Blog, Page 82

I put off reading this book for weeks, because the subject matter seemed fairly boring. How wrong I was. This book is extraordinary, though it’s hard to put into ...

As usual with Brandon Sanderson, the writing is excellent, there are some badass battle scenes, a couple deep, fun characters, some witty dialog, and some great p...

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 book tackles the topic of death and aging and how modern medicine is failing us towards the ends of our lives. It’s hard and depressing to read (especially t...

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

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...