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Review Date: 12/28/2012
As a professional programmer for the past 27 years, I found the technical content of this book to be very good -- I only spotted on mistake (bug? :-).
However, I'm *really* happy to say that no programmers in my experience (or in the experience of my colleges and friends) are as horrible as most of the people in this book.
Nor, I'm happy to report, is programming (or learning to program) something that makes you an insensitive, unfeeling, uncaring person.
So, yeah, this is an unpleasant people do unpleasant things to each other kind of story. From that starting point, it's pretty well done.
I'm just sorry to see how (undeservedly) bad a portrait of the developer community it portrays.
However, I'm *really* happy to say that no programmers in my experience (or in the experience of my colleges and friends) are as horrible as most of the people in this book.
Nor, I'm happy to report, is programming (or learning to program) something that makes you an insensitive, unfeeling, uncaring person.
So, yeah, this is an unpleasant people do unpleasant things to each other kind of story. From that starting point, it's pretty well done.
I'm just sorry to see how (undeservedly) bad a portrait of the developer community it portrays.
Review Date: 11/5/2016
This book consists of four long stories, all of which are Jeeves & Wooster pastiches.
The first two are fairly straightforward bumbling-upper-class-twit-and-wise-servant stories, and frequently they are very funny.
Then, the author decided that he wanted to segue to having Reggie be more of a 'consulting gentleman detective', and the stories switch to being somewhere between Jeeves & Wooster and Sherlock Holmes. Unfortunately, the humor largely is jettisoned, and the final story is extremely complicated.
So, I don't think I'll be reading any more of these... they're clever, but he's going in a direction I don't really enjoy.
The first two are fairly straightforward bumbling-upper-class-twit-and-wise-servant stories, and frequently they are very funny.
Then, the author decided that he wanted to segue to having Reggie be more of a 'consulting gentleman detective', and the stories switch to being somewhere between Jeeves & Wooster and Sherlock Holmes. Unfortunately, the humor largely is jettisoned, and the final story is extremely complicated.
So, I don't think I'll be reading any more of these... they're clever, but he's going in a direction I don't really enjoy.
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