As some of you may know I'm a bit of a computer history buff. Yet, despite owning the book for a number of years, I never quite got around to reading 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late' (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon). It's essentially a history of how the Internet came to be and it turns out it's superb.
I'm also re-reading Steven Levy's "Hackers" (nothing to do with the film), which is more to do with the hacker mindset from its early days of TX-0 and PDP-1 hacking (and even more before that, with model railway enthusiasts at MIT).
And I'm also starting to read 'Fumbling The Future: How Xerox Invented, Then Ignored, The First Personal Computer', which is a part of computer history I've always been intrigued by.
I've also read and finished the new Lee Child, 'The Midnight Line' which is another of his Jack Reacher novels and a damn good one too. Slightly different to his previous ones.
Just finished book three and now onto the very final volume of this epic:Just finished book two of the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant:
And now onto book three:
My order of this from Amazon arrived yesterday. Brilliant book! So thanks for the recommendation.I never quite got around to reading 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late' (Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon)
Bought it a decade or so ago, love itMy order of this from Amazon arrived yesterday. Brilliant book! So thanks for the recommendation.
In similar vein, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend Tracy Kidder's 'Soul of a New Machine'.
Just finished reading the whole Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Last Chronicles being four books long. It must have taken a year and half to read the lot and, quite frankly, I became so invested in the characters and story I didn't want it to end.... but everything ends.Just finished book three and now onto the very final volume of this epic: