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This book reads like an AWS certification study guide but with more buzzwords

A Sackett book with a female protagonist? This ought t'be good!

"Mistakes can kill you" is the quintessential L'Amour story condensed to it's essence. It's almost poetic in its brevity.

The second story "Keep Travelin' Ride" was pretty typical L'Amour, but in double time. The protagonist got himself in a really complicated mess, and then it all got resolved just as quick. I wish he would let a main character struggle a little longer, make the payoff more satisfying.

It was unusual in that there were legal issues, and the Texas rangers had to step in to help.

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I've often complained that L'Amour's characters are never conflicted or doubtful. So, the titular story in this book of short stories was refreshing.

The protagonists are tracking a man who shot their friend, and over the course of their hunt they come to doubt whether their cause is just.

This wasn't my favorite Sackett book so far. The story involved a lot of travelling cross country and I had a hard time visualizing the landscapes. He'd often have to make some arduous trek but it would be over in a page or two so it didn't convey the sense of space. The story ended sort of abruptly without much closure too. Hopefully the next Sackett book provides some closure, but so far characters from previous books are barely mentioned. I wish he'd spend a little more time describing the world, and less time monologuing about how sometimes men have to kill each other.

This wasn't my favorite Sackett book so far. The story involved a lot of travelling cross country and I had a hard time visualizing the landscapes. He'd often have to make some arduous trek but it would be over in a page or two so it didn't convey the sense of space. The story ended sort of abruptly without much closure too. Hopefully the next Sackett book provides some closure, but so far characters from previous books are barely mentioned. I wish he'd spend a little more time describing the world, and less time monologuing about how sometimes men have to kill each other.

This wasn't my favorite Sackett book so far. The story involved a lot of travelling cross country and I had a hard time visualizing the landscapes. He'd often have to make some arduous trek but it would be over in a page or two so it didn't convey the sense of space. The story ended sort of abruptly without much closure too. Hopefully the next Sackett book provides some closure, but so far characters from previous books are barely mentioned. I wish he'd spend a little more time describing the world, and less time monologuing about how sometimes men have to kill each other.

After twelve years this book is a little out of date. It mentions a few HTTP RFCs that never got approved (like Snell Link Methods datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-snell-link-method/) and there's no mention of newer techniques like GraphQL or tRPC.

It's still a pretty interesting read so far that still applies to the more abstract concepts in Hypermedia APIs. It would have gone over my head back in 2013, but I can grok it today after building apps on REST for all these years.