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Learning so much about the space program that I hadn't known before. I've honestly never read a biography that is this engaging. Something I can't put my finger on bothers me as I read this book, but I cannot for the life of me put my finger on it.

REQUIRED reading for intermediate and above software development in my opinion. You're wasting your time if you're not using formalized methods to refactor, and this is a great guidebook.

This book is just as good the second time around. This time I'm making way more annotations and trying to retain far more than I did the first time. Such a great and fundamental book for software developers of all stripes.

Reading again, because its a book where its worth doing that.

Super interesting, particularly with regards to how the researchers manage to reason about the functions of brain regions and also about function lateralization.

I had forgotten a lot of this stuff, and stupid anecdotal experience regularly conspires to make me forget so again.

Rather interesting so far. I had trouble getting any version of my previous to-read on my ereader in a readable format and for some reason that seemed like a good enough reason to not read anything for two months to my brain. Back on track!

Moving slow, cause I don't have an easily readable digital edition and I don't want to buy a paper book.

A lot of this stuff I learned painfully by trial and error and would have done better to know about this book after getting my hands a little dirty. So far its been great though.

Very interesting read so far. Many great ideas without being a neophile, as is often the case.

I love this as much as Elephants Jump. Can't put it down :p

I love this as much as Elephants Jump. Can't put it down :p

I'm not going to pretend I don't see a lot of the holes in his arguments, but the premises have been examined and demonstrated by other social scientists and authors elsewhere properly in many cases, so I'll just enjoy it for the refresher that I'm reading it for. :)

Stop filling my brain will all these facts!

Answers to so many questions I didn't even know I wanted to ask... why does frozen milk turn yellow? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW FROZEN MILK TURNS YELLOW!

Why shake a martini? I know why now.

Learning a lot about process here, which is fantastic because I've not really read much about process in astronomy. How found objects are named, for example, or how telescopes are operated remotely or on what basis is a request for use approved or rejected. Its not that this is what the book is about, mind you, but it's insights I havent received elsewhere that makes it notable.

This book just gets more and more intriguing. So well written, so good at keeping you on the edge of your seat despite covering well understood historical phenomena.

Really neat insights into culture and class in London in the 1800s, as well as the state of medicine at the time.

Lookin' like a very interesting read so far, London history and all that

Nice summary book, more of a refresher because The Grand Design covered all of this stuff but nice read so far nonetheless :)

I've fallen behind my reading schedule a bit, but this book is a lot of fun and I want to take my time with it.

A lot of fun to read, but this is my first exposure to functional programming. Recursion suddenly becomes an unfamiliar friend, whereas in imperative programming it's the devil you know.

Soooooooo interesting so far. I'm not sure how legitimate the information is, because it's just that interesting. It coincides with a lot of what I learned from "The Red Queen" though, so I'm inclined to believe so. Biology is truly wondrous chemistry!

So much useful and well delivered information. So much garbage debunked clearly. Truly did deliver on its promises.

Stepping into the first chapter, now that I'm hooked, it had better deliver on its promises :P

Maybe the most fun I've had reading a book since Zero: The Biography of a Number or Tokyo Vice. Simply jam-packed with fun and interesting information made accessible to dummies like me.

Super-fantastic book crammed full of easy-to-understand knowledge of the study of the sky. Neil Degrasse Tyson is, to me, just as good of a scientific communicator as the great Charles Seife.