Books
24 Declassified: Chaos Theory
Title: : 24 Declassified: Chaos Theory Author: : John Whitman Mass Market Paperback: : 240 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment (May 29, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0060842296 SBN-13: 978-0060842291 Read this one in Paris. As usual, it was a quick, fun read. Jack Bauer faces his most unusual foe yet, one that doesn’t follow patterns. The last […]
July 13th, 2007 by alephnaught
Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light
Title: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light Author: Mort Rosenblum Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: North Point Press (October 17, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0865477302 ISBN-13: 978-0865477308 I bought this book a while back because it looked interesting. Little did I know that I’d be going to Paris for a short vacation this summer, […]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Infidel
Title: Infidel Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Free Press (February 6, 2007) Language: English ISBN-10: 0743289684 ISBN-13: 978-074328968 I was in Amsterdam, on business, when Theo van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist angry over the short film, Submission Part 1. The author of this book, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, wrote the […]
July 7th, 2007 by alephnaught
Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web
Title: Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web Author: David Weinberger Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Perseus Books Group; 1st edition (March 2002) ISBN: 0738205435 ISBN-13: 978-0738208503 This was the last book I asked my team (and I) to read at work as part of our little internal MBA program. We never got […]
June 23rd, 2007 by alephnaught
24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified)
Title: 24 Declassified: Vanishing Point (24 Declassified) Author: Marc Cerasini Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: HarperEntertainment; Mti edition (February 27, 2007) ISBN-10: 0060842288 ISBN-13: 978-0060842284 Yes, I also read pulp fiction…. I’ve read a bunch of the ian Fleming James Bond books along with Edgar Rice Borrough’s books. I’m hooked on the “24” television […]
June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
Title: Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae Author: Steven Pressfield Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Bantam; Reprint edition (September 27, 2005) ISBN-10: 055338368X ISBN-13: 978-0553383683 I started this one on the way home from Italy, but I was already reading a book on the train (my previous blog entry), so this […]
June 10th, 2007 by alephnaught
Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture
Title: Starting Something: An Entrepreneur’s Tale of Control, Confrontation & Corporate Culture Hardcover: 409 pages Publisher: Ravel Media, LLC (January 15, 2004) ISBN-10: 1932881018 ISBN-13: 978-1932881011 I got this book from inbubblewrap.com ; another really good business book from them. This is the story of Neoforma, a medical equipment and supply company that was part […]
May 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught
American Gods
Title: American Gods Author: Neil Gaiman Mass Market Paperback: 624 pages Publisher: HarperTorch (April 30, 2002) ISBN-10: 0380789035 ISBN-13: 78-0380789030 I saw a used copy of this in a bookstore just before leaving on vacation and figured I’d give it a try. I loved his Sandman series of graphic novels and hoped that he might […]
May 14th, 2007 by alephnaught
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Title: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly Author: Anthony Bourdain Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial; Updated edition (January 9, 2007) ISBN-10: 0060899220 ISBN-13: 978-0060899226 Aviva and I got turned on to Anthony Bourdain from his Travel Channel television show, “No Reservations.” He’s irreverent and willing to try almost anything. This book is very […]
May 6th, 2007 by alephnaught
A History of Orgies (Prion Lost Treasures)
Title: A History of Orgies (Prion Lost Treasures) Author: Burgo Partridge Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Prion; New Ed edition (August2002) ISBN-10: 1853754919 ISBN-13: 978-1853754913 This book was a fun read. I read it over a couple of months. A History of Orgies discusses the history of orgies including a number of descriptive examples. Unfortunately, there’s […]
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July 22nd, 2007 by alephnaught