Fascinating book, lots of really interesting psychological ideas

February 1, 2011

Interesting read, even though this was written in early 90's (apart from the technology) it doesn't seem that dated.

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Interesting book, pretty crazy what he got up to. Made guns and took them to school, developed weapons in prison that where used in ww2 etc

November 13, 2012

Fantastic read, It started off a little slow but got good.
I especially liked the conclusions and comparisons in the final chapter.

November 12, 2014

Wow this is a really inspiring book, it really puts your first world problems into perspective!

July 20, 2012

I will never look at birds the same way again..

April 6, 2016

Interesting look at farm life in new zealand in the early 1900's

October 2, 2017

Very interesting. A shame his “world system” may have actually been impossible. Interesting takes on how to achieve world peace.

March 8, 2018

Wow, it is books like this that make your troubles seem insignificant. This is the story of an incredibly hard upbringing, and how despite that you can succeed in life.

March 20, 2020

Good post apocalyptic fiction!

A historian stuck in a foreign country, in a hotel. in the middle of nowhere when a global nuclear war begins.

April 10, 2020

I like how the wolf talked in this book “looksmelling” and “spinwagging”
Caspar liked how the wolf and raven became friends, and how the wolf was sometimes nice to other creatures and didn't eat them.

June 24, 2020

Fantastic book. I would recommend for anyone.

September 13, 2018

Interesting fact from the book:
the Sherpas had to sleep in the snow because there was not enough room in the tents!

January 6, 2020

A great kiwi sci-fi yarn

July 26, 2021

This series was even better the second time through

December 17, 2010

Some great stories

April 3, 2018

Some interesting stories of NZ 70 odd years ago

April 11, 2023

Really interesting, best story was about a man whom drew a 3mile long painting of the Mississippi

March 19, 2011

lots of really good short stories in this volume.

June 25, 2011

Entertaining and interesting read, written in 2007 it seems like he totally saw the financial crisis coming. Lots of good points about inventions, iterative development and creating businesses.

December 11, 2011

Some good basic concepts around computer hacking / privacy

September 25, 2013

I thought this book was pretty interesting, and it made me think a lot about thin and thick slicing.

June 18, 2010

this was quite different to the tv series. looking forward to reading the next won where I have no idea what is going to happen though.

February 19, 2012

I enjoyed the writing and the actual story of the Blind Assassin byt the rest was a little bit slow.

May 23, 2012

This series was awesome!

September 2, 2013