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I remember reading parts of this book with my friends back in high school and thinking it was hilarious. Now, years later, I sat down and read it again and found ...

A short, fun tale of Lift, one of the minor characters in the Stormlight Archive. She’s witty, entertaining, and somewhat childlike, but also weirdly powerful and...

A bit funny, a bit confusing, sometimes amusing, and mostly just weird. The story doesn’t make much sense and the characters are absurd, but this seems to be larg...

This is a book that is hard and depressing to read, about a topic that’s hard and depressing to discuss, and that’s precisely why we all need to read and discuss ...

Another nice read from Steven Johnson on ideas and innovation. He does a great job of connecting many aspects of history and technology, focusing on 6 main invent...

Although I loved Lehane’s Shutter Island, I found this book much less compelling. The writing is still great, but the mystery is much more predictable (I guessed ...

The good: it’s a fun tale of how Bill Walsh helped turn the San Francisco 49ers from the worst team in football into one of the NFL’s greatest dynasties. The stro...

This book should be called “Writing Secure Code in Windows and C, in 2001.” In 2001, this was probably a fantastic book. But in 2017, I found that the material i...

Like so many others, I was forced to read this book in high school, and hated it for that reason alone. Having re-read it now as an adult, I found the book to be ...

I found this book a bit underwhelming. The actual murder mystery isn’t all that gripping. The characters are flat and don’t change at all throughout the story. Th...