Michael Warren Lucas
Auteur de git commit murder
Œuvres de Michael Warren Lucas
Forever Falls: a Montague Portal novel 2 exemplaires
Forced to Talk, Like, With Your Mouth: a DevOps Mystery 2 exemplaires
Pax Canina 1 exemplaire
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This is a book for a very specific audience, but for that audience it is pure gold.
I don't have a fear of heights, I really don't. I kept repeating that to myself over and over as I read Forever Falls. It's a quick, tight story with one hell of an ending but the true secret sauce is the terrifying vertigo we met along the way.
(I did not read the Kindle edition; I read another ebook edition, but Goodreads will not let me accurately identify it.)
This (novella?) story is, first off, deeply weird. Secondly, it will be wholly nonsensical to people who are not somewhat familiar with both software developer and sysadmin jargon. Third, it could be deeply offensive to some people. Fourth, the protagonist is a dirty hippie GPL-lover (at least at the beginning), which might be off-putting to some.
It is hilarious, imaginative, and a bit frightening. It's described as "erotic" and sometimes listed under "romance" (though it's not the least bit romantic), but really it's a masterful piece of particularly icky satirical erotic horror with a "happy" ending that is not, really, the least bit happy. The protagonist makes the tough choice at the end, choosing good over evil, which left me with a smile on my face.
It is, overall, indescribable. Oh, sure, I could offer a lot of colorful description for this piece of weird literature, but I'd probably have to expend at least 50% of the story's wordcount to approach a description that truly captures the essence of it (at which point I would have just rewritten it badly).
I don't know whether I can, in good conscience, recommend it. I do know, however, that it warrants five stars on Goodreads.… (plus d'informations)
This (novella?) story is, first off, deeply weird. Secondly, it will be wholly nonsensical to people who are not somewhat familiar with both software developer and sysadmin jargon. Third, it could be deeply offensive to some people. Fourth, the protagonist is a dirty hippie GPL-lover (at least at the beginning), which might be off-putting to some.
It is hilarious, imaginative, and a bit frightening. It's described as "erotic" and sometimes listed under "romance" (though it's not the least bit romantic), but really it's a masterful piece of particularly icky satirical erotic horror with a "happy" ending that is not, really, the least bit happy. The protagonist makes the tough choice at the end, choosing good over evil, which left me with a smile on my face.
It is, overall, indescribable. Oh, sure, I could offer a lot of colorful description for this piece of weird literature, but I'd probably have to expend at least 50% of the story's wordcount to approach a description that truly captures the essence of it (at which point I would have just rewritten it badly).
I don't know whether I can, in good conscience, recommend it. I do know, however, that it warrants five stars on Goodreads.… (plus d'informations)
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Membres
- 57
- Popularité
- #287,973
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 25
Book two brought the familiar sympathies of a tech geek wishing for just a moment for the dream to be real while simultaneously fending off your own endless insecurities. There's plenty of drama in the pages but perhaps the greatest of all is Dale's internal one. Without that earnest interior these books could easily be cliche. Instead they are (sometimes painfully) relatable, entertaining, and thrilling mysteries.
There's a certain level of tech-geek required to get full enjoyment. If you know what IPv6 is, or how to rebase in git, and you like a good mystery then you're going to love this.… (plus d'informations)