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Review: What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

I’ve had some bad luck with books lately. First, I fin­ished What Dreams May Come by Richard Math­e­son. Aside from the hor­ri­ble writ­ing style (oh wo is us! the after life for bad peo­ple is soooo hor­ri­ble you just can’t even imag­ine. like seri­ously. its really really awful!), the doc­trine it tries to teach is [...]
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Review: Designing Web Usability

Just gave up on Design­ing Web Usabil­ity. I mooched the book on the rec­om­men­da­tion of dozens of smart peo­ple that stated this is the defin­i­tive usabil­ity guide for the web. Lies! This book was out-of-date when it was pub­lished. The guy rants for like 10 pages on the virtue of using blue col­ored links. Another 10 [...]
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Review: Gun, with Occasional Music

Just fin­ished Gun, with Occa­sional Music. This is one of those books that has some clever ideas, a some­what inter­est­ing story line, but part way through goes in a rad­i­cally dif­fer­ent direc­tion. Some­times that is good. In this case, it was bad. It felt like the author backed him­self into a cor­ner and wasn’t sure [...]
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Review: The Judas Strain

Fin­ished read­ing The Judas Strain by James Rollins. I get the feel­ing it is part of a series, but it was an okay read by itself. Just an okay read, you ask? Well, yes… The story line relied on overly dra­matic sadist antag­o­nists, bad sci­ence, and mys­ti­cism. Not exactly what I’m look­ing for in a [...]
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Review: The Ugly Truth About Small Business

Just fin­ished The Ugly Truth About Small Busi­ness by Ruth King. I was deeply dis­ap­pointed by this book. To sum up the entire book: Run­ning a small busi­ness is hard so become a moti­va­tional speaker instead.
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