Carlo Pistoia, Italy

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 with the current "web 2.0" situation there are some nuggets, but most information will taste stale. ... (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't like horror really, but Sigler here strikes a good balance between technothriller (think Tom Clancy), hard science (think Michael Chricton) and some Stephen King. It's fun and thrilling, definitely a page turner if not exactly classic literature. But then again I read for for fun...

The 3rd re-reading is actually a re-listening of the free podcast you can find at podiobooks.com.

I would be high time that someone reprinted Earthcore and Ancestor, and brought The Rookie and Nocturnal to the presses... ... (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.

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 invention of the human". A must read if you like Hamlet ... (continue)