John’s Blog

Not sure why I picked this one up — it’s a sorta typical epic fantasy book (although for about the first 850 of the 900 pages, you can argue there’s very little that’s fantastical about it) — but enjoyed reading it. It’s a good, page-turner of an epic — lots of characters (was pretty hard to keep straight for the first 200-300 pages), good action, neat ideas. There are 3 more (large) books in the series, and I guess another one coming out next month — I liked it well enough that I’ll get to all of them, I think.

Meh. Run of the mill business book. Sorta skimmed it.

Eh, it’s an okay book. Not wonderful. Doesn’t know whether it’s a history of probability or a primer on it, and as a result tends to shift between being (1) sorta basic, (2) sorta boring, and (3) sorta esoteric. Nothing super new in it for me, didn’t really think it was useful, except to remind me of some things I’ve forgotten since Stats 116.