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Last Notes

2024-12-22 17:37:15 UTC

This is a good pulpy western; there's adventure, there's fist fights, there's good-hearted protagonist, a plucky sidekick, a headstrong love interest, rotten bad guys, savvy Indians, and noble horses. You think everything's going to go alright, then it goes to hell, then everything gets set right by the end. What more can you want?
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2024-12-12 23:33:26 UTC

I've read a few Louis L'Amour books, so I figure I should give some other one's a try. My partner picked this one up at Goodwill for me. It's been read hard and put away wet. The first few chapters are falling out, and it smells like an attic.
(comment on [*Rim of the Caprock (Gunsmoke Western)*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/1793214 ))
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2024-09-07 01:51:36 UTC

"As Amazon scaled up their operations, they couldn’t use costly operations like joins because they were too slow and resource-intensive.
Werner shared that 70% of their database operations operated on a single record, and another 20% would return multiple rows but would use only a single table. Thus, over 90% of all queries did not use joins!"
— Alex DeBrie: [*The DynamoDB Book*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/1693361 ), p. 24
This is the thing about SQL; you contort your data into this awkward shape all so you can join it in lots of ways, but you don't end up needing to do that in reality.
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2024-09-06 18:30:35 UTC

I was so relieved it had a happy ending.
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2024-08-31 00:02:17 UTC

I went into this book with a pretty correct idea about what it would be about. It reminded me of every job I've ever had; a bunch of childish boys trying to decide who's in charge.
What surprised me is that it was actually a nice little tropical vacation of sorts. I should have read it in wintertime.
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2024-08-28 15:53:53 UTC

""I have made a decision," Major Fritch say. "For the first time in my life, I have found a man that truly understands me, an I am not going to let him go. For nearly four years, Grurck an I have lived happily in this land, an I have decided to stay here with him. We will go off in the jungle an make a new life for ourselfs, an raise a family an live happily ever after."
"But this man is a cannibal," one of the fellers say.
"Eat your heart out, buster," says Major Fritch, an she an Grurck get out of the canoe an start back into the jungle again, han in han."
— Winston Groom: [*Forrest Gump*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/347055 ), p. 152
Yeah, that's a cunnilingus joke in Forrest Gump. A racist one at that!
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2024-08-26 20:56:15 UTC

I enjoyed this book; it's funny like the movie is. There was a lot of stories that didn't make it into the screenplay, but none of it was any good. This is one case where the movie really is better than the book.
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2024-08-21 05:53:40 UTC

"Now there is somethin else durin that period that played a great role in my life. One night after we is finished the first set at the Hodaddy Club, Mose, the drummer for The Cracked Eggs, take me aside an "Forrest, you is a nice clean-cut feller say, an all, but they is somethin I want you to try that I think will make you play that harmonica better."
I axe what it is, an Mose say, "Here," an he give me a little cigarette. I tell him I don't smoke, but thanks, an Mose say, "It is not a regular cigarette, Forrest. It have got somethin in it to expand your horizons."
I tole Mose I ain't sure I need my horizons expanded, but he sort of insisted. "At least try it," he say, an I thought for a minute, an conclude that one cigarette ain't gonna hurt none, an so I do.
Well let me say this: my horizons indeed become expanded.
Everthing seem to slow down an get rosy keen. That secont set we played that night was the best I of my life. I seemed to hear all the notes a hundrit times as I was playing them, an Mose come up to me later an say, "Forrest you think that's good--use it when you're screwin'""
— Winston Groom: [*Forrest Gump*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/347055 ), pp. 108-108
That didn't happen in the movie
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2024-08-19 21:11:08 UTC

such an easy read when your inner dialog has a southern drawl
(comment on [*Forrest Gump*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/347055 ), p. 57)
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2024-07-06 18:01:45 UTC

This is the first of L'Amour's novels with a female protagonist that I've read, and though it was a nice change of perspective, he's not very good at it.
Still it was an exciting adventure, and occasionally funny when some big strong cowboy got put in his place by a teenage girl.
This is one of my Granny's old books; I imagine she probably liked Echo Sackett's headstrong and humble attitude.
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2024-05-06 18:02:56 UTC

""From Cincinnati you go home, I believe? Is not that very rough country?"
"Some might think it is."
"But there is a stage? Or can you take another steamer?"
"There is, I think, but right across country is quicker." He was irritated. How foolish of her to come so far, unprotected and alone! Because of it he had to leave everything and come on this wild-goose chase, escorting a girl who did not seem in the least grateful. She was pert, almost impudent,
"I am astonished that your family would permit it. Suppose you met a bear? Or a man of evil intention?"
I made my eyes very wide. "I'd take him home for supper.
"What? You'd invite such a man to your home?"
"I meant the bear." I smiled innocently. "Could I do less?""
— Louis L'Amour: [*Ride the River*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/771475 ), pp. 96-97
#bear
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