Alexey V

• Rated 4 stars

“Surprisingly, I've enjoyed this book quite a lot, and I cannot explain why. It has practically nothing except straight story, and the story is quite trivial and predictable, but I had a lot of fun reading it nevertheless...”

Alexey V wrote this review Sunday, December 25, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“I liked the book for the first 50 pages or so. Then I got more and more annoyed by it.

Too empty, maybe too empty to fill even a short story. A lot of words, almost total lack of meaning behind them. The mentally unstable heroine is not enough to make a good book.

The author also fails to keep her writing in the same style throughout the book.”

Alexey V wrote this review Saturday, December 24, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“Very average space soap opera.”

Alexey V wrote this review Sunday, December 18, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 4 stars

“Surprisingly ok.”

Alexey V wrote this review Tuesday, May 10, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 2 stars

“Mediocre book. Very messy, quite boring in places if you know a thing or two about functional programming (and probably quite incomprehensible otherwise). Nothing "Practical" in the whole book at all -- all the examples are very unnatural (true gems are using lazy sequences to calculate the given number in an arithmetic progression and macro to do things three times). Also often stock Clojure documentations has more examples which are much more clear.

Nevertheless, if Clojure is not your first functional programming language, the book will provide you with some understanding of what the language is.”

Alexey V wrote this review Sunday, March 20, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 5 stars

“Extremely good popular book about Riemann Hypothesis; unlike many “pop-math” books mathematical education neither required nor spoils the fun. Strongly recommended!”

Alexey V wrote this review Sunday, January 30, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

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• Rated 5 stars

“Great book by great author. (Of course, I've read it in Russian.)

As it is very usual with Dostoevsky, the point of book is not only in a storyline or in a behavior of main actors; read carefully what everyone says. The words of ordinary people are often full of wisdom.”

Alexey V wrote this review Wednesday, January 12, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“(I've listened to audiobook.) A-ok childish fantasy. Started really nice but became too trivial closer to the end.”

Alexey V wrote this review Tuesday, January 4, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 3 stars

“It could be a bit more about compass. (I've listened to audiobook.)”

Alexey V wrote this review Sunday, January 2, 2011. ( reply | permalink )

• Rated 1 stars

“Book about nothing at all. Writing about drug addicts does not automatically means it's literature.”

Alexey V wrote this review Wednesday, January 12, 2011. ( reply | permalink )