Reader of a wide range of genres, including a lot of non-fiction. I’m an active member of a sci-fi book club and occasional attendee at a post-apocalyptic book club.
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"She answered the Emperor's call.
She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only …
I really enjoyed the first book in this series, but the second one is very different, and in a way that didn't work for me.
[The Dark Tower][1] I
The opening chapter in the epic Dark Tower series. Roland, the …
Stephen King gets rave reviews, and sells books by the truck load, but I just don't get his works. I thought at first it was because he's mostly famous for horror (not a favourite genre of mine), but even reading his works outside of that fall flat for me.
[The Dark Tower][1] I
The opening chapter in the epic Dark Tower series. Roland, the last gunslinger, in a world …
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration …
1 New York Times bestselling author STEPHEN KING suspends a small town in a haze …
Content warning Spoilers: ending
Everyone (or nearly everyone depending on how you interpret it) dies and we don't even find out what caused the mist or how far it spreads (the state? the whole USA? the world?)
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks …
There are useful bits of information in this book - though more so if you live in the US as it's geared towards that country in terms of tax etc. However, three things really ground my gears:
If you like Robbins' writing style, you'll probably love this book. For me, it was a bit grating and that knocked at least one star off.
Didn't finish this, the first few chapters (and the rest from a quick skim ahead) are about Gates' childhood, which isn't very interesting (middle-class, well-educated, no adversity really). The last chapter just about starts to cover Microsoft, but isn't enough to make reading the whole book worthwhile.
The general points in this book are interesting, but let down somewhat by a US bias (e.g. that health insurance problems can't be solved because of selection, even though sensible countries have universal state-provided cover funded by taxation).
