This book is weak compared to some of the best Stainless Steel Rat books. It suffers from the same almost-impossible-to-believe plot lines as The Stainless Steel Rat Saves The World and The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You. Frankly, the book also jumps around a lot, and I found it hard to follow. On the other…
Author: mikal
Iron Master
This is the third book in the Amtrak Wars series. I think this is a better book than First Family, which suffered from not having much plot development. This book on the other hand moves the plot along, whilst being interesting. You also get to learn more about the Iron Masters, as well as how…
paramiko exec_command timeout
I have a paramiko program which sshs to a large number of machines, and sometimes it hits a machine where Channel.exec_command() doesn’t return. I know this is a problem with the remote machine, because the same thing happens when I try to ssh to the machine from the command line. However, I don’t have any…
MythNetTV release 6
New things in this release: Better testing: r114: Unit tests for video.py r148: Updated unit test now that we create more tables r151: Start work on syndication unit tests r153: Unit test for bad syndication dates, as well as more flexibility in db connections needed for this unit test r157: Nicer unit test failure output,…
The Malloreon
This is the followup series to the Belgariad. Its mostly a sequel series, but is quite readable and worth the effort. 1988: Guardians of the West 1989: King of the Murgos 1989: Demon Lord of Karanda 1990: Sorceress of Darshiva 1992: Seeress of Kell
The Seeress of Kell
The conclusion to the Malloreon. Quite a good read, although the plot twists are predictable. [isbn: 0345377591]
Books read in September 2008
Enchanters’ End Game Robot Visions Forward the Foundation Foundation Foundation and Empire Guardians of the West The Stainless Steel Rat for President King of the Murgos Second Foundation Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis (not fully read yet, its a reference book) Foundation’s Fear (didn’t finish cause it sucked) Demon Lord of Karanda Sorceress of Darshiva
Sorceress of Darshiva
This is book four of the Malloreon. It feels like not much happens in this book, although there is plot development happening. I guess it more feels like this book is a connector between the book before and the book after, and not much more. On the other hand, it was an engaging read. [isbn:…
Demon Lord of Karanda
I needed something to cheer me up after the previous sucky book. This one did the trick. Again its pretty standard Fantasy stuff, and there were no surprises, but its fun to read. [isbn: 0345363310]
Foundation’s Fear
This book is a solid zero stars in my mind. I got to page 372, but simply couldn’t wade through the chore any longer. The plot meanders, and its not clear to me where the story is going. Worse still, basically nothing has happened yet. I am a little surprised, given the generally positive LibraryThing…