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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

What we read last month


What I read last month:

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin, Michel Krielaars. About musicians and composers who faced persecution in the Soviet Union. I especially liked the chapter on Prokofiev.

Keys to a Successful Retirement: Staying Happy, Active, and Productive in Your Retired Years, Fritz Gilbert. Some good ideas.

Salt, Adam Roberts. First novel by a British writer I have gotten interested in. Roberts is consistently a good read. 

The Sex Magicians, Robert Anton Williams. A re-read to participate in the online reading group at the Jechidah blog. 

The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism, James Warren editor. A good collection of essays. I've now read 14 books on Epicureanism.

The Book of Forbidden Words: A Liberated Dictionary of Improper English, Robert Anton Wilson. An easy read, I learned some things. Not a core RAW book for me. 

What Mark Brown read last month: 

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem  8/2  

Beyond Apollo by Barry N. Malzberg  8/8 

The Jonah Kit by Ian Watson  8/16  

The Illuminati Papers by Robert Anton Wilson  8/20   

Mythologies by Roland Barthes  8/21   

The Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison  8/31

I'm busy reading classic science fiction this month as a judge for the Prometheus Hall of Fame award, so my list next month will look more like Mark's. 

 

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