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Jake Donham rated Concurrent Programming in ML: 5 stars
Jake Donham rated The magicians: 4 stars
The magicians by Lev Grossman (Book one of the Magicians trilogy)
"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to …
Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (Vintage) by Bill Buford
Writer Buford's memoir of his headlong plunge into the life of a professional cook. Expanding on his award-winning New Yorker …
Jake Donham rated The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work: 5 stars
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain De Botton
Alain De Botton explores the world of offices and factories, convention halls, outdoor installations and transportation routes. He spends time …
Jake Donham rated Woken Furies: 4 stars
Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing …
Jake Donham rated The Complete Sherlock Holmes: 5 stars
Jake Donham rated Zoe's Tale: 4 stars
Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #4)
How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?
I ask because it's what I have to …
Jake Donham rated You are not a gadget: 2 stars
Jake Donham rated Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child: 4 stars
Jake Donham rated Use of Weapons Lib/E: 5 stars
Use of Weapons Lib/E by Iain M. Banks, Peter Kenny
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit …
Jake Donham rated Year's Best SF 14: 3 stars
Jake Donham rated The Jennifer Morgue: 3 stars
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #2)
In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer …
Jake Donham rated Across the Nightingale Floor: 3 stars
Lian Hearn, Mercedes Nunez: Across the Nightingale Floor (Hardcover, 2002, Macmillan)
Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn, Mercedes Nunez (Tales of the Otori, Book 1)
Already a sensation around the world, this first book of the Otori Trilogy is a brilliantly imagined, wholly seductive tale …
