My wife recommended this book to me. I was somewhat suspicious whether I would like it as it’s about two friends who love computer games. First, that sounded rather geeky, even for me, and second, I expected to find technology inaccuracies that would really grate with me.
I was wrong on both counts. It’s a beautifully written book about Sam and Sadie, each with their own issues and their collaboration over many years, developing computer games and falling in and out with each other. I was impressed that the mentions of computer game development rang true–no easy task since I see nothing technical in her background. I hope I haven’t given the impression that this is a techy book–it’s not at all; the story reads well for all.
I couldn’t put this book down. I always wanted to find out what would happen next. Would Sam and Sadie fall out again? Would they make up? Would they succeed or fail? When I finished it, I wanted more.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow takes us on a dazzling imaginative quest, examining identity, creativity and our need to connect.
This is not a romance, but it is about love.
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Sam and Sadie meet in a hospital in 1987. Sadie is visiting her sister, Sam is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there, but playing together brings joy, escape, fierce competition -- and a special friendship. Then all too soon that time is…
This is the story of a Russian aristocrat who has lived under house arrest in a luxury Moscow hotel for thirty years. Like Towles’s other books, it’s beautifully written and hard to put down. I found the idea of an aristocrat being held under house arrest in a Soviet hotel unusual and intriguing. The book is cleverly written, with elements from the early parts coming together in the second. It’s one of those books worth re-reading–something I rarely do (so many books, so little time).
I also highly recommend Amor Towles’s other books, Rules of Civility andLincoln Highway.
The mega-bestseller with more than 2 million readers, soon to be a major television series
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway and Rules of Civility, a beautifully transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and…
I love Jane Harper’s novels. Always a rather lonely man with issues, he investigates a death in the Australian outback. But it is so much more than the usual detective story. To me, as someone with no experience living in the outback, Harper writes convincing pen portraits of characters living in a hostile landscape where everyone has secrets. I could almost feel the heat. By the way, I was torn between recommending this and The Dry, both of which share similar themes, as my second favorite book.
I won’t give the plot away other than to say it’s a great mystery story rather than an action-packed adventure. How did this man die, and why? Harper weaves a well-crafted tale, gripping right up to the end.
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from Jane Harper
Brothers Nathan and Bub Bright meet for the first time in months at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback.
Their third brother, Cameron, lies dead at their feet.
In an isolated belt of Australia, their homes a three-hour drive apart, the brothers were one another’s nearest neighbors. Cameron was the middle child, the one who ran the family homestead. But something made him head out…
Memory safety errors are overwhelmingly the largest source of critical security errors in software (70% of the high or critical severity security bugs in Google’s Chrome web browser). Automatic memory management, or ‘garbage collection’, simply prevents these errors from arising. However, building a high performance, low latency garbage collector is challenging.
The Garbage Collection Handbook addresses new challenges made by recent advances in hardware and software, and where programs are executed. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers. Along with simple and traditional algorithms, the book covers state-of-the-art parallel, incremental, concurrent and real-time garbage collection.
Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. Remarkably, the e-book adds over 37,000 hyperlinks to the print edition.
