Matthew Arnold Stern
Författare till Amiga
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Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Stern, Matthew Arnold
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Matthew Arnold Stern
- Födelsedag
- 1961-07-14
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (för karta)
- USA
- Födelseort
- Encino, California, USA
- Utbildning
- California State University, Northridge
University of California, Los Angeles
Reseda High School - Yrken
- technical writer
- Organisationer
- Toastmasters International
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Distinguished Toast Master
- Kort biografi
- Matthew Arnold Stern is an award-winning writer and public speaker. He has written professionally since 1983 as a technical writer, publicist, and journalist. He published four novels, including Amiga and The Remainders, and a guide to impromptu speaking, Mastering Table Topics. His fifth novel, Christina's Portrait, is nearing completion.
His achievements include a Distinguished Toastmaster award from Toastmasters International. The Remainders came in third place for literary fiction in the 2023 Incipere Awards. For his technical writing, he won a Distinguished Technical Communications award from the Orange County Society of Technical Communication and an Award of Excellence in the International Online Communications Competition.
He has given presentations and readings at the Muzeo, Commodore Los Angeles Super Show, and Fun A Day Reseda, moderated panels at Loscon, and participated in Indie Author Day at the Anaheim Central Library since 2016.
Matthew grew up in Reseda in the San Fernando Valley, where he graduated valedictorian from Reseda High School and earned a Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University, Northridge. He lives in Orange County, California and is married with two children, a granddaughter, and lots of pets.
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Recensioner
The Remainders av Matthew Arnold Stern
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.The book has an interesting plot, with realism around the struggles of mental health and becoming homeless. I appreciated the insights from the two main characters (Dylan and Oliver) and how both their lives were separate but intertwined in some way. Only recommendation I would give is making notes of who is talking. There were ashtricks and names of the chapter to give away who is talking, but the times where both characters are together and switching made it a little difficult. Overall, I enjoyed this book and recommend this highly!… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.Dylan, the main character in this book, is a teen who ends up homeless after dropping out of school and getting kicked out of his house by his mother and step-father. Though life is tough he has found himself a job and a small circle of people who care for him. Unfortunately, one bad decision almost derails everything but instead he is reunited with his absentee father and is able to realize how much he now has in his life. There are some parts of the story that are undeveloped and, perhaps, unnecessary but over-all it is a good read.… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.Overall, an enjoyable story, but it took me a while to get caught up in it (in fact, I almost bailed in the first chapter, but I'm gad I stuck with it). The first chapter had *** BREAK*** every few paragraphs, which I found very annoying. Fortunately, these disappeared after the first few chapters.
Another aspect that I found distracting at first is that every other chapter is a flashback. However, the flashbacks chapters are chronological, and I soon figured out that each one related somehow to the next "current day" chapter.… (mer)
Another aspect that I found distracting at first is that every other chapter is a flashback. However, the flashbacks chapters are chronological, and I soon figured out that each one related somehow to the next "current day" chapter.… (mer)
Det här är en av LibraryThings förhandsrecensioner.I received this book as an Early Reviewer's copy with the understanding this would be a frank review.
I did enjoy this tale about a female programmer who is enticed into creating a programme for the brand new Amiga computer in the 1980s.
As with many novels written in the past decade, the POV hops from chapter to chapter, but in this case it is the same person - Laura - but either in the 1980s or the 2010s. We can see where she was and where she now is as a coder.
The setting for the coding environment is not the "traditional" garage but rather a house filled with strange and frankly unpleasant family members. The precious Amiga is there in the lounge room, and this is the working environment she has to put up with - it certainly sets her up for the future difficult individuals in her life. I
I believe that for any coder who had pinned all their hopes on creating THE ONE CODE that will be bought by companies that will be seen as the perfect code for X, Y or Z activity, this book is for you. Just how hard is a start up company to start up, continue, succeed in the shark infested waters of the binary world? and then to morph into the next best thing - to obtain and maintain market credibility? This book looks at that.
I enjoyed Laura's struggles to become a recognised coder, I liked her family dynamics - happily married what a nice change. I even like the crummy family she lives with when she is programming the Amiga.
But more than this - is the fact that Amiga means more than the computer for it also means Friend in Spanish, and Laura is Spanish and she is developing friendships of both the toxic and the valuable type. Later we see what Amigas friendships mean to Laura's children and in Laura's workplace. Complicated? no, not so much, it falls into place beautifully.
Finally, and if indeed somewhat importantly as far as this reader is concerned, the author wrote this book during NaNoWriMo November 2016 All Hale the dedicated NaNoWriMo writer.… (mer)
I did enjoy this tale about a female programmer who is enticed into creating a programme for the brand new Amiga computer in the 1980s.
As with many novels written in the past decade, the POV hops from chapter to chapter, but in this case it is the same person - Laura - but either in the 1980s or the 2010s. We can see where she was and where she now is as a coder.
The setting for the coding environment is not the "traditional" garage but rather a house filled with strange and frankly unpleasant family members. The precious Amiga is there in the lounge room, and this is the working environment she has to put up with - it certainly sets her up for the future difficult individuals in her life. I
I believe that for any coder who had pinned all their hopes on creating THE ONE CODE that will be bought by companies that will be seen as the perfect code for X, Y or Z activity, this book is for you. Just how hard is a start up company to start up, continue, succeed in the shark infested waters of the binary world? and then to morph into the next best thing - to obtain and maintain market credibility? This book looks at that.
I enjoyed Laura's struggles to become a recognised coder, I liked her family dynamics - happily married what a nice change. I even like the crummy family she lives with when she is programming the Amiga.
But more than this - is the fact that Amiga means more than the computer for it also means Friend in Spanish, and Laura is Spanish and she is developing friendships of both the toxic and the valuable type. Later we see what Amigas friendships mean to Laura's children and in Laura's workplace. Complicated? no, not so much, it falls into place beautifully.
Finally, and if indeed somewhat importantly as far as this reader is concerned, the author wrote this book during NaNoWriMo November 2016 All Hale the dedicated NaNoWriMo writer.… (mer)
Statistik
- Verk
- 2
- Medlemmar
- 13
- Popularitet
- #774,335
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 8
- ISBN
- 2
