Good book if you have some intermediate-to-advanced SQL skills and want to deepen its knowledge. I don't want to agree 100% with the book, but it got me thinking. (So I fear SQL less; but I don't love it.) The book has this "war" metaphor going on throughout, and that metaphor alternates between charming and helpful and stretched-thin.
Epic social spec-fic.. It's been over a decade since it came out, and it's flaws show, but it's still a strong novel, bearing down with the full force of technological and social change. If you're into space / futurism / specfic, you want to read this.
Damn. This book tells all of the epic glory and infamy and damnation that is software development - really, scaling up to nearly any project. Good for noncoders to understand coders, and for coders to understand WTF they're in the midst of. NOT a "management/programming" book, but a narrative.
I love this one too! It's more of a story about growing up, coming of age, home, and other difficult stuff. A worthy successor. I love these novels so much.
Great! It got better and more fantastical as it went along, and stayed fun throughout. I think I'll continue with Reeve when I'm in the mood for Adventure fare.
I feel like I was 75% through a difficult book - I should get partial credit! But while the book had smart things to say, at some point I got tired of the repetitive examples, the aesthetically-pleasing-yet-groundless conclusions and especially, the way-colonialist depictions of "tribal" "primitive" "pre-civilization" man.