| Title | Comment
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| Jurassic Park | You've seen the movie.
Read the excellent book! | Purchase
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| The Lost World
| Not one of his better books in my opinion - it really didn't add much
new to the Jurassic Park theme. I've just been to see the movie though and
thoroughly enjoyed it - fantastic sets and effects. | Purchase
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| Disclosure | Also made into a good movie, starring the delicious Demi Moore. | Purchase
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| Airframe | A great read, similar in feel to Disclosure, with a corporate setting.
Bound to be a movie before long.
(Hey, just found an Internet Movie Database entry for this which says that
Demi Moore will star in it!) | Purchase
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| Rising Sun | Also not a bad movie, starring Sean Connery in a part that Michael Crichton has in mind for him when he wrote the book. | Purchase
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| Congo | This too became a movie - but although the book was very good, the movie basically sucked.
| Purchase
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| Sphere | Hey this too was made into a movie
although I haven't seen this one yet (didn't stay long on the big screen). Given the success of recent movies based on Michael Crichton's
books they're now going back to film some of his older stuff. | Purchase
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| Binary | | Purchase
|
| Five Patients | This one I'd steer clear of. Though it is advertised
as being "by the creator of ER", it probably won't really appeal
to the same audience. Rather than being five medical stories
it is really five essays based around different medical case
studies. Maybe of interest if you are in the health profession
but even then it is probably rather dated. | Purchase
|
| The Terminal Man | Also a movie. | Purchase
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| The Andromeda Strain | Also a movie. | Purchase
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| Eaters of the Dead | Gee, even this is set to become a movie - titled The 13th Warrior! | Purchase
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| A Case of Need | | Purchase
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| Author | Title | Comment
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| Jerry Kaplan | Startup
| Very interesting reading. Jerry writes about his experience
with starting up a new high-tech Silicon Valley company,
Go Corporation. Go Corp was established to develop a pen
based operating system and computer. They had some great
ideas and technology, but despite a couple of rounds of
venture capital financing, didn't quite make it. Microsoft
certainly didn't help! | Purchase
|
| Robert X. Cringely | Accidental Empires | About the Silicon Valley nerds and how they got to be rich. This book was later used as the basis of a television series, "Revenge of the Nerds" | Purchase
|
| Paul Carroll | Big Blues:
The Unmaking of IBM
| Interesting read about how IBM lost its position of dominance of the computer industry | Purchase
|
| Clifford Stoll | Silicon Snake Oil | Due to the immense popularity of
Cliff's first book (see below), he was probably hounded by his publishers to
come up with something else. This was it. Seems to me that he
had a couple of ideas, well maybe a few more. Enough for a dozen
pages or so perhaps. Anyway, he's stretched it out into a whole
book. His publishers are probably happy though.
Me? I was disappointed. He comes across as trying to be
controversial for the sake of it. We should be spending more
money on real books for libraries. Yeah, of course. So what.
For someone who wants to be seen as a luddite and anti-capitalist
he sure has made a heap of money out of writing about technology,
computers and the internet! | Purchase
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| Author | Title | Comment
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|---|
| Steve McConnell | Code Complete | A very comprehensive book about how to "do" software development - especially how Microsoft does it so (usually) successfully. | Purchase
|
| Steve Maguire | Writing Solid Code | A very good book containing lots of tips on how to write robust (mainly C) code. | Purchase
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| Steve Maguire | Debugging the Development Process | More about managing and improving the software development process. | Purchase
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| Bertrand Meyer | Object Oriented Software Construction
| The best explanation of object oriented concepts I've seen. | Purchase
|
| David Flanagan | Java in a Nutshell
| A good reference to the Java language and classes. | Purchase
|
| David Flanagan | Javascript : The Definitive Guide
| A good reference to the JavaScript language. | Purchase
|
