Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman My rating: 1 of 5 stars Yeah. Utopia for anything, any reason or topic always sounds good. Do you know how many descriptions like the one this book has here I’ve read over many decades from authors dating back centuries? Do you …
Category: 1-Star Books
Book Review: Bart Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
Well, unfortunately I'm rather livid at the moment because even though I had written I do not have the time or energy for a proper review due to severely bad health and a late time of night, I had just spent 1.5 hours working on the BEGINNING of a review, presumably saving as I went …
Book Review: A Foreign Policy for the Left
A Foreign Policy for the Left by Michael Walzer My rating: 1 of 5 stars Weak. I've been a progressive/"liberal" for most of my adult life but over the past five years have become really disgusted with the group. While I cannot stand (even believe) where the far right has gone, A) the left could …
A Review of Doomsday Book
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis My rating: 1 of 5 stars I’ve never heard of Connie Willis, the author the Doomsday Book, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best science fiction book of the year in 1992. Apparently, she’s quite successful, having won six Nebula awards (more than any other science fiction …
A Review of Freehold
Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson My rating: 1 of 5 stars Since this book has a 4.01 rating on Goodreads, I started off reading it with high hopes. Especially as it’s the beginning of a series that is highly rated. And the back cover synopsis made it sound interesting. But as I got into it, …
