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Vlad Takhtaulov assemblera94c — As a vegan, a lot of this book pissed me off. (NO, Mr. Pollan, you were NOT a vegetarian if you were still eating sea creatures, even if they didn't have faces. THEY ARE STILL ANIMALS! And NO, Mr. Pollan, humans DID NOT evolve to be able to process lactose after infancy. Fewer than half of humans can do that properly. And NO, Mr. Pollan, humans aren't required to eat animals products to get vitamin B12, which is grown on bacteria, not inherent in animal flesh. We used to get it in our water and likely from veggies. This was before the water was chlorinated and the veggies throughly scrubbed cleaned. We can still get it from bacteria and take it in pill form.) Regardless of my disagreements with him on many important issues, I was still riveted by audiobook. I must listen again, at least to the first half. Corn. There's a lot about corn. I'm officially against high-fructose corn syrup now (I kinda already was...), and I'm so sad for the cows who are being made to eat corn. And the salmon too; salmon shouldn't eat corn! He says "You are what you eat", but maybe it's more true that "you are what you eat, eats". So if the cows and chickens and salmons eat corn, and you eat them... you're made of corn. Did you know McDonald's Chicken McNuggets are more than 50% corn (molecularly speaking, as the chicken flesh is made by the chicken eating corn; plus the corn starch, corn flour, corn oil, corn syrup, corn coloring, etc). Terrifying.

Jose Legaspi legaspidesign — I was kind of surprised that Sarah Vowell had chosen to write a history of Hawaii, but it turns out that's just because I didn't know much about the history of Hawaii. It's an interesting & storied history, and written in classic Sarah Vowell-ish style. Hooray!

Shahzad Khan shahzadkhaan57 — i didn't love this book, even though i feel like i should have. It's well-written, plot all over the place, a ton of characters (who aren't fully-developed but you have instant access to their thinking). and people adore it. So what's my problem? I don't know. It's like chocolate cookies without any salt. just not coming together for me. It might be that there are Gary Shteyngart people and Jennifer Egan people. Like Shteyngart's "Incredibly Sad But True", this one is in the near technology-saturated future. And there are some eerie similarities - both have a reference to "children being the future" and it's a good example of their differences. In Egan's "An army of children: the incarnation of faith in those who weren’t aware of having any left." with a text coming in: "if thr r childrn, thr mst b a fUtr, rt?" And in Shteyngart: "The ritual passing of the DNA, Mama's corkscrew curls, his granddaddy's lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil'ren ah our future. I'm quoting here from "The Greatest Love of All," by 1980s pop diva Whitney Houston, track nine of her eponymous first LP. Utter nonsense. The children are our future only in the most narrow, transitive sense. They are our future until they too perish." Ha. he still cracks me up. Whereas I can't really deal w/ a seriously-written sentence that packs in "army", "children", "incarnation", and "faith". For me, "A Visit" feels overly carefully constructed and without any humor or levity, whereas "Incredibly Sad" imagines a more complete universe, with full characters, and with a humor that is fond and loving. humanizing. The problem w/ Egan's serious, careful world is i disagreed w/ so many of her details that were arranged just so. if there were humor, no big deal, keep moving, but here i just couldn't join her in her seriousness about a future where kids communicate via power point. Seriously? Aren't we all in agreement that powerpoint is an outdated program that will not be with us much longer, much less with the teens of the future (teach them well and let them lead the way...)? There was non-stop texting which looked pretty much exactly like current texting, and then random predictions like young people of the future don't swear or have tattoos as a reaction to all the swearing and tattooing of the previous generation. (?!) Another example of a detail is the reference to "word casings", discarded words that have been "shucked of their meaning and reduced to husks" like "friend" and "real" "story" and "change." If this gives you goosebumps, then read the book. If it makes you sigh and check the time, then you're in my camp. There were a couple things I liked - her ideas about Ethical Ambivalence and Atavistic Purism, which almost bordered on humor and felt revealing, but they both came in the same conversation, so i'd recommend just reading that paragraph. I guess the last thing i can say that might put my review in context is I do get annoyed w/ all the mileage writers get out of endlessly recherching temps perdu in various settings, neo-futuristic or otherwise, and so if a book is just going for it, it better really illuminate this conflict or bring something a bit different. Many readers felt like she did both. I say no on illumination and yes on something different, but the differences didn't feel believable, accessible, or worth exploring.