Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) I have cried reading books, but this is the first one I can remember shedding tears just three pages in. The story…
Rating: ** (2 stars out of 5) This is a short history of maths. By short, I mean really short. Which is unfortunate, because there can be no justice…
Growing up, I used to watch a lot of dubbed Chinese Kung-Fu movies. Mongoose style against the Snake style and so on. I don’t believe they used to…
Rating: **** (4 stars out of 5) Nothing serious here, people, move along! This is a fun book about an interesting story that Benjamin Franklin apparently told Thomas Jefferson when he finished writing the Declaration of Independence and found that the Continental Congress wanted to make several changes to what he thought was a perfect document.…
More books I will not read again and therefore will not bother to put up a longer review for each. The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber: The author starts off with a good analysis of the reasons behind the failures of various small businesses. He attributes it to the fact that most people who start small businesses are…
When I took my PMP exams, I used the following books in addition to the material supplied by the PMI. I would rate both of them 3 stars out of 5 as far as helping for the PMP exam preparation, but please note my notes about PMP Exam Prep, by Rita Mulcahy: Definitely, seems to be…
So I am using a rating system of 1 to 5 stars for book reviews. Therefore (!), there are a few books I have read and rated 1 star (or perhaps even zero stars). I didn’t keep many notes on them and it does not seem worth it to waste time reading them again just…
Rating: **** (4 stars out of 5) This is a rare Asterix volume that hints at romantic feelings in Asterix and Obelix. Panacea, returning back to the village after her studies, captures Obelix’s heart only to break it when it is revealed that she is already engaged to Tragicomix, who has been drafted by Caesar’s army.…
Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) The blood-thirsty Norsemen have a problem. They don’t know what fear is and since they pride themselves on knowing everything, they must learn fear. Besides, “fear lends you wings”, so by learning fear, Normans can fly like birds. So they set out to find someone who can teach them…
Rating: **** (4 stars out of 5) “Asterix in Britain” was one of the earliest Asterix books I read, but even though I remember it with fondness, until I re-read it again, I had forgotten all the details except for the “tea” part of the story. The plot is about a sole village holding out against…
Rating: ***** (5 stars out of 5) This is one of my favorite Asterix stories. It is the first one that puts a significant part of the action in the Gaul village, though it still doesn’t bring many of the villagers, other than Chief Vitalstatistix, into prominence. There is no adventure, but instead a sinister plot…
Rating: *** (3 stars out of 3) Getafix’s prominence varies from one Asterix book to another. In “Asterix the Gaul”, Getafix and Asterix are the only two Gauls with much ink spent on them. But in the second Asterix story, “Asterix and the Golden Sickle”, Getafix exists only as the impetus for the story and Obelix…
Rating: *** (3 stars out of 3) The authors take Asterix and Obelix on a trip across France in this Asterix episode. It all starts when a Roman inspector decides to blockade the Gaul village. Asterix challenges the Romans that as a Gaul, he will go wherever he likes and will prove it by going on…