This book is appropriately named, though perhaps another subtitle could be added: “or how to fake it until you make it.” Scott Adams is known best for Dilbert, a “satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring engineer Dilbert as the title character” (to quote Wikipedia). After listening to his story in How to […]
Archives for September 2016
Book Thoughts | How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams
2016-09-24 · by ·
Book Review | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
2016-09-23 · by ·
I’m one of the few people I know that has not watched Francis Ford Coppola’s film classic The Godfather. When a co-worker promised that “The movie was good, but the book was better,” I decided to test the thesis. And, indeed, I wonder if I’ll ever need to even try the movie after reading The […]
Book Review | Earth Awakens (The First Formic War #3) by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
2016-09-20 · by ·
While the continued existence of the human race in Ender’s Game provides a serious spoiler as to how the prequel First Formic War trilogy must end, I still enjoy the closing action in Earth Awakens as the story moves to its inevitable conclusion. Even if the following review makes it sound like I’m weary of […]
Book Review | Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds
2016-09-01 · by ·
Forty years from now, we have stepped out into the solar system, mining the asteroids and salvaging ice from comets to provide resources for humanity’s expansion. Then, in a moment, the moon Janus, one of Saturn’s ice moons, begins to leave first the orbit of the gas giant and then to chart a course out […]
