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This book is scathing critique of blogs, news, fake news, the media, and how easily they can be—and are—manipulated. This might sound like a niche topic better le...

This is one of those rare instances when the movie/TV adaptation is superior to the book. This book tells the remarkable tale of Easy Company during World War II,...

A hit-or-miss book that tries to teach improv. It contains some great insights about comedy, but the book itself is not at all funny; it has a few wonderful sugge...

O. Henry stories are the literary equivalent of the one-liner joke. Short, witty, memorable, and with a clever twist at the end. This collection of O. Henry stori...

This is one of those books where a 5-star rating cannot adequately capture my impressions. I would argue that this book is deeply flawed, but still well-worth rea...

I have not read other DDD books, so I grabbed this one as a quick intro to decide if I wanted to dive deeper. My conclusion: either DDD is a useless pile of nonse...

This isn’t a book, so much as it is a reference manual or an appendix. It’s nearly 800 pages of dense, low-level discussions of performance issues related to the ...

devRant is a place you can talk (or rant) about your life as a programmer with other programmers. The devRant folks are also putting together a series of podcast...

A quick, fun read on, arguably, the most successful and important entrepreneur of all time. The writing is good, but not great; the stories and insider look you g...