A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge
In the mid 90’s my then girlfriend read this book and wouldn’t shut up about it. She even bought me a copy which I immediately lost. She then bought me another copy which I didn’t lose but used to prop up a wobbly desk for 10 years, then lost. Fortunately for me I lost [...]
The Leap by Rick Smith
Back to our normal fare! The Leap by Rick Smith found me via a recommendation somewhere in my RSS feeds (yes, I still read news via RSS every day) and I’m supremely glad I followed up with it. This book should be bundled as a companion piece to The Four Hour Work Week since [...]
The Girl Code by Diane Farr
First off, I don’t know how this got on my Kindle in the first place but let’s assume it was the culmination of whiskey, poor impulse control and Twitter. Most of the things I can’t recall or explain properly over the past few years seem to have that particular set of influences in common [...]
The Think Big Manifesto by Michael Port
My first review of the year is “The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can’t Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again” by Michael Port. While the title of the book is certainly BIG the book itself is quite small. It’s a 166 pages and although the book is hardcover it’s in paperback size so [...]
Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk
My latest book is Crush It! by the ever effervescent Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary is the creator and host of Wine Library TV and one of the most intense people I’ve ever met. He came on the scene a few years ago completely out of nowhere with his video blog and hasn’t slowed down one bit. [...]
Daemon by Daniel Suarez
Today I’m reviewing Daemon by Daniel Suarez. Although this book has been out for several months I’ve only really seen it advertised recently. I read the publishers synopsis I thought it was going to be another poorly written internet goes bad type of book with weak tech references and a thin plot-line so I skipped. [...]
Lols, graphs & FAIL! Oh My!
Last week I received my review copies of Fail Nation: A Visual Romp Through the World of Epic Fails, How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning and Graph Out Loud: Music. Movies. Graphs. Awesome. and I have to say I’m really quite surprised by them. All 3 of these books are [...]