The Fifth Season by N K Jemisin
(and then the rest of the Broken Earth series)
great dystopian sci-fi
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#32"Nobody's boy" (Orig title "Sans famille") by Hector Malot. A huge classic in Vietnam, I have been said, but a little bit forgotten in France. Bar a couple of unlikely events, pretty enjoyable. Absolutely very much superior to the anim. Emphasize on education throughout the book.
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#33Mattimeo, the third of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. Charming, funny and surprisingly action-packed.
Currently reading Northern Lights, the first of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. My first time reading it, great so far.
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#34Mattimeo, the third of the Redwall books by Brian Jacques. Charming, funny and surprisingly action-packed. Currently reading Northern Lights, the first of the His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman. My first time reading it, great so far.
I read the Redwall books in high school! Great fun, maybe I’ll revisit. My favorites were Mossflower and Martin the Warrior.
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#35"JCIP - Java Concurreny in Practice", finally was able to complete this monster and now I see the world differently. I had a aha moment, just like Neo in the Matrix. "The Sandman: Kindly Ones" and "The Sandman: Wake", masterpieces from the master writer Neil Gaimann. Reading "Never Split the Difference" which is about the art of negotiation and has been an enlightening read as of now. It argues negotiation isn't rati…
Was the haha moment like what can be felt reading "The problem with threads" https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-... ?
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#36I just finished Shogun and The Terror one after the other.
The reason I liked these is that I found the dogged determination of the respective captains in the face of adversity (especially in The Terror) inspirational.
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#37Moby Dick Finally got around to reading it, I was amazed at how modern it felt for a book written in 1850.
This is the third book I am reading in my sequence of naval adventures.
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#38David Eddings The Belgariad series ( 5 books) and then the Mallorean series (5 more books) which follows on from the Belgariad. An amazing piece of fantasy writing.
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#39'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' can't stop recommending it. I am currently reading the 3rd book 'Life, the Universe and Everything'
Can I ask what is so fascinating about it, It's been recommended to me a couple of times and I've tried everything to enjoy it and failed. I got the book, tried the audio-book and even tried watching the movie, I couldn't get myself past the first half of the book or the movie. It just seems (to me) so childish and incoherent, am I missing somthing?
It's one of my favorite books too, but I couldn't drag myself through Catch 22. And a lot of people are fanatical about it.
Different type of people like different things :) no need to feel bad about it.
p.s I would use word playful instead of childish.
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#40"JCIP - Java Concurreny in Practice", finally was able to complete this monster and now I see the world differently. I had a aha moment, just like Neo in the Matrix. "The Sandman: Kindly Ones" and "The Sandman: Wake", masterpieces from the master writer Neil Gaimann. Reading "Never Split the Difference" which is about the art of negotiation and has been an enlightening read as of now. It argues negotiation isn't rati…
Was the haha moment like what can be felt reading "The problem with threads" https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2006/EECS-2006-... ?
I'll confess that I haven't read "The problem with threads", my aha moment was the existence of 'happens-before' relationships and the Java Memory Model which for a good part of my life, I didn't know about.