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| Read the whole thing on vacation. Very relaxing. | |
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition
by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
read in October, 2011
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| Catching up with the classics. | |
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Somehow I missed that one -- catching up with the classics. The perfect superhuman protagonists are a bit annoying, but that's mormon sci-fi for you, I guess. Overall it was quite a nice read despite all clichés and convenient plot devices. |
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| The field trip reports from Dagestan..Kyrgyzstan with historical/geographical notes are somewhat boring, but the "life of a Guardian reporter in modern Moscow" part compensates for that. I mean, it reads like some oldschool Aksyonov ("Скажи Изюм" wit...more | |
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| Must read. My review (in Russian) and some random quotes at https://plus.sandbox.google.com/u/1/1027... | |
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| It's not as bad as the cover suggests, but the blog (lj user=karial) was somehow more fun to read. | |
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| The first 70% of the book are just boring. Boring Jon storyline, boring Daenerys storyline, mostly boring Theon storyline, Jaime and Brienne reappearing for a few pages just to make you look up what happened to them in the boring ending of "Feast for...more | |
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