Finished rereading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I enjoyed the story, but have mixed feelings about it as a piece of craft; parts felt particularly clunky.

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Finished rereading Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I enjoyed the story, but have mixed feelings about it as a piece of craft; parts felt particularly clunky.

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Anyway, about to reread Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré.

— 5/13/2020 7:48pm ∞
Looking for a lighthearted swords-and-sorcery book along the lines of “Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser starring Gwendoline Christie and Maisie Williams”.

— 5/13/2020 7:46pm ∞
Finished reading The Orphan Tsunami of 1700, finally. I’d put it down for a while, but the subject and presentation are like catnip to me: a popular explanation of the 1700 tsunami with the meticulousness and rigor of an academic paper. (It’s available as a PDF for free if you’d like.)

— 5/11/2020 10:24pm ∞
The dude is reading, and delighting in, The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch.

— 5/9/2020 11:10pm ∞
I keep thinking about Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home as our modern economic system staggers.

— 3/23/2020 11:20am ∞