Tag: Nonfiction essays
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Step Across This Line
Review: A wonderful collection of essays, columns, reminisces, and letters from a remarkable man. I lived through all the years and events that are described in this volume. Yet I have very little knowledge or experience of them, having chosen to spend all of the time from 1992-2002 sitting on a barstool and missing out… Read more
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The Essays of Francis Bacon
Review: An enlightening book for the 21st century. The more things change, the more they remain the same. A collection of little short essays about how people think and operate. A hard read due to the archaic language, like Shakespeare without the rhyme and meter. On kings, on love, on rumors, on youth, on old… Read more
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Broca’s Brain
Review: A collection of essays, articles and thoughts of the late great Carl Sagan. Very good read, with keen insights considering it was written in the 1970s. It was the dawn of space travel and he looked ahead with a mix of hope and skepticism. Lots of good info, some seemed so dated now that… Read more