Red Hat engineering manager, open source guy, book lover.
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Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our …
My rating is definitely influenced by the fact that the book delivered something else than I was expecting. That wouldn't be necessarily bad, but I didn't find the actual content that interesting.
In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us …
I'm pretty ambivalent about this book. On one hand it's clear the author has a gift to write in an entertaining way and there are some real life truths in the book. On the other hand the book as a whole doesn't hold together much and the style is blunt, sometimes too blunt.
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, …
A solid spy novel, realistic, believable. On the other hand there were very few parts which would make you keep reading even when it's time to go to bed.
"They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the …
I and this book just didn't click in. IMO quite a downgrade from the first book of the Servaz series. 2/3 of the book is quite boring, then it improves a bit and the story engages the reader more, but it's just the very end that is thrilling.
1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal …
I haven't read such a well balanced book in a while. It has everything: great storytelling, character building, touch of historical events and by reading it you also learn a lot about the Afghan culture and the country.
This book serves a sort of explanatory role in the series. Quite mixed feelings about it. A lot of things from previous books explained. There is a lot of time traveling which is always tricky when you want to keep the integrity of the story and the author is getting a bit lost in it.
Velmi hutná kniha, která není úplně jednoduchá na čtení, ač některé pasáže Žižkova života vás strhnou. Pokud chcete opravdu podrobný vhled do Žižkova života a husitské revoluce, můžu jen doporučit.
