Reading
Books: on balance, I'm for them. These are most of the ones I've read since 2007 or so. The star ratings correspond more closely to "how worth my time this felt" than "how good this is."Sacco, Joe
Said, Kurban
Kurban Said
I've finally (belatedly) finished Jason's pick for book club.
Ali and Nino is poetic, un-apologetically exotic, and (subsidiary only to those other two qualities) thought provoking in its refusal to conform to modern tropes on the relationship between East and West.
Extremely good, and worth anyone's time.
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Salinger, J.D.
Saunders, George
Sax, David
David Sax
What a frustratingly bad book on such an interesting and important topic. Entire chapters are given over to marketers from companies like Moleskine talking about how "there's just something special the feel of paper" etc, on repeated but unsupported arguments that digital technology is inherently alienating, and on a strongly implied but unexplored (e.g. in the title) assertion that some kind of groundswell of analog technology is happening as a result. He also spends approximately one sentence defining his terms: what exactly is meant by analog and by digital? In the end he drives away from his childhood summer camp in the warm glow of nostalgia, opting for a Neil Young song on the radio in preference to streaming "digital" music, his windows down to let in the summer breeze. The irony is that the broadcast equipment, the radio in his car, and probably the car itself are all largely digital equipment. Oh and no, IDEO did not invent human centered design. Ugh.
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Schochet, Gordon J.
Scholz, Susanne
Susanne Scholz December 07 2008
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Scranton, Roy
I have grown to really appreciate concise, idea-packed writing. This book meets those criteria. It takes an existential view to the global climate crisis, asking...
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Seaver, Paul S.
Paul S. Seaver December 15 2008
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Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky
Seidel, Katja, (ed.)
w/ Brigitte Leucht (ed.), Laurent Warlouzet (ed.) August 27 2023
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Sennett, Richard
Richard Sennett January 13 2019
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Seth, Seth
Seth
Chester Brown, Maggie Mortimer August 16 2011
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Shariat, Jonathan
Shaw, Dash
Shilts, Randy
Silverstein, Shel
Sim, Dave
Simpson, Antony E.
Antony E. Simpson January 09 2010
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Skloot, Rebecca
Slater, Michael
Smith, Jeff
Smith, Patti
Smith, Zadie
Snyder, Timothy
Srnicek, Nick
w/ Alex Williams November 01 2016
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Standage, Tom
Standing, Guy
Steele, Alexander
Alexander Steele
Gotham Writers' Workshop May 12 2019
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Steinbeck, John
Stephenson, Eric
Eric Stephenson
Nate Bellegarde, Jordie Bellaire, Fonografiks March 27 2014
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Stephenson, Neal
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Robert Louis Stevenson
Katherine B. Linehan November 16 2009
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Stoker, Bram
Summers,Brandi Thompson
Surowiecki, James
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal de Sévigné August 31 2009
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