Category Archives: Books

Some (Admittedly Late) Summer Reading (etc.)

Recently, after finding myself with rather more booktokens than I would usually know what to do with, I’ve been reading quite a few books recently- and thought that I’d post my latest reading list here:

Battle royale by Koushun Takami. While graphically violent, it definitely served the plot very well and proved to be a […]

A Clockwork Orange- Independents Banned Books Series

The Independent are publishing their own hardback editions of 25 banned books- starting yesterday with the classic of “A Clockwork Orange.”
This book has really emphasised the morality of choice to me although at times the use of ‘nadsat’ can make the book slightly confusing (although most of the time I did not need to […]

Earth Core

Read it. Now. Or to be precise, listen to it. This audio-book is really enthralling and is suprisingly proffessional for something offered by the author for free, it really is worth listening to. The suprise isn’t the quality, it’s that such high calibre work would be offered for free. I was immediately caught up […]

Think Like a Computer Scientist

Just a quick post today, I’ve been looking into python and programming in general and thought that the following ebook could be of help to anyone else wanting to learn:
Think Like a Computer Scientist