I've never had this much fun learning how to do things like domesticate animals and make penicillin.

December 29, 2018

This type of science fiction is no longer my bag. The childish sex scenes and the dialog of the “poet” killed it for me after about 30% of the way through. Did not finish.

July 23, 2016

I enjoyed Simple Rules. Some of the examples were useful. A Simple Rule I already follow is “Don't keep reading if it seems to be repeating itself”. This book suffered from that problem, so I skimmed the second half and that's that.

October 31, 2016

Geeky, high-energy fun.

June 24, 2012

A book about writing letters by local author, Keith Winnard. I love everything about writing, sending, and receiving hand-written letters, so this book was inspirational, if not terribly informative. Keith is an enthusiastic cheerleader of the cause.

October 14, 2017

Some great ideas here to help with inspiring creativity. Quite a few also that felt too similar to others. Good skimming, though.

June 4, 2019

A nice enough palette cleanser.

January 25, 2019

I no longer enjoy following douchebag characters. Didn't finish this one. American Psycho did it better anyway.

July 1, 2016

Five stars because this is the first “real” book I ever read. 1970-ish. I read it while my parents and grandparents were out shopping and running errands. I made a sort of fort under my grandmother's kitchen table and just read and read.

December 1, 1970

I don't understand how so many people read this book and were able to get past the actual sentences. This may be a great book for lovers of time travel stories, but for lovers of writing it falls short.

January 27, 2017

Short and practical.

January 8, 2017
February 17, 2019
August 3, 2024

Even better the second time

April 4, 2023

Love the whole murder mystery time travel horror weird bits, but frankly I became lost late in the game and never found my footing.

October 1, 2019

It's as if Neal Stephenson wrote a book about AI without knowing what AI stands for. Still, some interesting bits even though I wasn't interested in most of them.

April 20, 2022

I loved this. Fun story, wild characters, cool world. I really enjoy the way Miéville writes.

February 26, 2021

While there were many laugh-out-loud moments, I just could not muster the energy to finish. I may come back to this one day.

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Walk, push a cart, “I'm hungry.”, look for food, “be careful,” hide, walk more.

Bleak is okay with me. Boring is not. Points for style, though.

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I was looking for some creative inspiration. Dan Winters' description of his photographic journey provided.

August 4, 2019

Adored all of it.

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I only made it half-way. I had no idea what was going on and I didn't care enough to find out.

November 21, 2019

Interesting, but I'm not sure why I needed to know 3/4 of it. My favorite bits were about Ted Nelson and hypertext.

I enjoy nicely designed book covers, although a poorly designed cover doesn't detract from a good book. That said, I really dislike Glut's cover.

April 14, 2019