Frank McGeough

good new action hero.

A collection of information easily found on Apache Kafka site and a couple others.

Delightful. Sorry I hadn't read this earlier.

Without a knowledge of English history around the time of crazy King Henry it's difficult to understand the characters and their interactions. Its definitely got some interesting parts and I think if I come back to it a second time I'll pick up a lot I missed. This is all due to my lack of background on the history of that country and that time.

Good if a bit confusing plot line.

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.

really enjoyed. very good first novel.

Fairly predictable but well-written scientists-gone-wrong tale. Enjoyed it.

Easy to read and good introduction to Minitest with a roadmap for understanding more advanced features.

Dated at this point but still a valuable and interesting book. It starts from ground zero and attempt to recreate a successful web framework (Rails) step by step. While doing so it points out all sorts of interesting features of Ruby and how Rails is able to use them to get “magical” behavior.

Really enjoyable first novel. Descriptive, well-paced, good character development.

Fanciful premise but enjoyable and well-written.

Like a lot of other readers I found this book exasperating. I appreciated the mythical approach and the mystery that needed to be solved but the pace was glacial. Definitely not for me.

well done and creepy

so difficult to explain a language. you learn so much more from just doing. This isn't a bad intro to Ruby though from the looks of it.

another good one in the wonderful Dresden series.

meditation is good. there. now you don't have to read the book.

Really enjoyed reading about all the different approaches to one of my favorite sandwiches. I've tried 3 or 4 of the recipes and they all worked out real well for me.

Well written and enjoyable detective novel from the master of horror.

nice collection of Elmore Leonard short stories.

Looking at family and recipes through the lens of Soviet history is apparently not that interesting to me.

Amazingly uninteresting story of two guy's self-promotion and how successful they've been getting people to listen to them.

Good writing. The story wasn't that interesting for me but I did enjoy the writing.

Its gritty Boston as a quiet bartender makes a journey of faith through the violent world around a drop bar in an area that probably bears a striking resemblance to the Dorchester that Lehane grew up in. Similar to Elmore Leonard in capturing the patterns of speech of the subculture. And, hey, its a movie too. Will have to see if I can catch that to see how it was interpreted for the screen.

enjoyed the first more than this follow-up