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It was a little dorky at times but became better. Loved the cat, too, despite its drawn avatar being not very flattering to cats.

URL: archiveofourown.org/works/15562401

I did like this a bit etter than the first in the series. Harry growing up with the brothers was cute. The art in which they all were needlessly made black was disturbing. This one also had more explicit scenes, but not much. The interaction with the, ahem, boyfriend was funny to read, especially with the angry mother and grounding angles. The antagonist was left alone for long, but that was Harry’s angle for this universe; relying on the ultimate spies so much felt like cheating though.

Cat❣ And books! And some mystery on the side.

possibly the movie instead

summary sounds meh to me though it comes highly recommended shrug

From the Amazon book preview, I’m not impressed. Short and focussed on only the modern thing, and, of course, not accounting for vocalists.

There’s a couple of pages I’d probably like to read, but it’s not worth buying the whole book since I have Gould on my shopping wishlist (I already have the ability to peek into Gould’s occasionally, and while she’s also a bit too modern on the occasion I found her more agreeable).

This is not a full review. I’ve only read a couple of pages of this one, and several couples of pages of Gould’s, yet. Shelving this mostly because it was a musician forum’s rec.

I read the archived edition from: web.archive.org/web/20200813020852/http://algol.acadiau.ca/~jdiamond/docs/TaoOfProgramming.pdf

Not all of it was new; most has crossed my path one way or the other, perhaps in combination with the Jargon File. Some was new, and some things I only understand having seen companies in multiple sizes now.

This wisdom is timeless, even if it takes having read up on older architectures (like mainframes) to understand, for the younger ones. It was prophetic as well (I really laughed out loud when the clouds rolled in, for quality went out of the window with that).

As HP reader without knowledge of the other stuff, I didn’t get half of what was going on… but even so, it lacks anchoring references, so I doubt those who do know the other universes had an easy time finding their foot in the series either.

Also, dialogue speaker confusion continued, and the author shows he’s American.

★★⯪☆☆

The language problems are coming back, American vernacular is creeping in, and the crossovery things take large chunks of the chapters… but thankfully, we can still follow Harry and friends. Still very quick, almost ex machina…

Best antagonist-Hermione story I’ve ever read.

But in the last chapter, things turn towards the cross-overy and get really weird. Some of it lacks explanations which other parts have, this could have been woven in better. I also have the feeling they get their spoils too easily… and what’s with the WTF way to interfere with actions though a viewing(!) sphere?

The dialogue problem from the first book is still pertinent, not as much though, and the language has somewhat improved as well.

This is seriously good, and the crossover part doesn’t even hinder… it just introduces Loki, whom I know-ish as norse god already, so this works for me. Great story with unexpected turns.

Now the downsides, and I had to seriously downgrade the rating for them:

The author’s grasp on language is not good, neither in general (confusing “of” and “have”, for example) nor audience-specific (such as the opposite meaning of “to table a discussion” between proper English and American).

Dialogues are largely unlabelled, making it extremely hard to impossible to figure out who’s talking.

All in all, though, thanks Mitticus for the recommendation!

PS: The questions about the diary are answered halfway through the second book in the series, in case one wonders (I know I did).

This is hilarious (and begins with the title) but explains so much, such as why it’s often (but not always! and when and when not) so hard to get up with a cat on your lap, and other situations.


Cats soak up sun rays (warmth) into gravity. Water, especially cold water, is levity. They repel each other. Gravity does funny things around humans. Cats want humans to feed them or lay still (for them to sleep on), dogs want humans to be active, so they’re enemies. Read the book, it’s short but oh-so-good, and the drawings are fine.

Ich werde irgendwie mit diesen FF.DE-Stories nicht richtig warm… irgendwie sind die verbal recht redundant, und viel schnulzigeren Niveaus, so überhaupt.