Missive #47 Published 10 March 2023
This could just as easily have been a dystopian novel placed in 2100. It is the first of the three alternate history novels of the Nantucket series. I plan on reading the other two in the trilogy plus more of S. M. Stirling's books
Missive #46 Published 7 March 2023
Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front. Pyle followed the soldiers into the trenches, battlefields, field hospitals, and beleaguered cities of Europe. What he witnessed he described with a clarity, sympathy, and grit that gave the public back home an immediate sense of the foot soldier’s experience.
Missive #43 Published 1 March 2023
An Interesting book for an overview of Adam's life that avoids the usual biography format. It also pointed me to the three other books that I have listed below. A good read.
Missive #42 Published 26 February 2023
The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. The title refers to the three-body problem in orbital mechanics. I liked this book enough that I'll continue to read the series and hope that they are as good.It is the first novel of the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy, but the whole series is often referred to as Three-Body.
Missive #40 Published 21 February 2023
I didn't find a Book Review for Volume One, which I was able to find as a book of its own, so have shown the table of contents to give an idea of what the book is about. It is a difficult read with run on sentences, late 19th century British English written by a 'intellectual'. About half of the chosen essays are written in defense of previous publications. I suggest that you read The Complicated Legacy of Herbert Spencer, the Man Who Coined ‘Survival of the Fittest’ before starting to read this book.
I liked this a lot more than the average customer rating at goodreads.com or Amazon. One of the Customer reviews at Amazon did give Severin credit for doing a lot of research to write the book. I recommend it as being one of his best books that I have read so far.
I recommend this book. All the quotes give you a good preview of what to expect.
There were no Book Promos that I could find and very few Customer reviews for this book. It is certainly not one of Huxley's most read books. That should not be in my opinion. I can't say that I really liked the book but I liked his essays, some were good and some not so good, more than his novels.
The author says there were more asset price bubbles between 1980 and 2000 than in any earlier period. Yet he devotes 80% of the book to prior periods. He also repeats what he has said many times which make the book at least a third longer than if he only said in one time. It would help you understand what he says if you were to have at least an undergraduate degree in economics. Therefore, be prepared to not understand all that he is saying.
This is a very short book. It is also a very easy read, if you ignore the footnotes, and explains how and why the USA is in the economic mess that it is in now. The book was published in 2008 and all the government policies have been just what he predicted they would be and that we would be in this mess.