puercomal rated Into thin air: 4 stars

Into thin air by Jon Krakauer
"Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon …
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"Reeling from the brain-altering effects of oxygen depletion, Jon Krakauer reached the summit of Mt. Everest in the early afternoon …
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated much of the east coast …
The true story of the greatest codebreaking duo that ever lived, an American woman and her husband who invented the …
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The …
Karl Schroeder: The million (2018)
"Every thirty years, ten billion visitors overrun Earth during one month of madness: partying, polluting, and brawling. In between, the …
Fuzzy sets were for a long time not accepted by the AI community. Now they have become highly evolved and …
After surviving Deep One internment camps and making peace with the government that destroyed her home, Aphra Marsh attempts to …
So many KSR books are like this. Brilliant world building, engaging story, a cast of interesting people, and it ticks along really well for a bit... and then it starts to drag, and then there’s all the loose ends to tie up and blah blah blah.