Bhuga's Book Reviews
These are my book reviews. They are for me and not you, but I welcome you to read them. I attempt to read books as though it were a cross-examination, and writing a review means that I am much better about making mental notes of a particularly good or bad point. In particular, please note that I do not not go over these reviews, revise them thoroughly, or anything like that; it's more about getting my thoughts on paper than making sure they are presentable.
I write one after every book I finish, but there are quite a few I do not finish. Part of the process of actively reading is understanding when a book is just not worth finishing.
- Halting State
- Emergency!
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human
- More Joel on Software
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Diaspora
- Starship Troopers
- Brave New World
- Moral Minds
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- The Fabric of Reality
- The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from it
- The Panic of 1907
- The Four Pillars of Investing
- I.O.U.S.A.
- Quarantine
- Permutation City
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- Survival of the Sickest
- Anathem
- The best American Science Writing 2008
- The Third Chimpanzee
- Programming the Universe
- McMafia: Crime without Frontiers
- The Atomic Bazaar
- The Transition Handbook
- Brave New War
- The Foundation Trilogy
- Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
- The Long Emergency
- Beyond Oil