You're welcome to see Ben's code on Github, report bugs, and get dramatic about his choice of stylistic dogma.
Book Reviews
Here are reviews of most of the books I read. I write them not for you, but for me; I find that knowing I will write a review makes me read in a more critical, more useful way. Usefully, it leads to being able to put bad books down. When I find a major flaw in the first 20 pages, and I know the rest of the book is built on bullshit, and I'll have to write about how I kept reading it anyway, and I'll feel stupid. I recommend this system.
Nonetheless, if you're interested, here they are. Sometimes I forget, so this is not all of them.
- Rule 34
- The Mongoliad Book One
- The Quantum Thief
- The Hot Zone
- Iron Sunrise
- REAMDE
- Everything is going to Kill Everybody
- Good Calories, Bad Calories
- The Red Queen
- Sperm Wars
- The House of Morgan
- Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
- The Diamond Age
- Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
- Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
- Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Superfreakanomics
- Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior
- Singularity Sky
- Mother Tongue
- Illicit
- Democracy: The God that Failed
- The Watchmen
- Mobs, Messians and Markets
- 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
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- Moral Minds
- The Fabric of Reality
- The Panic of 1907
- The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from it
- 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