Oliver Howard

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌕 Going into this series, I had preconceived notions that it was not real literature or good writing. While it's not beautifully written, it has that X factor that just makes it so damn readable. This is a book I sat and stared at a wall for hours while listening to the audiobook. I had so much fun with it it's insane. It's definitely a derivative work, taking a lot of inspiration from other successful franchises like The Hunger Games, Percy Jackson, and A Song of Ice and Fire, but Pierce Brown just makes it work and stand on its own. I can't remember the last time I've been so eager to read the next book in a series -- it feels like a TV show I'm binging. It's not literary classic, but bloody damn it's entertaining.

The first 50% of the book didn’t capture me right away, but beyond that I was hooked. Abercrombie takes his time with his characters and before you know it, you know each one intimately. Very good introduction and setup to a trilogy, excited to keep reading.

First half of this book was outstanding. Gave a great introduction to Python and was super easy to follow. As for the bigger projects in the second half of the book, I found 2/3 of them good. I ended up skipping the game creation because I didn't really feel it helped build any useful skills

Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain offers practical and actionable advice on how to create a digital system that supports your creative potential. His CODE framework for processing information keeps it simple and easy to follow along. The PARA organization system focuses not on a top-down, structured file system. Instead, it prioritizes actionability and relevance, leading to a more intuitive workflow. This organizational system worked for me, but I can see it being harder to apply for certain people. I personally found part three of this book not very helpful as it went from giving original and effective advice to more generic productivity advice that you have seen in countless other books and YouTube videos. I felt I could have skipped the section entirely and still come away with the same value from the book. Overall, if you are someone needing a digital reset, or are just curious about other digital management systems, this book is for you.

-.25 becauseI felt that TenSoon's story started off really strong, but didn't quite land at the end for me. Would've liked more time with him, or at the very least let him meet up with Vin again.

With that said, I thought all other character plotlines were perfectly concluded and well developed throughout the series.