I think, therefore I am' - René Descartes 1596 - 1650
Wikipedia defines paternalism as “Paternalism (or parentalism) is behavior, by a person, organization or state, which limits some person or group’s liberty or autonomy for that person’s or group’s own good.” I’m reading “Why Grow Up”...
Susan Wingate is an esteemed author of “Christian Fantasy” and other fiction derivatives. I met her briefly when she was speaking at the 2014 Whidbey Island Writers Conference. She impressed me there as someone who has...
Opinions range to the extremes on this book. Readers seem to be either reading for literary craft, pop psychology, turn of the 19th century global politics, or sociology / racism. The fact that Joseph Conrad can...
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? by Dave Eggers My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the first Dave Eggers book I’ve ever read…(Spoiler Alert, I vent the...
Count Zero by William Gibson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I started and did not finish Neuromancer about 20 years ago. I picked this up because it has an AI theme and I thought my...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley My rating: 2 of 5 stars Most of the reviews I’ve read about this book are “Yech! – I hate Victor Frankenstein” or “Yay! I was moved to look deeper than the...
I started reading Erewhon, by Samuel Butler, published in 1872, because I read somewhere that it contained a dystopian view of technology. It does, but this is a relatively small part of the entire thesis proposed...