Alex M rated Eric [Paperback] by Terry Pratchett; Adam Roberts: 4 stars
Eric [Paperback] by Terry Pratchett; Adam Roberts by Terry Pratchett
Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent …
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Eric calls up a demon to grant him three wishes - but what he gets is the Discworld's most incompetent …
"When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--'godless,' 'full of …
On paper, I shouldn't have liked this book. I've tried reading a number of modern retellings of ancient stories/myths, and they fell flat. Odysseus carrying a "tote bag" is just silly (news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/02/woman-scholars-take-on-the-odyssey/). But Dolan's retelling works. Yes, it uses modern language. Yes, it skips over the boring bits--really, over two hundred verses of listing boats and tribes can wear down even the most determined of Homer readers. But it works. God knows it's no Lattimore or Fagles. And here's the things: it doesn't try to be. It's its own things. And it succeeds. It's an exceedingly accessible, and ridiculously readable introduction to the world of Homer. Better to read Dolan than never read Lattimore or Fagles. Throw in Nicolson's "Mighty Dead," and you're well on your way.
The biography of the physicist and Nobel prize winner Richard P. Feynman - a collection of short stories, chapters told …
This book is a fun romp through number theory. Don't be fooled by the short chapters, the book packs a few punches. But it's still an accessible intro to number theory. While the data related to finding primes by computer is hopelessly out of date, the rest of the material is still very relevant. It was a lucky find in a second hand book store, and together with Lara Alcock's book, it rekindled my interest in maths.
The UNIX-HATERS Handbook is a semi-humorous edited compilation of messages to the UNIX-HATERS mailing list. The book was edited by …
I didn't have great expectations from this book, but it's now one of my favourites in the Discworld series.
2023 re-read: still one of my favourite books in the Discworld universe.
An eye-opening investigation into the science, economics, history and production of ultra-processed food.
It's not you, it's the food.
We …
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and …
On the remote planet Solaria the first murder for two hundred years has been committed. The Solarians are Spacers with …