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| Monday Oct, 4 1999 | The prolific sci-fi and fantasy author
Jack Vance is re-publishing his
entire oeuvre in the sixty volume
Jack Vance Integral
Edition.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Monday Sep, 20 1999 | Real Men don't quote Keats. According to these fellas, you should be brushing up your Lenin, Malcolm X, and LBJ instead. And you'd better know how to talk about poker.
to Books by penth |
| Friday Sep, 17 1999 | Independent Reader recomments fifty-five grandmas and a llama. to Books by djinn |
| Tuesday Aug, 31 1999 | The long-anticipated "parallel" novel to Orson Scott Card's seminal Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow is out - unlike the other overpromoted sci-fi yawner this summer, the story more than lives up to its hype.
Go get your copy.. Now. to Books by pjammer |
| Sunday Aug, 29 1999 | I suppose that it could just be me, but somehow I'm not convinced that
The Merriam-Webster and Garfield Dictionary is really such a good idea. to Books by keith |
| Wednesday Aug, 25 1999 | Come out of the water closet and say it loud, "I read in there, and I'm proud!" to Books by machita |
| Tuesday Aug, 24 1999 | Just about anybody can learn something significant from the master of information design, retired Yale University professor Edward Tufte. His three books on the subject of information design, Envisioning Information (1990), The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983), and Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1997) are all unique books which remind us how important information design is to all of us. Read excellent and informative interviews with Tufte at Salon, Fatbrain and Amazon. to Books by gen |
| Wednesday Aug, 4 1999 | Every time I see another "sign up for your free computer" scheme touted in the media, I wonder how long it will be before we're all Nearly Roadkill.
to Books by penth |
| Tuesday Jul, 20 1999 | Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life, the games we play in business and politics, in the bedroom and on the battlefield - games with winners and losers, a beginning and an end. Infinite games are more mysterious - and ultimately more rewarding. Anyone who enjoyed the metaphysical/philosophical musings of Cryptonomicon and Snow Crash should definitely check out James Carse's Finite and Infinite Games - one of the most thoughful and original books on understanding the strange theater we call life. to Books by pjammer |
| Sunday Jul, 18 1999 | You can never have too much obsessive Michael Moorcock worship on the web. At least, that's what the folks at multiverse.org think. to Books by peterb |
| Friday Jun, 25 1999 | Po Bronson's Silicon Valley nonfiction
The Nudist on the Late Shift is out. Unlike most high tech writers who focus on
the movers and shakers, Bronson introduces us to a
cast of vivid unknowns seeking fame and fortune in the last arena of high-octane
capitalism. Riddles of Superachieverland,
an online excerpt from the book, offers a concentrated dose of Bronson's style and anthropological perspective.
to Books by pjammer |
| Wednesday Jun, 2 1999 | Tired of pompous self-help books from self-proclaimed gurus parroting the same platitudes? Self-Helpless : The Greatest Self-Help Books You'll Never Read skewers the entire genre of the self-help industry in just 160 pages. And if you got a chuckle out of just the title, do check out the authors' website for uproariously funny samples from the book.
to Books by pjammer |
| Wednesday May, 19 1999 | Forked Tongue is a biography of Ambrose Bierce, heavily crossreferenced with Bierce's own definitions. to Books by nyarl |
| Monday May, 17 1999 | Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon is out. Go read it.
to Books by joshua |
| Wednesday May, 5 1999 | Readers who loved Ender's Game will be happy to know that Orson Scott Card has been busy: Current projects includes completing a screenplay(!) for the movie version of Ender's Game, as well as a "parallel" novel told through the eyes of Bean entitled "Ender's Shadow," whose first chapter you can read online at the Official Orson Scott Card Website. to Books by pjammer |
| Tuesday May, 4 1999 | In violation of lord-knows-how-many copyright laws, someone has
put a bunch of
Edward Gorey
illustrated books on their webpage. Enjoy them while they last.
to Books by riotnrrd |
| Tuesday Mar, 30 1999 | Read an excerpt from Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson's new book. His in-depth commentary on the operating system wars presents an new point of view, as well. to Books by joshua |
| Tuesday Mar, 9 1999 | Po
Bronson is author of the grim and blisteringly hilarious Wall Street
satire Bombardiers, as well a Silicon Valley novel
whimsically titled The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest. Between
novels, he writes side-splitting commentaries on finance, technology, and
the best online essay on
the dynamics of the venture capital industry.
to Books by pjammer |
| Monday Mar, 8 1999 | There's more going for Southern writing than Flannery O'Connor
and William Faulkner.
to Books by machita |
| Sunday Feb, 28 1999 | Amazon.com readers review Bill Keane's latest Family Circus anthology, Daddy's Cap Is on Backwards. "Keane has proven that a self-aware dialectic of the absurd can rekindle the original existential realization that inspired Kierkegaard and his adherents." to Books by faisal |
| Tuesday Dec, 22 1998 | Jane
Jacobs has spent most of her life
investigating the difficult question of why
some cities stagnate while other cities thrive. to Books by arkuat |
| Jared Diamond went to New Guinea to study bird
evolution and wound up having
a conversation with a native
politician, who ended up asking him "Why did
Europeans develop so much cargo and bring it here,
while we people of New Guinea developed so little
of our own?" Twenty-five years later, he
presented his first attempt at an answer in a
book called
Guns,
Germs, and Steel. The answer, before it
was done, had blown up into a history of the last
thirteen millennia of this planet. to Books by arkuat |
| Sunday Dec, 20 1998 | For those that have read Infinite Jest but were confused, there is help. For those that did not read Infinite Jest, there is also help.
to Books by joshua |
| Wednesday Dec, 16 1998 | Careful with that
massage oil,
Eugene. to Books by magus |
| In search of a good read? Project Gutenberg has
copyright-free books online and for no charge. The perfect alternative to hours and hours of
solitaire on those slow days at the office.
to Books by jacquez |
| Friday Dec, 11 1998 | How
I Found Freedom in an Unfree World is back
in print. Written in the heady hippie days of
1972 by a guy who went on to make a living
teaching people how to get rich off the Federal
Reserve's demolition of the US dollar in the
1970s, this book stands head and shoulders above
its cohorts in the self-help genre.
to Books by arkuat |
| Monday Sep, 28 1998 | In The Unix Philosophy Mike Gancarz succintly describes not the hows but the whys of unix: the History, the Way, and the Attitudes of software engineering in Unix boil down to
a handful of tenets.
This book sits on my shelf between Steve McConnell's Rapid Development and
Peter Salus's A Quarter Century of Unix.
to Books by freeside |
| Monday Sep, 21 1998 | The bleakest face in current horror is that of Thomas Ligotti. A successor to Poe and Lovecraft, Ligotti internalizes the horror. Read his work and realize your own insignificance. to Books by nyarl |
| Friday Sep, 18 1998 | Linda Nagata
is one of the most promising new science-fiction
novelists of the 1990s.
to Books by arkuat |
| East Meets West: The Times reviews former Governor Patten's reflections on Hong Kong. to Books by faisal |
| Thursday Sep, 17 1998 | Show off a Cecil Adams-like knowlege of the origins of practically everything after memorizing Charles Panati's book Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. to Books by joshua |
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