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Oracle

Posted on September 11, 2019 Written by Developer Leave a Comment

by Douglas E. Richards

This was a book with an interesting premise.
What if someone could sense the future, but be unaware of it.
Could they be helped to develop it?

Aliens visiting Earth seem to think so and they have searched for the right candidate for a long long time.

I won’t give away too much more of the plot, in case you might want to read it.

My recommendation is don’t.

Yes the girl learns to use her intuition, but is it really necessary to repeat it every other sentence? I can remember it.

This book is let down by being far too repetitive. Have a higher opinion of the reader. Trust that they don’t need to have the same facts drummed into their head multiple times per page.

This book also suffers from the Übermensch fallacy.

If you are really bored on a flight, you might pick this book up but if you are reading it for the enjoyment of reading find something much better.

Filed Under: Books, Reviews, Self

The Chemist

Posted on September 11, 2019 Written by Developer Leave a Comment

by Stephenie Meyer

I have no idea how or why I bought this book and I really wish I had not.

I would like if I read the same book as Charles Finch of USA Today who gave it a glowing endorsement. I find it hard to believe we read the same text.

There is nothing notable about this bore of a book. Everything is a cliche followed up by another cliche. The characters are one dimensional and with a few exceptions do not grow or develop during the book.

It was like a bad made for tv movie but a movie is usually done after 90 minutes and I spent longer than that reading this garbage.

It is about a woman who worked for a secret part of the government, so secret it doesn’t have a name. She had to run away from her job and life because now this non named government entity was trying to kill her and it develops just like you would expect.

I found out later that it written by the same author who wrote the “Twilight saga”. Had I picked up on that I probably would not have made the mistake of reading it.

Filed Under: Books, Reviews, Self

The Three-Body Problem

Posted on August 23, 2019 Written by Developer Leave a Comment

by Cixin Liu, , Ken Liu (Translator)

This was a book that I had laying around for a long time without reading for no conscious reason. Now that I have read it I feel like an idiot for having waited so long.

Reading this book was a delight.

It has some fresh new ideas. Something I think is getting very rare in science fiction with most books rehashing the same basic premises over and over again.

It is also good read a book every now and again that is not taking place in the US, or by Americans. Science fiction (that I read) is dominated by American and some British writers.

I dont want to give away too much of the storyline because you should just read it yourself. This one is worth your time. 

At its core this is a first contact book.

It is also an exploration of human nature and philosophy and about the environmental disasters that we are creating. It is also a study of an alien society so very different from our own.

None of that is a good summary of the book, but give it a read. It is that good.

Filed Under: Books, Self

The Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent

Posted on August 14, 2019 Written by Developer Leave a Comment

By: Larry Correia
Narrated by Adam Baldwin

This is another gem that I did not think I would like as much as I do.

The book is funny, and you never quite know what is going to happen yet, but chances are it will end up amusing even when bad things occur.

Imagine that there are almost infinite dimensions, and more are created at every decision made.

Obviously, a lot can happen across so many different dimensions and this is where insurance comes into play.    You can prevent evil things happening to you by buying an interdimensional insurance plan.

You can buy it for yourself, for a country or really anything else, I think.

Selling such policies are never easy but our protagonist does well.  Unfortunately for the insurance agent he is also the front guy for defeating the enemies. He even must risk his bowtie to do it.

Lots of whacky comedy, an ill-equipped internet and the cut throat business of interdimensional insurance.

The only thing I can think of some people might react to are the somewhat political jokes that are sprinkled in the book.

I personally found them quite funny.

Filed Under: Audiobook, Self

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