Hong’s Cave

I heard about this book on NPR and I thought it would be interesting. The subject was interesting, but the book read like a technical paper, not for a general public: mostly about numbers and repetitive themes and arguments.
I do hope for a better pension system, but I am not sure her book [...]

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I enjoyed reading it. I can see why some might say he and his book represent “bears”, but I think Robert Shiller is more about rationality and why the public’s perception of a possible infinite growth is just a dream.
I think this second edition came out in 2005, some time before all the talk [...]

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This is the conclusion of the parallel stories of Peter Wiggin and Bean (a.k.a. Julian Delphiki) from Orson Scott Card, the author of Ender’s Game.
I didn’t think it was that good. As I said before, Mr. Card’s Hegemon series have this critical problem of making these kids to be so smart that his [...]

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I wanted to try some short scifi short stories, and found this on Amazon.com. It had a pretty good user rating, so I decided to try it.
This is an anthology series from a magazine, “Fantasy and Sicence Fiction”. I never cared too much for the fantasy genre. And maybe that’s the [...]

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An interesting read on globalization although I don’t quite agree with the choice of the word “flat” with “the world” (what he wants to say, probably, is “The hierarchies in the world is getting flatter”).
I did agree with most of what Mr. Friedman said. Indeed, the recent developments and changes in the technologies and [...]

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This was a very interesting book. I have just a passing interest in the modern physics and its attempts to unify the forces and the particles. My last physics book was The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, so I assumed that the String Theory (or various String Theories as it turns out) was [...]

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The contents of the book did not surprised me that much since I’ve been reading books on the history of the Bible. It also summarizes what I have wondered before in not-too-academic ways and backs it up with supporting evidences and theories although mostly by examples.
I’ve heard that Mr. Ehrman is closer to a [...]

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Despite thinking that the book had too much of political/activist sidetracks that dragged out a bit, I thought it was quite informative overall. Michael Pollan follows three different paths that link the source of our food to our dining tables: industrial, organic (both industrial organic and “beyond organic”), and hunting/gathering. It was quite [...]

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Very, very long and detailed. Too scholastic for me. I think the book is very comprehensive in its scope and details on how the canon of the Bible came to be.
I managed to get through till the end (well, the last few chapters I gleaned over), but I felt like I haven’t even [...]

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I was expecting a bit more scholastic reading. However, this turned about to be an essay trying to explain that the Roman Catholic Church is the only authority on the Bible.
His logic seems to be that even before the words were written down the teachings were done by the church, starting with the first [...]

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