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Rick’s 2025 Year in Books
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Learn Git in a Month of Lunches
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2015
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I Couldn't Keep It To A Tweet: Posts About Living, Working, and People Along the Way
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2017
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| This is a superb collection of six short stores/novellas, one of which became a movie ("Crime 101"). Each story is memorable, with strong characters and great atmosphere. His stories take place in New Orleans, San Diego and El Paso, and I was immerse ...more | |
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| I liked this one a lot, because the titular superhighway was built to cross Jersey City, the city I grew up in. This superhighway culminated in a large bridge called the Pulaski Skyway, and I have crossed it many times. This book's sense of place con ...more | |
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| This book is a partial memoir and work journal for the author, who delivered packages as a parcel delivery person in Beijing China. I liked Anyan's writing style, which is deeply introspective. He reveals that much of the text was written on his phon ...more | |
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| I won't forget Meg, Joe, Beth or Amy anytime soon. There were moments where the writing started to become preachy, but Louisa May Alcott pulls back quickly and does not go down that path. As the girls become women, they each have to deal with the bur ...more | |
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| This book is foundational noir. It seems that every dark detective movie has borrowed something from this short but compelling book! Sam Spade, the main character, is hard-boiled, but even he begins to wonder about the futility of his efforts. The bo ...more | |
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| This is an excellent graphic novel! It takes a novel with some fairly abstract concepts (identity, language, consciousness, fragmentation) and brilliantly adapts it to a graphic novel format. The panels are not always square. The images pop out of th ...more | |
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| The action in this novel takes place over four decades of modern Chinese history, starting in 1937, and going all the way up to the reform era (1970s). However, the main character, Fugui, is simply a farmer, and he is swept up in the immense changes ...more | |
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is on page 65 of 564 of Life: what a guy. I’m always blown away when I think about how Keith and Mick knew each other when they were kids.
I feel like Keith painted a nice picture of postwar England in these first two chapters and I’m excited to read more. his understanding of his childhood is so interesting, he’s endured a lot of stuff people nowadays would find absolutely unacceptable. he also has nice words about being an only child |
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| I enjoyed Dan Wang's book, and mulling over his central thesis: America is run by lawyers, and China is run by engineers. He comes back to this theme as he explores two policies that China implemented: One Child and Zero-Covid. The book is not a hist ...more | |
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| After chapters three or four, the literary gears in my mind began to grind together in their clumsy and awkward manner. This is a familiar feeling with many Thomas Pynchon novels. So many characters! So many ideas! I thought that because it was a det ...more | |
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses the Cascade Range. In midsummer, the cabin looked strange in the forest. It was only twelve feet square, but it rose fully two stories and then had a high and steeply peaked roof. From the ridge of the roof, moreover, a ten-foot pole stuck straight up. Tied to the top of the pole was a shovel. To hikers shedding their backpacks at the door of the cabin on a cold summer evening -- as the five of us did -- it was somewhat unnerving to look up and think of people walking around in snow perhaps thirty-five feet above, hunting for that shovel, then digging their way down to the threshold. [1971]”
― Encounters with the Archdruid
― Encounters with the Archdruid
“When things are good, it's best to be prepared for the eventuality that it may not last. If things stay good - well, great, that's a welcome surprise. But it will always help you to appreciate what you have if you at least acknowledge the possibility that it could all vanish in an instant.”
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
“Let's talk about color resolution for a second. Come on, you know you want to.”
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
“You may have noticed by now that a lot of what I'm most proud of in my career are technical achievements, things an average game player might not notice - under the hood stuff. I fully realize that while playing a game, no one really cares about that kind of thing. But it was my job to care about those details, because ultimately, making video games is about supplying people with an experience. A challenging but ultimately satisfying experience.”
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
― Creating Q*bert and Other Classic Video Arcade Games
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