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What's Mierek Reading?
http://whatsmierekreading.blogspot.com/
- Author: mierek
- Listed in: Books Personal
- Added on: May 14th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
An ongoing review of all the books I read and how they fit into life as a whole.
Recent Posts
Where are the Freemasons?
The Book of FateBrad MeltzerGrand Central Publishing, 2006Have you ever gotten a few chapters into a book, put it down, picked it up again, finished it, and then wished you'd simply trusted your initial instinct instead of wasting that time? That's t...
"Whores and undertakers are the only eternal optimists."
Whores for GloriaWilliam T. VollmannPantheon Books, 1991Difficult to read, impossible to put down.That it came highly recommended by my good friend Michael "Berkeley Mike" McCamish, Ph.D. surprised me a little; after all, he's the same dude who recom...
Grim yet hopeful look at peak oil and global warming
The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial CatastropheJeremy LeggettRandom House, 2005[W]hat makes the depth of the current global addiction especially bewildering is that, for the entire time we have been sliding into the tra...
Dick's Hugo-award winner
The Man in the High CastlePhilip K. DickG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1962Juliana said, "I wonder why the oracle would write a novel. Did you ever think of asking it that? And why one about the Germans and the Japanese losing the war? Why that particular stor...
Good intro to peak oil science, but look elsewhere for solutions
Out of GasDavid GoodsteinW.W. Norton & Company, 2004We can hope, if we are wise, to alter the laws of peoples. But we cannot change the laws of nature. The intent of this small book is to explain the relevant laws of nature. The idea is to sketch...