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Great mystery thriller. You're going to have at least half a dozen unanswered questions no matter at what point you try to stop reading. I've read it in 3 days, which is unusually fast for me. If you're on the fence, just start reading!
If you've been using tmux, you can skip the first two Chapters. If you don't plan on using tmux for pair programming (which I'm guessing most people who use tmux won't do), you can skip 5th Chapter. The other 3 chapters were fun and taught me a few bits.
Overall, it's more of a long article than an actual book, so I can't judge it too harshly. It's not a bad way to spend an hour or so, it's a very quick read.
Very pretentious in the first 60-100 pages. It's easy to read, so I didn't have to endure cringing for too long. Wasn't badly written, it got me interested in what happens next. Not a book I'd recommend to someone, but it wasn't unenjoyable either. A book equivalent of an action movie, undemanding and attention grabbing.
This book has managed to make me slightly more optimistic than I was. Even though humans can inadvertently push individual species to extinction, I'm fairly sure there's nothing we could do that would stop life. Granted, we are destroying opportunities to study and enjoy many wonders of the nature, but do humans inherently need to do those things? What if anthropocene extinction enables evolution of a species that's more adept at solving problems of living an energy-intensive life than we will have been?
This isn't exactly a book I'd recommend, reading was a drag at times. It's also not a scientific book in any way, which isn't a critique, it's just something you should be aware of before you read it. It's a book written by a journalist and that's exactly how it reads.
It's a very short guide. It's not very impactful, probably because of how brief it is, but I guess that can be both a good and a bad thing.
It wasn't exactly what I was looking for, but that's on me. It's specifically a guide for salesmen or people who negotiate often. The ‘magic words' can't be applied in many other circumstances, at least none that I can think of.
This is more of a 4.5 star book than a clean 5 star score. I wouldn't go as far as recommending against reading this book, but I do think it could've been more enjoyable if it felt less repetitive at times.
The sudden prevalence of sex and sexuality was a bit unexpected, but I can appreciate it as a world building effort. I did find it humorous at times, though, and I'm fairly sure that was at least partly intentional.
The wrap up was satisfying to me.
Closing thoughts: This might be the weakest book in the Foundation series, but I think it's still far from being a bad book.
Enjoyability: 5/5
Readability: 5/5
Recommendability: 5/5
A very satisfying ‘ending' (beginning?) to the Foundation saga. I highly recommend reading these books in the publication order, there are some major spoilers otherwise.
As always, my appetite for Asimov's writing has increased after finishing another one of his books.
The beginning was confusing, but I think it kept getting better as the story progressed. Enjoyable and recommendable. :)
Very approachable essay written in a very easy to follow manner. I don't feel like I've missed any points or misunderstood any matter. Highly recommended.
Very entertaining and well written short story. The character was very easy to empathize with and the ending was rather unexpected. Lovely book.
Very approachable book which made models much less intimidating for me. It was an easy and quick read with great illustrations. There's a great mix of models for business, conflict resolution, self-improvement, etc. So you're most definitely going to find something you can apply.
It is my first book about models and maybe it wouldn't be as useful for model thinking veterans, but it seems like a really good introductory book for models to me.
Very easy read. There aren't many twists and turns. It'd be a good book to introduce non-reading horror fans to reading.
Realistically, this book is maybe 3.75/5, but definitely better than 3 stars.
In a few words: easy, entertaining, enjoyable, but I'm not convinced it's very memorable.
I think I've already read most of the chapters of this book in other writings of Epictetus, but it's a good collection.
I find the thirteenth and fifteenth chapters the most valuable.
This might have been the most useful book (that I've read so far) in my quest to understand stoicism. If you're interested in stoicism as a philosophy, there is no good reason to skip reading this book.
Enchiridion, which is included at the end of this book, is very concise and approachable as translated in this rendition; if you're curious about stoicism but not yet invested into reading books about it, you can read Enchiridion to get some idea about it.
I've finished this book for the first time at 19. Sadly, against advice, I've read this book as the first stoic work I've been in touch with. I feel as if I would've understood some philosophical ideas in it better if I understood the philosophy of stoicism and Roman religion better.
I look forward to finding out more about those subjects and eventually reading this book again, when I'm both older and potentially more knowledgeable.
I've read the Gregory Hays' translation and it was very approachable and understandable. One of the things which I found most impactful is the explanation of how much referenced work doesn't exist anymore, and in the index of persons, how many referenced persons aren't known about anymore.
If anything, that demonstrated Marcus's points perfectly.
Fascinating read.
Enjoyability: 3.5/5
Readability: 5/5
Recommendability: 2/5
3.5, roughly.
It doesn't take any effort to read, maybe I could say it's written approachably to a fault. It's often cheesy, and some characters are stereotypical and flat.
You could do worse, but this is far from a masterpiece, and sf is full of those.
I couldn't finish it. By the time I was close to the end, it felt like a long form whine + trying to seem or show how smart the author is. Granted, the book doesn't promise to be any kind of an entertaining non-fiction or a guide, it's more of a biography through certain events in the authors life...
I don't know, I just got bored of the spiel by the end. Life's unfair, we get it...
Foundation trilogy were the first Asimov books I've read, and with them he has become my favorite fiction writer. Even though I am not a voracious reader, I'm convinced that this opinion won't change even after I've read a lot more than I have so far. This book is excellent and it's another Asimov book I've finished in record time.
It's longer than I think it had to be to tell its story, but the plots converge and resolve well and the ending is very satisfying in my opinion.
Very well written and enjoyable to read even without understanding the allegory and satire. Even better when you do.
I have a feeling I'll read this book at least a few more times in the future, we shall see.