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This is Dawkins' main treatise against religion, especially the idea of God. He first tries to discredit agnosticism by showing that its reasoning is not more logical or convincing than that of religion or some extreme offshoots of it such as creationism.

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Really good - and explosive - ending to the series. It's a pity that Larsson is dead and can not write more books. Intensely enjoyed the series, very unlike typical Swedish authors....

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Larsson portrays a Sweden which is really different from that of Henning Mankell. Russian defectors, secret security apparatus, test of democracy and journalism in modern Sweden.

Really a treat! It's a pity that there will be no more books by the deceased Larsson.

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Stieg Larsson's style is very much unlike Henning Mankell in the characters he has created. This is a much less sombre view of Sweden, rather a view that looks at Sweden as a modern, industrialized country with its share of violent crimes and its history of Nazism.

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A divorced woman having difficulty to admit that she has lost her husband... A babysitter that has disappeared... A psychiatrist that seems to be too involved with his patient... All these are somewhat complex characters that interact in this depressive novel.

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The Footprints of God This "alarming, believable, and utterly consuming" (bes…

Intelligent computers, government contracts, defense contractors, transferring human intelligence to quantum computers, lots of concepts bundled together in a book with a shot of action on top of it, and you have a second-class Dan Brown-like novel.

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The Fifth Queen Now back in print, Ford's highly acclaimed portrait of …

Anne of Cleves is arriving at Henry's court but the book focuses on Catherine Howard, who is to become Henry's fifth wife in the future.

The style is free-flowing, but the story is not interesting since there is more emphasis in history on the first four wives.

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The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture … The fabric of the cosmos

An explanation of modern physics including quantum mechanics, the origins of the universe and the newly emerging superstring theory. It explains the academic trends and how scientists are trying to put a meaning to all that's happening around us and the heavens.

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The Eye of the Leopard A haunting novel juxtaposing a man's coming-of-age in S…

The story of White Man in Africa, emphasizing the difficulty of the relation with real Africans, the corruption and the corrupted.

It is difficult to follow but gets a lucid narrative after about halfway and brings the multiple threads to an exciting completion.

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The Dreaming Void (Void, #1) The year is 3589, fifteen hundred years after Commonwea…

The artificially produced black-hole-like structure called The Void and attempts to find out what is in it. A Pilgrimage is being planned to the Void and some people think this will speed up the destructive effect of the singularity within the Void.

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The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Chara… Moss Hart once said that you never really learn how to …

This analyses techniques that can be used to improve the treatment of characters, writing of more effective scenes and building a better story. Will Dunne covers individual techniques to help solve writing issues in each section and provides exercises to go through.
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The Dogs of Riga (Kurt Wallander, #2) Second in the Kurt Wallander series. Sweden, winter, 1…

The dismantling of the Soviet empire and the changes inflicted to the Baltic republics. In his determination to solve a murder, Wallander ends up in Riga, does several "crazy things" and tangles with powerful people trying to exert their influence.

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The Darkest Evening of the Year With each of his #1 "New York Times" bestsellers, Dean …

The story of two individuals who have devils from their past chasing them, and have to reach difficult decisions to get rid of them.

They team up and try to get rid of these enemies, whereas supernatural forces related to dogs are manifesting strange results.

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The Dante Club (The Dante Club, #1) A magnificent blend of fact and fiction, a brilliantly …

In The Dante Club, Pearl takes on the events around a literary club which started with Dante's La Divina Comedia and folded into grisly murders that seem to copy Dante's punishments in L'Inferno. It is a pretty enthralling book and I enjoyed reading it a lot.

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AI Updates - August 2025 Generative AI

Everything that has happened in the Generative AI world in August 2025.

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The Copper Box A lonely contryside under heavy white drifts of snow, a…

This book is a light mystery where a single fact is searched for from the beginning to the end, with a dull style and a lot of speculation and repetition. I read it in a single sitting, with some boredom characterising my experience.

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The Collector Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects b…

A young artist is abducted by a man who has recently won a large amount of money in a secluded house. He is in love with her and keeps her as a prisoner with no apparent motive and obviously no chance for a response to her unrequited love.

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The Casual Vacancy A BIG NOVEL ABOUT A SMALL TOWN… When Barry Fairbrother…

Events that occur following the untimely death of a local parish commissioner of a (fictional) small town called Pagford, the subtle manoeuvering town people start to replace the commissioner while still pretending that they only have good intentions.

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The Burning Wire (Lincoln Rhyme, #9) Lincoln Rhyme is back, on the trail of a killer whose w…

Lincoln Rhyme is trying to track a relentless killer who is using basic electricity and electrical circuits to electrocute and kill numerous people, while helping the Mexican police to track the Watchmaker, a notorious killer that he had let out of his grasp.

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The Boys from Brazil Alive and hiding in South America, Nazi Dr. Josef Menge…

The story revolves around ex-Nazi officers including the famous Jozef Mengele plotting to bring back the Reich by means of a wild genetic and social experiment. A notorious Nazi hunter gets scent of this plot and tries to ascertain whether this has any truth.

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The Book of Spies (Judd Ryder & Eva Blake, #1) For centuries, emperors, historians, and even the Vatic…

The book cover for this book claims that it is a combination of the Da Vinci Code and Bourne Identity. In a sense yes, but 2nd class versions of both. A bit of disappointment....

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The Book of Fate "Six minutes from now, one of us would be dead. None of…

A plot that involves secret Masonic societies and the presence of Freemasons within the U.S. government and so on, a Dan Brown-esque setup.

However, the book follows a convoluted fact and the topics mentioned in the blurbs are not even covered properly.

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The Book of Air and Shadows An intellectual property lawyer is at the center of a d…

This book revolves around a previously unknown aspect of Shakespeare following three separate threads which are supposed to be brought together, however, after two thirds into the book, the author loses the energy and the threads seem to converge into dullness.

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The Bodies Left Behind « Un frisson par minute dans cette aventure en milieu s…

I did not find the plot too interesting, and it is lacking the trademark twist-and-turn plot changes Deaver is famous for. The female cop character is OK, but nowhere near Deaver's famous characters Lincoln Rhyme and Kathryn Dance. A bit of a disappointment....

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The Black Tulip 'To have discovered the black tulip, to have seen it fo…

I remember listening to this on the radio when I was a young kid.

When I read it nearly fifty years later, I found the story quite simplistic, as compared to some of Alexander Dumas' (father) better novels, like The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Dönüş'ün Gidişi Dönüş: Bir Dönem Romanı

Daha önce bir dönem romanı olarak adlandırdığım Dönüş’ten bahsetmiştim.

Bu kitapta bir sürü otobiyografik öğe olacak, çünkü anlatılan dönemi bizzat yaşadım. Aşağıda romanın geçmişi anlatan bölümlerinden kısa bir örnek var.

#felsefe #ingiltere #yurtdışındaeğitim

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The Blue Nowhere His code name is Phate -- a sadistic computer hacker wh…

An evil hacker (nickname Phate) hacks his victims' computers to learn everything about them, then lures them to their destiny. When the police can not cope with this hacker, they bring in a convicted hacker (Wyatt Gillette) to try and trap this experienced hacker.

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The Big Four (Hercule Poirot, #5) Framed in the doorway of Poirot’s bedroom stood an unin…

Hercules Poirot is fighting a formidable enemy, namely the four individuals called the Big Four, who are keen to bring anarchy and mayhem to the world, with the intention to rule it.

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The Bibliomancer's Daughter (A Book Magic Mystery, #1) Step into 'The Bibliomancer’s Daughter' and embark on a…

Pippin is a young woman who has lost all her family except her twin brother. The two siblings come back to their family home and start renovating it after their grandmother passes away.

It starts slowly and is a bit difficult to absorb at first, but catches on.

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The Benson Murder Case (A Philo Vance Mystery #1) The Benson Murder Case is the first novel in the Philo …

S.S. van Dine is a pseudonym of Willard Huntington Wright. This is the first of the Philo Vance books with arguably the most annoying protagonist in crime fiction. He’s trying to debunk the methods of all fictional detectives but can not offer a viable alternative.

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