Tag Archives: Reviews
Review: Makers by Cory Doctorow
I loved this book. Forget my review and go get it now, it’s wonderful. If you don’t have the scratch right now, that’s ok: Cory Doctorow walks the talk and has published his book under a creative commons license. You can get “Makers” for free at his site as a pdf, as html, ePub, or as [...]
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Review: Where Men Win Glory
I’ve finished Jon Krakauer’s “Where Men Win Glory: The Oddysey of Pat Tillman” in the air above the middle of America and I’m furious. This story begins with the hero dying and it ends with his betrayal by the people who promised us all they would put our interests above theirs. Krakauer builds a sculpture [...]
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Oh the places you’ll go with your magical phone
Here's my droid review, sort of as a short story. Sort of.
My Best Books of 2009
I like to read. Here are the best books I read this year. Nonfiction Born On A Blue Day & Embracing the Wide Sky by Daniel Tammet Yes, it’s two books, but it’s really about the same subject. Daniel Tammet is an autistic gay savant synesthete. He won the unusualness lottery. The first book is [...]
Books: Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson’s Anathem has been called a space opera, but that seems inaccurate. The characters eventually make it out of the atmosphere, but time is the subject of the book – not space. Some of the best parts are about contemplation, piecing together puzzles and following the threads of deductive logic through to a conclusion. [...]
Surveil me better
I’ve joined the travel site dopplr. It’s pretty simple. Put in trips, connect through them. Useful for the frequent flying types that I’m supposed to become soon. You can see the little badge over there on the left telling you that I’ll be in Mount Snow this weekend. Except that it tells you West Rutland, [...]
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Slave narratives
While Sam and I were in charleston for the wedding, she picked up a book called “My folks don’t want me to talk about slavery” filled with stories by former slaves of what it was like for them and what emancipation was like. Thes stories came about because of one of the things governments can [...]
Books: The City and the City by China Mieville