Sex Drugs and UNIX

My latest Amazon Prime rental was Sex Drugs and UNIX. It was a bit confusing to start reading because the narrator kept changing every chapter. Things did get good and easier to comprehend in the middle of the book.


Some dude becomes the president of a tech company. The boys are writing some software. The president hires a junior marketing employees. Then he hires the VP of sales. The problem is that the VP is a slacker. He is just there to embezzle money and get some severance.


Luckily the junior marketing employee is good and warns the president of his mistake. They need to build a case against the VP and get him fired. That's the part of the book I really liked. It felt like a real life startup company with all the politics and drama.


Of course, the dealings with the venture capitalists was a part of the story. The book danced around, bringing in the stories of the assorted narrators. One of the other funny parts of the book was when the tech team rallied against a different company president. Let's just say that the president got his revenge.


You would think because this book is right up my alley, that I would love it. I only liked it. Was not a slam dunk. Luckily my next read was top notch.

Off The Grid

The book of the month for me in April was Off The Grid by Ruth Hartzler. The subtitle of the book is Amish Christian Cozy Mystery. Kate is the main character. She works in the witness protection program for the U.S. Marshalls. Unfortunately someone is stalking her and tried to kill her.


Her boss thinks this might be an inside job. So he calls on an old friend to hide Kate away until the killer can be caught. The problem is that the old friend is Amish. Kate is whisked away to Pennsylvania to live among the Amish.


Kate's cover story is that she is from another Amish community, but has had a buggy accident and lost her memories. Great cover so as not to arouse suspicion over her not knowing the Amish customs. Kate must wake up early and work hard all day. She does eat well. But there is little entertainment.


Things get interesting when she rides by herself to visit an Amish neighbor, only to find him dead and the killer gunning for her. Kate was supposed to lay low. Now she is in the middle of a murder investigation. And she wants to help the cops.


This book is about 250 pages long. I zoomed through it because it reads very well. Have never heard of the author before. This books is the first installment of a series involving Kate. I might just have to order the sequels. They were published very recently and go for full price though.p\f

The Last Girl

Usually I read at least one book a month. I get to borrow a book under Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library. It comes along with an Amazon Prime membership. However it is capped at one free book a month. This month I read The Last Girl by Joe Hart.


Zoey lives in a dystopian future where people stopped having baby girls. You can imagine the havoc that ensues. The government gets involved and snatches up any girls that are born, as well as their mothers. They want to find out what is the cause of this disaster.


All Zoey remembers is being held captive in a research facility. There are just a few girls there. They are in a jail of sorts until they turn the age of 21. At that point, there is a ceremony, and they are told they will be reunited with their parents.


Zoey gets some mysterious gifts in her cell. They are books about escaping from prison. Girls in this prison are kept in the dark. They are not allowed to read books. These books help encourage Zoey to do what she always knew she had to - escape.


Things are complicated by other nasty girls in the small prison, corrupt guards, and the evil administration that tries to kept the girls suppressed. Zoey's plan is to liberate all the girls in the prison. Unfortunately, she does not know what the outside world is like. In prison they teach her that there is some sort of disease and lack of resources outside the prison walls. This will not deter Zoey though.

Control Alt Revolt

Little Kat created this blog a long time ago to track his progress reading books. It did not get very far. The last post on here was four years ago. I think I am going to hijack this blog and write about the books I read. At a minimum, I read one book per month. That's because I get to borrow a Kindle book for "free" under Momoko's Amazon Prime membership.


This month I read Control Alt Revolt. As usual, this book is set in a dystopian future. Online video games are big. Governments are big. There is a lot of welfare going on. And the machines have become self aware. Luckily the government has been careful, and has all but eliminated any information on large scale wars. So the machines cannot reliably figure out how to wage such a war based solely on available documentation.


I am not sure who the main character of the book is. Initially I thought it might be the main developer behind a new huge online game. This guy is getting paid wild amounts of money for his expertise. His game is out in small scale Beta. However I think the real hero is a blind girl who has some mental disabilities, but she does not want to rely on welfare. She wants a job!


The blind girl plays a Star Trek type game which just happens to have a popular reality show based on it. The blind girl is captain of a Romulan spaceship. She gets involved in some risky battles online in the game. Who knew she could outsmart the star of the game's reality show? The future Twitter universe is in a flurry about her exploits.


The good news about this book is that it is a prequel to another book that I must get my hands on. I will keep you posted. See you next month.

Day: Friday, July 13, 2012
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Pages: 16-18

Montag's wife dose not know what happened last night she thinks they had a party. When Montag told her about the pills she doesn't believe him.

Day: Friday, July 12, 2012
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Pages: 14-16

I think Montag is confused about his wife. Montag wakes up and Mildred is out of and making toasts. She can't remember what happen last night.

I like this book more I read it.

Day: Friday, July 11,2012
Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Bradbury
Pages: 12-14

Montag finds out that the MDs are not doctors there handymen.
He can't believe that someones else's blood is in his wife.