As always with Humble Bundle, click Adjust Donation and move the sliders to your liking. Warning: This bundle is NOT DRM-free like some of Humble's other book offerings. It redeems to a Kobo...
As always with Humble Bundle, click Adjust Donation and move the sliders to your liking.
Warning: This bundle is NOT DRM-free like some of Humble's other book offerings. It redeems to a Kobo account. There are, however, methods of de-DRMing Kobo files.
Anyone got takes on any of these? I recall cryptonomicon as something I read but can't tell you anything about it(or maybe i'm mixing it with something else). Only other thing of his I read was...
Anyone got takes on any of these?
I recall cryptonomicon as something I read but can't tell you anything about it(or maybe i'm mixing it with something else). Only other thing of his I read was Snow Crash which was really interesting, with some usual issues in the genre.
I've watched silo and while enjoying it get the vibe I probably don't care that much about the book.
SevenEves and Anathem are the only other ones I've read. Weirdly the blurb they have about SevenEves is about the last ~1/3rd of the book. The earlier sections are much more disaster movie-y,...
SevenEves and Anathem are the only other ones I've read.
Weirdly the blurb they have about SevenEves is about the last ~1/3rd of the book. The earlier sections are much more disaster movie-y, though handled better than most disaster movies IMO. There's some criticism that there's a hard cut to several thousand years later and now it's basically an Asimov style "look at this cool future society" but overall I thought it was a good read.
Anathem I remember enjoying but don't remember much of.
Anathem is among my favorite books of all time, and Snow Crash is up there too. Seveneves was good but a very hard read (oppressive). Reamde and DODO were just okay. This made me realize I've...
Anathem is among my favorite books of all time, and Snow Crash is up there too. Seveneves was good but a very hard read (oppressive). Reamde and DODO were just okay.
This made me realize I've missed a few Stephenson novels.
I read the Silo trilogy and enjoyed them, but I probably wouldn't reread them.
I've only read Anathem and Seveneves, would recommend Anathem but I didn't find Seveneves particularly memorable (to the point where the plot escapes me now I try and think of it). Note though...
I've only read Anathem and Seveneves, would recommend Anathem but I didn't find Seveneves particularly memorable (to the point where the plot escapes me now I try and think of it). Note though that for Anathem part of what makes this book interesting is figuring out the different world/vocabulary without much explicit explanation, this works for me but isn't everyone's cup of tea.
I tried hopping all over the world with Mullvad and it didn't work in Canada, USA, Mexico, Thailand, or anywhere else I tried. Maybe it has some kind of anti VPN measure. Oh, it's tagged as...
I tried hopping all over the world with Mullvad and it didn't work in Canada, USA, Mexico, Thailand, or anywhere else I tried. Maybe it has some kind of anti VPN measure. Oh, it's tagged as region-locked, but who knows where
It works in the US. Books are always going to be pretty region/market locked due to rights. We've definitely had Humble Bundles listed before and I think they're still useful @kfwyre
It works in the US.
Books are always going to be pretty region/market locked due to rights. We've definitely had Humble Bundles listed before and I think they're still useful @kfwyre
USA here, and I was able to see it just fine. I didn't purchase the pack, but I saw the listings and was able to click "Checkout" - assuming it didn't let you get that far, I'd say it's anti-VPN.
USA here, and I was able to see it just fine. I didn't purchase the pack, but I saw the listings and was able to click "Checkout" - assuming it didn't let you get that far, I'd say it's anti-VPN.
As always with Humble Bundle, click
Adjust Donationand move the sliders to your liking.Warning: This bundle is NOT DRM-free like some of Humble's other book offerings. It redeems to a Kobo account. There are, however, methods of de-DRMing Kobo files.
Anyone got takes on any of these?
I recall cryptonomicon as something I read but can't tell you anything about it(or maybe i'm mixing it with something else). Only other thing of his I read was Snow Crash which was really interesting, with some usual issues in the genre.
I've watched silo and while enjoying it get the vibe I probably don't care that much about the book.
Don't think anything else rings any bells.
SevenEves and Anathem are the only other ones I've read.
Weirdly the blurb they have about SevenEves is about the last ~1/3rd of the book. The earlier sections are much more disaster movie-y, though handled better than most disaster movies IMO. There's some criticism that there's a hard cut to several thousand years later and now it's basically an Asimov style "look at this cool future society" but overall I thought it was a good read.
Anathem I remember enjoying but don't remember much of.
Anathem is among my favorite books of all time, and Snow Crash is up there too. Seveneves was good but a very hard read (oppressive). Reamde and DODO were just okay.
This made me realize I've missed a few Stephenson novels.
I read the Silo trilogy and enjoyed them, but I probably wouldn't reread them.
I've only read Anathem and Seveneves, would recommend Anathem but I didn't find Seveneves particularly memorable (to the point where the plot escapes me now I try and think of it). Note though that for Anathem part of what makes this book interesting is figuring out the different world/vocabulary without much explicit explanation, this works for me but isn't everyone's cup of tea.
"Sorry, this promotion is unavailable in your area"... :( No books for the Germans apparently. Is it available in the US?
Not available in UK either.
Nor in Sweden. Maybe it's a us-only thing?
I tried hopping all over the world with Mullvad and it didn't work in Canada, USA, Mexico, Thailand, or anywhere else I tried. Maybe it has some kind of anti VPN measure. Oh, it's tagged as region-locked, but who knows where
Sorry everyone. If I’d known it was unavailable for much of the world I wouldn’t have posted it in the first place.
Where /does/ it work? I'm interested and if I can vpn there, I'll check out the page :)
It works in the US.
Books are always going to be pretty region/market locked due to rights. We've definitely had Humble Bundles listed before and I think they're still useful @kfwyre
I always try and buy direct from author for ebooks where I can. Sometimes it works.
USA here, and I was able to see it just fine. I didn't purchase the pack, but I saw the listings and was able to click "Checkout" - assuming it didn't let you get that far, I'd say it's anti-VPN.
Thanks, I’ll try a private window to get rid of cookies and a few different exit nodes.