Frank McGeough

A new edition is promises soonish but this is still an amazing technical book. Practical and clear and wise. If you aren't going to read the first edition then you should definitely read the second if you are a programmer. Its Ruby-centric but the concepts are easy to apply to a slew of O-O languages.

Ursula K Le Guin was just getting started as an author. This novel was the start of seeing how good she'd become. There's a lot to like in this one and it can be read without reading the two initial Hainish cycle stories. I enjoyed the exploration of the basis of knowledge, myth, lies and how we understand each other within the context of the main character's journey of self-rediscovery.

I'm glad I read this collection of short stories. The crafting of individual sentences is quite amazing. It's very sad that his life was so short.

Free download on my Kindle, good detective novel

Plot moved along. Protagonist, woman from town where murders are occurring, and now a FBI agent, was interesting. Scenes were just ok. Overall story was ok.

Good use of a story within a story. Monsters + Sherlock Holmes = fun read.