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A kaleidoscopic sci-fi novel of great ambition, terrific world-building, and some truly memorable chapters - my review of Dan Simmons…
Hyperion by Dan Simmons was a terrific, gripping science fiction read.
Aug 5
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Stanislav Stanchev
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Along for the ride: "I flew for the Führer"
My review of Heinz Knokke's action-packed memoir of flying, duelling in the skies and believing in Nazi Germany's quest to "save Europe from bolshevism"
Apr 15
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Stanislav Stanchev
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Risks and rewards of reading sci-fi classics - review of The Left Hand of Darkness
Compelling, emergent world-building is hard. Science fiction classics sometimes have interesting ideas but are uninteresting as literary journeys…
Apr 14
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Stanislav Stanchev
Games good, game theory bad
My review of Kelly Clancy's "Playing with Reality - How Games Shape Our World"
Apr 3
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Stanislav Stanchev
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My 'Book Year' 2024
Quick reflections on the 24 books I read in 2024
Mar 12
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Stanislav Stanchev
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Book binging
A rambling post on how I substituted The Sopranos with The Karamazovs, my history of reading habits, and my attempt to write it all without seeming…
Oct 7, 2024
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Stanislav Stanchev
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The joy of biased economics
A post about my own biases in EU politics, the euro crisis of yesteryear and Yanis Varoufakis' hyperbolic, yet surprisingly informative, book on the…
Jun 7, 2020
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Stanislav Stanchev
It’s about Time
My thoughts on Carlo Rovelli's "The Order of Time" - as well as two other thought-provoking works on the nature of time. Let's dive into the rabbit…
May 24, 2020
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Stanislav Stanchev
The cost of obsession
On the brilliat novella "Chess" by Stefan Zweig
Dec 5, 2019
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Stanislav Stanchev
The Making of Modern European Football
A superb football book that combines great story-telling with true analysis and posits some interesting theses about the evolution of the game.
Jun 14, 2019
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Stanislav Stanchev
Disappointing take on China vs US
Allison's treatise on the tensions between established and rising powers from Sparta vs Athens to US vs China is interesting enough, but ultimately a…
Feb 15, 2019
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Stanislav Stanchev
Germany is not Germany at all
“The Shortest History of Germany”: In 226 pages we go from Caesar to Merkel and reach a bold conclusion: Germany east of the Elbe is the source of Elbe…
May 17, 2018
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Stanislav Stanchev
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