Mauro started reading American Pastoral by Philip Roth
As the American century draws to an uneasy close, Philip Roth gives us a novel …
Got this as a birthday present, didn't know anything about it, but so far it's quite good!
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Mauro wants to read Atomic Design by Brad Frost
Atomic Design by Brad Frost
We're tasked with making interfaces for more users in more contexts using more browsers on more devices with more screen …
Mauro wants to read Don't make me think! by Steve Krug
Don't make me think! by Steve Krug
Yesterday's Web looked far different from today's Web, and tomorrow's Web will look more different still. Amidst all of this …
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition by Julie Mazel Sussman, Harold Abelson, Gerald J Sussman, and 2 others
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Edition (SICP JS) is an adaptation of the computer science textbook Structure and …
Mauro wants to read A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
Mauro started reading Roadside Picnic by Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий (Best of Soviet Science Fiction)
Roadside Picnic by Аркадий Натанович Стругацкий, Борис Натанович Стругацкий (Best of Soviet Science Fiction)
Roadside Picnic is set in the aftermath of an extraterrestrial event called the Visitation that took place in several locations …
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs: JavaScript Edition by Julie Mazel Sussman, Harold Abelson, Gerald J Sussman, and 2 others
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, JavaScript Edition (SICP JS) is an adaptation of the computer science textbook Structure and …
Mauro wants to read Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
Mauro started reading Night Shift by Stephen King
Night Shift by Stephen King
Stephen King has brought together nineteen of his most unsettling short pieces--bizarre tales of dark doing and unthinkable acts from …
Mauro wants to read Art: The Whole Story by Stephen Farthing
Mauro started reading 12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos is a 2018 self-help book by Canadian …
Let's see what this is all about. I'm curious about the figure of Peterson as he's quite controversial.
EDIT: Not sure if I can finish this pile of bigotry.
Mauro reviewed Storia del Design Grafico by Daniele Baroni (La vostra via -- 249)
Daniele Baroni e Maurizio Vitta tracciano la storia della comunicazione grafica dai tempi dell'affiche dei …
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Mi dispiace dover dare un parere negativo all'unico testo di storia del graphic design semi-completo in italiano. A mio avviso nella premessa del libro manca la motivazione della scelta degli autori di far partire la storia del design grafico dalla metà del '700 quando è chiaro che sia un'attività umana che risale alle origini stesse della società (consultando altri testi più esaustivi appare ovvio). Lo stile di scrittura è pessimo: didascalico, spesso lacunoso. In un testo di storia del design grafico le immagini non possono essere così poche e soprattutto così piccole e con didascalie così approssimative, secondo il mio modesto parere.
Pessimo testo, considerando soprattutto il prezzo veramente eccessivo data la qualità. Decente per una lacunosa infarinatura sull'argomento, ma per un testo esaustivo non resta che il Meggs, sperando che in futuro venga tradotto anche in italiano e in un'edizione tascabile, magari.
Mauro started reading Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum (33 1/3, #90)
Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II by Marc Weidenbaum (33 1/3, #90)
Extravagantly opaque, willfully vaporous ― Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, released by the estimable British label Warp Records …
Mauro wants to read Brian Eno's Another Green World by Geeta Dayal (33 1/3, #67)
Brian Eno's Another Green World by Geeta Dayal (33 1/3, #67)
The serene, delicate songs on Another Green World sound practically meditative, but the album itself was an experiment fueled by …
Mauro wants to read Miles Davis' Bitches Brew by Grella, George Jr (33 1/3, #110)
Miles Davis' Bitches Brew by Grella, George Jr (33 1/3, #110)
It was 1969, and Miles Davis, prince of cool, was on the edge of being left behind by a dynamic …