http://www.syfer.net/index.htmlHot News!endave@syfer.netCopyright 2011 Dave Hurley2012-05-09T06:55:53-07:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Fri, 11 May 2012 09:11:15 -0700dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-05-09T06:55:53-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/inside_apple.html#unique-entry-id-17http://www.syfer.net/books/files/inside_apple.html#unique-entry-id-17I have long been an Apple enthusiast and am also a student of the company’s intriguing internal culture. Of course, I also enjoyed Isaacson’s excellent bio Steve Jobs, so selected this on that basis.


STATUS: COMPLETED 5/09/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)]]>dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-04-28T19:39:25-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/c6288362988aa71411a592cfb45544b6-16.html#unique-entry-id-16http://www.syfer.net/books/files/c6288362988aa71411a592cfb45544b6-16.html#unique-entry-id-16I heard this book mentioned somewhere in the media and, having enjoyed books like Levy’s Crypto and Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, I thought the story of von Neumann’s Institute for Advanced Study would be right up my alley.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS
MY RATING: TBD
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)]]>dave@syfer.netFiction2012-04-22T19:37:41-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/555bc180624780c271a5252e026ae560-15.html#unique-entry-id-15http://www.syfer.net/books/files/555bc180624780c271a5252e026ae560-15.html#unique-entry-id-15Having read and enjoyed “Term Limits” (which is actually the first of the Mitch Rapp series although the Rapp character does not appear), I’ve opted to forge on. I’m always down for a political thriller and if it’s a series, all the better.

STATUS: IN PROGRESS
MY RATING: TBD
MY FORMAT: KINDLE]]>dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-03-29T08:44:15-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/imfeelinglucky.html#unique-entry-id-14http://www.syfer.net/books/files/imfeelinglucky.html#unique-entry-id-14Having enjoyed Levy’s In The Plex I thought I’d deepen my Google knowledge a bit and hopefully pick up on a bit of gossip and intrigue along the way (figures--I used to be a big Valleywag fan).


STATUS: COMPLETED 3/29/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)]]>dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-04-01T08:44:22-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/54cf7207965f5fcc4f0936125955490e-13.html#unique-entry-id-13http://www.syfer.net/books/files/54cf7207965f5fcc4f0936125955490e-13.html#unique-entry-id-13I enjoyed “Spark” and am going to continue to read some of the more interesting books out there on the function of the brain. I guess this is part of my Kurweilian effort to re-engineer my own biology.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/01/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)]]>dave@syfer.netNon-FictionProfessional2012-04-03T22:23:43-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/artofdeception.html#unique-entry-id-12http://www.syfer.net/books/files/artofdeception.html#unique-entry-id-12 Having read and thoroughly enjoyed Kevin Mitnick’s more recent biographical “Man On A Wire,” I wanted to go back and read his classic social engineering primer for IT professionals.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/03/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)]]>dave@syfer.netFiction2012-04-08T11:28:00-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/patientzero.html#unique-entry-id-11http://www.syfer.net/books/files/patientzero.html#unique-entry-id-11 Chose this one based on reviews as pure thriller entertainment. Was looking for another series to work through for recreational reading and I’ll be continuing with it.


STATUS: COMPLETED 04/8/2011
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: KINDLE]]>dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-04-05T10:34:00-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/glock.html#unique-entry-id-10http://www.syfer.net/books/files/glock.html#unique-entry-id-10 My preferred firearm is the Glock 21 (which I saw as the “Mac of guns” back in the late 80’s), so I thought this well-reviewed book would be interesting.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/10/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)
]]>dave@syfer.netFiction2012-04-19T10:24:17-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/confessor.html#unique-entry-id-9http://www.syfer.net/books/files/confessor.html#unique-entry-id-9 This is the 3rd in this excellent series, so I know what I’m getting and I like these a lot as they are action-packed and high-end. He’s certainly the Israeli “James Bond.”


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/22/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: KINDLE
]]>dave@syfer.netNon-Fiction2012-04-17T10:01:00-07:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/singualrity.html#unique-entry-id-8http://www.syfer.net/books/files/singualrity.html#unique-entry-id-8I’ve gotten interested in Ray Kurzweil after watching the Transcendent Man documentary and find his views and interests similar to my own, so I look forward to this book.


STATUS: COMPLETED 4/27/2012
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: AUDIOBOOK (Unabridged)
]]>dave@syfer.netFiction2011-11-06T08:33:03-08:00http://www.syfer.net/books/files/reamde.html#unique-entry-id-5http://www.syfer.net/books/files/reamde.html#unique-entry-id-5I selected Reamde because it was well reviewed, I’m a pretty big Neal Stephenson fan and sometimes I like settling in a for a good long read (and this one’s nice and beefy).


STATUS: COMPLETED 11/29/2011
MY RATING: ★★★★★
MY FORMAT: KINDLE
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