name of the wind
Greatly enjoyed reading the Name of the Wind. Many times fantasy novels are so epic in scope that things can get confusing and muddled. Rather than following a huge cast of characters, this book focuses on the story of a single one.
- Interesting Magic
- A bit too teenage boy angsty for me
- Main character is a narcisist’s narcisist, so that could be off putting
- Looking forward to reading the next one
Just started Seveneves by Neal Stephenson which is off to a tremendoust start. Only an abysmal turn for the worst would make me unlikely to recommend this.
Considering getting: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Manning and Schuetze (any recommendations for / cautions against or preferred resources for getting up to speed on NLP?)
I had thought that I was only going to read fiction on the trip, but that clearly was a miscalculation and one that i’m happy for.