Ian Brown started reading Lake of Souls by Ann Leckie
Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winner Ann Leckie is a modern master of the …
Stoked to start on new (to me!) stories from @AnnLeckie@stranger.social!
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XML apologist. Erlang enthusiast. Currently JVMs & Performance stuff at Netflix. Previously JVMs & performative stuff at Twitter. He/him.
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Ian Brown finished reading Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron
Ian Brown finished reading Bad Actors by Mick Herron
Ian Brown started reading Programming Heterogeneous Hardware via Managed Runtime Systems by Juan Fumero
Ian Brown started reading Bad Actors by Mick Herron
Ian Brown finished reading Pronto by Elmore Leonard
Pronto by Elmore Leonard
The feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that …
Ian Brown started reading Pronto by Elmore Leonard
Pronto by Elmore Leonard
The feds think bookie Harry Arno will squeal on his wiseguy boss if they put word on the street that …
Ian Brown started reading Standing by the Wall by Mick Herron
Ian Brown finished reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
Ian Brown started reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
Old Man's War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
Ian Brown finished reading Slough House by Mick Herron
Ian Brown started reading Slough House by Mick Herron
Ian Brown set a goal to read 24 books in 2024
Ian Brown reviewed Silverview by John le Carré
A Perfect End
5 stars
Magnus Pym and Edward Avon and Rick blend together with a funeral at the end of all of it. Sprinkle a little Nietzsche on top and you have a wonderful wrap up of the John le Carré extended universe. It all ends, of course, with a bureaucratic whimper. Anyway, it is Cornwall at his best.
