The Core Dump
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Posts in "Book"
Review: The Price of Privilege
Important book about how pressure from well-meaning parents hurt affluent children.
Review: The Scar
The Scar is a great, weird novel, but it makes Nic worry he might be a steampunk.
Review: Everything is Miscellaneous
Interesting book, but too much filler and techno-utopianism.
Review: Lord of the Silent Kingdom
The second installment of Glen Cook’s Instrumentalities of the Night delivers.
Review: Consider the Lobster
Excellent collection of writing from the great David Foster Wallace.
Review: Darkness, Take My Hand
Dennis Lehane manages to write a novel that is too noir for Nic.
Review: The Big Switch
Nice book on the commoditization of corporate IT services. Worth reading for anybody in the field.
Review: Heat
Entertaining book about a man’s obsessive quest to become a professional chef.
Review: The Lies of Locke Lamora
A tentative debut novel from Scott Lynch.
Review: JPod
Douglas Coupland continues the exploration of the lives of tech workers he started in Microserfs.
Review: Right as Rain
Hard boiled crime fiction from one of the writers for The Wire.
Review: On Intelligence
Very interesting book about how intelligence works and the challenges we face in trying to build intelligent machines.
Review: All Creatures Great and Small
Well-deservedly known as a classic.