Sharoma

This is why I avoid most of the Internet now. News articles, even ones written by people, became lazy a long time ago. It's not uncommon to see glaring typos in BBC articles. I also hate how each paragraph is them just telling you the same thing with different phrasing. I go to an article for data, ...

Why is Harriet Taylor Mill higher than her husband, do you think?
Was Hume's use of the comma Oxford style, or more?

For the author of the Hornblower series this was a relatively poor showing. It was a lot shorter than I expected with hardly any character development or technical information. It was rather like a brief summary of events and it was vastly inferior to the film adaptation, which adds dialogue, charac...

Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge – A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution. (1992) This was the first McKenna book I read, all the way back in early 2011. I was just getting into his theories back then so I eagerly ate this one up. It's a while since I...

I couldn't put it down despite the overwhelming sadness of the story. It was a very moving read, written simply but rich with meaning. Highly recommended.

Rating: 5/5

Except he's writing fantasy, not history! Although he sure plagiarised history for ideas. (If you can plagiarise history?)

George R.R. Martin is the man famous for taking 13 years (and counting) to write a sequel. Sadly, I have read all the completed books in A Song of Ice and Fire . Here are reviews of two of them: A Storm of Swords (Book #3) By this book in the series I had lost all enthusiasm. Martin's writing is ter...

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