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The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, And Hitchens (2008) 105 exemplaren
SJWs Always Double Down: Anticipating the Thought Police (The Laws of Social Justice Book 2) (2017) 19 exemplaren
Corporate Cancer: How to Work Miracles and Save Millions by Curing Your Company (2019) 13 exemplaren
Gravity Kills (Quantum Mortis, #2) — Auteur — 4 exemplaren
The Altar of Hate 3 exemplaren
Summa Elvetica 2 exemplaren
A Reliable Source 1 exemplaar
The Programmed Mind (Quantum Mortis, #3) 1 exemplaar
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- Beale, Theodore Robert
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- Day, Vox
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- 1968-08-21
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One thing I particularly enjoyed was the author's take on that fantasy staple: Elves. The author explores the question of what would a society of materialist, quasi-immortal beings converge on...and arrives at something refreshingly different than the ethereal, beatific elves of Tolkien's Middle Earth.
Another item I thought very well done was the setup and description of the battle scenes: some of the best low-level descriptions I have read, major points for verisimilitude here on an emotional level. One scene in particular involving the hand-to-hand clash between legions had a tense claustrophobic feel that took me back to memories of combat exercises and training when I was in the military.
I read exhaustively for work, so when I get to read non-fiction, I read strictly for entertainment, not for enlightenment, political hand-holding, or anything other than escape from the commonplace. By that measure I very much enjoyed AToB. For something like this I give 4 stars...(5 stars would be for something on the order of Middle Earth) Selenoth gladly gets 4 stars and a spot on my "buy the sequel in dead-tree format" shelf.
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