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I believe I bought this in an airport. Good read.

Pinker explores how the distinction between regular and irregular verbs illuminates how human beings think and process language. An excellent read with lots of interesting historical digressions.

Pretty sure this collection of stories was good. Anyway, good title.

A classic sci-fi novel. Pretty good, too.

Although I read this book long ago, I still remember reading and liking it. I have always meant to read more from Tepper but so far haven’t managed to.

Gibson’s first cypberpunk novel. Fantastic.

Funny. Funny funny.

The first half of this book is a novel in which the main character solves a murder mystery and comes up with a new theory of consciousness. The second half is Lloyd’s philosophical discussion of consciounsness in the light of recent studies of the brain. He proposes multi-dimensional scaling as a mathematical technique which could shed light on how the brain produces consiousness.

A history of the wealthy class in the United States, focusing on their political influence and similarities to previous global powers (Spain, the Netherlands, and Great Britain).