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Book 8: The Road by Cormac McCarthy - 307 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece ( Read more... )

Book 1: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - 324 pages

Description from bookdepository.co.uk:Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire ( Read more... )

The theme for today seems to be the limitations of expertise, and that carries over to Book Review No. 9, Kurt Schlichter's Wildfire, which is the third of his dystopian novels about a future fracture of the United States into coastal states run (badly) as if by the intersectionality seminar gone nuts and interior states run (less badly) while ( Read more... )

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Venture capitalist B. C. Gibney, whose money is in a number of information technology based services, whether of the social network, transportation and tourism, or financial sort, is also no fan of the Baby Boomers.  His A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America uses passages from psychiatry's Diagnostic and Statistical ( Read more... )