I somehow never got to reading any of Raymond Chandler when I was younger. I suppose it’s too much pulp for High School English. I…
I’m still a fan.
Of the three Vinge novels I’ve read, I think this is my third favorite, which of course sounds as though it was disappointing. It was not. With intriguing ideas, well-thought-out scenarios, multidimensional characters and keen pacing, I’d recommend The Peace War to anyone I liked.
Yet, some of the themes were certainly familiar, the characters were perhaps not all as fleshed out as they could have been, and nowhere did the clever ideas make my mind reel from forced paradigm shift the way that A Fire Upon The Deep or A Deepness in The Sky did.
This is a highly entertaining, if breezy, collection of anecdotes that amounts to a teary-eyed bit of hero worship. Hayes loves his superlatives and never…
I think I’ve written before that Vernor Vinge has restored my love for science fiction. For years I’d been mourning the genre and then came…
I read this in hopes that it would magically make me a better developer, but alas, there is no silver bullet.
The articles were interesting and some of the material is applicable to the kind of work I do, but most of the book really is aimed at planners of large-scale projects involving thousands of programmers. «Scaling down» to modular 10-person teams doesn’t help when you’re pushing to get a third part-timer on your team.
What I am is a heretic who’s recanted, and thereby in everyone’s eyes saved his soul. Everyone’s eyes but one, who knows deep down inside…
Yeah, reading nothing but motorcycle-themed books these days. But Hunter S Thompson’s Hell’s Angels is more than a book about a motorcycle gang. It’s a great…
The combination seemed perfect for me: a true-crime story about an agent infiltrating a motorcycle gang. This kept my attention well, and for good reason.…
A delightful memoir with abundant doses of historical tidbits about motorcycling. Yeah, I know. I’m diving in, and even when I’m not on the bike now I’m reading about riding. Well, so be it. Next on my reading list is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which I read a long long time ago, and Hell’s Angels. But I might finish up some of my other books first.
I tried to describe what I liked about this book by telling my father, «it’s confusing.» I’m not sure that I made any sense then,…