Saturday, March 30, 2013

Vikings and Inequality

Okay, I keep forgetting to do this. Also I don't read nearly as many books as I'd like as usual :''''(

1. The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett I read for a globalization class. I liked it at first but then I wrote a paper tearing it apart. And then I got a bad grade on said paper. So now I hate it. A summary: I liked the overall theme and I liked what they were getting at but I've been reading too many damn scientific papers this year and was honestly just very skeptical about their statistics and the way they were presented.

2. Eaters of the Dead  by Michael Crichton was alright. I've been meaning to read it for years, since I went through my Crichton phase [aka read Jurassic Park and Timeline haha], but this one just didn't do it for me. I don't know what it was, it just wasn't my thing. It was kind of interesting reading about vikings a little bit, and a couple parts felt like I was playing Skyrim but not having fun. I don't know. Ugh.

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