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The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
4/5
Very good, enjoying the entire Harry Hole series. Wishing for translations of the first two now!
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The Snowman by Jo Nesbø
4/5
Very good, enjoying the entire Harry Hole series. Wishing for translations of the first two now!
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RESTful .NET by Jon Flanders
4/5
Great coverage of exposing and consuming a RESTful service using WCF. Note that you'll need the services of a good WCF book, this builds on existing WCF expertise and doesn't try that hard to bring you up to speed. Which isn't a bad thing, it keeps the book relatively short and focused. I'll be referring back to this one often.
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My Empire of Dirt: How One Man Turned His Big City Backyard into a Farm by Manny Howard
4/5
Alternatively funny and painful. Manny Howard is clearly not cut out to be a farmer but he battles through problems that seem to be mostly of his creation and manages to feed himself briefly from his back garden. Given he's doing this with a largish plot of land and an expense account it's a warning to anyone with urban agriculture ambitions. The death toll on the farm is pretty extreme - not the necessary slaughter of chickens for food but the number of avoidable accidents that border on abuse. Am now even more inspired to leave farming to the professionals...
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Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards by P.J. O'Rourke
2/5
P.J. O'Rourke is hilarious when given something to react against. His Driving Like Crazy anthology last year was superb. Sadly this latest tome is closer to the dire CEO of the Sofa... It's just conservative talking points and cheap shots at the lefties. Not even funny cheap shots or it would be worth reading. Ironically in one chapter O'Rourke reviews recent left and right wing books and chides them for the same mindless behavior. Disappointing.
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The Spire by Richard North Patterson
3/5
A good enough holiday read and nice to see Patterson return to a straight psychological thriller rather than the last few OpEds loosely wrapped with some plot.
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