Mike Han

A poorly written fiction with sole purpose of educating the philosophical values of Buddhism, the nature of impermanence and the effects of desire brought to you by three generations of unrealistic extreme characters.

A collection of the author's recent essays about her daughter, neighbor and a brother. While I love the first two, the last one was a bit of a stretch.

The basic principle of the argument of this book has more or less strong, fundamental truth beneath it. However, it was structured so naively in the midst of apologetic, defensive and mildly emotional tone so that the author didn't let the reader come to his own conclusions.

With clear and beautiful depiction of the lives lived by the poorest of the poor, this book leaves you feeling grateful for the life you possess, whatever that life may be.

The way it was composed, the word play and the satire was quite unusual although the content itself was pretty straightforward. It seems like the author ran out of brilliant things to write yet kept writing to make up a book halfway through and made up some fillers at the end.

Although the core of the content is very invaluable, the format of the book which is a transcript of a seminar makes the book hardly readable at times

What a weird and bizarre book. I had forced myself to relate to Siddhartha all along until the story brought him back to the River where it all just go loopy from there. Would anybody care to explain to me the point of all his search and the triumph of his resolution at all?

As much as I love the LOTR trilogy, this series of books were the hardest ever to finish for me. However discovering the scenes that never made into the movies made it worthwhile.

Superb!

As the country opens up more and more, I'm sure many books like this: a tale of suffering under the past regime, will be published. But I doubt any of those would make a reader feel delighted and depressed at the same time.

Like many other reviewers has said, this book is an absolute necessity for all the newbies who are learning ruby on rails for all sorts of reasons. I certainly like the way the book leads you to dig right into the coding something basic before educating you with all the little details afterwards.

This is one of the very few books I have read through in less than a months period of time and being 600+ pages long I have got to give credit to Walter Issacson and his informative writing. Sure it may come across as something that's lacking of an opinionated voice from the biographer, but for a person as complex as Steve Jobs, he did well enough to put enough information on the table for one to be able to draw their own conclusion on it. And I'm sure there will be many other books that will try to do the same.

As for Steve Jobs.. I'm inspired and I could related to the some of the things that he did and why he would have done them (was I caught in his charisma to think I am so much like him?)... Kudos to Jobs' balls of steel to think different, assert his views to the world and will the world and the rules to his liking...

It was such thorough introduction to python. Although my brain has failed to retain 100% of the information, I certainly know now where to look if the need shall ever arise for me to do anything with python. Quite certainly a useful start to the language.

Upon reading only a few pages of the book, I was reminded of my childhood at which I was fascinated by the wonders of the world reading a encylopedia. In this case, however, the fascination comes from the wonder of how The Daily Show authors captures the cynical view of humanity and its quirks with a healthy dose of satirical humor. It certainly was a good and entertaining read.

As a beginner to the opposing viewpoint series I didn't know what to expect out of it. The flow and arrangements of all the various articles was certainly interesting. Chapter 1 & 2, is certainly a page turner for somebody who's new to the system of democracy. (I'm Burmese). However as the book progresses, the topics that was discussed, begun to get stale and much effort had to be put in for me to be finally done with the book.

Although the ending that gets a little more irrelevant to me, it gave me quite a brief overview of the system of Democracy and American's democracy and it's foreign policy of spreading democracy particularly in the case of Iraq. It certainly was an eye opener.

It was okay. I just don't think it deserves all these hypes.