programmer! reader! time waster! trying to read more year after year. scifi, philosophy (and the combination of the two), nonfiction, historical, classics
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L'Étranger (French: [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]) is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and …
Needs no introduction, the final chapter is mesmerizing. Absurd.
“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast …
Gerry Adams you son of a gun
A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher …
I counted three times during this quick read my jaw dropped because something was just so revolting to think about past the words on the page. Comfortably uncomfortable throughout with impressive meaning to derive and think about long after the last page. Content warning for those who aren't usually into horror lit like myself
“Masked intruders dragged Jean McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast …
Probably my favorite historical non-fiction I've ever read
One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than 40 languages, …
The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, The …
A breathtaking short novel about the complicated feelings of hate and pity in familial love by an acknowledged Latin American …
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about …
Shelfing for the time being. About half way though. Will pick it up again.
I know this book is the ugly duckling of the series but I really loved the introspective perspective of this story. Think it gets a bad rap from its expectation-adverting release, but aged like a nice, tangy, guilt filled contempt based cheese
It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the …
Phil Resch > Agent K Great book
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles …
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and …
Tracy Kidder recounts the uber-enjoyable events of an engineering team racing to build a microcomputer, making it feel like you're the geeked intern spectating at all the engineers in wonder and delight. The personalities, the hardware, the business, the goofs and the gaffes pull you in and never really lets go. Now, forty years later, the book is old and the technology is practically archaic, however, nothing seems to have really changed.
"The Soul of a New Machine" is a non-fiction book written by Tracy Kidder and published in 1981. It chronicles …