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An Empire of Wealth had some stuff I liked, but it was outweighed by the tiresome boosterism and handwaving of racism. I don't recommend it. Earth's Deep History was fantastic, though the regular digs at atheists "hijacking" science was tiresome. It was no surprise that he revealed that he chooses to live in a faith tradition, as he put it, because he clearly had an axe to grind in that respect. When he was talking about the history, though, it was thorough and engaging. He just doesn't seem to understand that the conflict between science and religion is epistemological; it isn't that a religious person can't adopt the epistemological worldview while practicing science, and use a different one as a religious person. We're all capable of these sorts of cognitive dissonances, after all. In any case, it did affect my personal enjoyment but not my recommendation.
Please Save My Earth continues to be a very engaging read. It's almost like reading it anew; I have only read it once before and about ten years ago at that. What's more, I did not read the actual release at the time, but scans that were translated by a translation group who I later learned is notorious for inaccurate and overly flavored translations. I think the story makes much more sense now. Still, I'm not counting it as a new read so these aren't showing up on my Goodreads. For manga or comics, I'm not sure what I'll focus on once I finish this. I'm thinking Vagabond or Banana Fish, but it may be something else entirely.
The Path of Daggers is ... well, it wasn't as bad as I had been given to expect. I didn't enjoy it as much as earlier books in the series, but since it was only 500 pages it also was a much faster book to read through than some of the 700 - 900 page books in the series. And Cadsuane is indeed great.