Books I've been reading

Thumbs up.
Foucault isn't a great writer, but he isn't nearly as bad as other French philosophers.


Mixed response.
This won both the Nebula and Hugo award and deserved it. I was unnerved that science wins. Science never wins in Sci Fi. Almost always it is a warning about technology and science. But no, this time science resolves the situation. It took the wind out of the points Asimov was making about stupidity (The title is short for "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain).


Two thumbs up.
People should read this.


Thumbs down.
I'm tired of bad writing. I understand what Derrida is doing, but I don't see why stating the point clearly is that offensive.