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I read it 5+ years ago, so no proper review on here I liked the scale, the related but separate storylines, the nerd stuff, many of the characters, the military history. Most of it, I guess. And as an experience it coalesced into a whole much greater than the sum of its parts Also I read snow crash as a teenager, which carved out a soft spot in my heart for Stephenson. So partly nostalgia probably I also liked the mix of right and wrong predictions, and dated and timeless as you put it. It’s retro futuristic in a kind of a high tech dieselpunk way

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And Then There Were None Ten strangers come together on an island and drop like flies in mysterious fashion. I lack the mystery novel gene, but I decided to read this because it’s one of the best selling books of all time. It was pretty much what I expected. “… then the murderer must be one of us!” is such a familiar trope that you pretty much know how things are going to play out from the start. The minutiae of ordering and mechanisms felt tedious to me. But there’s a market of 100 million buyers out there who clearly get off on it. Probably better to take their word for it, but if you’re taking mine, skip it. You already know the destination and the journey is not rewarding. Not recommended.

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Loved this book

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No aesthetic damage to the beard, I had plenty to spare. Just an awful smell

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@ponder please make a poll: What’s the world’s total historical production of silly putty closest to in volume? 1) a swimming pool 2) a water tower 3) a freighter 4) more

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Omg can’t believe this didn’t occur to me

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Just scorched my beard lighting a bonfire with accelerants. Now the whole world smells like burned hair. Chat, should I shave it or just kill myself? I also have like 1/3 less eyebrow density if that moves the needle

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That’s so cool. Thank you for posting 😄 Is this little treasure gonna make “the cut” for your purge?

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Switched from red to white for the damage control, stayed for the full bodied new oak chardonnays

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The failure to build more Neolithic style monuments mystifies me We should be sticking one of these in every single mid state park with a hill Quarrying and transportation are the only hard parts. It’d take two backhoes and a DOT crew of six less than a week to put one together It’s time to build

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Madame Bovary Bored, grasping, delusional wife acts out in various ways. Not good. Not fun. Not interesting. Emma Bovary is supposed to be complicated and unsympathetic, I suppose. I often enjoy stories with characters like that. But I need some compensations in the form of morally ambiguous scenes, or compelling plot twists that result from the character’s choices, or consequences for sympathetic characters. Not much of that showed up here. I couldn’t get invested in anyone there’s no plot to speak of. You’re just passing time in the company of unpleasant people. Not recommended.

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This has been hovering on the edge of my list. Please provide updates

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Happy solstice, my fellow creatures of Earth

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It was New York in the 70s for us. You had to be there

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What was with that initial defection, man?

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Black and chavvy spray tan? 😅

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Every day we stray further from god

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Ohhhhh gotcha. I had a brief moment of panic that there was some old author I’d been missing out on Thank you for the recommendations 🫡

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