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The story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with …
There are books that make history come alive, whose characters leap from the page and feel real because we understand who they are and what drives them. This is not one of those books. By the end of the introduction, I'd managed to lose track of who was who.
If you've read Morrow before, you know to expect a mix of intellectualism and goofiness, and this one doesn't disappoint: a yeti meets the current incarnation of the Dalai Lama to teach him Buddhism, which he does, as they bond over a shared love of James Bond movies.
"The real challenge of programming isn't learning a language's syntax--it's learning to creatively solve problems …
This would be more useful to a beginning programmer. I've been at it long enough that I've already learned the vast majority of what Spraul talks about.
Is rom-thriller a genre? I guess it is now. The titular girl is a member of a secret government agency, and also struggles with questions of who she is and how to have a real relationship, given who and what she is.
The biggest problem, for me, was that the author uses South African words and expressions throughout. This is fine in third-person narration, but here we have Angelenos complaining that the aircon isn't set high enough, and every time their tyres skid on the tarmac they hit the kerb. It tends to break the immersion just a bit.
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This book just showed in my mailbox, unsolicited. In it, the author gives a brief overview of his life: he was raised in a Jewish family, went to school in Switzerland, learned about sex, moved back to the US and met his wife, who was Christian. She was raped and became pregnant as a result. They decided to put the baby up for adoption. Later, Cantor felt pulled to explore Christianity, and eventually converted. After some initial resistance, his family eventually accepted this. He started a successful business. The end.
I'm sure Cantor intended this as a heartwarming story of how to find happiness in Jesus, but it winds up being an expose of how toxic religion can be. He tells of how his sexual experiences in school caused him to feel dirty, to the point of once having to take a two-hour shower, but he doesn't elaborate, beyond saying …
Cartoonish plot. Obviously no knowledge of computer security, even though it's central to the plot. Characters so cliched as to be borderline offensive.
The Sandman is a comic book series written by Neil Gaiman and published by DC Comics / Vertigo. This book …
Preludes and Nocturnes collects the first eight issues of The Sandman comic by Neil Gaiman published by DC Vertigo.
The …
Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's …
I'm withholding a rating because I read this under less than ideal circumstances: I borrowed the audio book on CD from my local library, and listened to it over several sessions, with long gaps in between. Combined with a few mistakes such that I listened to chapters out of order.
Beyond that, this one seems darker and grittier than the previous two.
As you'd expect from the cover, this is a mashup of H.P. Lovecraft and [a:Dr. Seuss|61105|Dr. Seuss|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1193930952p2/61105.jpg]. Or what would it look like if Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated the story of [b:The Call of Cthulhu|15730101|The Call of Cthulhu|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1567470807l/15730101.SX50.jpg|25692046]?
The illustrations are spot on, to the point where I think the author may have traced or copied liberally from Seuss's work. And the writing is excellent as well, telling in happy verse the story of nameless horrors that drive people mad.
At first, it was mostly fun watching disaster strike the eastern seaboard, and seeing our heroes' adventures in places I'm familiar with. But somewhere in the last 100 pages, I finally realized that it had become a chore to read, and I finally put it down.
The final straw for me was the Scroll that Magically Turns into Whichever Book You Want to Read But Only If You Say Your Wish Out Loud. That sounds like something out of a fairy tale rather than a fantasy novel, and isn't what I'm in the mood for right now.
On the plus side, Woosley does know Baltimore, and her descriptions make it clear that she has experience with people with cancer, or at least she's done her research. And hey, who wouldn't want to see Babylonian gods firebomb the Chesapeake?
"Based on his popular Illustrated Guide to Law webcomic series, Nathaniel Burney debunks all of the popular myths about criminal …
