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Michael

mmeier@bookwyrm.mei-home.net

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Computer nerd getting back into the habit of curling up with a good book he so fondly remembers from ages past.

My interests range relatively widely, from history (both, books about history and history novels) over military SciFi to Fantasy to all kinds of technical books.

I prefer long-running series or large universes with dozens of books when it comes to my fiction reading.

My all-time favourites:

  • David Weber's Honorverse. Far and away the best military SciFi out there
  • Rebecca Gable's Waringham series

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Michael's books

To Read (View all 24)

Mike Lee: Fallen Angels (2009, Games Workshop)
Nick Kyme, Lindsey Priestley: Tales of Heresy (EBook, 2009, Black Library)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Guns of the Dawn (2015, Pan Macmillan)

Currently Reading

Dan Abnett: Eisenhorn (Paperback, 2022, Games Workshop)

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Sandy Mitchell: Vainglorious (EBook, Black Library)
Sandy Mitchell: Ciaphas Cain : Choose Your Enemies (Paperback, 2019, Games Workshop)
Sandy Mitchell: Saviour of the Imperium (Paperback, Games Workshop)

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reviewed Legion (The Horus Heresy, #7) by Dan Abnett

Dan Abnett: Legion (The Horus Heresy, #7) (2008)

Another good book, introducing more of the Imperial Army

Another solid book, although I must admit I'm never a fan of plots, schemes and other assorted cloak-and-dagger stuff. But in this book, the reader is rewarded with a new (for the Heresy books) point of view, namely the Imperial Army. Most of the protagonists in this book aren't Astartes, they're human soldiers of the army, and the leader gets a glimpse into their lives.

And while I don't like cloak-and-dagger too much, I can appreciate what the author did here: The Alpha legion is supposed to be very clandestine and secretive. Introducing them not from the PoV of one of their captains but from the PoV of external observers, namely the army, allows the author to keep this aura of secrecy intact. It was nicely done.

reviewed Descent of Angels by Mitchel Scanlon (The Horus Heresy, #6)

Mitchel Scanlon: Descent of Angels (Paperback, 2007, Games Workshop)

The planet of Caliban exists much as it has for thousands of years – the …

Great book, covering some earlier history

This was a great book in the Heresy series. I especially liked it because it was the first one which covered a story, here the Dark Angels and The Lion, from before the Imperium rediscovered them.

reviewed Let's Go by Alex Edwards

Alex Edwards: Let's Go (EBook, 2025, Selfpublished)

Let’s Go teaches you step-by-step how to create fast, secure and maintainable web applications using …

A great second Golang book

This book makes for an excellent second Golang book. I read "Learning Go" as an introduction to Go, but my main goal was to use Go for my web programming needs. So for my second book, I looked around for something with a light web dev introduction with Go. And I found "Let's Go". It covers all of the basics for delivering static HTML. While it covers a lot, from templating to databases and user management, the one major omission is any use of Javascript. But that's fine with me, to be honest. Everything else is covered really well, building a small web app for pasting text snippets.

I especially enjoyed the fact that Alex Edwards chose to not go with one of the big Golang web frameworks. He's instead using mostly the Golang standard library. But he also doesn't shy away from using libraries for targeted tasks, like …