This book had an incredible amount of untold history about how people, plants, and things moved around the world. It took some effort to get through, but i really enjoyed reading it.
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Nathan Friedly rated Guards! Guards!: 4 stars

Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #8)
Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed …
Nathan Friedly rated Weapons of Math Destruction: 4 stars

Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to …
Nathan Friedly rated Good Omens: 4 stars

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring …
Nathan Friedly rated Wyrd Sisters: 4 stars

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #6)
Meet Granny Weatherwax, the most highly regarded non-leader a coven of non-social witches could ever have. Generally, these loners don't …
Review of "Three tales of my father's dragon" on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Nathan LOVED this set of stories - we read a chapter or two before bed and then finished the last three chapters tonight after dinner.
Nathan Friedly reviewed Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
Nathan Friedly rated The house at Pooh Corner: 5 stars

A. A. Milne: The house at Pooh Corner (1988, E.P. Dutton)
The house at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne
Ten adventures of Pooh, Eeyore, Tigger, Piglet, Owl, and other friends of Christopher Robin.
Review of '1491' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A really interesting book! Basically a summary of what the current research says the Americas looked like before Europeans arrived. I learned quite a lot - like how the Native Americans had re-routed rivers, figured out large-scale, sustainable farming and cities of then-equivalent size to Paris or London.
Nathan Friedly reviewed Singularity by William Sleator
Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion …
Review of 'Singularity' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
I read this when I was a teenager and I remembered enjoying it, but I couldn't remember the name of the book! Fortunately, Mike Miller was able to help me out there.
Review of 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance' on 'Goodreads'
2 stars
This was a sad story of a man who was searching for God, while at the same time refusing to acknowledge Him, and ultimately going crazy in the process.
There were a lot of interesting ideas, but he just took them way to far.
I know some folks got a lot out of this book, and I'm sure I got a little, but on the whole, it just left me feeling sad and depressed.
Nathan Friedly reviewed Getting Real by Jason Fried
Review of 'Getting Real' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
A few years old now, but sill surprisingly relevant. I've been trying to apply a lot of the advice there as I'm working on the new version of user-agent.io and more generally in the work that I do both at IBM and Incline.