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Will Sargent

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Jonathan Hill: Odessa (Odessa #1) (2020, Oni Press)
Scott Lynch: The Republic of Thieves (2010, Spectra Books)
George Lakoff: Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things (Paperback, 1990, University Of Chicago Press)

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Cordelia Fine: Delusions of Gender : How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference (2010)
Terry Pratchett: Men at Arms (2003)
Gretchen McCulloch: Because Internet (Hardcover, 2019, Riverhead Books)

Stopped Reading

Dmitry Glukhovsky: Metro 2033 (2013)

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reviewed Life During Wartime (S.F. Masterworks) by Lucius Shepard

Lucius Shepard: Life During Wartime (S.F. Masterworks) (Orion) 5 stars

Review of 'Life During Wartime (S.F. Masterworks)' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

One of my favorite books, ever. Blindsight is technically better, but Life During Wartime is just there. It sounds like the voice in the back of my head decided it would do better to write down what it was doing 20 years in the future in South America and then have it published.

I can't say too much about this book because so much of it can't be said. On my best days I wish I could write like Lucius Shepard, but for now I'm just glad I can read him.

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 …