Bloogs
Book reviews and recommendations
Sunday, 26 December 2010
"The Terminal Man" by Michael Crichton
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Another Crichton. This one is already quite old, published in 1972. The theme is human-machine interfaces and mind control. At the time of p...
Sunday, 14 November 2010
"Fermat's Last Theorem" by Simon Singh
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So, is it possible to write an entertaining book about mathematics, in particular, mathematical proofs? Well, it depends. If you have some i...
Saturday, 6 November 2010
"Next" by Michael Crichton
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In Michael Crichton's last book before his death in 2008, he attempted to sketch a society a few years from now, taking the currently a...
Sunday, 4 July 2010
"Cryptonomicon" by Neal Stephenson
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What an ambitious book! Geek fiction at its best, historical spy thriller and treaty on cryptographic algorithms - what else could you want...
Wednesday, 5 August 2009
"A thousand splendid suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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After "The kite runner" his second novel. Again, it is set in Afghanistan and follows the protagonists through times of peace and,...
"House of God" by Samuel Shem
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I didn't finish this one. I guess the book was quite novel when it came out in the 70's and it probably still is a must-read for eve...
Friday, 4 January 2008
"Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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My first Russian, I have to admit... I think I read the first 80 pages (leading up to the CRIME) or so in one go, it's that captivating....
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