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Prey, Michael Crichton [book review]

Certainly the first novel about nano technology that I remember reading, and a very engaging one, I am not a fan of Michael Crichton, this is the first book I ever read. Great experience, I remember I read it in record time almost holding my breath through it.

IBM and the holocaust, Edwin Black [book review]

I don’t mean to undermine the excellent work of the author Mr. Black, I commend his efforts to bring to light a very dark corner of the Nazi era and the sinister connections between German Nazi and world corporations, however personally I found this book too hard to read. I don’t want to be unfair, [...]

Neal Stephenons new book REAMDE 20/09/2011

I just discovered that Neal Stephenson has a new book coming out in Sept 2011, REAMDE, looks like it’s based on README the typical text file we all know and most of people ignore. There is a sneak preview available on Facebook (why Neal, why not venture into Google+ instead of the empire of evil [...]

Kindle. Man’s best friend!

I love my Kindle! First of all since I bought a 109gbp kindle (wifi no 3g) I have read more books than I had done in the previous year. It’s a light and tiny device, with a monster battery life, that follows me everywhere I go,  carrying inside  a big load of books. Whenever there [...]

Deus Irae, P.K. Dick and R. Zelazny

In the days before the Japan quake and tsunami I was reading Deus Irae on my Kindle. Occasionally I would check my vintage “Libra” italian edition to check the translation of passages – sometimes I didn’t entirely agree with the translation. Then the quake happened. Besides the sadness for the people of Japan and for [...]