(New Crobuzon, #2) 210712: actually maybe less than five- but i did read it in three sittings. seems to be quibbling to say i never liked...

I do not know Simone, have never before seen her work, know no history of it, all I can say is that her work is powerful, vibrant, large...

2111218: read in two days, so that is rec. not quite taken as my comics illustrator friend r, but propulsive, pulpy, pomo. and no doubt...

211216: very good. perhaps only three. but there are some good chapters, particularly 3- nature of reality, 4-mechanism of bondage, in...

(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...

(Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...

(Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2) 020616: this is engineering fiction written by engineers for engineers. beware readers who are not sf...

This movie is set in undefined period, though by fashion, cars, hairstyle, it seems mid-70s or earlier, is modern Neo-noir or pulp...

190917 this is a much much later addition (four years): decided to read again 260917 well i have read it again. faster, longer sections,...

My comics illustrator friend R saw it twice, raved about it, said it was beautiful, said that had he seen it at the age he saw Star Wars...

A Genealogy of Pragmatism 011015: this is exactly what it says, though the evasion is not so much of philosophy but of a type West calls...

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...

Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers 300916: not always the philosophers i might want to talk to- in many cases dead, in many cases...

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...

210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...

241019: this is very like ‘walking man’ by taniguchi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684533.The_Walking_Man but set in shogunate edo....

270719 much later later addition: i look at this again, slip back into that meditating calmness, now read more books fiction and non,...

030811: powerful story weaving together the madness of civilization destroying itself by war, and the end of a way of life, beautifully...

051010 second review: i just read it again. realized this is perhaps my favourite goodis- probably for the doomed romance plot. here the...

i have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...