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Decided to give this book a pass. Like the Hogwarts series I found this book difficult to read due to the extremely large number of characters to keep track of. The book also has quite a few irc-style chat logs running in parallel over multiple pages. Not for me. Left the book at the Airbnb in Copenhagen.
Just realized this is a book written by J.K. Rowling. Conflicted about continuing.
Dro denne med meg i forbifarten fra bokhandelen. Innser nå at dette er bok nr 5 i en serie. Får håpe at de er relativt uavhengige. Vet ikke om jeg orker 1200 sider ellers.
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, slow and reasoned - and …
In his first book since the bestselling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping …
Simon Singh is an accomplished science writer, and in this book he takes the reader on a journey in the use of ciphers and encryption. Starting with the simple (by todays standard) cipher used by Julius Caesar two thousand years ago and ending with a short description of the emerging quantum encryption techniques of today. Lots of anecdotes and fascinating details.
I started reading this on a recommendation by Steve Gibson on the Security Now podcast (twit.tv/sn). I had to stop reading after the first 3-4 chapters. This book did not work at all for me. Although I probably did not read enough to get into the main plot, I just felt that the story fell down into a "uncanny valley" where it was too realistic to be read as a pure fantasy comic book, but also too unrealistic to be something that could possibly happen. Characters felt one-dimensional. I just couldn't bring myself to care for any of the characters.
@TimmyMac Yeah, it is most excellent. I should read it again, it has been a few years (20?)
This seems to be an interesting book, if I can muster up the energy and courage
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew …
Got it as a teenager in the early 80s. It really opened my eyes to the wonders of science. Carl Sagan really was a masterful storyteller, both on paper and screen.
A Prayer for Owen Meany is the seventh novel by American writer John Irving. Published …
Took me a couple of attempts to get started, but wow, the story is outstanding.
The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and …
I adore Sean Connery, but this book is so much more than the simple murder mystery in the film with the same name. History, culture, politics, philosophy, lust, greed, piety, humour. Complex characters, great storytelling. It is all in there.
A Chain of Voices is a 1982 novel by Afrikaans writer André Brink. The novel …
This book made a deep impression on me when I read it sometime in the 1980s. It deeply illustrates the cruelty of racial injustice through the individual voices of a number of persons living on a farm in South Africa.
