Cameron’s Book Round-Up: 2023, third part

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Cameron's Book Round-Up: 2023, second part.

This slate of reviews is going to be uneven in length and scope – I have two extremely long reviews that probably should have been off on their own, but I’m putting them here now because I don’t want to put them on their own.

Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersFebruary 22, 2023Haruki Murakami, Novelist as Vocation, A Wild Sheep Chase, The Secret History, Donna Tartt, The Inverted World, Christopher Priest, Last Exit, Max Gladstone, Moderan, David R. Bunch, The Fires of Vengeance, Evan Winter, The Magician's LandComment

Cameron's Book Round-Up, Closing Out the Summer

I think I let this get too long. Blame the summer heat for making me lazy and stupid.

Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersAugust 17, 2022Charles Stross, The Laundry Files, The King In Yellow, Robert W. Chambers, P. Djèlí Clark, A Dead Djinn in Cairo, The Fuller Memorandum, The Haunting of Tram CAr 015, The End of Policing, Alex S. Vitale, After Dark, Haruki Murakami, Culture Warlords, Talia Lavin, Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler, Appleseed, Matt Bell, the Quantum Thief, Hannu Rajaniemi, Entangled Life, The Fractal Prince, Peter Watts, Blindsight, Dreams of Shreds and Tatters, Amanda Downum, John Dies at the End, Jason Pargin/David Wong, The Apocalypse Codex, World Without Mind, Franklin Foer, The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Heroes, Joe Abercrombie, The Rhesus Chart, The Annihilation Score Comment

Society of the Snob-tacle: On Animality and Snobbery without Hegel

If the Animal condition is to be in concert with one’s environment and for one’s needs to self-annihilate upon contact with it due to their fulfillment, the snob adopts the position of denying the environment and striving purposelessly against it.

Analysis, Philosophy, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJuly 27, 2022snobbery, animality, Hiroki Azuma, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, Hegel, Haruki MurakamiComment

Cameron’s Book Reviews: Closing out 2021

This is my last book review column of the year — while some of them were disappointing, most of them were quite good — and, shockingly, two of the works of theory covered within are actually uplifting to read.