--- title: 'Book Log' url: 'https://nate.delprete.me/book-log' markdown: 'https://nate.delprete.me/book-log.md' date: '2024-06-15' description: 'Instead of reading something and then immediately forgetting whatever the fuck I just read, I will attempt to log it here.' --- # Book Log [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/c/4/5/b/0/c45b022ca768963595756737baef3e7f0a9f0477-the-man-in-the-high-castle.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/man-in-the-high-castle) 18th Aug 2024 ##### [Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/man-in-the-high-castle) This is one of those series that I would have hated if I had read the book first, like was the case for *Station 11*, which I thought changed a lot of plot points from the book for no narrative payoff. Similarly *Man in the High Castle* suffers from the chronic media disease of our time: serializati... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/8/b/d/1/7/8bd1772ec88703f66e26c2e8b0b9456c845c0f94-annacrop.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/anna-karenina) 13th Aug 2024 ##### [Anna Karenina - Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/anna-karenina) It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, actually, it was time to drive some places over the summer, so I packed the longest-ass audiobook I could find. The thing about stating your thesis clearly in a pithy one-liner at the start of your novel is that it invites a certain type of pedant... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/0/6/1/3/6/06136706508bba98527b6f7dfd3f39a0971c1e32-cropped30589102645.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/failed-states) 29th May 2024 ##### [Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy - Noam Chomsky](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/failed-states) Man I remember being pissed off about George Bush when this book came out (2006). Not because I had read it, or even understood most of what it was talking about, but there was this sense of creeping authoritarianism in the air that I think a lot of people have forgotten and/or it has been largely n... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/7/7/3/2/c/7732c053b0ac66c6141d60a4ea2cd00861fc6902-homage-to-catalonia-676753628.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/homage-to-catalonia) 24th May 2024 ##### [Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/homage-to-catalonia) Has anyone identified Orwell as the father of gonzo? Because I would argue this and *Down and Out in Paris and London* are very early examples of the style. It has grime, first person narrative, vice, slang I mean what more defines the genre? He literally tells you about being in the literal shit, m... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/b/f/7/5/a/bf75a785ca39c9c07db0b05b48e0b9985fe3be51-12021950.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/i-robot) 21st May 2024 ##### [I, Robot - Isaac Asimov](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/i-robot) I was this many years old when I realized *I, Robot* was not actually a novel and doesn't actually have a coherent plot with a car chase. That being said, I, really enjoyed *I, Robot*, despite thinking Asimov's techno-optimism is pretty off base. The collection is stitched together by the conceit th... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/d/e/0/9/d/de09dc1a4f8f9f65711b51f244db6eac41de4145-tadrussler.jpg)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/a-renegade-history-of-the-united-states) 15th May 2024 ##### [A Renegade History of the United States - Thaddeus Russell](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/a-renegade-history-of-the-united-states) This was a wild-ass book, and while I 'read' it via audiobook, which is how I consume most book-length content, I'm somewhat curious if the actual book had any citations for these claims. Not that citations would add much to the arguments asserted here, since the pattern is largely: make an asser... [![](https://nate.delprete.me/images/0/0/1/8/4/0018474b1f2221a3b3e38de171b8833b57705fd3-5519b6c2ecad046c5547c8be.webp)](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/going-clear) 13th May 2024 ##### [Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/going-clear) ## Are y'all with the cult? We're not a cult, we're an organization that promotes love and - Yeah this is it. Man this book was heavy but also surprisingly funny in the parts that didn't document outright abuse because the people at the heart of this 'organization' are all profoundly vainglorious... #### Syndicate [ Atom 1.0](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log.atom) [ RSS](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log.rss) --- ## Navigation - Previous: [Movie Drone](https://nate.delprete.me/movie-drone.md) - Next: [FAQs](https://nate.delprete.me/faqs.md) - Children: - [A Renegade History of the United States - Thaddeus Russell](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/a-renegade-history-of-the-united-states.md) - [Anna Karenina - Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/anna-karenina.md) - [Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy - Noam Chomsky](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/failed-states.md) - [Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief - Lawrence Wright](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/going-clear.md) - [Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/homage-to-catalonia.md) - [I, Robot - Isaac Asimov](https://nate.delprete.me/book-log/i-robot.md) - [Man in the High Castle - Philip K. 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