Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
A very insightful read. There are times where I wish more evidence was given, but for a pop-science book I really found some insights into the brain and creativity.
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Book Review: Imagine: How Creativity Works by Jonah Lehrer
Book Review: The Terror by Dan Simmons
Just finished up The Terror by Dan Simmons. Part high seas (sorta) adventure novel based on the very real John Franklin mission to find the Northwest passage and part native people myth crossed into a huge work.
I listened to this on and off for almost 2 months. There are times, closer to the start, where the pacing is odd. There are times where the chronology is pushed around and without the ability to flip pages back and forth it got a little bogged down. Towards the end, the pacing really gets going and you are invested in the characters. I was sorry when two of them went and joyful when another did.
Dan Simmons is known for his big books, and this is no exception. Runs about 800 pages in a hardback. John Lee, the narrator, is amazing. He also narrated Simmons’s Drood
Pirate Therapy and Other Cures
You should stop what you are doing and go and grab a copy of “Pirate Therapy and Other Cures” by Mark Rayner. Like right now.
https://www.createspace.com/3751779
Just finished Stephen King’s newest book 11/22/63. Really a winner. Falls into the SF/Fantasy side of King. Good read.
Book Review: Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A nice one day read while at home recuperating.
Most of the stories in this collection are clever and fun. Some are more fun and some are too clever. Charles is bright, no doubt about it, but times it has echos of pretension. His one story, Realism, is written discussing realism in a meta-meta fiction way. I get it – your smart. On the other hand there are some that his intelligence pays dividends. Both 32.05864991% (the percentage that is a maybe) and 401(k) are both intellectual but clever and fun reads. My favorite is the first short, and the title of the collection, Third Class Superhero. If you have seen Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along blog (you haven’t — go now – see!), you will see where the inspiration came from – maybe too much. (still wish we could give half stars – would be a 3.5)
Picked it up on Amazon for like $4.
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