Holiday Reading
2009-12-30 – 09:15- Tim Weiner’s Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA is a darning indictment of an “intelligence” agency that has an unparalleled half-century record of failure: “darning” rather than “damning” because the author’s obvious anger makes the book sound one-sided.
- The Year’s Best Science Fiction (25th and 26th editions): gems of all shapes and colors.
- Freeman & Pryce: Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests. The heart of the book, a multi-chapter worked example, is the most accessible description of how to break applications along their seams to make them testable since Feathers’ Working Effectively With Legacy Code.
- Louis Bayard’s The Black Tower is what Dumas would write if he were alive today (and not being paid by the word).
One Response to “Holiday Reading”
I consider Arturo Perez-Reverte to be Dumas’s current heir (and Steven Brust to be Dumas’s crazy nephew, I suppose). But then, I’ve not heard of Bayard before. I’ll have to give him a try.
By Sol on Dec 30, 2009