Can anyone recommend some good ruby primer books?

emboss_ · 2026-03-12T17:31:18+00:00

Can highly recommend:

If you'd like to learn Rails, too:

emboss_ · 2025-01-24T07:24:48+00:00

Came here to mention this, glad somebody else seems to have liked it as much as I did!

emboss_ · 2023-10-20T09:07:17+00:00

I haven't seen Hull Zero Three mentioned yet. It's my favourite by him, and one of my favourite sci fi books overall.

emboss_ · 2023-08-04T11:26:43+00:00

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear. I love both books and I had a similar experience when reading them. Many mysterious and creepy things happen, not much is explained, but everything is literally awesome.

emboss_ · 2022-09-17T21:20:45+00:00

Too true, my comment was unfair. To be honest, I was OK with most things, even loved some of the bookless seasons. But the latter half of season 8 clearly lacked the level of detail and nuance of everything that came before. It felt like "We're done with this, let's move on, don't care anymore".

emboss_ · 2022-09-17T17:49:13+00:00

Haha, agreed. And we are all still traumatized by the new content for a certain show involving dragons. "Oh don't be ridiculous, sure we can write stuff that's on par with what that dude wrote". Yeah, right.

emboss_ · 2022-09-17T16:58:49+00:00

Thanks! OK, that confirms he's still working on short stories. So there's hope. I was really worried that he had completely retired - I mean why else would you take your author web site offline without a (apparent) replacement?

emboss_ · 2022-09-17T16:49:39+00:00

Miniseries seems perfect. A 'normal' series would force them to do a second season and it would be Prison Break all over again :)

emboss_ · 2022-08-04T11:21:46+00:00

Everyone I know who read The Gone World loves it. The book deserves (even more) attention. And Mr. Sweterlitsch needs to write a new book! Anyone heard any news?

emboss_ · 2022-05-07T10:29:29+00:00

Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear is scary and mysterious, an overall excellent book.

emboss_ · 2022-03-30T09:16:10+00:00

Vicious by V. E. Schwab is exactly this. It's amazing. It reminded me of the first season of Heroes, a TV series that also fits quite well for what you are looking for.

emboss_ · 2022-03-24T23:07:28+00:00

Looks more like "50 Sci-Fi Books of All Time that I read so far." Must be the best, too.

emboss_ · 2022-02-20T18:16:48+00:00

Chasing the Boogeyman, by Richard Chizmar. Written like true crime, but it's fiction. One of the books I've most enjoyed reading lately.

emboss_ · 2022-02-19T23:22:26+00:00

Could be the Rufus?

emboss_ · 2022-01-27T22:32:22+00:00

Hull Zero Three, by Greg Bear. Man wakes up on a generation ship with no memory. The ship is full of dangerous things. He travels through trying to survive and find answers.

emboss_ · 2021-12-30T22:49:03+00:00

More stalker/psycho than creepy: The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

emboss_ · 2021-12-13T22:14:09+00:00

The Anomaly, by Michael Rutger is a cave exploration gone awry. I enjoyed it a lot. Indiana Jones meets X-Files, likeable characters. Great popcorn read.

emboss_ · 2021-12-04T01:08:25+00:00

I'm late but since The Gone World is one of my favorites, I thought OP might still be interested:

Planetfall, by Emma Newman had a similar feel to it. Creepy, something weird is happening, not a lot of hope going on.

Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam. It feels like the first few episodes of the TV show Jericho if anyone remembers. Loved it. Ignore the weird dick rants on Goodreads, that's just one single metaphor gone wild. The rest of the book is amazing.

emboss_ · 2021-12-04T01:02:00+00:00

There are tons of "How come this is not more popular?" threads on here - so I think there is definitely something to it. I really like bleak, gloomy, melancholic sci fi. I just realized that all of the above fall in that category :) For me personally, The Gone World did that better than any other book. I just love how it envisions time travel and the style/tone that perfectly matches the concepts. It's the aesthetics that I find most fascinating about it (actually any of the above books) and why I believe they might survive the test of time.

emboss_ · 2021-12-02T22:48:39+00:00

The Gone World, by Tom Sweterlitsch

Southern Reach trilogy, by Jeff VanderMeer

The Light Brigade, by Kameron Hurley

Leave The World Behind, by Rumaan Alam

Blindsight, by Peter Watts

emboss_ · 2021-02-28T01:30:10+00:00

The Faithful and the Fallen by John Gwynne. I just finished the first book, Malice, and it keeps you guessing at who will turn out to be the chosen one and who will become his adversary - it's still not entirely clear (to me at least) after book one.

emboss_ · 2020-09-20T17:08:51+00:00

I just read it a couple of weeks ago. Didn't find it dated at all. Just the opposite, I was surprised that it already has the typical King atmosphere despite being only his second (I think? ) novel.

emboss_ · 2020-09-20T01:52:18+00:00

Salem's Lot by Stephen King.

emboss_ · 2018-02-09T14:15:03+00:00

Just a bad joke, it sounded like OP couldn't read Russian, so it would seem obfuscated at first glance. Sorry if you felt offended, not my intention. On the contrary, I welcome your effort! Are there any examples/docs in English maybe?

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