{"id":402,"date":"2009-07-26T21:27:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T01:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=402"},"modified":"2019-12-07T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T14:13:07","slug":"book-review-rood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2009\/book-review-rood\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Roo’d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Given the title, how could I not read this book?<\/p>\n

I came across this book while browsing feedbooks<\/a> using Stanza<\/a>.\u00a0 For the past couple of months I’ve been reading (free) eBooks<\/a> almost exclusively.\u00a0 At first I was using my NDS<\/a>, and now my iPod Touch<\/a>.\u00a0 Primarily I’ve been reading material from the Baen Free Library<\/a>, but lately I’ve moved over to feedbooks as they have a nice recommendation system which is how I found Roo’d.<\/p>\n

I was hooked within the first few pages.\u00a0 It was a fun and easy read, with plenty of actual technical jargon thrown in and for the most part the jargon was used in a way that made technical sense.\u00a0 You do need to suspend disbelief a little with this story, and there are clearly areas where concepts from the Matrix<\/a> and other popular sci-fi has been re-used and adapted.\u00a0 It has a very similar feel to Little Brother<\/a>, which is another eBook I’d highly recommend.<\/p>\n

You can also purchase a hard copy of this book (paperback) from amazon.com<\/a>.\u00a0 I’m a little surprised by the somewhat hefty price tag on this, considering it is downloadable for free<\/a>.\u00a0 Still, it is nice to know you can get a ‘real book’ version of this – while I’ve been reading lots of eBooks, I still like real books.<\/p>\n

For more information, check out the author’s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the title, how could I not read this book? I came across this book while browsing feedbooks using Stanza.\u00a0 For the past couple of months I’ve been reading (free) eBooks almost exclusively.\u00a0 At first I was using my NDS, and now my iPod Touch.\u00a0 Primarily I’ve been reading material from the Baen Free Library, … Continue reading “Book Review: Roo’d”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}