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It's a good book, but Diamond does present a bunch of detail that really is more distracting than it is informative. After the 15th anecdote, I really just wanted him to get to the point.
Nicholson Baker's new novel is the story of Arno Strine, a temporary typist, who has perfected the knack of stopping …
Okay, but not up to the standards of Whiteout.
The Green Goblin, Doctor Octopus, Sandman, Electro, and Kraven the Hunter escape from a S.H.I.E.L.D. …
It's superheroes, so there's a limit to how different it can get -- but the plot is coherent, the characters are strong, and the Avengers takes front and center as the people who are making everything work.
Test
Good introduction, but very, very basic if you work with computers. Data analysis has been done for a while now.
Out on their own, danger lurking around every corner, our ragged band of survivors tries …
LOVE IT.
I wanted to like this book. I didn't.
There's something about tourism that annoys me -- not the act of going from place to place and being a tourist, but the desire to be authentic. The idea that, because you have some vague understanding of the country, you're "less of a tourist" is what leads to the most cringe inducing bits in this graphic novel.
The scene where they accept the blessings of buddhist monks and cringe at the baptists is one of them. The scene where an ice cream seller is given his own internal monologue based on what he thinks the two travellers are thinking. The trip through the caves that, ironically, has some benefit in at least pointing out to them that they have odd ideas about the thrill of danger.
And, of course, their muted outrage at their typecasting of bit parts on Singapore TV. I …
I wanted to like this book. I didn't.
There's something about tourism that annoys me -- not the act of going from place to place and being a tourist, but the desire to be authentic. The idea that, because you have some vague understanding of the country, you're "less of a tourist" is what leads to the most cringe inducing bits in this graphic novel.
The scene where they accept the blessings of buddhist monks and cringe at the baptists is one of them. The scene where an ice cream seller is given his own internal monologue based on what he thinks the two travellers are thinking. The trip through the caves that, ironically, has some benefit in at least pointing out to them that they have odd ideas about the thrill of danger.
And, of course, their muted outrage at their typecasting of bit parts on Singapore TV. I mean, what were they expecting?
So, yeah. Travel can be good, travel books can be good. But this... it's holiday snap masturbation, and it shows.
Introducing the first eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected …
LOVE IT.
It's a good book, but there are some things that I think are big failings in it.
1) it does not have all the rules added up at the end of the book
2) when dealing with work, this book is very, very wrong. Office gossip and politics is not something that can be ignored -- you can choose not to participate, but you should at least be aware of it.
Other that, I liked it, I think it's practical and not "new age".
It's uneven in places, but it gives a good overview of evolutionary psychology, and shines some interesting light on the historical patterns of how men with high status do what they can to get as many offspring as possible. The details on harems are especially fascinating, partly because it's so utterly politically incorrect.
However, there are parts of the book that just plain fallover. He claims to have no answer for fashion (given that men don't care about it, why do women do so much work?) without considering that fashion is most often a competition between women over status, where the puted objective (the regard of men) has fallen by the wayside. Women care about fashion because to not care about fashion is, in this society at least, to not be a woman.
So. Good book, says basically the same things as Survival of the Prettiest.
This isn't a book of horror stories. This is a book of dread, and sadness, and bitter regrets. Dried tears, just departed, and knowing that the same tears will be back the next day. It creeps on you, the language does. You don't notice it until it's already upon you.
That being said, The Sloan Men is in a different class than the rest of the stories. And Trombone Slide is so subtle it takes a throwaway line to move it all into focus.
It's a bit silly, but entertaining.
In the last volume we learned that no one is safe. Now, after the staggering …
A beautiful coda after the Walking Dead Compendium. Part of this is about Carl, Rick's son. This is an 9 year old living through a zombie apocalypse. He's seen so many people die and killed so many people that he's not even sure if he's a child himself. And yet, he has a father. He has family. And he knows that's not a thing that many people have these days.
It's touching, it's quiet, and its devastating in the small moments.
All I can say is this book dramatically underestimates what organizations can be like, and doesn't take into account the "you won the last argument so I'm going to win this one" power dynamic that can take place between engineers. I like the book... it just doesn't remotely resemble anything I've seen in an actual organization.
