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Will Sargent

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I like books.

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reviewed A Handbook of American Prayer by Lucius Shepard

Lucius Shepard: A Handbook of American Prayer (Paperback, Thunder's Mouth Press) 5 stars

Review of 'A Handbook of American Prayer' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This book feels like something Bill Hicks would write, with its veiny back-America -- the malls, the ex-cons, the rusted automobile wrecks, and the television showing a world that tells you that your world isn't real. And then, a prayer that isn't a prayer results in a man showing up who is either a deluded fan, or something outside of reality.

This book haunted me for weeks afterwards.

reviewed The systems bible by John Gall

John Gall: The systems bible (2002, General Systemantics Press) 4 stars

Review of 'The systems bible' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

It's a one of a kind book -- it's the System as idiot blind Azathoth, piping a monotonous tune on a flute at the center of the Universe. It's the System at two in the morning, faking a human voice, blithely informing you there is no emergency and you have always been on fire. It's the System you created that tells you it's going to take your face to make its customers feel more comfortable.

It's a book that tells you every program that you write will have bugs, every company you work for will have policies that make no sense, and even the hacks you use to get around it have become ingrained into the System itself such that the System itself doesn't expect you to follows its rules, which is good because those rules would be illegal to follow in any case.

If you write code, if you're …