Blog, Page 31

I found Amusing Ourselves to Death to be deeply insightful and profound. Technopoly, much less so. There are a few great ideas in this book, as Postman is a stron...

The good Deep, interesting characters who feel alive. An interesting look at life in 1950s Naples. Well-written. The not so good...

I thought the first book in this series, Vicious, was great; I think I liked this second book even better. The characters are great, both the ones coming back fro...

The good Some cool concepts and premises: jaunting, or personal teleportation, that allows you to travel by thought alone; humans living across the solar...

Another entertaining entry in the series, with all the same strengths and weaknesses. What I wrote in my review of the 5th book in the series holds more or less 1...

An entertaining and interesting read on Lincoln’s assassination. It made me realize just how little I knew about this famous event. It’s reasonably well-written, ...

I enjoyed this one a bit more than the first book in the series: the characters are already introduced, so it’s much less all over the place than the last book. T...

A clear, comprehensive guide to the fundamentals of strength training, and how to craft routines (“programming”) that work for novice, intermediate, and advanced ...

The good A fascinating inside look at the world of professional tennis. Here are some of the items I found especially interesting: Agassi says, over and...

A superb entry in the saga. All the characters you love are back; the action scenes are exciting and tense; the plot twists and turns unpredictably, and as this s...