Anatole Pierre Fuksas

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- The Black Swan (743)
- The Impact of the Highly Improbable
- By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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- The Culture of Fear (25)
- Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
- By Barry Glassner
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The Culture of Fear

Very very interesting and insightful reading about how non motivated fears determine consumer behaviors and orient people habits.

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- The Long Tail (552)
- Why the future of business is selling less of more
- By Chris Anderson
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The Long Tail

How individual likings affect cultural systems since internet based cultural marketing made it possible for basically everybody everywhere to reach deeper layers of back catalogs.

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- The Tipping Point (1409)
- How Little Things Can Make a Difference
- By Malcolm Gladwell
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The Tipping Point

Epidemiology explaining cultural change. Much needed, really. It gives a chance to cultural investigation to overcome gradualism and worship punctuated equilibria.

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- The World Is Flat (1170)
- A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
- By Thomas L. Friedman
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The World Is Flat

The book defining a new economical framework entailing plenty of cultural implication, basically establishing a new concept of globalization based on individual behaviors and likings.

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- Bambi vs. Godzilla (12)
- On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business (Vintage)
- By David Mamet
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- Collapse (479)
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
- By Jared Diamond
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- Deception Point (1137)
- By Dan Brown
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- Guns, Germs and Steel (732)
- The Fates of Human Societies
- By Jared M. Diamond
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- Collapse (479)
- How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
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- The Bourne Identity (238)
- By Robert Ludlum
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The Bourne Identity

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Bourne Delusion

Too much redundancy. The startup of the novel is slow and quite boring. The meet-cute with the female character is great, but the development of the relationship is shaky. She querulously asks him some hundred times to let her go, instead of assuming a personal approach to the kidnapping, say ironic ... (continue)

Too much redundancy. The startup of the novel is slow and quite boring. The meet-cute with the female character is great, but the development of the relationship is shaky. She querulously asks him some hundred times to let her go, instead of assuming a personal approach to the kidnapping, say ironic, scared, whatever. Then she changes his judgment just because Bourne saves her from rape, and certain murder, after putting her in the position of been raped and murdered. Emotional arch is so precarious Ludlum has to help it by repiting 10 times why she is so eager to help him. From a spy story you expect stone-solid plot, so that you can enjoy diversions. Besides, Bourne is always a step beyond action and his relationship with the impact character is based on a very lazy and late coming bonding-event. Moreover, the identity-issue is pretty much boring since you never really fear Bourne is actually a bad guy and you don't care that much about his past. It's very surprising how novels intended for mass marked can be so lazy and badly assembled. It basically looks like an amateurial work in need of a good editor.

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- Men and Cartoons (23)
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- By Jonathan Lethem
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Men and Cartoons

quite fun :D

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- I Am Charlotte Simmons (134)
- By Tom Wolfe
- Finished in 2007
  
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I Am Charlotte Simmons

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Education in the Age of Social Pressure

terrific, genial, I loved it!

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- The Good Life (54)
- By Jay McInerney
- Finished in 2007
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- Digital fortress (1194)
- By Dan Brown
- Finished in 2006
  
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Digital fortress

Massmarket Digital Prison

I loved this novl, probably because I was in DC while reading it and every place described in the novel was so vivid and present to my senses. The main character fits typical likings of mine and the male coprotagonist is into academics, namely linguistics, as I am! I love the fact that Brown based t ... (continue)

I loved this novl, probably because I was in DC while reading it and every place described in the novel was so vivid and present to my senses. The main character fits typical likings of mine and the male coprotagonist is into academics, namely linguistics, as I am! I love the fact that Brown based terrific thriller stories on geeky characters. That's probably part of the reason why he is successful, since readers are geeks by definition! Anyway, the style of the novel is adventurous trendy-geek and I liked it a lot. The setup is pure formula, and it works pretty good. The progressive disclosures work as well and the chemistry between main characters is well established, as the pressure operated by the shadow antagonist is. The style is fast and the breakdown of episodes almost resembles the one typically exerted by movie scripts.

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