http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader Bibliophile goodness Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:06:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now I'm going back to the school year for a bit, because I still owe the blog a lot of posts... This book was a bit surprising. I had assumed that the book was not as bad as was advertised. After all, if the Machiavellian stuff in it was so evil ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/24/the-prince-niccolo-machiavelli/% This is a formal book with chapter after chapter of theorems, derivations, and all the other fun(?) mathy stuff you can imagine. Brown attempts to solve an issue with Boolean logic that is generally solved by simple assertions that aren't actually based on math but happen to work. Bertrand Russel ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/22/the-laws-of-form-g-spencer-brown/% Controversy, controversy, controversy. God. I wish I could split this up into a few different books. I think the part where they discuss white America (the first more than half of the book) is fabulous. They give you data, data and more data. The data is somewhat processed, but they tell ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/22/the-bell-curve-richard-j-herrnstein-and-charles-murray/% Now here's a book that I would recommend to just about anybody. If you're into sci-fi, you'll love the story. If you're familiar with the concept of the technological singularity, you'll find it intriguing. If you've never heard of the technological singularity, it does a good job introducing the concept. ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/22/accelerando-charles-stross/% This book is a rarity - believable hard sci-fi that takes the time to develop characters. And it's got a fun tone and good flow too! If you want to read one book about the singularity, my vote is with Accelerando. If you want to read two, read that and ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/21/rainbows-end-vernor-vinge/% Well I've continued to neglect this website so let's add in the summer at least. I'll be very promptly posting about Rainbows End, Accelerando, a bunch of Cory Doctorow, The Laws of Form and maybe more. I got a Sony Digital Reader for my birthday this year, so you'll notice that ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/07/21/summer-reading/% Here's what I owe the blog: The Communist Manifesto (Marx) Uncle Tom's  Cabin (Stowe) The Origin of Species (Darwin - abridged) The Prince (Machiavelli) The Art of War (Sun Tzu) In addition, I'm pretty deep in debt to the blog if I allow technical reading... I think I'll allow pseudo-technical but not real-technical things up here ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2008/02/26/its-been-a-while-time-to-catch-up/% I just read this book for the second time. The book is certainly solid ad it captures your attention. The Gunslinger is the beginning of SK's explanation of his universe. If you haven't read much SK, you'll miss a lot in the Dark Tower series. If you have it's incredibly rich. That ... http://www.ceaselessone.com/reader/2007/08/22/the-gunslinger-stephen-king/%