Damien Ryan

Remember struggling to write an essay for English class when you had absolutely nothing to say but needed to fill five pages? This is exactly what this book (and most of what Robert Greene's output) is.

A book that should have stayed as a PowerPoint presentation, remained stuck in a private folder on his computer, and never shared with anyone.

If this could be any more abhorrent I'd be surprised. A bible and a manual for a new generation of toxic masculinity, which has set back the cause of equality fifty years. Avoid like the plague it is.

Terrible magic thinking, made worse when sprinkled through with christian mythology. As useful as thoughts and prayers after an episode of gun violence.

Not only is this badly written and objectionable, it's pathetic too. If this is what the Sad Puppies were trying to save, then I'm glad the world saw through their idiocy.

Complete and utter nonsense. There might be a useful nugget in there, but it's surrounded by a large runny she'll of bull faeces.

I want compensation for the twenty minutes I wasted contracting eye cancer from this mess.

You know those people who come round your house with a slideshow of 5,000 bad photos of their vacation?

This is the literary equivalent.

I got it for nothing and I still want my money back.

What absolute tosh. This was free and I still want my money back.

The literary equivalent of cancer.

Got this for free and I still feel overcharged.

Don't waste your time.

A rarity: a free Kindle book that's not only readable, but entertaining.

Keep an eye on this fella.

I am haunted by humans.

More sophistic nonsense from the king of magical thinking. At least it's short this time.

A gentle introduction to a politically fraught subject. At the very least, if it stops people getting hired as DevOps engineers, or DevOps departments getting created it will have done its job.

Ten pages of badly written, unscientific, biased nonsense. There's a reason crap like this is free.

Thus proving that it's not easy being Scott Adams. Sub-Dilbert nonsense.

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Finally, someone with the neck to stand up to the positivity industrial complex. Wonderfully written indictment of positive psychology.

O'Casey's damning indictment of Irish Nationalism and the swathe of destruction caused by the Rising and Civil War remains as haunting and urgent now as it did ninety years ago. Familiar to Irish secondary schoolchildren - it should be mandatory reading for anyone who wants to romanticise the birth pangs of the Irish Republic.

Pullman's trilogy distilled down to it's essence. All of the power and bite of the novels with none of the watered-down pandering to American Christians that ruined the movie.

No kings, no bishops, no priests. We'll be free citizens of the Republic of Heaven

The original gray goo apocalypse. These days we're afraid of nanotechnology and cyber-singularities, but apart from a couple is quaint leftovers from the eighties (disk drives, what no Internet?) it's still a fresh as when I first read it.

101 pieces of over-romanticised bullshit about an Ireland that only exists in the minds of third generation Irish-Americans. Even though it was free I want a refund.

Great companion to Continuous Delivery. Covers more of the development and architecture side of things and, again, should be required reading for every architect and senior developer. Don't agree with everything he says about database deployment; declarative development is much more useful than trying to code state transitions, especially when structure is in transition.

Fantastic read; should be required reading for all developers and management in tech houses.

Can't wait to implement the arse out of this.

Ugh. Randian nonsense strikes again; what is it about white American males that makes them mistake their privilege for exceptionalism?

What do you mean, “See you in Volume 14?” Finish the freakin' story already.

Much much more than a stage musical. Equal parts history, novel, and manifesto for social fairness. Don't let the size put you off and read it now.