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- Flat Earth News
- By Nick Davies
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Reading since Nov 16, 2009
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- The Big Sleep (12)
- (Penguin Modern Classics)
- By Raymond Chandler
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Reading since Sep 26, 2009
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- The Death and Life of Great American Cities (10)
- By Jane Jacobs
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Reading since Oct 18, 2009
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- Next (40)
- By Michael Crichton
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Reading since Jun 22, 2009
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- Digital Ground (1)
- Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
- By Malcolm McCullough
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Finished on Oct 18, 2009
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- Rum Punch (2)
- By Elmore Leonard
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Finished on Sep 26, 2009
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- Underworld (22)
- By Don DeLillo
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Finished on Sep 13, 2009
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- Trainspotting (26)
- By Irvine Welsh
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Finished on Aug 21, 2009
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- The Image of the City (1)
- By Kevin Lynch
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Finished on Aug 8, 2009
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This book literally changes the way you look at cities. It's main argument is delivered in a small number of pages (which is good) but the additional material in the back nicely complements it. I loved the little sketches in the margins that illustrated concepts in the main text and the many maps th ... (continue)
- — Aug 9, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- A Clockwork Orange (97)
- (Penguin Modern Classics)
- By Anthony Burgess
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Finished on Jul 19, 2009
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You don't need me to tell you this is an awesome book. I particularly enjoyed the way Burgess plays with language -- the "nadsat" slang he invented is poetic and gives the book an otherworldly character. I was also struck by the way this book prophesies the way we deal with problematic youth nowaday ... (continue)
- — Jul 19, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- Fight Club (95)
- By Chuck Palahniuk
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Finished on Jun 28, 2009
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1 person find this helpful
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Every bit as good as the film. Scratch that - even better. This book is stylistically inventive, and has a story that hits you like a sledgehammer. It is gruesome and dark, but in a strange way also reassuring.
- — Jun 29, 2009 | Add your feedback
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- City of Thieves (9)
- A Novel
- By David Benioff
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Finished on Jun 21, 2009
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Benioff alternates wry humour with gruesome descriptions of wartime atrocities. Once the book gets going it is hard to put down. Has some likeable characters with proper depth to them.
- — Jun 22, 2009 | Add your feedback
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Digital Ground
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“In the end, the design of technology cannot leave us as spectators or consumers, but must let us actively practice at something, however humble. Taking part in locale is one such activity.”
For anyone who believes design is about more than "problem-solving", the appropriate response to emergi ... (continue)
“In the end, the design of technology cannot leave us as spectators or consumers, but must let us actively practice at something, however humble. Taking part in locale is one such activity.”
For anyone who believes design is about more than "problem-solving", the appropriate response to emerging pervasive technologies is neither neo-Luddism nor uncritical optimism and places hold values beyond that which modern economics accounts for, this is an essential read.
I found it slow-going at first, but from the third section onwards McCullough delivers a passionate argument for the value of interaction design that is grounded in place.
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