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Miles: The Autobiography (Miles Davis)
If you’re interested in Miles or even Jazz in general you should read this. This is a mother****er of a book.
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An absolute blast.
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Stranger In A Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
I love sci-fi and I remember loving his short stories so what could go wrong with one of his most famous and celebrated books? Well, as it turns out, a lot. It started out interesting enough. The appearance of the annoying af author avatar was a first red flag. And at some point it just went downhill into new age sex cult nonsense, with a kind of Christian heaven being real and whatnot. I stopped reading at this point. This book sucks. I’m also not some libtard who gets all riled up if an older book isn’t up to modern standards but this often felt so slimy and creepy and misogynistic.
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But the problem was the politics not just a simple failure to keep you engaged? I like him but definitely consider him a cut way below Clarke. Not because of politics but rather I’m just not as intensely engaged. I actually felt like the propaganda was a plus. Put some spice on an otherwise kind of meandering story. Even on Starship Troopers I sometimes felt like are these guys going to actually start doing ****?
That said overall I like him a lot. Bat loves him.