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This is a good pulpy western; there's adventure, there's ...

2024-12-22T17:37:15Z

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?

I've read a few Louis L'Amour books, so I figure I should ...

2024-12-12T23:33:26Z

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 ))

"As Amazon scaled up their operations, they couldn’t use ...

2024-09-07T01:51:36Z

"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.

I was so relieved it had a happy ending. ...

2024-09-06T18:30:35Z

I was so relieved it had a happy ending.

I went into this book with a pretty correct idea about what it ...

2024-08-31T00:02:17Z

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.

""I have made a decision," Major Fritch say. "For ...

2024-08-28T15:53:53Z

""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!

I enjoyed this book; it's funny like the movie is. There was ...

2024-08-26T20:56:15Z

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.

"Now there is somethin else durin that period that played a ...

2024-08-21T05:53:40Z

"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

such an easy read when your inner dialog has a southern drawl ...

2024-08-19T21:11:08Z

such an easy read when your inner dialog has a southern drawl

(comment on [*Forrest Gump*](https://bookwyrm.social/book/347055 ), p. 57)

This is the first of L'Amour's novels with a female ...

2024-07-06T18:01:45Z

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.