Pradeep rated Ring of Solomon: 4 stars
Ring of Solomon by Jonathan Stroud
Wise-cracking djinni Bartimaeus finds himself at the court of King Solomon with an unpleasant master, a sinister servant, and King …
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Deep Work by Cal Newport
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve …
Pradeep rated Broken World: 3 stars
Pradeep rated Ptolemy's Gate: 4 stars
Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud (The Bartimaeus trilogy ;)
Dangerous adventures continue for the djinni Bartimaeus and his master, seventeen-year-old Nathaniel, a powerful magician who is serving as England's …
Pradeep rated Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: 5 stars
Pradeep rated El ojo del golem / Golem's Eye (Infinita): 4 stars
El ojo del golem / Golem's Eye (Infinita) by Jonathan Stroud
In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate …
Pradeep rated The Amulet of Samarkand: 4 stars
The Amulet of Samarkand by Jonathan Stroud (Bartimaeus, #1)
Nathaniel is a boy magician-in-training, sold to the government by his birth parents at the age of five and sent …
Pradeep rated The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: 4 stars
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, #1)
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to …
Pradeep rated The Demon-Haunted World: 5 stars
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …
Pradeep rated World War Z: 4 stars
World War Z by Max Brooks
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of …
Pradeep rated Kill Process (Kill Chain): 5 stars
Kill Process (Kill Chain) by William Hertling
By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social …
Pradeep rated The Andromeda Strain: 4 stars
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton, Michael Crichton
The United States government is given a warning by the pre-eminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to …
Prey by Michael Crichton
In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from …
Pradeep rated Red Rising: 3 stars
Red Rising by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #1)
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow …