I suppose the book can be forgiven for the fact that the captions never describe the modern day photos, but it seems less easy to forgive the jumps in narrative, doubling back on timelines, repetition of captions, failure to identify the specific locations of the photos, and refusing to tell a coherent story about the facility. Maybe the psychiatric center lacked this coherence, but that is not what it is intentionally being done here.

What starts as an intense, sobering depiction of a world thrown into chaos by global climate change actually ends with a cautionary but optimistic future of what can be done with some optimism and ingenuity. It‘s a little hand-waving about the politics and mass cultural change needed to get there, but well deserving of a read. And climate change activists need some optimism…

The stories of a protagonist who, rightly or wrongly, personal decides if the punishment of murders he solves serves the public ends given the intent & character of the victim/murderer & the impact on the institutions of that “justice”. Today‘s storytellers tend to cast the "truth at all costs" characters as the best arbiters of morality, but I am more interest in protagonists who consider realpolitik tradeoffs between the truth & the public good.

What an amazingly fun and accessible read (for non-scientists). The world of ants is fascinating and the parallels and non-parallels between human and non-human likeness can tell us so much about the world around us, beyond a simple understanding of myrmecology. Treat yourself and read this book!

As someone marginally involved in a Suffolk County politics, and even more marginally involved in a Suffolk policing, for a little over a decade, this was a fascinating read for me. Imagine reading about real life corruption so thoroughly when you are vaguely familiar with the players, and even places, involved.

I‘ve read half a dozen books in advance of my trip around the world and this was my favorite one (though I read the most recent 3rd edition which I could not seem to choose as an option on this app).

I hope I am not exaggerating or selling this iconic and ground-breaking book short when I say my favorite part is “About this Project” which follows even the epilogue and discusses Demond‘s embedded research process which is filed with an essential and delicate empathy.

It‘s very good, but I think my enthusiasm for the book is tempered by the fact that I fortunately lack the gene that makes this specific kind of adventure appealing. I don‘t have THIS specific drive.

Sarah is my spirit animal when it comes to the future of farming. We do not need to be slaves to the fictional morality of the “small family farm”. Down that path lies madness (and continuation of the doomed status quo). Think differently.

Finally read my first Isaac Asimov book and it was way different and more meta than I suspected. I liked it!

I really honest to God found this book wonderful. If you are looking for an dark, weird, rule-bending novel that is somehow still fairly accessible, I would recommend this book. The world building, with its faux footnotes referencing authors, films, books, & magazines both real & imagined is truly immersive. I may not have thought I was looking for a book that combined Pynchon, DFW, “The Ring” and “The Blair Witch Project”, but it turns out I was!

A delightfully unserious book that takes seriously the idea that Jesus (Joshua) is the son of God.