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![]() ![]() Frank Herbert managed to hold my attention through the end despite the tedium of Miles Teg and Duncan Idaho spending 3/4 of the book trying to get off the planet Gammu. The subtle complexities of political maneuvers by the major characters provide the most intrigue of this book. They could have been done with a bit more finesse and I have no doubt that there are people who would be offended by them. I am not a prude and was not disturbed by these descriptions but in retrospect, I don't see how these sequences advanced the storyline. It also needs to be said that there are graphic descriptions of a sexual nature that border on the pornographic. ![]() The main issues posed by the storyline are not resolved and this is the first book in the series that ends in a way that is incomplete without the next book in the series. That said, this is not a stand alone story. Especially since with the exception of Duncan Idaho, there is not one character from the last book remaining and keeping track of who is who and how they fit into the overall plot, is a daunting task. It is difficult to reign in the concept of thousands of years passing from one book to the next. ![]() This series is addictive despite how disjointed the stories are as a whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Maintainable – better life for engineering and operations. ![]() Scalable – strategies for keeping performance good under load.Reliable – system works correctly, even when faults happen.Martin Kleppmann brings in main terminology and fundamentals in this chapter:.Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Applications.Here is the list of all of the chapters, with some of the notes, and random comments from me (not well structured, but gives a good idea on what the book is about): The book is also based on lots of scientific research which is properly referenced so you can always go deeper into any of given topics if you would like to. The book is very crisp and well structured dive into architecture of under-the-hood workings of distributed data systems, such as databases, caches, queues focusing on fundamentals rather than specific implementations. I personally made three small tech talks within my tech team based on this book and plan to maybe do few more. Also it is probably the best one you can use to prepare for system design interviews in big tech companies, so take a note. The book “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” is definitely one of the best technical software engineering books I’ve ever read. ![]() ![]() It all seems far removed from the world of Sherlock Holmes, and yet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle?s Professor Challenger (in his prodigious intelligence, great physical strength, cold scientific vision, and formidable pride) is nearly a wonderfully savory and funny caricature of the famous detective. Of course, some of those creatures are nightmarish predators, giant, strong, and fast, and there are other unpleasant surprises (ranging from huge ticks to brutal ape-men). ![]() Ah, the world is a wonderful place when you can enter a vast, isolated, inviolate plateau rising high from the Amazonian jungle wilds and then examine its unknown flora and fauna, discovering "extinct" dinosaurs from the Jurassic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cover design looks like something Tor would've published, and those eyes of obsidian are appropriately unholy. Okay, one last one before I go: Bloodworm! Actually, this cover's more like it, that's some serious bad-assery going on there. ![]() All three in this "series" - Slither, Slime, and Squelch - were published first in the UK by Hamlyn, and then reprinted in the mid-1980s in the States by some publisher called Critic's Choice. The titles were inspired by, I'm sure, the infamous '76 flick Squirm, while the plots seem to be sub- James Herbert style monster mayhem, with populations of innocents bedeviled by creepy-crawlies like mutant jellyfish, legless lizards, and ravenous caterpillars. The art is on par with an eighth-grader creating his imaginary tattoos in art class. Were the titles Guts, Gore, and Gross already taken? Would you wanna be caught reading one of these monstrosities?! Ha. Fortunately before slipping into an utter and a completely deserved obscurity he bestowed upon us several British pulp-horror novels that were graced with some of the cheesiest and most ludicrous cover art of the day. None of the internets could help me find anything about him but that he was born in 1927. Who, you say, is John Halkin? Honestly, I have no idea. ![]() ![]() 'The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud Translated with an Introduction and notes by DAVID McDUFF ![]() Dostoyevsky's dark masterwork evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur, and everyone's faith in humanity is tested. The murder of brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov changes the lives of his sons irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide Ivan, the intellectual, driven to breakdown the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov. This definitive recording includes an introduction by David McDuff. This Penguin Classic is performed by Luke Thompson, best known for his role in the hit Netflix drama Bridgerton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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Short character-oriented stories were much easier for the author. Because she was still refining her craft, Earlene Fowler found that she could not tell plot-oriented stories. She remembers experimenting with short mystery stories but she couldn’t make them work. Most of her projects were character-oriented. At the time, rather than writing full-length novels, she was more interested in creating short stories. They knew that mysteries constituted a large part of the books she read.Īnd yet, the mystery genre was the furthest thing from the author’s mind. When she finally sat down to pen her stories, the people that knew Fowler expected her to write mysteries. She also pursued creative writing at Citrus College (Glendora, California). ![]() Besides reading every book on creative writing that she could find in the library, the author also attended numerous writing classes at a number of Southern California Community Colleges. The author started by doing her research. Fowler was 27 years old when she decided that she wanted to write fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Other publications by her include the Song of Roland and, in this Crusade Texts in Translation series, Crusader Syria in the 13th Century and, with Peter Edbury, Guillaume de Machaut: The Conquest of Alexandria. The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade by William of Tudela. Janet Shirley is an award-winning translator of works on the French Middle Ages. The poem is also a skilful, dramatic and often impassioned composition, evoking the brilliant world of landed knights and the glories and bloody realities of battle. It stands as a historical source of great importance, not least because it depicts the side that lost. 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