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2024
My Year in Books
24,783
pages read
Leo
83
books read
Leo
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Shortest Book
29
pages
Functional Programming, Simplified by Alvin Alexander
Longest Book
1,098
pages
Average book length in 2024
298
pages
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Most Shelved
1,975,910
people also shelved
Functional Programming, Simplified by Alvin Alexander
Least Shelved
567
people also shelved
Leo’s average rating for 2024
3.8
3.8
The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
Highest Rated on Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ
4.59 average
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Leo’s first review of the year

really liked it
Great absurd / satyre / comedy, and some philosophy added on top for good measure. Don't be mistaken by the description of "psychological thriller" - it's nowhere to be found.
Yeah, the plot twists can be seen from afar, but it doesn't make the book any worse. Characters exist mostly to represent ideas, while the plot itself starts to remind some kind of children "spy game".
I enjoyed it a lot, and it's good that book doesn't overstay it's welcome ...more
³¢·¡°¿â€™S 2024 BOOKS
Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
really liked it
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Making of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
Debugging by David J. Agans
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie
The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
Chip War by Chris Miller
it was amazing
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Butler to the World by Oliver Bullough
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
it was amazing
Everything Is F*cked by Mark Manson
A Maze of Death by Philip K. Dick
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
Globalists by Quinn Slobodian
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
it was amazing
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
The Innovators by Walter Isaacson
Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Complicity by Iain Banks
The Futurological Congress by Stanisław Lem
Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
Conservatism by Roger Scruton
A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie
System Design Interview – An Insider's Guide by Alex Xu
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
it was amazing
Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming by Roger Zelazny
Functional Programming, Simplified by Alvin Alexander
Accelerando by Charles Stross
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Civilization by Niall Ferguson
Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen
it was amazing
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison
The Penultimate Truth by Philip K. Dick
The Children of Men by P.D. James
We Can Remember It for You Wholesale by Philip K. Dick
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Infinite and the Divine by Robert Rath
Kala by Colin Walsh
it was amazing
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
The Old Axolotl by Jacek Dukaj
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
The Zap Gun by Philip K. Dick
Why Nations Fail by Daron AcemoÄŸlu
The Trouble with Peace by Joe Abercrombie
The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie
it was amazing
VALIS by Philip K. Dick
A Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. Peck
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
Politics On the Edge by Rory Stewart
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
The Inverted World by Christopher Priest
it was amazing
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
This Is The Way The World Ends by James K. Morrow
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Bear Head by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The Man Who Japed by Philip K. Dick
liked it
Just Enough Software Architecture by George H. Fairbanks
Just Enough Software Architecture by George H. Fairbanks

Leo’s last review of the year

Not really for me.
Some parts are a bit better, some just seem like general reflections on software development and architecture and so broad that I don't think would be applicable to any specific situation. Some stuff that feels like just general common sense.
I've wrote that before in some other review, and feel the same now: you either know what author is talking about already, or would miss what he's trying to say, in both cases there aren't a ...more
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