Browsing Archive for December, 2005

Letters From Kirghisia

by Silvano Agosti
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Silvano Agosti is an Italian movie director, writer and thinker in general.

This book is an attempt at imagining his perfect society.
A society where everyone is important, where everyone can live in piece, where everyone can Live. And when I say Live I mean it in the deepest meaning you can give to this word.

He imagine [...]

The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

by Alan Deutschman
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I love biographies. No matter who they are about: they’re so fascinating. And this one is a great biography about a great person: Steve Jobs.

What makes it so good is Jobs’s aura of mystery. An aura he put up on purpose, indeed he never talk about his personal life with journalists and when they try [...]

Invisible Monsters

by Chuck Palahniuk
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You know I love Palahniuk. And this book, again, is pure Palahniuk: sarcastic, cruel, funny and subtle.

As always, you can read a critic to America’s — and, in general, western — way of life. It’s myth, untold truths and lies.

The book is about a top-model who’s wounded by a flying bullet and almost die. The [...]

The Common Good

by Noam Chomsky
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Noam Chomsky is one of the greatest thinkers alive — if not the greatest.
Reading his books can be an eye-opening experience and I really suggest you read them if you want to know a bit more about what’s going on in the World.

This one is about globalization, democracy and what we could do to make [...]

Artificial Paradises

by Charles Baudelaire
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I’ve always been fascinated by Charles Baudelaire and Decadent artists in general.
There’s something about them that I find tremendously appealing to me. Maybe it’s because Decadence emerged from the ruins of Romanticism — or at least I think so — which is a movement I love. Maybe it’s because it’s a modern movement, but not [...]

Paranoia

by Joseph Finder
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This novel is about intrigues, cheating and rivalry in the IT business. Kind of a techno-thriller.
No more, no less.

I found it to be pretty well written. Very easy and fast to read: almost unputdownable.
Of course, it’s not the kind of book that will improve you persona, but still it’s a very decent read giving you [...]

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