Recently Read Books
I suppose it's just another vanity page. But aren't they all?
"Ranking" is out of 1 to 4 stars.
- Charles Stross, Singularity Sky 3 ½ stars.
- Neal Stephenson, The Confusion 3 stars.
- Matt Neuburg, AppleScript: The Definitive Guide 4 stars. You may not want to learn Applescript, but if you need to learn Applescript this is the book.
- Stephen Budiansky, Battle of Wits: The Complete Story of Codebreaking in World War II 3 ½ stars.
- Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver 2 ½ stars.
- E. Milby Burton, The Siege of Charleston, 1861-1865 3 stars.
- Neil Gaiman, American Gods 2 ½ stars.
- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 4 stars.
- Jeff Shaara, The Glorious Cause 3 stars.
- Apple Computer, Learning Carbon 2 stars. Eh. I learned Carbon. I guess.
- Linus Torvalds with David Diamond, Just for Fun 3 stars.
- James Duncan Davidson, Learning Cocoa with Objective-C 3 stars.
- Steven Pressfield, Gates of Fire 3 stars.
- Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age 2 ½ stars. Not comprehensive in itself, but a useful addition to the history and mythos of Xerox PARC.
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Linked: The New Science of Networks 4 stars. Another must read. Chaos for the next generation.
- Joe Haldeman, The Forever War 2 stars.
- Robert Charles Wilson, The Perseids and Other Stories 2 stars.
- Andrea Butter and David Pogue, Piloting Palm 3 stars.
- Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle 2 ½ stars. I keep giving PKD a chance and I just don't like it.
- W. Richard Stevens, TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols 4 stars.
- David F. Noble, The Religion of Technology 2 stars. Disappointing.
- Charles B. MacDonald, Company Commander 4 stars.
- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled 1 ½ stars. Still better than The Illuminatus.
- David C. Isby, Ten Million Bayonets: Inside the Armies of the Soviet Union 2 stars.
- Byron Farwell, The Gurkhas 3 stars.
- David Kahn, Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes 1939-1943 3 stars.
- Gary V. Vaughn, Ben Elliston, Tom Tromey, Ian Lance Taylor, GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool 3 stars.
- Neal Stephenson, The Big U 2 ½ stars. Highly, highly, bizarre
- Richard Adams, Watership Down 4 stars
- John Keegan, The Second World War 3 ½ stars
- Martin Caiden, The Tigers Are Burning 2 ½ stars
- Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine 3 ½ stars
- William Craig, Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad 4 stars. Oddly, my reading this book had nothing to do with the movie. A very old copy just happened to fall into my possession.
- John Weeks, Men Against Tanks: A History of Anti-Tank Warfare 3 stars
- Gary Field and Peter M. Ridge, The Book of SCSI, 2nd Edition 3 stars
- Stephen King, The Green Mile 3 stars
- Tom Clancy with General Fred Franks Jr. (ret.), Into The Storm 3 stars
- Michael D. Doubler, Closing with the Enemy 4 stars
- Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August 3 ½ stars
- Robert L. Glass, Software Runaways 2 ½ stars
- Damian Conway, Object Oriented Perl 4 stars. Again, a must have, this one for Perl programmers, even if you don't do OOP.
- Tom Clancy with General Chuck Horner (ret.), Every Man a Tiger 4 stars
- W. Curtis Preston, Unix Backup and Recovery 4 stars. If you are a computer professional you must have this book!
- Kenneth Macksey, Guderian: Creator of the Blitzkreig 2 stars. Overly biased in Guderian's favor, provides little real insight to the man. Does well discussing the failures inside the German military.
- Stephen King, Misery 3 stars
- Dave Sim, Church and State, Volume 2 (again) 2 stars
- David L. Farquhar, Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics and Multimedia 3 stars
- Dave Sim, Church and State, Volume 1 (again) 3 stars
- Dan Simmons, Hyperion / The Fall of Hyperion (again) 4 stars. Oh yeah. That's the Dan Simmons I remember.
- Philip K. Dick, Ubik 2 stars
- William Gibson, Mona Lisa Overdrive 1 ½ stars
- Mark Waid and Alex Ross, Kingdom Come 2 stars
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon 3 ½ stars
- Dave Sim, Cerebus (again) 3 stars
- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy 1 star. Ugh. People have dug this for 20 years?
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of The Rings (again) 4 stars
- Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere 3 ½ stars
- Dan Simmons, Endymion / The Rise of Endymion 1 ½ stars. Blech.
- Fred Davis, The Windows95 Bible 2 stars
- William Gibson, Neuromancer (again) 3 stars (barely)
- Michael Johnson and Erik Troan, Linux Application Development 4 stars
- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age (again) 3½ stars
- Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash (again) 4 stars double plus. Brilliant.
- Scott Ballew, Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers 2 stars
- Dave Sim, High Society (again) 4 stars
- Sriram Srinivasan, Advanced Perl Programming 4 stars
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