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Kushner is a hell of a writer. She's created one of the least likeable narrative POV characters ever, yet I feel compelled to read on. The attention to detail and her clear attention to structure and pacing are great.

This deepened my appreciation of Woody and my understanding of his life and work. The inclusion of handwritten work, photos and ephemera was beautiful and makes the reader feel connected to him as a person in a way that sterile words on a page can't.

This is such a beautiful book, full of photos, handwritten notes, and ephemera from Woody's life that had been lovingly compiled by his daughter and Robert Santelli. It makes me sad that few of us will leave behind any remnants of our daily lives and work in this era. Fuck modernity, embrace tradition.

I've been meaning to get to this one for a while. Third time as LARP!

An important and timely book that shows the extent of the Israeli security state's international reach and influence. A downside is that the chapters don't really cohere and the style is more like a collection of long-form articles.

I was reminded of Catullus' poems when helping my kid with their Latin homework. What a revelation! I was far too young and naïve to really appreciate his work when I first read it.

Romantic, learned, whimsical and utterly filthy. A poster so devoted to the craft we still talk about him 2,000 years later.

This edition is surprisingly bowdlerised, given it's a relatively recent one, but that's Americans for you. Still, it places his poems in their proper context and they've been a delight to revisit.

This is an important book that sets out a vision for restructuring AI according to principles of mutual aid and solidarity (and perhaps a kind of revived cybernetics?). Worthwhile reading for anyone who wants to think beyond what is with regard to A.I., to what could be.

Thoroughly enjoyable, and vastly better than I remembered from when I last read it 25 years ago. There were so many details I didn't recall. I somehow callowly missed all the obvious link the Canterbury Tales amidst the other literary allusions.

The world-building was exceptional, even if things like the world web now seem like a product of the era when it was written. To wit: the the writer and academic describe work conditions in several hundred years from now that seem firmly rooted in the past, let alone the present.

From memory the rest of the series declines in quality, but wow, this was good.

Re-reading this for the first time in 20-25 years. I'm only a few chapters in but I'm already struck by what a dumbarse my young self was to not see the extensive borrowing from The Canterbury Tales.

Bought this via Kickstarter. The topic is relevant to my interests, but I wonder if it'll be readable!