Archive for 'Books'
MetaGame by Sam Landstrom
Posted on 16 Dec 2009 in Books
First book I’ve read on the Amazon Kindle 2. Really enjoyed this one, some good near future Cyberpunk(ish) ideas. Recommended.
American Psycho
Posted on 01 Sep 2009 in Books
Just catching up on my long and poorly serviced reading list. About to finish American Psycho. Much more gore than the film – but lots of time wasted on detail for the sake of detail.
Personality Not Included
Posted on 27 May 2008 in Books
Why Companies Lose Their Authenticity And How Great Brands Get it Back – written by a former colleague of mine, Rohit Bhargava.
Top 100 Sci-Fi Books
Posted on 20 Aug 2007 in Books, Science Fiction
Great list, I have lots of reading to do.
http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books_rank1.html
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
Posted on 01 Jul 2007 in Books, Science Fiction
Excellent sci-fi. Highly recommended.
London by London: The Insider’s Guide (2nd Edition) [Paperback] by Pond, Graham
Posted on 28 Jun 2006 in Books
A Da Vinci Code Tour > London
Posted on 06 Jul 2004 in Books
As the Temple Church (Knights of Templar) from the Da Vinci Code is reasonably close to my office, I thought I might take the bus down to Fleet Street and check it out today:
http://www.fodors.com/features/nfdisplay1.cfm?name=si/040420_si_davincicode_london.cfm
The Da Vinci Code
Posted on 01 May 2004 in Books
I finished reading The Da Vinci Code a couple of weeks ago. Loved it, highly recommended. The article contains a slight spoiler though and is probably best avoided if you haven’t read the book yet.
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224590902.html
1,000 Places to See Before You Die
Posted on 11 Mar 2004 in Books, Travel
This is a great book! Nicely arranged with fantastic suggestions of the world’s great sites to see and experience. It’s not just a list of tourist attractions or a backpacker style guide of where to stay, instead each place has a succint useful description of what is special about it and why you should go. I’m sure I’ll refer to this many times over the coming years when selecting travel destinations. While it certainly doesn’t replace a detailed Lonely Planet guide on your specific destination, this book will help highlight what is special about a place before you go and fork out for the Lonely Planet and book your flights. It’s nice to have a single volume covering the whole world, with the all the work done narrowing a list of the best places to visit, that you might just finish in your lifetime. The list is not limited to places, but covers events too such as Canervale in Venice, or the Chelsea Flower Shower in the UK. It’s hefty at 972 pages and has Amazon sales rank of 76! A quick flick through reveals a score of 48 places visited by us so far, only 952 to go.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0761104844/anthonyjhickscom
Singlefile
Posted on 22 May 2003 in Books, Internet
I quite like Singlefile, an online book collection organiser. Just enter the ISBN of each of your books and keep track of what you’ve read, where they are, and to whom you’ve lent books. You can also share your list with others. It’s lucky that the trial account only allows 25 books, otherwise I’d find it too easy to procrastinate my way into entering my entire collection instead of working on my international business assignment. Nice idea.. but US$19.95 is a little too pricey for me, but then again.. with the Aussie dollar the way it has been the past few days, I guess the price isn’t too bad. (Also note site design is by 37signals) [via CM]
UPDATE: Only getting about a 40% success rate on ISBN numbers entered, perhaps this is due to a out-of-date or heavily Americanised ISBN database that doesn’t hold many UK or Australian editions. I thought ISBN was supposed to be international.
Yellow Feather
Posted on 18 May 2003 in Books
Hah, nice!
http://www.the-fix.org/archives/2003_05_17.html#002042
Booklist for the next few months
Posted on 03 Dec 2002 in Books
CM bought over some books he’d finished reading, so I’ve added those to the top of the to-read pile which now contains:
The Cluetrain Manifesto (Levine et al), High Stakes, No Prisoners (Ferguson), The First $20 million is Always the Hardest (Bronson), The New New Thing (Lewis), Small Pieces Loosely Joined (Weinberger), Class (Fussell), East and West (Patten), The Richest Man in Babylon (Clason), The Lexus and the Olive Tree (Friedman), and How to Think About Weird Things (Schick et al).
I’ve had to take about a dozen books off the pile as I’ll never get around to finishing them. Add to that several Java books and my uni texts on International Marketing and Consumer Behaviour. Plenty to get through over the coming months.
How the world sees Americans
Posted on 08 Nov 2002 in Books
Salon.com: “Journalist Mark Hertsgaard travelled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. It’s the world’s superpower, Hertsgaard stresses, that has a childlike understanding of everyone else.”
http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/11/06/hertsgaard/index.html?x
“Can you dumb it down a bit for me?”
Posted on 24 Oct 2002 in Books, Daily
Just looking at my Google referrers, it amuses me that so many people come to this site looking for summaries of The Richest Man in Babylon and Who Moved My Cheese. Ok, maybe I’ll let Babylon go as it is a whole 143 pages long, but needing a summary of Who Moved My Cheese is inexcusable.
O’Reilly has accepted my book proposal!
Posted on 18 Oct 2002 in Books, Daily
Here’s the book cover artwork, however I think it’ll be a long time before I ever get around to finishing it. [Thanks to Jay Link
http://anthonyjhicks.com/stuff/bookcover.jpg
Galaxy Bookshop online!
Posted on 07 Mar 2002 in Books, Pop Culture
Yay, Galaxy finally has web site with all products online!
Who Moved My Cheese?
Posted on 12 Dec 2001 in Books, Pop Culture
Just read “Who Moved My Cheese?”. It’s interesting how a story about cheese can communicate so much. It sets you thinking on a number of levels about your personal comfort zone and willingness to embrace change. (Sales rank of 91 at Amazon too!)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0399144463
The Lexus and the Olive Tree : Understanding Globalization
Posted on 09 Jul 2001 in Books, Pop Culture
I’m currently reading Friedman’s well known book on Globalisation, The Lexus and the Olive Tree. It’s an entertaining and intelligent book, highly recommended. I’ll write a proper review when I finish it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0385499345
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