Saturday, April 26, 2008

Recently read

1. Jailbird - By Kurt Vonnegut
Another well written by KV. This one is about Walter F Startbuck who is sent to prison for watergate and the novel is mostly about the labor movement.
2. Hominids - By Robert J. Sawyer
First book of "The Neanderthal Parallax". It's very easy to read and very interesting as well. A Neanderthal (Ponter Boddit) from our parallel universe visits us in an accident. Hugo winner.
3. Humans - By Robert J. Sawyer
Second book of "The Neanderthal Parallax". Continues from were it left off in Hominids. But it's less of a sci-fi and more of drama. And romance between a neanderthal man and human woman (it's started on the first book)
4. The art of war - By Sun Tzu
Another classic book about war and it's been thought on business schools as well for a long time.. This is my first book on the Dailylit via RSS feed. Dailylit provides a daily email/RSS of a book of our choice for free (most classics are free) or for some $.
5. Spin - By Robert Charles Wilson
Another Hugo winner. This is one of the very interesting sci-fi book I've read. In some places author is threading between sci-fi and fantasy but overall it's very enjoyable.
Twins Jason and Diane Lawton and their friend Tyler Dupree (narrator of the story) are witnessing the "spin" event and how their lives change. The spin is a membrane which encapsulates the earth to mask the time (time dilation) and the space. what that means is that the outside the spin the time is moving much faster (or normal). 1 Sec on earth is about 3.17 years out the spin. That means you can do a lot of cool stuff. Highly recommended.

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