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The good

The prose and characters are decent, but not much happens in the plot, and the twist ending is fairly predictable. It’s an OK story, but nothing special, so I’m n...

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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 ...