What a depressing book.

Great stories. I’m glad to have a copy.

Cool, if a bit short. I whipped through it in one night.

The best thing a book can do to a programmer is make em want to program something cool. I want my Whuffie meter.

Interesting! Has one or three interesting comments on computer typography (though it says not to use HTML email, then suggests several fonts to use, saying what you send will almost always be what the recipient receives).

It’s exactly as billed, a basic primer, so if you’re really interested in type you’d move up to something like Robert Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style. Once or twice you can tell it’s Adobe folk writing it, but it’s not a hidden bias since it’s an Adobe Press book as it is.

Great ideas. Another book that made me want to build things.

The verbiage was too dense without ever saying much. I’m not sure I ever got to the core of Arida’s argument, but I was afraid I’d sail right through to the end with no content to slow the trip. Plus it was a library book way overdue.

I’m truly not in the target demo for such a theoretical book on urban design, but it was fun to read outside my usual genres.

Excellent introduction to Internet legal issues; I especially liked the “Four Puzzles from Cyberspace.” The Future of Ideas better covers the issues Lessig has currently championed, though.

Geeks and other marginal Asperger’s cases can relate to the character. The ending is a bit open, but that’s to be expected from the concept.

I read the etext. Not bad.

Excellent. Not quite as mindblowing as Snow Crash, Vurt, or Schismatrix, but definitely right up there (especially as it predates two of those).