Just finished “The Jakarta Method” returned to library.
Having successfully dumbed the USA down, this just might work here. Dumb people scare easily. Dumb people react strongly when scared. Dumb people in this nation also have tons of guns.
Monsters on Maple Street, indeed.
This was required reading for me in high school. I didn’t think much of it at the time (other than the overuse of “yes”), but I’ve reread it a few times since then and enjoyed it.
Just finished Paper by Mark Kurlansky
Really interesting on the history side, but didn’t do too great on the epilogue (published in 2016, used 2014 data) in trying to forecast stuff like where newspapers (going down down down… duh) and magazines (boy, did he not understand how digital mags could track readers, eventually….) would go. Got the packaging aspect down.
Reading with the wife:
Someone you can build a nest in
The main character is a doppelganger that lives in a cave eating would-be heroes. It falls in love with a human woman. Hijinks ensue. It’s light queer romance with a twist, but the writing is pretty good too.
Also randomly reading:
The botonay of desire by Michael Pollan, which was before he wrote the omnivore’s dilemma, and sort of a nice non-fiction science/history book that follows specific plants (apples, tulips, marijuana, potato).
and mayybe Uncle Tungsten Oliver Sacks’ autobiography.
Starting up The Anti-Federalist Papers (1986). Tiny paperback with tiny font. 356 pages, plus appendices: the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution and Amendments up to #26 (1971, added in reprints).
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