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‘A Feast For Crows’ by George R. R. Martin 6 Aug 2013 | 01:08 am
‘A Bit Dull, Really’ Score: 3/5 A Feast for Crows George R. R. Martin £4.99 This one seemed a bit plodding, to be honest. There’s an awful lot of ‘sword’ and not very much ‘sorcery’, which makes i...
‘A Storm Of Swords 2: Blood And Gold’ by George R. R. Martin 28 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
‘Everybody Lies, Everybody Dies’ Score: 3/5 A Storm of Swords 2: Blood and Gold George R. R. Martin £3.85 OK, not everybody dies but some times it certainly felt like it. I’m not sure why I’m sti...
‘Redshirts’ by John Scalzi 28 Jul 2013 | 09:41 pm
‘A Bit Too Meta?’ Score: 4/5 Redshirts John Scalzi £5.27 Those ‘redshirts’ from the original Star Trek series now have their own book. While it’s funny to see away missions the way they see them (...
‘vN’ by Madeline Ashby 28 Jul 2013 | 09:31 pm
‘Not Really My Thing’ Score: 2/5 vN Madeline Ashby £6.74 I really got the feeling reading this book that it was an allegory for something and I just didn’t ‘get’ it. Chalk this up as another book ...
‘The Information’ by James Gleick 28 Jul 2013 | 09:24 pm
‘Less Shannon Than Expected’ Score: 3/5 The Information James Gleick £6.74 I don’t know why, but I expected there to be a lot more about Shannon in here and less general history of computers and c...
‘Apathy And Other Small Victories’ by Paul Neilan 28 Jul 2013 | 07:13 pm
‘Genuinely Laughed Out Loud’ Score: 4/5 Apathy And Other Small Victories Paul Neilan £8.99 I have no idea who told me about this book or how I came to buy it, but I’m glad I did. It’s not a thrill...
‘Off To Be The Wizard’ by Scott Meyer 28 Jul 2013 | 07:07 pm
‘Swords, Sorcery And Computers’ Score: 4/5 Off to Be the Wizard Off to Be the Wizard £6.18 I enjoy Scott Meyer’s comic ‘Basic Instructions’, so I wanted to check out his book. It suffers a bit fro...
‘The Rapture Of The Nerds’ by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross 28 Jul 2013 | 06:59 pm
‘Enjoyable Post-Singularity Romp’ Score: 4/5 The Rapture Of The Nerds Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross £6.39 Putting Stross and Doctorow together brings you pretty much the book you’d expect. Ther...
‘Abundance’ by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler 28 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
‘Post-Scarcity Economics Primer’ Score: 4/5 Abundance Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler £7.59 If you ever need a dose of optimism on the way the world is going, this will do the job. Examining ...
Stupid Scheme Sudoku Solver 21 Jul 2013 | 10:25 pm
I was playing a bit with Scheme lately, but then I stopped for a break. I was in the middle of writing a Sudoku Solver and I figured I should put the code up here, partly in case anyone is interested,...
