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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
Currently reading
Station Zero
Progress:
220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
Progress:
749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
Progress:
8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
Progress:
152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
Progress:
78/534 pages
Poems Selected
Progress:
4/50 pages
Selected Poems
Progress:
18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
Progress:
133/789 pages
Reading progress update: I've read 16 out of 250 pages.
The first chapter is a very mixed bag:
Negative: "mixed cgs-Gaussian" units. Muddled and contradictory definition plasma. (The "fourth state of matter"/ionised gas definition is wrong and should be dropped.) Counter-intuitive notation.
Positive: Detailed discussion of collision frequencies, does not assume singly ionised heavy ions, quantitative definitions of quasi-neutrality, relativistic and classical limits.