Outstanding book. The simple concept of balance, 50% for must haves, 30% for wants and 20% for savings and the quicker way of tracking expenses was quite revealing and useful

It took me a while to warm up to the story, the background.
The book takes it time, explores, wanders issues like appreciation of arts, impact of our past and circumstance on who we are, on relationships, awareness and so on.
The premise seems too far removed even from the myths. It picks up somewhere around the middle and then became very engaging.
Not as entertaining as a Gaiman book or story, but more width.

I tried reading this, read about ~100 pages, but it was just too slow going. Eventually, I used and recommend Sun’s Java Tutorial over this.

One of the few recent technical books that I recently read cover to cover.
It covers Refactoring as a way to improve code and learn OO Programming, the center piece is the refactoring catalog. Most of it is fairly easy reading as far as technical books go, focus more on Java and the contrast between pre and post refactor highlights the advantages of Object Oriented Programming.

Shirley MacLaine’s autobiography during her spiritual quest. Found it to be borderline interesting. The love relationship exploration bored me as it is not what I am into, the spiritual part was borderline interesting. Covered channeled spirits, Peru, Reincarnation, UFOs and aligning career and spiritual quest.

Very funny movie with many laughout moments. Definitely worth a rewatch someday

Funny and hilarious. Some India specific jokes and not at all cerberic. Worth a rewatch someday

Sun Java tutorial
It is comprehensive, great organization and has archived version for offline reading. Beats most books for learning Java.

It is a good introductory book for data structures, and also has a fair amount of problems and hints\answers.
Useful even when not interviewing.

Summary: It is a book for those in the field of software development with some focus on software developers particularly in the field of enterprise software (Java, Web, etc.) The goal of the book seem to be to kickstart thinking about career management and tips on getting better at your job. It reaches these and beyond very well.

Score: 4.5/5

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