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    Is Anyone Listening? What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us

    January 13, 2025

    I debated about whether or not to write a review since I didn't finish this book (I did read half the book). But I thought it be prudent for the casual reader to know my impressions of it before they pick it up. In short, it was quite interesting, but…

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    Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age

    December 23, 2024

    This book effectively picks up where Liftoff left off. Plus, it covers Elon Musk's, how to put this, mental decline over the last several years. But ultimately what this book does is tells the story of the hard work that a lot of people put in to make a private…

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    Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

    December 3, 2024

    Say what you will about Elon Musk... go ahead, I'll wait... you get it out of your system? Okay, so putting all that aside, if you ever thought your job was hard, imagine working for a huge nerd with a lofty vision and seemingly endless amounts of money who just…

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    Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence

    November 7, 2024

    "You know, I can understand nine words in that book now." - Billy Madison

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    Chasing New Horizons: Inside the Epic First Mission to Pluto

    October 1, 2024

    I'm sure for a lot people, they don't have that "I remember where I was when we saw the first images of Pluto." But I do. I was at work, watching a live NASA feed as they released the first high resolution images of that most distant planet, er, dwarf…

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    The Asteroid Hunter: A Scientist’s Journey to the Dawn of our Solar System

    September 10, 2024

    Another pick for the Planetary Society book club. And what an amazing pick this was! Who knew that a journey to a lifeless rock somewhere between Mars and Jupiter would be interesting?! This author understood the assignment!

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    Chariots of the Gods

    July 23, 2024

    I should preface this by mentioning that I realize this is a bit of a controversial book. And the show that it inspired, Ancient Aliens, may be even more controversial in its claims. But who doesn't like a good ol' conspiracy theory or "out there" claims? I, for one, love…

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    The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet

    July 14, 2024

    Would you like to go to Mars? I know I would. But would you want to immigrate there? If so, this book is chock-full of information on how to get there, how to live there, how to work there, how to start slavery there, how our world kind of sucks,…

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    Puppy Brain: How Our Dogs Learn, Think, and Love

    July 12, 2024

    Are you getting a puppy? Is it your first puppy? Do you want to be a responsible puppy parent? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, good for you! We happened to answer "yes" to all three! Except the first question should have been, "Did you already get…

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    The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos

    July 10, 2024

    I hope we're not alone in the universe. When I look up at the stars, I like to imagine that there is life orbiting quite a lot of them. Like in Star Trek. Which is referenced heavily throughout this book. And you know what? I'm here for it!

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Superb! Couldn’t put it down! Will read again! Can’t recommend this one enough!
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Great! Really enjoyed it. Maybe a few issues, but I definitely recommend and I may read it again someday.
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Good. I enjoyed it, but maybe there were issues or something missing. Glad I read it but probably won’t choose to read again.
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Not great. Not the worst book I’ve ever read, but I’d have a hard time recommending it and I highly doubt I’ll choose to read this again.
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Ugh. Did not like it at all.
DNF: Did not finish. I won’t rate it because that’s not really fair since I chose not to finish it.

Sometimes I’ll watch movies that are adaptations of books and review those with a sort of compare/contrast kind of thing.

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