Blog, Page 81

This is a fairly unusual sci-fi book. Right from the get-go, it manages to grab you, dropping you and the protagonist onto a research station on an alien world, f...

Here’s the TLDR for the book: create opt-in mailing lists, offer incentives to get people to join those lists, and then send promotional materials to those people...

This is another 1950’s-era sci-fi that does not resonate with me. Normally, I enjoy books in a post-apocalyptic setting, and while the premise for this one was gr...

I adored the Mistborn trilogy, but I was worried about this book, and avoided it for a while. I wasn’t confident that I’d enjoy a story set in the same universe, ...

A nice collection of blog posts and essays on software. Even though most of these are available online for free, there is so much crappy writing out there, that i...

The good

The idea of a ringworld is pretty cool… But the writing is boring, the characters are unrealistic (why is everyone so nonplussed by the insane events that take pl...

It’s a Dan Brown book. If you’ve read one, you’ve read them all. He’s good at creating suspense, fun action scenes, and touching on semi-controversial, world-endi...

(I did not write up a text review or notes on this book).

A nice conclusion to the plot line started in Nemesis Games. Some great fight scenes, some clever strategy, and a few lulls that drag on a bit too long in between...