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emmadilemma

emmadilemma@book.dansmonorage.blue

Joined 2 years, 1 month ago

paranoia, ya, l'environnement, sapphic romance, possibly not in that order. can't speak french™ but pretend to flip through the odd french book

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Le monde sans fin (Hardcover, French language, 2021, Dargaud) 4 stars

La rencontre entre un auteur majeur de la bande dessinée et un éminent spécialiste des …

This looks to be an engagingly told overview of environment and industry in BD form. All of the copy being handwritten made it slow going for me, with French being a very, very distant second language. I ended up flipping through it and couldn't review it fairly.

Practical Doomsday (Paperback, 2022, No Starch Press, Incorporated) 3 stars

As a leading security engineer, Michal Zalewski has spent his career methodically anticipating and planning …

Informative, but argumentative

3 stars

I learned a good deal from this book - I'm no prepper but I live in an area prone to earthquakes and power and water problems. Some of the advice here is eye-opening (e.g., 'don't store emergency water in flimsy store-bought gallon jugs'). My main issue is that whenever the author mentions another group of humans, he's doing so to take potshots - at the CDC, at other preppers, at CB and ham radio operators, just to name the most recent three. The narrative becomes 'only I know what I'm talking about' and then I go looking for receipts. Footnotes are thin on the ground and often support these group snarks.

So if you know something, you can learn often-important nuances. But if you don't know it, taking his word as authoritative is difficult.

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