Levent Mollamustafaoglu
@leventmolla.bsky.social
Writer and Translator, Retired Industrial Engineer and Academician. Developed software and managed software projects for 45 years. Nowadays developing iOS software with SwiftUI and slowly writing historical novels.
Typical John Grisham court drama when three inexperienced lawyers take on a large drug company to court for alleged deaths. Very similar to other books by Grisham but enjoyable still.
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The Litigators
Oscar Finley: street cop turned street lawyer. Wally Fi…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Typical John Grisham court drama when three inexperienced lawyers take on a large drug company to court for alleged deaths. Very similar to other books by Grisham but enjoyable still.
www.goodreads.com/book/show/11...
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The letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq sent during his 8 years of duty as Emperor Ferdinand's Ambassador to the Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent stands out as a flowing narrative and a good insight into the relationship between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
A native of western Flanders, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq…
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November 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq sent during his 8 years of duty as Emperor Ferdinand's Ambassador to the Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent stands out as a flowing narrative and a good insight into the relationship between Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
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Melvin Mars is a football player and he has been selected for the NFL. However, before he has a chance to start a successful career, he is arrested for the murder of his parents and gets the death penalty. His lawyer works for several years without any result.
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The Last Mile (Amos Decker, #2)
Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the las…
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November 6, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Melvin Mars is a football player and he has been selected for the NFL. However, before he has a chance to start a successful career, he is arrested for the murder of his parents and gets the death penalty. His lawyer works for several years without any result.
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The story covers the 30 years of Afghanistan as the country goes through an enormous transformation as the different ethnic factions and finally the Taliban take government. It is a moving story of friendship, prejudices, cowardice, trust and betrayal.
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The Kite Runner
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely …
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November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
The story covers the 30 years of Afghanistan as the country goes through an enormous transformation as the different ethnic factions and finally the Taliban take government. It is a moving story of friendship, prejudices, cowardice, trust and betrayal.
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This post covers the book that was used for the Hulu adaptation, the series itself and the sequel book. I'm also covering the real-life situations similar to what is depicted in the book/series. #handmaidstale #thetestaments #margaretatwood #theocracy #womensrights
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Gilead Is Already Here
The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
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November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This post covers the book that was used for the Hulu adaptation, the series itself and the sequel book. I'm also covering the real-life situations similar to what is depicted in the book/series. #handmaidstale #thetestaments #margaretatwood #theocracy #womensrights
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A rather wordy story about how a French Count, imprisoned for his opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte, clings to life with the help of a tiny flower, with the background story is of Napoleon taking sovereignty of the Piedmonte region of Italy.
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Picciola
Xavier Boniface Saintine (born Joseph Xavier Boniface) …
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November 3, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A rather wordy story about how a French Count, imprisoned for his opposition to Napoleon Bonaparte, clings to life with the help of a tiny flower, with the background story is of Napoleon taking sovereignty of the Piedmonte region of Italy.
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This book starts as a fantasy book with a strange king who keeps forgetting things after he has an episode and his acolytes who don't seem to be too keen for him to remember what he forgot. They keep bringing in candidates for a queen, but this always seems to fail.
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The Kept King
Autumn has come to the kingdom of Harlow’s Hill. Leaves…
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November 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This book starts as a fantasy book with a strange king who keeps forgetting things after he has an episode and his acolytes who don't seem to be too keen for him to remember what he forgot. They keep bringing in candidates for a queen, but this always seems to fail.
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With the Red Queen getting ready to invade the Tear for Kelsea's refusal to honor an agreement to ship people to Mort, she is trying to understand the history of Tear during visions in which she is living the life of Lily, a woman before the passing into the Tear.
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The Invasion of the Tearling (The Queen of the Tearling…
Kelsea Glynn is the Queen of the Tearling. Despite her …
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November 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
With the Red Queen getting ready to invade the Tear for Kelsea's refusal to honor an agreement to ship people to Mort, she is trying to understand the history of Tear during visions in which she is living the life of Lily, a woman before the passing into the Tear.
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I have covered three films in this post: Il Treno dei Bambini by Viola Ardene, Zardoz by John Boorman and Prometheus by Ridley Scott. #ridleyscott #johnboorman #violaardone #prometheus #zardoz #iltrenodeibambini
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Films Watched - 5
Film Reviews
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October 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I have covered three films in this post: Il Treno dei Bambini by Viola Ardene, Zardoz by John Boorman and Prometheus by Ridley Scott. #ridleyscott #johnboorman #violaardone #prometheus #zardoz #iltrenodeibambini
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Will Robie works for a secret agency within the bowels of the government to eliminate threats that can't be handled through regular means. His mission goes awry when he refuses to kill the woman he is assigned to kill and a sniper kills the woman and her child.
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The Innocent (Will Robie, #1)
America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, …
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October 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Will Robie works for a secret agency within the bowels of the government to eliminate threats that can't be handled through regular means. His mission goes awry when he refuses to kill the woman he is assigned to kill and a sniper kills the woman and her child.
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Interesting novel about the Indian psyche, Nepalese insurgency, the conflict between traditional Indians and Westernized ones, so worthwhile to read. It is a quiet, slow-paced novel which simultaneously tells several stories with common characters and traits.
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The Inheritance of Loss
In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kan…
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October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Interesting novel about the Indian psyche, Nepalese insurgency, the conflict between traditional Indians and Westernized ones, so worthwhile to read. It is a quiet, slow-paced novel which simultaneously tells several stories with common characters and traits.
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A complex story that requires attention. Not all mysteries are solved, there are hooks to sequels and it introduces a lot of concepts about Artificial Intelligence, Cyberspace, the nature of humanity and artificiality, computers evolving to a different level.
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The Hyperion Omnibus (Hyperion Cantos, #1-2)
Together in one volume for the first time, the first tw…
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October 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
A complex story that requires attention. Not all mysteries are solved, there are hooks to sequels and it introduces a lot of concepts about Artificial Intelligence, Cyberspace, the nature of humanity and artificiality, computers evolving to a different level.
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A man comes back to Alaska after a 20-year gap, having moved away after his family was dead in a plane accident. He visits his aunt and their family homestead outside the city centre. He finds a young woman who has been living in their house for the last 10 years.
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The House of Frozen Dreams
Set in the stunning, eerie Alaskan mountains, this is a…
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October 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
A man comes back to Alaska after a 20-year gap, having moved away after his family was dead in a plane accident. He visits his aunt and their family homestead outside the city centre. He finds a young woman who has been living in their house for the last 10 years.
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Will Robie is given the task to pursue Jessica Reel, who has killed two of the colleagues in the covert organisation planning the hits and has gone outside the grid.
Conspiracy theories, terrorism, enmity and competition between rival security agencies...
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Conspiracy theories, terrorism, enmity and competition between rival security agencies...
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The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
Will Robie is a master of killing.A highly skilled assa…
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October 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Will Robie is given the task to pursue Jessica Reel, who has killed two of the colleagues in the covert organisation planning the hits and has gone outside the grid.
Conspiracy theories, terrorism, enmity and competition between rival security agencies...
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Conspiracy theories, terrorism, enmity and competition between rival security agencies...
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This debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova is written in a style reminiscent of 19th century novels, namely narrative-within-narrative, using letters, diaries and other means to tell parts of the story to the audience and a long, slow-paced narrative.
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The Historian
To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Lat…
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October 21, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This debut novel by Elizabeth Kostova is written in a style reminiscent of 19th century novels, namely narrative-within-narrative, using letters, diaries and other means to tell parts of the story to the audience and a long, slow-paced narrative.
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Brian Greene is taking on the concept of parallel worlds. The math and physics used is much heavier than in his other books, but he has a way of explaining these in an understandable language. The concepts are a bit mind-boggling, but that's expected.
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The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Law…
From the best-selling author of The Elegant Universe an…
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October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Brian Greene is taking on the concept of parallel worlds. The math and physics used is much heavier than in his other books, but he has a way of explaining these in an understandable language. The concepts are a bit mind-boggling, but that's expected.
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The conclusion to the Mistborn Trilogy starts slowly and gets close to boring. Then it speeds up, all the mysteries are solved and for once a Trilogy is properly finished.
I found the ending too transcendental (think of Lost without the terrible final episode)
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I found the ending too transcendental (think of Lost without the terrible final episode)
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The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)
"Description contains spoilers for previous book in the…
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October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The conclusion to the Mistborn Trilogy starts slowly and gets close to boring. Then it speeds up, all the mysteries are solved and for once a Trilogy is properly finished.
I found the ending too transcendental (think of Lost without the terrible final episode)
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I found the ending too transcendental (think of Lost without the terrible final episode)
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The world of firemen feeding the coal-based engines of ships and the capitalists who own everything that they work with.
There is a whiff of socialism/social realism but the play fails to provide a message about the inevitability of a socialist triumph.
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There is a whiff of socialism/social realism but the play fails to provide a message about the inevitability of a socialist triumph.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The world of firemen feeding the coal-based engines of ships and the capitalists who own everything that they work with.
There is a whiff of socialism/social realism but the play fails to provide a message about the inevitability of a socialist triumph.
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There is a whiff of socialism/social realism but the play fails to provide a message about the inevitability of a socialist triumph.
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Short notes and links for new AI models in September 2025. #openai #anthropic #mistral #gpt5codex #sora2
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AI Updates - September 2025
Generative AI
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October 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Short notes and links for new AI models in September 2025. #openai #anthropic #mistral #gpt5codex #sora2
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This is Dawkins' main treatise against religion, especially the idea of God. He first tries to discredit agnosticism by showing that its reasoning is not more logical or convincing than that of religion or some extreme offshoots of it such as creationism.
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Homepage 2025 | Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science
Teaching the Value of Science and Advancing Secularism Founded in 2006 by Richard Dawkins, the foundation’s mission is to realize Richard’s vision to remove ...
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October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is Dawkins' main treatise against religion, especially the idea of God. He first tries to discredit agnosticism by showing that its reasoning is not more logical or convincing than that of religion or some extreme offshoots of it such as creationism.
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Really good - and explosive - ending to the series. It's a pity that Larsson is dead and can not write more books. Intensely enjoyed the series, very unlike typical Swedish authors....
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October 6, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Really good - and explosive - ending to the series. It's a pity that Larsson is dead and can not write more books. Intensely enjoyed the series, very unlike typical Swedish authors....
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Larsson portrays a Sweden which is really different from that of Henning Mankell. Russian defectors, secret security apparatus, test of democracy and journalism in modern Sweden.
Really a treat! It's a pity that there will be no more books by the deceased Larsson.
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Really a treat! It's a pity that there will be no more books by the deceased Larsson.
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October 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Larsson portrays a Sweden which is really different from that of Henning Mankell. Russian defectors, secret security apparatus, test of democracy and journalism in modern Sweden.
Really a treat! It's a pity that there will be no more books by the deceased Larsson.
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Really a treat! It's a pity that there will be no more books by the deceased Larsson.
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Stieg Larsson's style is very much unlike Henning Mankell in the characters he has created. This is a much less sombre view of Sweden, rather a view that looks at Sweden as a modern, industrialized country with its share of violent crimes and its history of Nazism.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Stieg Larsson's style is very much unlike Henning Mankell in the characters he has created. This is a much less sombre view of Sweden, rather a view that looks at Sweden as a modern, industrialized country with its share of violent crimes and its history of Nazism.
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A divorced woman having difficulty to admit that she has lost her husband... A babysitter that has disappeared... A psychiatrist that seems to be too involved with his patient... All these are somewhat complex characters that interact in this depressive novel.
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September 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
A divorced woman having difficulty to admit that she has lost her husband... A babysitter that has disappeared... A psychiatrist that seems to be too involved with his patient... All these are somewhat complex characters that interact in this depressive novel.
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Intelligent computers, government contracts, defense contractors, transferring human intelligence to quantum computers, lots of concepts bundled together in a book with a shot of action on top of it, and you have a second-class Dan Brown-like novel.
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The Footprints of God
This "alarming, believable, and utterly consuming" (bes…
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September 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Intelligent computers, government contracts, defense contractors, transferring human intelligence to quantum computers, lots of concepts bundled together in a book with a shot of action on top of it, and you have a second-class Dan Brown-like novel.
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