4451moanaDec 20, 20212 min readThe Scar (book review) China Miéville (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...
4451moanaDec 18, 20211 min readOn looking at Simone Elizabeth Saunder's work at Calgary Contemporary Art GalleryI 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...
4451moanaDec 18, 20211 min readMy Heart Is a Chainsaw (book review) Stephen Graham Jones2111218: read in two days, so that is rec. not quite taken as my comics illustrator friend r, but propulsive, pulpy, pomo. and no doubt...
4451moanaDec 16, 20212 min readThe Jaina Path of Purification (book review) Padmanabh S. Jaini211216: very good. perhaps only three. but there are some good chapters, particularly 3- nature of reality, 4-mechanism of bondage, in...
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 16, 20211 min readThe Three-Body Problem (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #1) 180115: do you like astrophysics? quantum physics? physics?- science at all? or maybe just ‘scientism’...
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 16, 20211 min readOne seeing 'The Frontier' (movie review)This movie is set in undefined period, though by fashion, cars, hairstyle, it seems mid-70s or earlier, is modern Neo-noir or pulp...
4451moanaDec 14, 202112 min readMerleau-Ponty's Ontology (book review) M.C. Dillon 190917 this is a much much later addition (four years): decided to read again 260917 well i have read it again. faster, longer sections,...
4451moanaDec 11, 20211 min readOn seeing part one of 'Dune' (movie review)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...
4451moanaDec 10, 20211 min readThe American Evasion of Philosophy (book review) Cornel WestA 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...
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...
4451moanaDec 9, 20211 min readExamined Life (book review) Astra Taylor (Editor)Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers 300916: not always the philosophers i might want to talk to- in many cases dead, in many cases...
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 4, 20211 min readParis in the Twentieth Century (book review) Jules Verne 210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...
4451moanaDec 4, 20211 min readFurari (book review) Jirō Taniguchi (Creator)241019: this is very like ‘walking man’ by taniguchi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684533.The_Walking_Man but set in shogunate edo....
4451moanaDec 4, 20212 min readThe Walking Man (book review) Jirō Taniguchi 270719 much later later addition: i look at this again, slip back into that meditating calmness, now read more books fiction and non,...
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...
4451moanaDec 3, 20212 min readThe Burglar (book review) David Goodis 051010 second review: i just read it again. realized this is perhaps my favourite goodis- probably for the doomed romance plot. here the...
4451moanaNov 29, 20211 min readThe Unicorn (book review) Iris Murdochi have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...