I’ve just finished House Atreides by James Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson. Very, very good. Recommended
Unfortunately, I read this Prelude To Dune series in the wrong order: second then third then first; so I really feel like re-reading the other two, House Karkonnen and
House Corrino next.
I’ll have to see. Dave D at work has just lent me Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo. So that’s likely to be next.
I’ve just finished The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine et al. This is the second time I’ve read it and it was just as entertaining and above all relevant this time round.
If you want to check out some of the ideas around this see the original cluetrain website. Or you can now read (almost) the entire book online at Gonzo Marketing.
Coincidentally we received an email at work today entitle “Urgent: Competitor on premises” and which included the line “It is therefore paramount that we appear to be thoroughly professional”. “Appear”? we only have to appear to be professional. It’s presumably OK if we are not actually professional! 😉
Recommended.
I seem to be getting through a lot of books at the moment. I may revive my book review pages. If I do them in a blog stylee, it should be easy to keep adding to them as I finish each one. Hmmm… Another project to go in the list 🙂
I’ve just finished Dead Famous by Ben Elton. Very funny! I thoroughly enjoyed it. A good mystery, and I didn’t work out the ending either.
Recommended
Hmmm… I finished The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera on the train into work this morning. Hmmm… I found it very inconsistent; It had it’s good bits, and whilst, yes, some of the ideas put forward are interesting and thought provoking, I was a little disappointed. I found that the characters and storylines are used merely as a vehicle for the “wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations” presented. So much so that the author interrupts the narrative to speak directly to the reader, and in the latter half of the book, the story line jumps about for no good reason other than to provide an opportunity to re-enforce a previous idea or present a new one.
All in all a little disappointing. 🙁
This article by Eric Flint First Librarian at the Baen Free Library is another well reasoned argument from an author showing that free downloads do not harm sales. The site is an excellent site too.
Wow, I’d forgotten just how dark Stephen Donaldson’s characters are. He really brings out the sinister side of his characters.
