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Book Review – Going Postal
As I mentioned in a previous post, I should have read Going Postal book before reading Making Money, because it gives some interesting background on the characters that appear in both of the stories, and reading Making Money before Going Postal does spoil some of the fun. But nonetheless, this is another EXCELLENT book by Terry Pratchett. Both Making Money and Going Postal are an impressive parody about the monetary world and how most people are gullible and will transform lies given by others to truths in their head if they think the lie is to their advantage. And also of how … Continue reading
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Tagged Ankh-Morpork, book, Discworld, Going Postal, Making Money (Discworld Novels), review, terry pratchett
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Book Review – Small Gods
It probably won’t surprise you that this is another Terry Pratchett book. I have read a lot of them lately to fill in the blanks that I had in the Discworld series (I used to buy them printed and here in Israel they are not always available. But now that I am using my Kindle life is soooo much better). But it is not just another Pratchett book… THIS BOOK IS A MASTERPIECE! Small Gods is a book about philosophy, theology, sociology and psychology. It shows human nature in a very simple and funny way, how stupid our species is. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon Kindle, book, Book review, Discworld, fantasy, review, terry pratchett
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Book Review – Moving Pictures
After a few months of reading books in their natural form (you know… paper. Remember?), my pad (an Archos 10.1, pretty cheap stuff, not fancy like an IPad but OK and a third of the cost), or through my car’s speakers, my Kindle was revived by an amazon gift certificate that a friend gave me for my birthday (thanks!). It was the perfect occasion to read all of the Discworld books missing in the list (You CAN read them in disorder, but sometimes this will cause you to miss good jokes). After reading in some books in my pad and going back to … Continue reading
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Book Review – Rework
A friend of mine gave me Rework two weeks ago after a talk we had over my post on how finishing things helps you finish more, and how overwork starts creeping up on you and causes you to make mistakes (my friend was in one of those one-week deadlines, working 18 hours a day minimum and it was showing). The book is about how to do things in the modern internet-services economy. I think there are many lessons that can also be learned by other fields but not all of them are applicable (for example, in the internet you can … Continue reading
Book Review – Making Money
Taking a rest from all the serious reading I have done in the last couple of weeks, I decided to go and have some fun reading Terry Pratchett‘s Making Money. The book was quite fun, although not as great as Interesting Times, Mort or Reaper Man (Death is hilarious). It also seems to me that I should have read Going Postal before reading Making Money, because now I already know how it will end. Also, the book takes longer to get interesting than the usual Pratchett Book, but we can’t always expect perfection. Nevertheless, there are a number of jewels in … Continue reading
