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Disappointing

Review from That Which Should Not Be →

The book starts off well enough, and soon resolves itself into a portmanteau of tales delivered by those who have encountered the entities of Lovecraft’s mythos. However, the compulsion to cobble in references to other Mythos stories, and other books (particularly Dracula) feels clumsy, so that by the time we head to the denouncement, it’s..

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Good

Review from Robot Rights →

Most of the book is a survey of what other people have said and written about robot rights. Each argument is looked at, scrutinized for problems, and held up against the others. Gunkel is a solid philosopher and does a great job of using terminology consistently, spotting errors of reasoning, and pointing out the strengths..

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Has potential but ultimately fails to deliver

Review from Awaken Online →

Finn is hard to like, and his decisions often do not align with his character development. This gave the narrative a railroaded feel in which the desired end result drives the characters’ actions. The narrative largely takes place in the game world and tends to forget that the outside world exists. This makes some character..

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Interesting.

Review from The Disordered Mind →

While this is quite interesting, it isn’t anything I haven’t read before. I suppose, at some point in the future, we will be able to do more than just map what area of the brain malfuntions in mental disorders, but identify, on the molecular level, what is happening in our brains. We are a very..

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