Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2025

Review: Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul

Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul by Giulio Tononi My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: Language and the Rise of the Algorithm

Language and the Rise of the Algorithm by Jeffrey M. Binder My rating: 3 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: The Garden of Forking Paths

The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: The Library of Babel

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges My rating: 5 of 5 stars I was both amazed and perplexed by the Library of Babel. For such a slim book, it has an immense and almost infinite depth to it. I had to re-read the story several times (which is why I thought it worthy of a separate review, even though it formed part of a collection of stories in a Penguin Classics 1998 collection I received from my mother as a Christmas Present). ‘By this art you may contemplate the variation of the 23 letters…’ Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt 2, Sec II, Mem IV. The preface quote is from a 1621 book by Robert Burton, a scholar and a clergyman writing under the pseudonym “Democritus Junior” (the full title of Burton’s work is delightfully long and reflective of its time: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms, Prognostics, and Several Cures of it. In Three Partitions, with their Several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophi...

Review: The Library of Babel

The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Review: Troy

Troy by Stephen Fry My rating: 5 of 5 stars View all my reviews