Ignacio Torres

An amazing reading even 21 years after it was published.

Quite a reading. A fantasy book written in 1969 by a woman with a woman as a protagonist and that exposes different kinds of power: the “power to” and the “power over”.

Worth a read especially with the author's afterword almost 50 years later.

A great introduction to Emacs. I only regret not reading it two years ago when I started using Emacs.

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The complete robot has most – if not all – of the stories found in “I, robot” and “The rest of the robots” and a few new stories to boot. But the way they are arranged is what makes this book a worthy reading.

The first stories reminded me of the early Hate comics by Peter Bagge. They are not bad, but I would have liked them 15 years ago, not now.

I really enjoyed the second half with critics of war, the Palestinian conflict and a really touching story of the German bombings of Malta during WWII.

This is the new “Preferred text” edition. I had already read Neverwhere in 2002.

I don't remember the differences. This last reading feels less weird, I suppose due to the unlondonization of the text, but this also detracts from the differentiation of the text. Reading Gaiman I expect weirdness, it is a quality of him.

Some interesting stories and quite enjoyable.

Still one of my all time favourite books.

This little essay can be read in 15 minutes and gives you a mirror to check if your organization is still living in the 80s.

It also shows how a lot of the questions of modern operations still lack a unique answer. It's a great moment to discover new ways of doing things and explore new technologies and methodologies.

Coelho's writing is utter crap.

I'd say it's the third time I've read Guards! Guards! It was my first Pratchett book more than 20 years ago and still one of my favourites.

The older I get, the less I like Asimov.

Aquest és el primer llibre en català que vaig comprar i llegir al 2005. Llavors en Joan Barril encara feia La R-Pública a COMRàdio.

Aquesta segona lectura deu anys després, amb un coneixement més ampli del català i de l'obra d'en Joan Barril, m'han fet veure que els temes que tracta son recurrents. Al llibre trobo moltes paraules que vaig sentir a la ràdio, paraules que en el context en que son dites porten a la reflexió: frontisses, brodar, trapelleria, memòria...

Penso que és un gran llibre per donar a un adolescent d'entre 12 i 15 anys i parlar-ne de les aventures i històries que tracta.

Coders at Work is not a technical book: any computing aficionado with curiosity towards computing history will enjoy it and programmers can learn a lot from the first hand experiences of computing legends.

This is the second time I have read it from cover to cover but I also pick on some interviews from time to time. The fact that Seibel is a class 1 programmer himself makes the interviews quite enjoyable.

I did read this one on my early teens. Ten years later I lived on Cambridge for a while and I read it again ten years after living in Cambridge. Lots of fun greatly enhanced by the fact of knowing the customs and ways of a Cambridge college.

This was the first Tom Sharpe book I read. It's much better than the Wilt series, the action is constant and the author gives no quarter to the reader.

Look forward to “The Ballad of Prick ‘em Dry”.

The same way there is comfort food the Foundation and Robot novels and stories are comfort readings.