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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 [...]

movie and book review: Robinson in Space by P. Keiller

It was time I watched Robinson in Space, having recently watched the last installment Robinson in Ruins (although some people have objected that this last movie is not one of the Robinson movies). Iain Sinclair says this is not “cinema as we have come to know it”. It isn’t at all. What is it, I [...]

book review: Riotous Assembly by Tom Sharpe

rereading this book after all this years is kind of strange. I read this book for the first time sometimes around 1994, before the first non-apartheid elections in SA. however i can only imagine what it must have been reading it when it was first published in 1971. in 1971 nixon was at the white [...]