cyber(b)space book reviews

Rating: ✱✱✱✱ Would have been 3 stars were it not for the great final story in this collection.

Here is a sharp eye and a clear voice that saw America for what it was and still is today.

Helluva thing to read during your daily commute.

Review originally posted to the main blog here.

I fear the series has jumped the shark with this volume...jumped over the shark and straight to Mars...

A readable and succinct attempt to inform the present by way of the past.

Very interesting and frequently horrifying story on a piece of history not very often discussed.

Very helpful introduction to Python.

Absolutely fantastic.

Interesting looking into a side of statistics that I haven't had much exposure to - that future-facing branch.

A few notable excerpts: On p.29: “Like Shrike, the man they imitated, they were machines for making jokes.

I've been trying for about a month to think of how I might best put into words the experience of reading this book.

Rating: ✱✱✱ Why 3 stars?

It's not a masterpiece.

I have just suffered a mighty blow at the hands of a brilliant masochist.

The exciting story of how an upper-middle class white woman proved she didn't need a man by traveling around the world from male-dominated relationship to male-dominated relationship until she found one she liked enough to date.

The first I've read of James.

Don't get me wrong, I love Beckett.

Riveting, inventive, and a compelling read.

My reactions are mixed.

Eggers's most recent novel is full of potential.

A great read for anyone who has ever wished to enter the mind of a man deeply submersed in a drunken fever dream.

There's a lot of debate among GoodReads reviewers as to whether or not the actual poem this book is written around is any good.

Unfinished though it may be, this book contains some of the most insightful and well written prose of contemporary literature.