4451moanaMar 23, 20222 min readThe Man in the High Castle (book review) Philip K. Dick 220315: 6th review. just cannot help rereading this, though not much new to add, except maybe it is more convincing that life in...
4451moanaJan 20, 20221 min readOn seeing 'The Stranger' Orson Welles (1946) (movie review)Less famous Orson Welles films are still better than most. Has that particular look, the chiarusco, the perspectives, the soundtrack, for...
4451moanaDec 16, 20212 min readThe Dark Forest (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) 020616: this is engineering fiction written by engineers for engineers. beware readers who are not sf...
4451moanaDec 5, 20211 min readThe Song of Achilles (book review) Madeline Miller 240410: this was an easy, quick read, that i had thought was simply a historical novel at the beginning, that i had to rethink what i had...
4451moanaDec 3, 20211 min readThree Day Road (book review) Joseph Boyden 030811: powerful story weaving together the madness of civilization destroying itself by war, and the end of a way of life, beautifully...
4451moanaNov 20, 20213 min readThe Prospector (book review) J.M.G. Le Clézio Carol Marks (Translator) 291212: here is a book that uses no particular structural innovations, that on occasion slips to present tense,...
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 16, 20211 min readThe Gods, the Little Guys, and the Police (book review) Humberto Costantini 200704: vision of argentina in 1975, the height of the ‘dirty war’, from three perspectives. the gods are from classical mythology, the...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readFrankenstein in Baghdad (book review) Ahmed Saadawi, Jonathan Wright (Translator) 200823: dark, satiric, violent, postmodern. this vision of Baghdad in the early years of this 21st century...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readThe Player of Games (book review) Iain M. BanksCulture #2 201102: wondrous, wildly imaginative, witty. excellent space opera of different sort. vision of conflicts an utopian society...
4451moanaNov 16, 20211 min readA Girl Is a Body of Water (book review) Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi210606: this is family epic set through modern history of uganda, seen from feminist point of view. that is, confronting patriarchal...
4451moanaNov 14, 20213 min readCopenhagen (book review) Michael Frayn201209 third reading: my father (physical chemist) died 2 March and since then i keep discovering things i would talk to him about, this...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readThe Eternaut (book review) Héctor Germán Oesterheld(El Eternauta #1) Francisco Solano López (Artist), Erica Mena (Translator) 020416: read in two sittings, this argentine work surprises me...
4451moanaNov 11, 20211 min readOrwell (book review) Pierre Christin, Sébastien Verdier (Illustrator) 210708: once again i do not know if i should rate this five as it is read in French. but artwork is...
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 readChris Marker: La Jet�e (book review) Janet Harbord290414: another favourite film. unlike anything you will ever see, this twenty-nine minute collection of black and white stills is...
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 9, 20211 min readDaughters of Earth (book review) Justine Larbalestier (Editor) et al.Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century 100817: an excellent critical/anthology work. several stories i have read before (and i...
4451moanaNov 7, 20211 min readPereira Declares (book review) Antonio TabucchiA Testimony Patrick Creagh(Translator) 080415: brisk, beautiful, clear, concise. this very short book contains many ideas, much emotion,...