Recursion by Blake Crouch
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Quite original idea on time-travel and paradoxes involved, wrapped in an action filled thriller.
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“Recursion” by Blake Crouch
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Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This genre is at a great disadvantage, as any book that is older than a couple of months is already outdated or the mistery fully revealed when published.
On the other hand, I can say that the story behind discovering the famous hacking group (digital war agents) is still fascinating.
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A bleak vision of society where books are considered dangerous by the institutions, since it’s easier to rule a conformistic population.
I read this long, long time ago and I always recalled the premise, but forgot about the reasons for burning the books. Unfortunately, many parallels can be drawn with the current state of humanity.
The ending offers a new hope for the future of knowledge and society, and I can only hope that there are parallels with the current state in that too.
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Book review: Stranger in a Strange Land
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
It’s an interesting idea, and some intriguing concepts on the abilities of understanding very different beings and civilisations. I was very much put off by prejudices towards women, even some misogyny.
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Book review: Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A strange, emotional journey through lifetime of an anti-hero, describing his (and Vonnegut’s) experience of WW2. The experience is further elaborated by the time jumps to different life defining events he is experiencing. Death is inevitable, but horrors of war and meaningless violence are not. So it goes.
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Book review: The Kaiju Preservation Society
The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
A fun book, very positive and entertaining.
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Book review: Walkaway
Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Interesting ideas, inconsistent writing. Probably very hard to read for non-technical (IT) people.
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