cheesepuppy's Reviews (218)

A great story-based way to learn Ruby. I’m an adult and this is my second programming language. I really like the format of this book. It was great to have a story and then write some code that goes with that part of the story. 

This is so so much better than learning with math and fake variables like foo and bar. Concepts were explained multiples times and in different ways. I really appreciated the repetition.

A compilation of deep short stories made for a quick read. 

Many of the stories had characters with the last name Patel. I kept thinking it would be cool if the last short story brought everyone together and showed that everyone was family. On the flip side, I’m glad it didn’t because that might give people another reason to think everyone with the same skin color and same last name are related.

Deshawn takes a roller coaster of a journey through his memories. This is one quick but very deep read. 

In the first couple of pages, I really felt like one with Wallace. The story spans a single weekend and the author does a fantastic job talking about introversion, relationships, existential thoughts of "what am I doing with my life", and some *isms in academia. The author not only talks about how racism is felt by Wallace but how it felt for his group of white friends to say and do nothing about it.

This book was unlike any book I've ever read before. The first chapter is 70 pages and there aren't many good stopping points for when you need to take a break. The detail is incredible. It's well done, though I felt it may have been a bit over the top. There were lots of vivid descriptions of things that really didn't pertain to the story.

Wonderfully vivid descriptions accompany a super cute story of private investigators helping a young non-binary kid recover stolen property. This was a really cute read.

24 pages in, this book is rough and not in a good way. I’m probably not going to finish this and I wish I thought it was worth giving to someone else. 

It’s mostly dialogue. Sometimes it doesn’t even say who is talking. It flips between 4 characters and it really doesn’t tell you the perspective changed. On top of that, biphobia and lots of stereotypes.

The characters all talk like they’re reading a script for a play. There’s no feeling, personality, or vernacular in the dialogue. It feels more like a choppy school skit to talk about LGBT things.

A little bit in defense of the book, it was published in 2011. Maybe things have changed to much for me to feel good reading all these blatant gross stereotypes and fetishizing cultures

Also, there are things that contextually don’t make sense. There is a sentence, on page 20, that’s says

”he bent over again to kiss her again.” and yet neither of these things had been mentioned before.