I read this book in just a few days. As soon as it came out, it was impossible to put down. This book could almost be the second-half of the book before it. The story begins with a mess and ends with another, but ends in a place where you can see the silver lining… Continue reading Expanse 6 – Babylon’s Ashes
Category: Reading List
❤️ Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends and Influence People
2016-12-1 Started I first read this book in elementary school, but I wanted to refresh my memory as many of my coworkers have been recently reading it. 2017-04-23 Completed Well it took five months of picking up and setting down to finish this book. It is a bit dry, but there is a huge amount of… Continue reading ❤️ Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends and Influence People
Expanse 5 – Nemesis Games
This book sets the stage for its successor, Babylon’s Ashes. The two books could almost be one. The story focuses a lot more on Amos and Earth, and we see the return of Clarissa. Be ready to start on Babylon’s ashes when you finish this, because it picks up right at the end and finishes the… Continue reading Expanse 5 – Nemesis Games
Expanse 4 – Cibola Burn
They used a different audiobook narrator for book four from the rest of the series, and I have to say Erik Davies is the absolute worst narrator I have ever heard read any book. He makes no attempt to understand the story or inflect words, emotions or sentence structure with any kind of accuracy, and… Continue reading Expanse 4 – Cibola Burn
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
This great book came recommended by Upendra Kulkarni who I talked with at some length about my interest in business applications for machine learning. This is one of those books that I immediately know I will be thinking of for years to come. I found it very enlightening; from a leadership perspective as well as an employee… Continue reading How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Ready Player One
It took me a few tries to really dive into this book, but once I did, it was an instant favorite. As far as sci-fi goes, it’s fairly light. There is not a lot of technical detail; it’s more about the abstract side of an adventure undertaken by a group of very independent people in… Continue reading Ready Player One
Expanse 3 – Abaddon’s Gate
Abaddon’s Gate followed suit with the first two books in the series by expanding the scope of the story and the universe by an order of magnitude. One interesting moment in the story finds a character momentarily imbued with the memories and experiences of a member of an alien race which had ascended to a galactic scope of… Continue reading Expanse 3 – Abaddon’s Gate
Expanse 2 – Caliban’s War
Caliban’s War is the sequel to Leviathan Wakes, and the second book in The Expanse series. This book picks up a short time after the end of the first book, and immediately brings in my favorite character in the series, Avasarala; the machiavellian politician who is not afraid to bend the rules for the greater… Continue reading Expanse 2 – Caliban’s War
Expanse 1 – Leviathan Wakes
This quickly became one of my all-time favorites. After I heard its TV adaptation called “The best scifi since Firefly,” I had to give it a shot. The first season of the show takes you about halfway through this first book in the series… In true space-opera fashion, it follows a group of people loosely… Continue reading Expanse 1 – Leviathan Wakes
The Martian
It took me a few tries to get into this book. It starts out slow for an action novel but once you get into the meat of it, it’s an interesting story. The protagonist finds himself separated from his team and stranded on Mars. The story covers his fight to extend his supplies and resources… Continue reading The Martian