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2024
My Year in Books
28,598
pages read
179
books read
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On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges
Shortest Book
1
page
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Longest Book
846
pages

Average book length in 2024
159
pages

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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Questioning Leadership by K. MIchael Dresel
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Per’s average rating for 2024
2.9
2.9

Mirrormaze by Cliff Jones Jr.
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
3.33 average

The Ultimate Adventure by L. Ron Hubbard

Per’s first review of the year

liked it


"It wasn't little Stevie's idea� but he walked right into the middle of the Arabian Nights."

One of the better early 20th century adaptions of a story set in the Arabian Nights -- by the Hubbard nonetheless! It borrows a lot from The City of Brass: found in the Three Hundred and Fourth Night, as part of the chapter of Abu Mohammed Hight Lazybones, at
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±Ê·¡¸é’S 2024 BOOKS
The Ultimate Adventure by L. Ron Hubbard
liked it
Cursed Be the City by Henry Kuttner
The Dead Woman by David H. Keller
Miracle in Three Dimensions by C.L. Moore
Trends by Isaac Asimov
Strange Gateways by E. Hoffmann Price
The Watcher at the Door by Henry Kuttner
Almuric by Robert E. Howard
The Hollow Moon by Everil Worrell
The Malay Krise by Clark Ashton Smith
Danger in the Dark by L. Ron Hubbard
The Ghost of Mohammed Din by Clark Ashton Smith
The Cloak by Robert Bloch
Greater than Gods and Trysts in Time by C.L. Moore
The Horrid Glory of Its Wings by Elizabeth Bear
really liked it
How the Crown Prince of Jupiter Undid the Universe, or, The F... by P.H. Lee
Of All the New Yorks in All the Worlds by Indrapramit Das
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Breaking Water by Indrapramit Das
The Redemption of Time by Baoshu
Celephaïs by H.P. Lovecraft
The Willow Landscape by Clark Ashton Smith
The House of Asterion by Jorge Luis Borges
really liked it
Flame Winds by Norvell W. Page
Sons of the Bear God by Norvell W. Page
Far Below by Robert Barbour Johnson
Lens-shy by W.M. Clayton
The Mummy of Ret-Seh by A. Hyatt Verrill
The Sleeping Goddess by Maurice Duclos
Slaves of Sleep by L. Ron Hubbard
The Masters of Sleep by L. Ron Hubbard
The Elemental by Frank Belknap Long
The Scientists Revolt by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
really liked it
She Walked Alone by John Russell Fearn
The Golden Amazon by John Russell Fearn
The Thief of Forthe and Other Stories by Clifford Ball
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
it was amazing
The Passing of the Dragon by Ken Liu
The Reader's Eye by Ellen J. Esrock
The Ghoul by L. Ron Hubbard
The Jewels in the Forest by Fritz Leiber
The Canadian Miracle by Cory Doctorow
The Drums of Chaos by Richard L. Tierney
Ion by Plato
Imagining by Edward S. Casey
really liked it
Questioning Leadership by K. MIchael Dresel
The Enchiridion & Discourses of Epictetus by Epictetus
I am AI by Ai Jiang
Sorcery Against Caesar by Richard L. Tierney
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Forgotten Ideas, Neglected Pioneers by Daniel L. Schacter
The Daughter of Lilith by Anatole France
Paper Machines by Markus Krajewski
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
it was amazing
Bacchanal by Veronica G. Henry
An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language by Stephen Wolfram
Orality and Literacy by Walter J. Ong
Beginning Artificial Intelligence with the Raspberry Pi by Donald J Norris
Black Destroyer by A.E. van Vogt
Grey Room 29 Fall 2007 by Eva Horn
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
The Book of Ptath by A.E. van Vogt
None But Lucifer by H.L. Gold
Mirrormaze by Cliff Jones Jr.
The Moon Pool by A. Merritt
The Whimpus by Tod Robbins
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
King of the World's Edge by H. Warner Munn
A Night in Malnéant by Clark Ashton Smith
really liked it
Cool Air by H.P. Lovecraft
The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman
Spanish Vampire by E.. Hoffmann Price
Mystery of the Missing Magnate by Ralph Milne Farley
In the Walls of Eryx by H.P. Lovecraft
A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown
The Elder Gods by Don A. Stuart
Remembering by Edward S. Casey
Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan
it was amazing
Tar for Mortar by Jonathan Basile
The Singularity is Nearer by Ray Kurzweil
Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi
it was amazing
On Exactitude in Science by Jorge Luis Borges
Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
The Moon Metal by Garrett P. Serviss
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Do You Remember Being Born? by Sean   Michaels
Asylum Piece by Anna Kavan
The Fate of Place by Edward S. Casey
Simulacron Three by Daniel F. Galouye
Mister B. Gone by Clive Barker
it was amazing
Différance by Jacques Derrida
Structure, Sign, and Play by Jacques Derrida
How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
The Considerate Hosts by Thorp McClusky
Desideria by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Song in a Minor Key by C.L. Moore
Nymph of Darkness by Forrest J. Ackerman
Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague de Camp

The Coming of the White Worm by Clark Ashton Smith

Per’s last review of the year

really liked it


Link above is the original story, not the dumbed down version of...
Eight years after writing it, Smith managed to sell “The Coming of the White Worm� to Stirring Science Stories, a short-lived pulp from tiny Albing Publications. Like its sister publication, Stirring Detective and Western Stories, the magazine survived for only four issues. Smith had to pare down many of his more oblique words to make the sa
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