 210428: this is my new favourite amado. what has bothered me on several other works of his, particularly more...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readDaytripper (Daytripper #1-10)(book review) Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Craig Thompson (Introduction), Dave Stewart (Colours), Sean Konot (Lettering) 291017 from 230216: just read this again and again it is...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readLip Hook (book review) David Hine Mark Stafford (Artist)271218: this. this is exactly what happens when style is substance in any art in any story in exactly the right medium. this is a new...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBecoming Human (book review) Jean Vanier??? 2000s: beautiful, concise, empathic rendering of human potential too often not met...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Atheist's Primer (book review) Malcolm Murray140910: excellent primer. this is well organized, accessible, readable, and deals with many arguments, proofs, attributes, definitions,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Ball Is Round (book review) David GoldblattA Global History of Football 100710: everything you ever need to know about football... everything you do not need to know, as well. i...
4451moanaNov 11, 20212 min readA Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (book review) Manuel DeLanda190619 from 170113: i was sure i reviewed this, as it is certainly my favorite history text. by memory, then, six years reading later, i...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readBuddhism in India (book review) Gail Omvedt (Contributor)Challenging Brahmanism and Caste 280819: just had reminder from efriend Abhijit that buddhism is not itself always free of violence,...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readRed Gold (book review) John Hemming191115: effect of european contact on technologically primitive peoples throughout the world from 1500 to 1750? short answer: not good....
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Making of Stanley Kubrick’s '2001: A Space Odyssey' (book review) Piers BizonyM. Paris (Design) 110516: excellent source for everything about a favourite film, that i have seen many times, have on dvd, have read the...
4451moanaNov 10, 20211 min readIndia's Immortal Comic Books (book review) Karline McLainGods, Kings, and Other Heroes 020116: this is a fascinating overview of a sort of graphic i have never read- and more than just the works...