secondperson rated Less Is More: 5 stars
Less Is More by Jason Hickel
The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
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The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to …
A really strongly argued expression of the need to abandon GDP. Similar in nature to “Slow Down” by Kohei Saito but with a less academic framing (making it more approachable to people who aren’t Marxist scholars).
When a bitter dispute over her parents will grows bitter, Bergljot is drawn back into the orbit of the family …
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a …
A love story, an adventure, and an epic of the frontier, Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize— winning classic, Lonesome Dove, the …
It starts out like an old-timey "King of the Hill." You've got your Hank (Call) your Dale (Gus) your Bill (Pea Eye) and Boomhauer (Jake). It's a lot of trash talking and joking around and cows. Then it gets pretty racist pretty fast (more than you might expect since it isn't actually of the period). It stays pretty racist for the remaining 75% of the book.
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
Walkaway is a 2017 science fiction novel by Cory Doctorow, published by Head of Zeus and Tor Books. Set in …
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An interesting scenario that doesn’t feel like it’s aged well? I wasn’t thrilled about the 40 year age gap between the romantic interests—and it seemed odd how the hyper empathetic main character had empathy for anyone but folks using drugs.
Stephen King's second novel, the vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first …