Reviews and Comments

I could not get past the writing in the first few paragraphs. I don't know if it's intentional because the voice is that of someone who's not quite human, or what.

At least I only paid $1.99 for it on Kindle.

Short but very good. Miyazaki's imagination is on display, and you can see the seed of Nausicaä and other works in it.

at least it was short

I sorted Standard Ebooks by easiest and this was near top and one I'd be interested in so giving it a try.

This is I dare say a short and cozy read, about a computer repair shop in an earlier PC era. Very quick and I very much enjoyed it.

Read these a very long time ago. I usually scratch the itch to experience Middle Earth by watching the movies, but I want to get back to the books (probably because of the recent Amazon show is such a flop).

I've read it a long time ago, but I could use a re-read. I kind of want to read it while the newer Hobbit movies play in the background to see how soon I finish the book before the movies finish playing.

Rereading for its 40th anniversary. I'm still finding new things I didn't pick up before. But still some of the same small things that bothered me.

Regardless, a great read. There's a reason this is a classic.

Pretty good, very slow burn with some creepypasta stuff..

I thought it was going to be like "here's how sewers work", but it's much deeper than that. It goes into how infrastructure affects societies.

It shows the benefits of collective projects, but never forgets that infrastructure can also be used to give more resources to the powerful at the expense of the powerless.

But was ultimately overall hopeful, because it shows how infrastructure is a form of mutual aid.

My wife had it and said it was good. I wanted to see if I could glean any insights from it. Most of it is stuff that makes sense and might have heard before, but some good things I'll try to put into practice. Even just reading gave me some motivation.

My wife got this and sounds interesting, so I'm reading. Been putting it off some though so I have something to read while backpacking.

Really good, like a near future fictionalization of Survival of the Richest. Interconnecting stories, which might have made me think of Station Eleven.

Considered not just one of the best books on the C language, but one of the best technical books ever. Concise but dense yet easy to follow with examples that are simple yet of deep technical matters.