This is a classic that I never read and I always meant to, and it's short so it didn't take long at all. It was just okay for me. My favorite parts of the book were the beginning and the end, not so much the parts when the time traveler is actually in the future. But, it is amazing to think that Wel...
I'm glad my first experience with Wells was such a positive one. Despite its shortness, "The Time Machine" is packed both with plot, description, as well as philosophical and self-reflective musings in one tight package. It was beautifully and chillingly visual, and terrifying due to everything it i...
If you watched the Olympics, you know who Gabby Douglas is. This young lady (she's 16) won both an individual gold and a team gold in gymnastics. She became the first Afro-American woman to do so, her family is supportive and middle/lower class, her father served in both the Afghan and Iraq action...
Well this woman sounds like the mother-in-law from He double hockey sticks. And I think that's why I liked this book. Too often, writers try to rescue people from the history that springs up around them. In some cases (perhaps in many cases) this is called for, but sometimes people were just not ...
I didn't like this as much as I enjoy Warner's other work. This book is more of a meditation on why humans obessess about the things we do in terms of life, the afterlife, and the end of all things. It does give you much to think about, and as always, Warner points out some interesting facts ( I l...
Many of the themes are treated in greater detail in Warner's excellentNo Go The Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, but this is a shorter and more accessible treatise for readers who want the ideas without all the examples and footnotes. The weakest section is that on video games, which is ...
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