Books, books, books
Last weeks I finally received some books I’ve been waiting for for weeks. They all look like they are, uh, an interesting if not quite light reading; the first one in particular. These three (and another one I don’t have handy right now) are the outcome of a night on Google looking for websites and [...]
The Body Snatchers
Almost forgot… Last week I also read The Body Snatchers (L’invasione degli ultracorpi in italian) by Jack Finney.
I found this book to be simply great – expecially when you consider it’s from 1955. Finney manages to find a balance between atmosphere (which I find quite reminiscent of the great american gothic authors), a believable plot [...]
Note to self
Note to self: these books sound interesting:
Hacker’s Delight (on Amazon)
Time: a Traveler’s Guide
Unix books
Speaking of books, last week I also finished two books I’ve been reading in parallel, as they both cover the same topics from different points of view. One is the immortal work of Marshall Kirk McKusick et al. The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System ; the other is UNIX Internals – [...]
