Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, by Brendan Simms
The Great Transformation, by Karen Armstrong
Non-genre fiction 3 (YTD 39)
Silas Marner, by George Eliot
Set in Darkness, by Ian Rankin
The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher
SF (not Who) 5 (YTD 60)
A Wizard Abroad, by Diane Duane
Visions of Wonder, ed. David Hartwell and Milton Wolf
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Green Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
Doctor Who (excluding comics) 5 (YTD 51)
Doctor Who Annual 1974
Festival of Death, by Jonathan Morris
Dreamstone Moon, by Paul Leonard
The Story of Martha, by Dan Abnett
Doctor Who Annual 1975
Comics 2 (YTD 14)
Daredevil: Wake Up, by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack
The Only Good Dalek by Justin Richards and Mike Collins
4/17 (YTD 46/219) by women (Armstrong, Eliot, Pilcher, Duane)
0/17 (YTD 16/219) by PoC
10 owned for more than a year (Mars trilogy [reread], Unfinest Hour [reread], Visions of Wonder, Dreamstone Moon, The Shell Seekers, Set in Darkness, A Wizard Abroad, The Story of Martha)
4 rereads (YTD 21/219)
~6,300 pages (YTD ~69,400)
Not only that, but there are an enormous number of sweeping generalisations in the article. Apparently sceptics are never sceptical about e.g. evolutionary psychology, modern capitalism etc. – certainly not true amongst people I know. I don’t think his tirade against linguistics was fair either – whilst it might be true that computational linguistics is driven at least partly by what is likely to be programmable, theoretical linguistics has no such constraint, or at least not the things I’ve read. I suspect there’s a little of the zeal of the converted in his attitude.