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The good Intriguing, mysterious premise that pulls you in immediately, and makes it hard to put the book down Fun characters Clever problem solving Some...

Powerful, important, everyone-must-read book. The premise: the US has shifted from a society dominated by print (“the age of exposition”) to a society dominated ...

An important read for everyone. The key question in this book: what should and shouldn’t be for sale? The book goes through many examples, some genuinely shockin...

Incredibly interesting topic; dry, boring writing. This had all the ingredients for an amazing book: it’s May 1945, and a mix of American soldiers, German defect...

A collection of largely disconnected, autobiographical essays by David Sedaris. All the essays try to be humorous, but I found the dry, tongue-in-cheek style to b...

A decent second entry in the series. Like the first book, you there’s plenty of clever, galaxy-spanning, political strategy and cool technology; and like the firs...

The good Unique, intriguing premise: in the future, every human being is “incorporated.” Upon birth, 100,000 shares are issued, of which 20% go to your p...

In the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series, Liu Cixin managed to blend dozens of incredible, mind-blowing ideas with fun characters and a great story to create one...

I’m happy to share with you the video and slides from my QCon talk on how to test infrastructure code! This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to w...

Did not finish. The prose was overly flowery (“purple prose”), the characters felt like something out of a bad film noir, and the story didn’t seem to go anywhere...