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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 1
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# Title: Critical Failures: Shit is About to get Real (Caverns and Creatures Book 1)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15701981-critical-failures)
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[[Reading List Index]]
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 2
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# Title: Critical Failures: Fail Harder (Caverns and Creatures Book 2)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667253-critical-failures-ii)
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 3
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# Title: Critical Failures - A Storm of S-Words (Caverns and Creatures Book 3)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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**Started Reading**:
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-07-16
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22963010-critical-failures-iii)
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#readinglist/read
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Started this book a long time ago after reading [[Reading List - Critical Failures 1|Critical Failures 1]] & [[Reading List - Critical Failures 2|Critical Failures 2]]. I stopped about 3/4 of the way through and it got away from me. Glad to have this finished. A good story that sets up part 4. The gang chased Mordred back into the game. The next book should be good.
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title: Reading List - Critical Failures 4
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# Title: Critical Failures: The Phantom Pinas (Caverns and Creatures Book 4)
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## Author: [[Robert Bevan]]
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**Started Reading**: 2018-07-20
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**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27880863-critical-failures-iv)
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#readinglist/read
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Pretty good so far - not able to read continuously for whatever reason. It's taking a while to get through this one.
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END NOTE: holy shit! Tim fucked up at the end forcing ANOTHER book! Ploy to sell more books? Maybe, but I've got book five so I'll have to see what happens next.
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title: Reading List - Dmitri
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# Title: Dmitri
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## Author: Jamey Cohen
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#readinglist/read
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103452.Dmitri)
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From the back cover:
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> THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING.
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It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and heir to the Russian throne, has less than a week to live unless he can find a way to escape an assassin's blade....
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> It is Monday, May tenth, and in twenty-first century America, college senior John Greene is about to participate in a simple hypnosis experiment - an experiment that will catapult him into a terrifying battle for his very existence....
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> It is Monday, May tenth, and in a world where time has lost all meaning, beautiful graduate student Marina Kuryev can only wait and watch in helpless horror as the man she loves is caught in a lethal conflict with a boy long-dead....
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Only available in paperback. I never thought I'd be interested in a book like this (Russian history) but just like Jamey says in the Epilogue:
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While the twentieth-century characters were fictional, there really was a [Dmitri Ivanovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_of_Uglich) and there really was a [false Dmitri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry):
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> ...I omitted telling you that there was a second false Dmitri. And a third. And a fourth.
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> And they all wanted one thing.
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> To be tsar.
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title: Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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# Title: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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## Author: Levy, Steven
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[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8646752-hackers)
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#readinglist/read
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I love this book and have read it multiple times. Fuck the reviewers on goodreads. This book is fantastic.
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### Highlights
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> "When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (mashed until no good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack".
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> "...to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity."
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> "Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine." Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing."
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title: Reading List - Hocus Pocus
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# Title: Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel
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## Author: A.W. Jantha
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**Started Reading**: 2020-09-12
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**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-03
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Via Libby
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36244389-hocus-pocus-the-all-new-sequel)
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Meh.
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This first part was a novelization of the movie. While it was good, I gave up 3/4 through it since it was, pretty much, word-for-word the movie.
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The second part was a poor take on an obvious sequel. There's talk of making a movie sequel. If so, I hope they don't base it on this book (or at least make some sweeping changes)
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There was not enough of the original cast and at times the story was darker than I'd expect a sequel to the movie to be (the "Switching Spell" sends people to Hell?)
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An effort to update us on the exploits of the Sanderson legend and the original cast involved falls flat without enough background on the newly introduced characters (another Sanderson sister? And their mother was a bitch, but only appears for a few pages?) while the original cast recede to cardboard cutouts of themselves in the background with no real part to play
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title: Reading List - Holidays on Ice
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# Title: Holidays on Ice
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## Author: David Sedaris
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**Started Reading**: 2019-11-08
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**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-13
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**AUDIOBOOK**
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In pursuit of another classic holiday book (I was looking for a Thanksgiving book) I found this on Libby and thought "what the hell?" It's early - but it looks funny. Halfway through the first chapter I'm already thinking I want to own this book.
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END NOTE: Like a foul-mouthed Jean Sheppard, some of these stories were only tangentially related to Christmas, but there were a few real gems. A new yearly tradition, for sure
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title: Reading List - IT
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# Title: IT
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## Author: [[Stephen King]]
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**Started Reading**: 2017-09-14
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-26
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[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It)
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I read this years ago although I can't remember if it was before or after the TV movie. Last weekend we went to see the new movie and I thought it was time to give this book another go. It's as good as I remember... Having finished the book I can only say that I must not have finished it last time I read it. More than 3/4 of the way through the book I stopped remembering things and started reading new things. I must have given up last time and only remember the details from the TV movie. In any event, I feel accomplished and glad I've finally read the whole thing. A classic, for sure.
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title: Reading List - The Circle
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# Title: The Circle
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## Author: Dave Eggers
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**Started Reading**: 2017-03-01
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**Finished Reading**: 2017-03-14
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Carrie and Ashley went to a movie and saw the preview for this. It looked interesting, so I got the book. No opinion yet.
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END NOTE: Mae loved Big Brother. The parallels between this book and 1984 are obvious. But this time Winston was a willing participant. I am writing this before reading other reviews or seeing the movie.
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I liked this book. A lot.
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**Finished Reading**:
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