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urmaul rated Heart-Shaped Box: 4 stars
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Heart-Shaped Box (2007) is the debut horror novel of author Joe Hill. The book was published on February 13, 2007 …
urmaul rated The Jennifer Morgue: 5 stars
The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross (Laundry Files, #2)
In this alternately chilling and hilarious sequel to The Atrocity Archives (2004) from Hugo-winner Stross, Bob Howard is a computer …
urmaul rated Functional and Reactive Domain Modeling: 4 stars
urmaul rated Talking to crazy: 4 stars
Mark Goulston: Talking to crazy (2016)
Talking to crazy by Mark Goulston
Difficult people can make life hard, but a select few can make it hell. The boss with nonsensical demands. The …
The Trial by Franz Kafka, Edibooks, David Wyllie
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to …
urmaul rated The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1): 5 stars
The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross
Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he …
urmaul rated Metamorphosis: 3 stars
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed (metamorphosed) into a large, monstrous insect-like …
urmaul rated Release it!: 5 stars
Release it! by Michael T. Nygard (The pragmatic programmers)
urmaul rated Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul: 4 stars
Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #2)
Douglas Adams for those who may not be familiar with either him or his books writes rather tangentialy than linearly, …
The fall by Albert Camus (Vintage international)
La Chute est un court roman1 d'Albert Camus publié à Paris chez Gallimard en 1956, découpé en six parties non …
urmaul rated Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: 4 stars
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently, #1)
There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for …
urmaul rated The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: 5 stars
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, H. T. Willetts, Thomas P. Whitney, and 3 others
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and …