I joined goodreads a while back, but it was after I started this blog. Since I joined goodreads, I’ve been reviewing every book I read on that site. But since I’ve reviewed books on this blog as well, and some of those were done before I was on goodreads, I realized that this blog and goodreads are not in perfect sync.

My OCD couldn’t handle this, so I paraphrased my blog reviews on goodreads for all the missing books, to plug in the gaps. Is there any point to this? Just me obsessing on feedbacking my life experience into the Internet, which is, after all, going to outlive me. The Internet is where our civilization is containerized, consumed, digested and stored for future use, for at least the intelligent reasoning and meaning processing aspect of civilization that Pierre Teilhard de Chardin called the noosphere.

Here’s a list of the book reviews that were added to my little ecosystem in the noosphere, where my thoughts may or may not add value to mental reality:

• On Paradise Drive by David Brooks
• You’re All Alone by Fritz Lieber
• War by Sebastian Junger
• Broke, USA by Gary Rivlin
• White Trash by Nancy Isenberg
• Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
• The Pentagon’s New Map by Thomas P. M. Barnett
• The Shield of Achilles by Philip Bobbitt
• Terror and Consent by Philip Bobbitt
• Brave New War by John Robb
• 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? by Neil Howe and William Strauss
• Generations by William Strauss and Neil Howe
• The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
• Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
• The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe
• The Stoned Apocalypse by Marco Vassi
• Game Over by David Sheff