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Books for the times
June 30, 2009
The Big Switch gets a nice recommendation from Newsweek. It's #4 on the magazine's list of Fifty Books for Our Times. Here are the top ten:
1. The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope
2. The Looming Tower, by Lawrence Wright
3. Prisoner of the State, by Zhao Ziyang
4. The Big Switch, by Nicholas Carr
5. The Bear, by William Faulkner
6. Winchell, by Neal Gabler
7. Random Family, by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
8. Night Draws Near, by Anthony Shadid
9. Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
10. God: A Biography, by Jack Miles
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Now in paperback:
Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"Riveting" -San Francisco Chronicle
"Rewarding" -Financial Times
"Revelatory" -Booklist
The Cloud, demystified:
"Future Shock for the web-apps era" -Fast Company
"Ominously prescient" -Kirkus Reviews
"Riveting stuff" -New York Post
Greatest hits
Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock's avatar
Flight of the wingless coffin fly
Other writing
The end of corporate computing
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