Thursday, March 11th, 2010
Book Review: Return Engagement (Settling Accounts, Book 1)
Harry Turtledove scrambles history for us, taking situations from the first half of the 20th century and mixing them up geographically.
Imagine a dis-United States split into independent North and South with a breakaway state in the west. Great Britain attacking America, swirled alliances in Europe and warfare breaking out all over the place. [...]
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
Book Review: Sit and Go Strategy
Collin Moshman is a mathematician who turned away from post-graduate economics studies when he chose to pursue poker as a full-time professional. He has also written several books including this one.
This books looks at the easiest to join, most common online tournament: the Sit-N-Go (SNG). A Sit-N-Go tournament is a 9 or 10 [...]
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Book Review: A Kiss of Shadows
Laurell K Hamilton writes in a genre that I generally avid: romance. That was almost enough to stop me from reading this book. Ultimately, I chose to read this book for a couple of reasons: I am challenging myself to stretch my boundaries and this book promised to have some elements of the [...]
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
Book Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a novel by Phillip K. Dick. It also happens to be the story behind one of my favorite movies of all time: Bladerunner.
I actually saw the movie (several times) before reading the book, which is very unusual for me. At first, it was because I did [...]
