Carlo Male, 37, Single. Pieve a Nievole, Italy

A good read, Gibson has its own style, cryptic at times, condensed in others and more expansive in others still. The story is gripping enough however I found the end a bit anticlimactic.
It was my first time reading Gibson, and I expected more..

a fitting sequel to Pillars of the Earth. It's also long and it could have lost a couple of hundred pages without loss. Some things are often repeated, maybe for the benefit of readers that enjoy the book a little at a time. However that is difficult to do as it is a real page-turner. Having read th ... (continue)

An interesting overview of how the online world has been changed by social tools like wikipedia. It offers also many examples of how those tools interact with the "real world", dispelling -if it were necessary- the media-induced idea that "cyberspace" and everyday life don't mix.
It is a good r ... (continue)

A story of PARC, the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center , that follows both the business and the "people" aspect of the founding and evolution of the institution.
It is written as a story of the people there but the compelling, informed and witty writing bring weave what amount to a page-tur ... (continue)

A good experience, a fine tale and a real page-turner. The transmedia objects that come with the book (personal documents of one of the characthers) and link with online material and actual voicemail numbers are not crucial to the storyline and will not spoil the story, but they do add an additional ... (continue)

To tell the truth I listened to the free podcast available at www.scottsigler.com, and I listened to the last chapter while also reading the last few pages on the book. But I have decided this counts as "reading".
I highly reccomend Sigler's books to anyone who like Michale Chricton, Tom Clanc ... (continue)

150 pages that wittingly sum up what marketing is today, and has been through the ages. Could be ideal as a quick and dirty eye opener for people that work in marketing "by mistake" and need to be quickly brought up to speed on the demands and needs of today's markets.

It's what you would expect from a "commercial" fantasy, a smart remix of elements from various stories with schemes that closely recall LOTR and SW.
Having said that, it still is an enjoyable read, gripping in parts and a very good occasion for a stroll down "fantasy lane". Not "literature" ma ... (continue)

Over the Years Turow has mastered even more the art of telling stories, not law thrilles but real people stories. The law is still there as a guide, but it is not the main character.
Ordinary Heroes is in the line of The Laws of Our Fathers, but set during WWII with a very good rendition of the ... (continue)

Interesting in some parts, with some new ideas. Unfortunately it lacked some thorough editing to remove several repetitions of some concepts that get reinstated time and time again.
Could be a good tool to explain web 2.0 / collaboration to someon with no experience of it, for people familiar w ... (continue)

I listened to the podcast of Infected some months ago, when it was still titled Infection. I'm re-listening to it during my daily commute and I'm finally able to read it the good old fashioned way. I simply had to buy the actual book given all the fun I'd had by listening to the podcast.
I don ... (continue)

Zahn's book is yet another page turner, quite enjoyable and well blended in the SW universe. Going back to the origins of already-developed characters he draws a credible (even within SF) story. And Anakin... is as unsufferable a prick as in the movies.

The books follows the tried and true Turow's tracks mixing the main charachter's private life with his work as a judge.

The crescendo of thrill that usually culminates in a enjoyablke climax is missing in this Crichton book. The story is thought-provoking and well told, but the thrill is limited.

Actually I listened to the story as a free podcast before buying the book. Great story, very well narrated and if you buy the book the author lets you download a free soundtrack for the book itself. Phil Rossi is both a writer and a musician.

Fascinating read. It was written in 2002 and yet in a way it prophesizes the web2.0 (social web) as if it were already in fulls swing as it is now 5 years later.

Not technical and very interesting.

A speedy, yet thoughtful, ride in Hamlet country. Bloom pauses over the most pregnant passages of the play and discloses several keys for reading, but it doesn't impose his own truth, leaving the reader to create his own impression.
Lighter, yet more profound maybe, than "Shakespeare the inve ... (continue)

"If you don't care about the networks, the networks will take care about you." This sentence from the books motivates Castells' work. Internet Galaxy examines various aspects of the network society and should be required reading for anyone living in this new millennium.

A deeply interesting book that analyzes each and every one of Shakespeare's plays showing how the Bard "invented" the human as we know it. In terms of a being capable of self reflection and self evolution.
At times it is heavy going, but the parts about Falstaff, Hamlet and Macbeth are really e ... (continue)

So far so good, strange prose, cryptic sometime. Oedipa lives in a really strange world, seemingly because she sees it like that.
But it's considered a Canonic book, so I decided to give it a try.
It is a slow start, then it grips you and then slows a bit in the last 10 pages. A nice read ... (continue)

Fast reading material, it is quite similar to other books like Sabre Squadron and Immediate Action, but takes a more historic approach detailing and documenting dates and people, yet it remains a gripping tale and a page turner without recurring to fiction.

The final considerations are dated 2 ... (continue)

Actually the 2007 reading was a listening of the free podcast (available at the author's website www.scottsigler.com), this is a limited hardcover edition, 3000 signed copies. This is copy #306.