Reviews and Comments

I love this one and it’s one of my favorite kids books. Not a children’s book but right before they can read chapter books this is perfect.

I read more Bukowski than I care to admit in my 20s. I’m retrospect, as a far kinder and more compassionate person in my 40s This is the only book worth reading by him.

I recently reread this book in conjunction with reading Dawn of everything. It held up remarkably well and echoed many of the ideas present in that book based on social science. I gave it to my 13-year-old son for Christmas because I thought it was such a huge part of my intellectual development. I honestly can’t say enough about it and think it’s a classic. The other books in the series are good as well.

An awesome vegan cookbook by one of my favorite hard-core drummers. Brooks absolutely killed it in born against, the monorchid, and Universal order of Armageddon. Awesome and inventive recipes. Everything I’ve tried has been great though I will say that making the actual burger is quite the undertaking. It’s fun but not something I’m going to do again. The vegan mayo is really good (coming from someone who HATES mayonnaise) and the other condiment recipes are great.

Among the best books I’ve ever read. Certainly the most hopeful concerning the state and future of humanity. I’ll look at the history and progress of human beings based upon or a century of social science regarding anthropology and archaeology. I can hope that people will read this instead of pseudo intellectual garbage like Sapiens by Harare or guns germs and steel by diamond. Those books are based on Western assumptions about the history of humanity highly colored by monotheism, liberalism, and rationality. This book will blow your brain open and it should be required reading.

Really brief good hard case novel. Totally unlikable protagonist who is a sociopath. Delving into his psyche. Reminds me a lot of Camus, especially the Fall.