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This is dark. And upsetting. And violent in multiple ways.

So I was reading this book and enjoying it. But I put it down to go on a trip and took a longer book - Essential Scrum. That book is a better reference book on scrum - but it's a little dry and a bit repetitive. And I got back from my trip and picked this book back up. It's just more fun. But then I realized what the difference is. This one is basically a screed, a manifesto, propaganda.

I've read quite a few software development related books, a number of them quite good. So far this is not one of them. Besides just referencing other books and processes, this book is just buzz word centric. And yet this is still better then my scan of the SAFE reference book. Does this make Scaled Agile bad? A not especially good book does not necessarily make a bad process. Of course I've still got 80% to go.

I've read quite a few software development related books, a number of them quite good. So far this is not one of them. Besides just referencing other books and processes, this book is just buzz word centric. And yet this is still better then my scan of the SAFE reference book. Does this make Scaled Agile bad? A not especially good book does not necessarily make a bad process. Of course I've still got 80% to go.

This is a hard read. I'm learning a lot and yet not following everything. And I know I'll be returning it to the library unfinished - it won't renew. But I'll just put it on hold and take another three week chunk out of the book.

And I'm going to pause this one since I've got to return it to the library. Still tough going. But still interesting.

This is a hard read. I'm learning a lot and yet not following everything. And I know I'll be returning it to the library unfinished - it won't renew. But I'll just put it on hold and take another three week chunk out of the book.

The scariest thing I've read in a long long time. And scary enough to stop and make a comment. This is an everyone should read kind of book. I expect it will be hard to keep reading even though it's a really fast read so far.

A slow fantasy book. It took 53 pages to get to the first rape.

I have skimmed various reviews and they seem to indicate that the first four short stories are the good ones. I think I should stop now. If I stopped now I'd have to say this was one of the best short story collections I've ever read. All the stories were different and good and deep and interesting.

Book group is in less than twos and I'm still finding excuses not to read this. It'll be a close one.

Somewhat interesting but definitely too weird. There hasn't been a character yet that I cared about. Or a predicament that made sense.

So far it's basically just been meaningless drivel.

Brilliant but distasteful and somewhat incoherent. And often just plain torture to read.

There are some good ideas here. But they are just buried by unnecessary words.

Wow. This is awful, I hope it can't get worse. Just plain torture to read.

Starts out fine. And then gets slow. And our bad guys are just plain annoying. And I wish it'd just get back to Cassie. And then all of a sudden its stupid and then in utter madcap free-fall but it's hilarious. And it can't end well. But I've already stayed up too long.

Wow this books starts out completely awful.

Wow this books starts own completely awful.

Goodreads finally added a feature I asked for - though I doubt it was because I asked for it. They added the ability to see the lists anybody created. So you can look at https://www.goodreads.com/list/create... and see all my lists - I only lost one. They have the link as part of https://www.goodreads.com/list with "Lists I Created" - but you can substitute someone else's id pretty easily.

this book just plain goes on forever

this book just plains goes on forever

1400 ratings, 900 reviews - interesting that those zeroes lined up. Also #28 librarian for the week, #57 reviewer for the week, #80 for the month and #61 for the year. So entirely too much time on Goodreads.

So I know I've been reviewing a lot of books, but I guess I know I've pushed it too far when I saw that I was #23 for the week and #17 for the month.

https://www.goodreads.com/user/top_re...

https://www.goodreads.com/user/top_re...

Oh well. Only another week and I'll be back in the office and should drop right back off the lists.

"Women walked funny. Women sling their hips differently from men when they walk. They're made that way. And the rucksacks were made for men, even though the women had small-sized ones. There was no adequate solution to the problem. Carrying a rucksack simply hurt them more."

"Women walked funny. Women sling their hips differently from men when they walk. They're made that way. And the rucksacks were made for men, even though the women had small-sized ones. There was no adequate solution to the problem. Carrying a rucksack simply hurt them more."