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Recent Books — Corsair, Morte d’Urban, Fluent Python

  • Posted on September 11, 2016
  • by john

Morte d’Urban by J. F. Powers. This is a slog. I am 50% of the way thru and promised comic masterpiece has yet to really appear. Fluent Python by Luciano…

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Recent Books

  • Posted on May 10, 2015
  • by john

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison. From last year’s Nebula list, a great tale of court entrigue. The Ocean at The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman. A pretty…

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Recent Books — Sawyer, Rich, Hough, Rendell, Lakhous

  • Posted on August 14, 2014
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Red Planet Blues by Robert Sawyer. Noirish mystery on Mars. Fun and engaging. I hope Mars is this cool when we eventually settle it. Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich.…

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Recent Books — OpenGL, McKillip, Film Grammar, Beatles, Lexicon, Coben, Annihilation, and more

  • Posted on April 16, 2014April 16, 2014
  • by john

OpenGL Programming Guide by Shreiner, Sellers, Kessenich, Licea-Kane. Incredibly boring in a good way. Very useful depth walkthru of OpenGL. Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson. Boring in…

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Recent Books — Parasite, Ice Harvest, Crace, Fowler, Mr Peanut, Byatt, Auchincloss
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Recent Books — Parasite, Ice Harvest, Crace, Fowler, Mr Peanut, Byatt, Auchincloss

  • Posted on February 17, 2014February 17, 2014
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Parasite by Mira Grant. The start of a new series by the author of the Feed series, which I found to be among the best of the zombie novels I…

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Barnes and Noble (@BNBuzz), can’t you at least try?

  • Posted on January 26, 2014
  • by john

5 people in line waiting to pay at Barnes & Noble Bellevue vs 1 chatty cashier. 1 Nooklehead standing over at the Nook stand doing nothing while we are all…

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Recent Books — Burning Paradise, Submergence, Reacher, This Town, S

  • Posted on January 15, 2014
  • by john

Burning Paradise by Robert Charles Wilson. YA pre-apocalyptic alternative history. Fun premise: a somewhat-intelligent organism has pervasively and surreptitiously infected the earth’s biosphere for hidden purposes, but some humans have…

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Recent Books — Vanished Kingdoms, Testament of Mary, Prince of Risk

  • Posted on December 17, 2013January 15, 2014
  • by john

The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin. Very moving tale of the last days of Jesus, written from the viewpoint of his mother. Great capturing of the anguish of a…

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Recent Books — Smil, Candide, Wiesenthal

  • Posted on October 6, 2013October 6, 2013
  • by john

The last set of books I read had some stinkers, perhaps not suprising given that I was surfing through popular genre fictions. Decided to raise my standards a little bit:…

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Recent Books — Stross, Dibdin, Barr, Shields, Barclay

  • Posted on September 11, 2013
  • by john

Reality Hunger by David Shields. An excellent exploration of what we read, why we read, the evolving nature of the things we read and the things we write. I used…

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Guides to mechanical movements

  • Posted on August 18, 2013
  • by john

I just discovered 507 movements, what a great resource! Back in my active Halloween days, I used to spend a lot of time figuring out how to turn simple rotary…

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Recent Books — McElroy, Rendell, McDonald, Savage

  • Posted on July 17, 2013
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Night Soul and Other Stories by Joseph McElroy. I just don’t enjoy short stories. These seem well-written and intriguing, but the lack of plot and character development due to the…

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Recent Books — computer vision topics, Jacob de Zoet

  • Posted on June 7, 2013
  • by john

Trying to get smarter about image processing and computer vision — kind of a random walk of books: Digital Image Processing: An Algorithmic Approach Using Java by Burger and Burge.…

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Recent Books — Afterwards, Rankin, Zourodi, Beautiful Forevers, Rule of Law, Skippy

  • Posted on May 4, 2013May 4, 2013
  • by john

Afterwards by Rosamund Lupton. A family is shattered by a school fire, and the critically injured mother battles to protect her kids and uncover the truth around the events. Great…

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Recent books — Dragon’s Path, Fault in Our Stars, Garden of Evening Mists, and more

  • Posted on April 15, 2013April 15, 2013
  • by john

Ghostman by Roger Hobbs. Excellent thriller about a world-class thief trying to thread the needle between rival criminal organizations and law enforcement. Great character. I’d read more featuring. Business Model…

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Recent books — Alys, Dhalgren, Neuhaus, Teleportation Accident, Fade to Black

  • Posted on March 21, 2013March 21, 2013
  • by john

Alys, Always by Harriet Lane. A young woman witnesses a tragic accident and is then drawn into the family of the victim. Or insinuates herself into the family. I thought…

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Man I would hate to be the guy flogging Nooks at B&N this week

  • Posted on February 25, 2013March 1, 2013
  • by john

On the heels of “B&N’s rumored step back from the Nook”:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/business/media/barnes-noble-weighs-its-nook-losses.html, I bet he is “more forlorn than ever”:http://theludwigs.com/2010/04/the-nook-dude-at-the-barnesnobles-looked-forlorn-today/. This was an easy one to predict. Competing in consumer hardware…

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Recent books — Jordan, Sandford, Evanovich, King, Molina

  • Posted on February 21, 2013February 24, 2013
  • by john

* “A Memory Of Light”:amazon by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. This series finally comes to end, about 6 books too late. Good to get to closure on the tale…

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Recent Books — Going Clear, The Big Truck That Went By

  • Posted on February 2, 2013February 2, 2013
  • by john

* “Going Clear”:amazon by Lawrence Wright. A tough look at Scientology. The author does a nice job of letting the evidence speak for itself. If even a fraction of the…

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Books I’m Reading — Haskell, Viruses

  • Posted on January 19, 2013January 20, 2013
  • by john

I am pushing myself a little this month. * “Real World Haskell”:amazon by O’Sullivan, Goerzen, Stewart. Functional languages have always seemed like a research toy to me. But some of…

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