Alper Cugun

Unbelievably boring and bad.

It's been a while since I read a children's book that I liked this much. The style of the illustrations is deeply pleasant and the telling amusingly aloof. The story itself is common but elevated enough.

In the German translation this is horrendous, cheesy and fully unsuitable for children. The illustrations are nice but that’s it.

Nicely done introduction to the subject but no more than that.

Awful sexist racist stuff and not even fun for all that.

Milking the postmouse’s success doesn’t bear the desired fruit. You might even say that on one of his underwater excursions our mouse jumps the shark.

Mesmerizing, poetic and lovely art style.

Lovely book but written a bit too poetically for me to live translate from German to Dutch.

Not much meat to the story but a truly stunning art style.

Standaard verzamelsprookje gered door de mooie illustraties.

Nothing huge, just a charming story and art style.

Oddly uncompelling for something heralded as the best of modern science fiction.

A very decent romance novel which didn't appeal much to me most probably because I'm not a teenage girl.

The buildup is long winded and the book is lacking for any real plot or suspense until at least halfway through.

The second half is interesting and cute with some nice writing and some intimate moments. Still I'm not a fan of Austen's treatment and her judgement in which parts of the story to write out and which to gloss over.

A thorough overview of the years of the Provos which is only occasionally gripping. A lot of the time it's a fairly dry recounting of events and leadership struggles within the IRA. It also does not provide that much insight into Sinn Fein past or present.

Most interesting is reading about the high profile assassinations and the massive London bombings. It's hard to imagine that this level of warfare was common on the islands if you were born in the eighties like myself.

A huge book that covers all the ground but unfortunately is extremely thorough in certain areas that are not very interesting (the language reference stuff) and glosses over the parts such as systems programming which people new to Rust and the area may have the most trouble with.

The question then is: What would be a good introduction into systems programming and is it up to a book like this to provide it? I think that if you claim that Rust is the prime language for that style of programming, you should provide more of an introduction to it and point people to further reading if they want to get deeper into it.

I did not expect that a quick and breezy read such as this one would be one of the better management books I read in the past years.

Nine Lies About Work manages to pack original research and case studies that are both novel and unexpected into a story about work, meaning and life. Many books like this regurgitate the same tired cases (Buurtzorg anyone?) and the same Malcolm Gladwell/Freakonomics-sourced long-debunked science and turn that into a quick publication.

I would recommend this book fully for both managers and employees at companies. One word of caution though: the more 'lies' about work this book helps you identify at your current workplace, the more likely it becomes that you will start looking for a new job.

This might be one of the best children's books around. It's criminal that it isn't more widely known.

"So you like markets? Let's push markets as far as they can go." —"Not like this!"

Most people who say they like markets use it as an excuse to cover up their desire to maintain entrenched power relations, monopolies and inequality.

I like many of the proposals in this book but more than that I think the way of thinking about society, coordination and exchange is very valuable. I've seen a talk by Weyl where he supersedes many of the ideas in the book based on new evidence and research.

Is there a path towards realizing something like the COST? Probably not working in the tired democracies that we are stuck with at the moment, but most of the institutions that we have are shearing to the point of breaking anyway. Once they break for real, it's nice to have alternative ways of organizing ready to go.

Quick and dirty. Nothing special.