Reviews and Comments

I read this book more than 20 years ago, donated it a few years ago, and recently bought it again. I’m excited to rekindle my love of aviation history.

The book contains neither a narrative thread nor analytical tenor. Essentially 200 pages of assorted early histories of social networks and another 90 of selective, shallow views of flash in the pan creators. A miss.

I’ve made it to the first line of page two of this book before blurting out a curse

An exciting read, well written even if it does valorize feds a bit.

A nice little handbook written by my friend and coworker, Mesut. This book is a nice reference for new tech leads.

Been excited to start reading this one for a while, a good and exciting book to start 2025.

I never focused on the Q movement much in my time (I focused on the alt right mostly) so I learned a bunch reading this.

Remember QAnon? Whatever happened to all that?

This book fascinates. It’s too long by at least a quarter. Wolfe is inconsistent at best. But the final hundred pages rank among some of the finest prose I have ever, ever read.

“Notes on Camp” is a stunning relevant essay even 60 years later.

My 60th (proper) book of the year, hitting my goal for reading. This year I’ve read more than probably any other in my life. And not easy material, either. Philosophy. Books in German. Technical books. It’s been a fruitful year.

More Sonntag

Powering through the books on this flight. I like how Gill-Peterson deconstructs “transgender.” The book is far from comprehensive, but it is illuminating.

I had hopes for this book but, like most Marxist literature, it folds itself into self-congratulatory readings of theory and references to other writers, while failing to actually engage with much of the concrete realities of the neoliberal internet.

Done with #58 on the list. It was an easy read, as long as you let yourself glide over the language, and a critique of New York society of a century ago which still remains relevant today. Heartbreaking, but also lighthearted.

Onto #58 on the Modern Library list, and the last on the list I’ll read this year.