Octopus Overlords

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 9:45 pm

Pyperkub wrote:Has it worked for games?

Well, considering I only bought 3 Steam games during the holiday sale......kinda?

YellowKing wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 2:42 pm I finally had to break myself of the habit of buying something just because it was free or heavily discounted. Once I start a book I feel compelled to finish it, which is how I wasted hours on a WW2 romance novel I got suckered into from these First Reads. Never again.

Carpet_pissr wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 11:27 am Amazon has Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made by Jason Schreier (Kindle eBook) for $2.99.

https://slickdeals.net/share/iphone_app/fp/448525

Z-Corn wrote: ↑Wed Jan 09, 2019 6:19 pm "You purchased this item on December 14, 2017. "

In Don’t Panic, Gaiman celebrates everything Hitchhiker: the original radio play, the books, comics, video and computer games, films, television series, record albums, stage musicals, one-man shows, the Great One himself, and towels. And as Douglas Adams himself attested: “It’s all absolutely devastatingly true—except the bits that are lies.”

“Under an alien sky where gods of eldritch matter rule, the only truth is revenge.”

CTHULHU ARMAGEDDON is the story of a world 100 years past the rise of the Old Ones which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other “talking” monsters).

John Henry Booth is a ranger of one of the largest remaining city-states when he’s exiled for his group’s massacre and suspicion he’s “tainted.” Escaping with a doctor who killed her husband, John travels across the Earth’s blasted alien ruins to seek the life of the man who killed his friends.

It’s the one thing he has left.

On August 28, 1854, working-class Londoner Sarah Lewis tossed a bucket of soiled water into the cesspool of her squalid apartment building and triggered the deadliest outbreak of cholera in the city's history. In this tightly written page-turner, Johnson (Everything Bad Is Good for You) uses his considerable skill to craft a story of suffering, perseverance and redemption that echoes to the present day. Describing a city and culture experiencing explosive growth, with its attendant promise and difficulty, Johnson builds the story around physician John Snow. In the face of a horrifying epidemic, Snow (pioneering developer of surgical anesthesia) posited the then radical theory that cholera was spread through contaminated water rather than through miasma, or smells in the air. Against considerable resistance from the medical and bureaucratic establishment, Snow persisted and, with hard work and groundbreaking research, helped to bring about a fundamental change in our understanding of disease and its spread. Johnson weaves in overlapping ideas about the growth of civilization, the organization of cities, and evolution to thrilling effect. From Snow's discovery of patient zero to Johnson's compelling argument for and celebration of cities, this makes for an illuminating and satisfying read.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Jan 29, 2019 3:25 pm Dr. John Snow

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:10 pm I can personally recommend Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by my old Launch Director Mike Leinbach.

Moliere wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:54 pm

jztemple2 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 10:10 pm I can personally recommend Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew by my old Launch Director Mike Leinbach.

I got this the last time you recommended it. I found it informative in the beginning talking about the history of the shuttle and NASA, but less interesting as the search continued. It was one chapter after another of this person finding this scrap of metal on this farmer's field.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:38 pm My wife listened to the audio book version and she said it was really, really good.

Moliere wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 8:54 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2019 1:38 pm My wife listened to the audio book version and she said it was really, really good.

That's too bad. I was hoping to avoid this book because I don't like supporting joke thieves.

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman—who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking—he runs his own woodshop—Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales from Offerman’s childhood in small-town Minooka, Illinois—“I grew up literally in the middle of a cornfield”—to his theater days in Chicago, beginnings as a carpenter/actor and the hilarious and magnificent seduction of his now-wife Megan Mullally. It also offers hard-bitten battle strategies in the arenas of manliness, love, style, religion, woodworking, and outdoor recreation, among many other savory entrees.

A mix of amusing anecdotes, opinionated lessons and rants, sprinkled with offbeat gaiety, Paddle Your Own Canoe will not only tickle readers pink but may also rouse them to put down their smart phones, study a few sycamore leaves, and maybe even hand craft (and paddle) their own canoes.

Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth, under a giant red sun that is soon to go out forever.

This omnibus volume comprised all four books in the series, The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga and Rialto the Magnificent. It is a must-read for every Science Fiction fan.

In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time.

Future generations will look back on our epoch as the time when the human race finally broke into a radically new frontier—space. In Pale Blue Dot, Sagan traces the spellbinding history of our launch into the cosmos and assesses the future that looms before us as we move out into our own solar system and on to distant galaxies beyond. The exploration and eventual settlement of other worlds is neither a fantasy nor luxury, insists Sagan, but rather a necessary condition for the survival of the human race.

It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures-no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (not even Google).

Luckily, THE SKEPTICS' GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE is your map through this maze of modern life. Here Dr. Steven Novella-along with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein-will explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theories-from anti-vaccines to homeopathy, UFO sightings to N- rays. You'll learn the difference between science and pseudoscience, essential critical thinking skills, ways to discuss conspiracy theories with that crazy co- worker of yours, and how to combat sloppy reasoning, bad arguments, and superstitious thinking.

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 6:49 am I didn't remember seeing these were on Kindle, but you can get the first book of the Thomas Covenant series (Lord Foul's Bane) for $1.99 today.

TheMix wrote: ↑Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:40 am Ugh. I have all of them (I think). I only ever managed to complete the first one. I hated them.