[2005-06-07]

Book Reviews

Introduction

On this page I will place short reviews of some (all, I hope) of the books I've read somewhat recently. Clicking the cover of a book will take you to that books entry at amazon.co.uk. Books I've read in Swedish will be reviewed in English and their English version counterparts will be linked to. Please excuse my poor grammar, I'm going mostly by feel since I never quite did learn all the rules back in school.

These reviews are sort of sub-standard, I know. Think of these simply as hints as to what books you might enjoy if you happen to share some of my [most excellent] taste, it's also my intention to use this for documenting all the books I read, which is one of the reasons that bad books are reviewed too. In the future I wish to expand this to include music.

I have a separate page for books which are freely available on the internet.

From 2005:

Steve Oualline, "How Not to Program in C++"

From 2004:

Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig, "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd ed)"
Paul Hoffman, "The Man Who Loved Only Numbers"
Dave Shreiner, et al "OpenGL Programming Guide (4th ed)"
Jon Bentley, "Programming Pearls (2nd ed)"
Elaine Pagels, "The Gnostic Gospels"

From 2003:

Fletcher Dunn & Ian Parberry, "3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development"
James N. Frey, "How To Write A Damn Good Novel, II"
James N. Frey, "How To Write A Damn Good Novel"
Simon Singh, "Fermat's Enigma"
Patrick Ward, "Qt Programming"
Herb Sutter, "Exceptional C++"
Steven Pemberton & Martin Daniels, "Pascal Implementation"
Linda Seger, "Creating Unforgettable Characters"

From 2002:

Stanley B. Lippman, "Essential C++"
Andrew Koenig & Barbara E. Moo, "Accelerated C++"
Steve McConnell, "Code Complete"
John R. Hall & Loki Software, "Programming Linux Games"
Gerhard Weiss (editor), "Multiagent Systems"
Thomas Paine, "The Age of Reason"
John H. Holland, "Emergence"
Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"

From 2001:

Scott Meyers, "Effective C++"
Voltaire, "Candide"
J. Michael Straczynski, "The Complete Book of Scriptwriting"
Katie Hafner & Matthew Lyon, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late"
Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World"

From 2000:

Ronald Mak, "Writing Compilers and Interpreters"
Bruce Schneier, "Applied Cryptography"
David Kahn, "The Code-Breakers"
Aho, Sethi & Ullman, "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools"
Stephen Prata, "C++ Primer Plus"

From 1999:

Steven Levy, "Heroes of the Computer Revolution"
F.H. Hinsley & Alan Stripp, "The Inside Story of Bletchley Park"
Terry Pratchett, "Maskerade"
W. Richard Stevens & Gary R. Wright, "TCP/IP Illustrated"
Donald E. Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming"
Jeff Goodell, "The Cyberthief and the Samurai"
Dan Osier, Steve Grobman & Steve Batson, "Teach Yourself Delphi 2 in 21 days"
Robert Jordan, "The Eye of The World"
Scott Adams, "The Dilbert Future"

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