Posts Tagged ‘ reading ’

If there is one thing that I cannot stand, it is apathy and lack of intellectual curiosity. Looking back at my work today, I saw a few errors of my own (be firmer, stutter less, don’t get flustered)… but the primary flaw that I saw was in my clients. They made no effort to...
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Title: Northlanders Book 1: Sven the Returned Author: Brian Wood Illustrator: Davide Gianfelice Format: Collected Comicbook Date: May 2010 Rating: 7/10 Northlanders: Sven the Returned is not an especially fun read, but it worth the time you put into it, especially if you pause while reading to experience the artwork. The comic tells the...
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Title: Retail Hell Author: Freeman Hall Media: Hardcover Date: April 2010 Rating: 6/10 Not exactly life changing or amazing, but a fun read. The wife picked this up a few months ago and I read a couple pages on the way home from Barnes and  Noble. It was fun enough that when I found...
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Title: Singularity Sky Author: Charles Stross Media: Audiobook Date: March 2010 Rating: 7/10 I enjoyed this book. Not so much a first contact as a getting-back-in-contact. A good story, but I need to read up more on time-light theory now. Oh, and I wish there had been a bit more about the Eschaton.
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Reading Northlanders, volume 1 by Brian Wood and David Gianfelice. Thank you Free Comicbook Day at Local Heroes for a nice discount. Back to reading now.
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Title: Bearing an Hourglass Author: Piers Anthony Media: Paperback Date: February-March 2010 Rating: A resounding “meh”… ok, um, 2/10 Seriously. I wanted to like this book. The concept was so fun. The incarnation on time living backwards? sweet. But somehow Piers Anthony managed to make the whole thing boring. Perhaps it was the quasi...
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Another simple day. These break days are exactly sort of relaxing both of us have needed. Today I mainly read and played Dragon Age. I am mostly through the Broken Circle quest line… I think. Once I got trapped in the Fade timelines became rather confusing. Not that I am in any hurry. The...
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Title: Daemon Author: Daniel Suarez Media: Audiobook Date: February 2010 Rating: 10/10 A famous videogame designer dies, unleashing an automated computer program that begins infiltrating corporate networks and setting up a new post-government world order. Sure it’s silly, over-reaching, and features a Mad Max degree of car-as-weapon fetishism… but this is a fun read...
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Title: The Judas Strain Author: James Rollins Media: Hardcover Date: January 2010 Rating: 9/10 Not bad for a book I got for about $3 at the B. Dalton going out of business sale. Not bad at all. The Judas Strain is a fun historical/science adventure, very much in the style of Indiana Jones or...
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Title: Infoquake Author: David Louis Edelman Date: January 2010 Media: Paperback Rating: 8/10
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