Nicholas W. Pecone

Partisan garbage

Revisado: 09-07-20

An impressive self fellating book. Just skip this and know they’re all elitist war criminals.

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A Blatant Cash Grab

Revisado: 09-03-20

The story is fairly generic short horror story collection with a loose interwoven narrative.

The book shows no real connection to lovecraft in either style or substance. I personally doubt the author has read more than a handful of lovecraft if even that.

Going into the book I assumed it’s main merit would be its “wokeness” since that was all any of the reviews I read of it seemed to care about. The reality I think is that the “woke” concept is all it has going for it. Outside of the concept (which it fails miserably to achieve) it’s simply a mediocre horror affair.

Personally I love the idea of a lovecraftian horror centered around marginalized people. His work focused so heavily on othering and unlocking the mysteries of ones past that it is ripe ground to explore those through the lense of historically disenfranchised people, especially considering Lovecrafts feelings of the time.

The book for whatever it’s goal seemed more interested in exercising the authors white guilt than being creative or paying homage. I reiterate the book is written by a white guy attempting to pile into a period piece his vision of black peoples feelings about racial prejudice which seems patronizing as hell to me. I’m not one to say you can’t write for people who are different than you but seriously you owe it to them to write good characters, not bland flat caricatures.

Mostly I think I just feel let down at how excited this title got me. It’s not bad per se. it just failed to deliver on all of the lofty promises it’s title and concept conjured up.

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Valuable Information, Seemed Self-Contradictory At Times

Revisado: 07-25-20

I enjoyed the book and gleaned a lot of insight into what reality vs fiction are. The book should be a 5 for the data alone. Unfortunately Bjorn has the same problem Steve Pinker does. They both like to arbitrarily declare things problems right after they explain why it’s really not. Very frustrating

Nicky P
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Solid content but...

Revisado: 02-18-20

The information in the book is solid, but the choice to not use gender neutral pronouns and instead use the female specific ones is a bit distracting.

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Great food for thought.

Revisado: 01-03-19

A lot to chew on in this one. I think he shortchanges some libertarian ideas but at least he mentioned them.

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Not my favorite.

Revisado: 12-06-18

The story seemed rushed & the cop accents were pretty annoying. I can’t undo Bacula as Harry.

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Fantastic and concise!

Revisado: 11-07-18

The book was great and due to the nature of its creation there was s natural retread on topics that serviced review. My only criticism is the article dates would better serve the audio version at the beginning of each article to help framing.

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Far too prescient.

Revisado: 10-15-18

Like watching someone predict the world 70 years ahead of them or are these themes that evergreen? I know Rand gets a lot of hate (and I have my own issues as well) but there is something deeply uplifting in her works that I think gets ignored. This one is long...very long...but I think it’s required for the level of exploratory detail. Top Marks!

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The Book That Made Me An Anarchist

Revisado: 09-06-18

A great primer for home educators, voluntaryists and american parents. It's hard to overstate the issues covered in this book. It's entertaining, challenging, encouraging and deeply moving. Through essays, articles, and letters we see the touchstones of education throughout our nation's history and discover how and why it has become the way it is. This book is an encouraging charge to parents --all parents-- to take their part in ther growth of freedom.

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