Tag Archives: reading
Kid’s Show: Tchoui fait son spectacle (Tchoupi does his show)
As promised, here is a quick review of the kid’s show Tchoupi fait son spectacle currently at the Casino of Paris on rue de Clichy. For the kids, it was a great show full of songs and lights and colors. As … Continue reading
Book Review: Benjamin Franklin by Walter Isaacson
I swear I didn’t know he would be Job’s biographer when I purchased this book. I purchased it after reading the Einstein biography by Mr. Isaacson several months ago. This biography is on par with that one. Insightful and complete, … Continue reading
(Bloody) Book Review: Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
And I thought I had a repulsive idea of the horrors of the USSR before? Well, this book certainly made me realize how little I really knew. Stalin was capable of kindness and humor with family and friends and yet … Continue reading
Book Reviews: Guy Kawasaki’s Reality Check and Enchantment
As promised earlier this week, here are my reviews of two more Kawasaki books. Reality Check (2008) starts off as an updated mash-up of Rules for Revolutionaries and The Art of the Start – there are entire chapters from each … Continue reading
Book Review: Guy Kawasaki’s Rules for the Revolution and The Art of the Start
I read Guy Kawasaki’s blog long before I even knew he wrote a few books. alltop.com is more than worth the cursory or daily look for interesting content. However, this brief article is meant to discuss the first two books … Continue reading
Book Review: Something Supposedly Fun That I’ll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace (RIP)
This was my first experience of the writing of David Foster Wallace. I had heard of him over the blogosphere following his suicide a few years back – mostly accolades from academics that knew him. This is a book of … Continue reading
DFW: First approach and quick blurb on Klosterman IV
To be honest, I had never heard of David Foster Wallace before he was already gone. I saw a bunch of obits on various writer’s blogs that I was scanning at the time and got mildly interested but was reading … Continue reading
Book Review: Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
I think I forgot to mention that I finished Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I haven’t started the sequel “Superfreakonomics” yet but the first one, well, it started out really interesting but I kind of lost their logic … Continue reading
La voyage imaginare d’Hugo Pratt – La Pinacoteque of Paris
I am late in posting about the last expo that I saw back two weeks ago. And, bad me, I didn’t post yesterday – I was flying to Montreal and mentally drained when I got here. Anyway, after long ado, … Continue reading
G.E.B. – Suite et Fin
I finally finished it. Many, a long, strange trip it certainly was. OK, so I am talking about that übergeek opus: Gödel, Escher Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadler which I started reviewing a few weeks ago. Overall, … Continue reading
