natalinajune rated Religion for atheists: 4 stars
Religion for atheists by Alain de Botton
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers …
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natalinajune rated Old Man’s War: 4 stars
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #1)
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in …
natalinajune rated The Hacker Crackdown: 3 stars
natalinajune rated Snow Crash: 4 stars
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosaNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. …
natalinajune rated The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: 5 stars
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Trilogy of Five, #1)
Thirty years of celebrating the comic genius of Douglas Adams ...
On 12 October 1979 the most remarkable book ever …
natalinajune rated The Player of Games: 5 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks (Culture, part 2)
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
natalinajune rated Peopleware: 4 stars
Peopleware by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Dorset House
Few books in computing have had as profound an influence on software management as Peopleware. The unique insight of this …
natalinajune rated Rise of the videogame zinesters: 4 stars
Derek Diedricksen: Humble homes, simple shacks, cozy cottages, ramshackle retreats, funky forts, and whatever the heck else we could squeeze in here ... (2012, Lyons Press)
Humble homes, simple shacks, cozy cottages, ramshackle retreats, funky forts, and whatever the heck else we could squeeze in here ... by Derek Diedricksen
"This Old House meets Wayne's World in this zany guide to designing and building tiny homes Derek Diedricksen has always …
natalinajune rated Program or be Programmed: 3 stars
Program or be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
"The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for …
natalinajune rated Sewer gas and its influence upon health: 4 stars
natalinajune rated Synners.: 4 stars
natalinajune rated Survivor: 3 stars
Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk
Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in …
natalinajune rated The Cyberiad: 4 stars
The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem (A Continuum book)
natalinajune rated Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom: 3 stars
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Jules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and …