Do you like to read? Well, you must if you are here. How about books though?
I recommend a book I just finished,
by China Mieville. It is a murder mystery that takes place in two city-states that physically occupy the same space. One house in this city, perhaps the next two in the other, some streets are shared by both, some areas are exclusively in one or the other. However citizens are taught to "unsee" anything in, or of, the other city (or else). Was the victim killed in this city? Or was it a crime of Breach? (besides the usual Whodunnit, and why)
I heard about it from (on?) a web comic by and about librarians called Unshelved. Besides their week-daily strip, on Sundays they have a special book recommendation strip. Here is the one for this book. One of the two authors of the comic also co-authors Not Invented Here, a comic about software development (also recommended).
Behind each great piece of software is a talented, concientious team of hardworking individuals dedicated to producing the highest quality product using internationally accepted best practices and industry standards. And then there are these guys.
Now I'm reading "The Fires Of Heaven", the 5th book in the The Wheel Of Time series by Robert Jordan.
If you read it you MUST start with the prequel New Spring, which was written 14 years after, but takes place 20 years before book #1: The Eye of the World.
Since you're still with me, let me also recommend a great source for Getting Books For Free
...Here's how it works:
- You join the "club" (ie sign up)
- You list any books you have (in good condition)
- When you've posted your first 10 books, you get 2 "welcome" credits
- You list any books you want
- Any requested book that is available is offered to you for the cost of 1 credit
- You are notified if any of your listed books are requested by other "club members"
- You can print off a pdf of a wrapper with the mailing label
- You send off the book/s (you pay postage, the only part that costs you money), and you get 1 credit for each book sent.
There is more to it, and more options to spend money (eg to buy credits or mechandise), but those are the basics.
There are also two sister sites that work pretty much the same, and you can transfer credits between all three:
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And if you say you were recommended by m5rammy when you sign up, I'll get an extra credit. But even if you don't do that, you should still sign up.
This short post took way too long with all the links and stuff. Hmm, next time it will be different. I don't know, somehow.
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