Reviews

At some point in 1995 or 1995 I stared putting up movie reviews on my student web page. They were extremely insincere, with review scores calculated by basically summing up the number of explosions in the film. They are now lost - I don't think even archive has them - which is probably for the best.

When I started the blog however I had the idea of putting up a note - review is too strong a word - on some of the books and other media I spent time with. I did, and have done so on and off, culminating somewhere by the end of 2014, after which I have not put much up. Still have notes on books however, so more may come. Or not. In any case, this page serves as an archive for that project.

• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge [2014-03-25 Tue]
• A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel [2014-07-15 Tue]
• A Little History of The World by E.H. Gombrich [2008-11-28 Fri]
• A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor [2014-04-29 Tue]
• Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson [2014-04-22 Tue]
• Anathem by Neal Stephenson [2010-01-13 Wed]
• Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie [2014-09-16 Tue]
• At Home by Bill Bryson [2010-08-22 Sun]
• Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne [2010-07-22 Thu]
• Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote [2014-06-03 Tue]
• Breaking the Spell - religion as a natural phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett [2008-10-16 Thu]
• Computer Game - Digital: A love story [2010-05-10 Mon]
• Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks [2014-10-14 Tue]
• Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller [2014-06-10 Tue]
• Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener [2014-11-04 Tue]
• Distrust That Particular Flavor by William Gibson [2014-09-02 Tue]
• Embassytown by China Miéville [2014-08-19 Tue]
• Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [2014-07-29 Tue]
• Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman [2014-02-25 Tue]
• Gödel, Escher, Bach - an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter [2007-12-29 Sat]
• How Economics Shape Science by Paula Stephan [2014-07-22 Tue]
• How we became posthuman by N. Katherine Hayles [2017-05-11 Thu]
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons [2014-04-08 Tue]
• Iorich by Steven Brust [2010-08-13 Fri]
• Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges [2014-08-12 Tue]
• Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine [2010-02-11 Thu]
• Last and First of Men by Olaf Stapledon [2009-03-28 Sat]
• Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey [2014-10-28 Tue]
• Logicomix - an epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with art by Alecos Papadatos and Annie Di Donna [2014-09-09 Tue]
• Marshall McLuhan by Douglas Coupland [2010-06-13 Sun]
• Old Man's War by John Scalzi [2014-03-11 Tue]
• One Summer - America 1927, by Bill Bryson [2014-06-24 Tue]
• Osama by Lavie Tidhar [2014-05-20 Tue]
• Payback - Debt and The Shadow Side of Wealth by Margaret Atwood [2014-03-18 Tue]
• Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein [2014-09-23 Tue]
• Påvarna av Göran Hägg [2007-09-30 Sun]
• Redshirts by John Scalzi [2014-11-11 Tue]
• Ringworld by Larry Niven [2009-12-15 Tue]
• Sam and Max Season 1 [2007-09-15 Sat]
• Sam and Max Season 2, Episode 1 [2007-12-14 Fri]
• Shakespeare - The World as Stage by Bill Bryson [2008-02-18 Mon]
• Shop class as soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford [2010-09-28 Tue]
• Slaugtherhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut [2014-07-08 Tue]
• The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton [2008-10-29 Wed]
• The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross [2014-09-30 Tue]
• The Blue Ant Trilogy by William Gibson [2014-07-01 Tue]
• The Children of Húrin by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien [2008-12-12 Fri]
• The Frood by Jem Roberts [2015-01-13 Tue]
• The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry [2014-12-16 Tue]
• The Immortalization Commission by John Gray [2014-05-13 Tue]
• The Information by James Gleick [2014-02-11 Tue]
• The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross [2015-02-03 Tue]
• The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli [2014-04-01 Tue]
• The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin [2014-06-17 Tue]
• The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury [2014-05-06 Tue]
• The Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver [2014-04-15 Tue]
• The Old Ways by Robert MacFarlane [2015-01-27 Tue]
• The Peripheral by William Gibson [2015-01-06 Tue]
• The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks [2014-11-25 Tue]
• The Red Notebook by Paul Auster [2009-04-11 Sat]
• The Road Headed West by Leon McCarron [2014-10-07 Tue]
• The Sacred Balance by David Suzuki, Amanda McConnell, and Adrienne Mason [2014-05-27 Tue]
• The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker [2014-12-30 Tue]
• The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver [2014-12-02 Tue]
• The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil [2014-03-04 Tue]
• The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks [2015-01-20 Tue]
• The Taltos books (due to reading up to Jhegaala) [2009-12-28 Mon]
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman [2008-11-09 Sun]
• The selfish gene (30th Anniversary edition) by Richard Dawkins [2009-03-15 Sun]
• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman [2014-10-21 Tue]
• Tiassa by Steven Brust [2014-12-09 Tue]
• Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson [2014-02-18 Tue]
• Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks [2014-12-23 Tue]
• Walden by Henry David Thoreau [2010-07-29 Thu]
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami [2014-11-18 Tue]
• Whatever it is I don't like it by Howard Jacobson [2014-08-26 Tue]
• When You are Enulfed in Flames by David Sedaris [2014-08-05 Tue]
• Write-up of some recent reading [2009-06-07 Sun]