Does a great job trashing standard dogmas, but felt like it introduces new dogmas in their place. I kept hoping for some objective way to measure single vs. mixed use, and never found it. The section on cars was great (and sadly ignored) and what I found most interesting were definitions of slums and the chapter explaining the positive value of old buildings. Definitive required reading for anybody thinking about neighborhood or city planning.
Two 70’s Sci-fi writers discover a species hitherto unknown to man, a species so fascinating that they struggle immensely to describe these creatures in detail. One alien among a sea of men, where misunderstandings and strife are all but guaranteed. What are these strange aliens called? Women.
2026: OH MY GOD IT’S AN ALLEGORY FOR HUMANITY’S FIRST CONTACT WITH AI Original read: 2018 I…. didn’t get it. Maybe I’ll like the movie better?
A dishonest book in every way, but not bad.
Fun, but squarely in the uncanny valley between fiction and non fiction. Taken as a collection of short vignettes, it was entertaining. However, the characters felt like soapboxes, the plot only barely hung together, and I didn’t like the protagonist. It felt like a simplified preachy version of order of the phoenix, with encryption rather than magic and the dhs rather than voldermort.
I made the mistake of starting season 4 before all the episodes were out, then realized that I could just continue with the books. No more productivity next week.
还行吧。我觉得这本书的语言水平适合我，但是我们为什么需要等到最后一部才看饥饿游戏的事件呢？
Growing up with a father who constantly believed that civilization was going to end, post apocalyptic books hold a special draw to me. So after watching the genius of No Country for Old Men, I went to download this book for a trip between Seattle and Spokane. This book seems to me the literary equivalent of Brian Eno, using simple and repetitive motifs to propel the flow of the medium in a slow but inevitable manner. Many parts of a standard genre are entirely missing, While the author gives tantalizing hints as to what may have happened, they are not enough to reconstruct the apocalypse. The characters remain unnamed during the novel and encounters with the rest of the bitter edge of humanity are sparse. Adjectives for cold and dark abound and made me feel cold even when I should have been perfectly comfortable. However, the books greatest strengths were also its greatest weaknesses. Many of the events seemed cyclical, and at times the plot seemed as aimless as the characters themselves: wandering with little hope. Still the ability of the story to survive trough incredible constraints is commendable and no doubt, The Road breaks the mold for storytelling.
Seriously, Ayn Rand needed an editor. We get to watch an interesting struggle take place in the first 300 pages, only to watch it repeated three more times in the next 900. Like being forced to watch Chronicles of Narnia 4 time in a row or read state of fear cover to cover to cover to cover again.
I couldn’t help be reminded of the Animorphs series that I read in elementary school. Too many aspects were the same, if only expanded to fill the 600 page hardcover. The narrative was straightforward peppered with lonely SAT words and inconsistent use of italics. But the novel wasn’t bad. Meyer seems to be trying to explore the rift between mind and body, and even if I didn’t feel much force in the events she described, at least I was entertained to think about it.