christopher moore – fool. bad; the onliest book from him i could not read to the end. maybe i should have read more shakespeare, but this one is a bit to explicit for going through reading. the other ones from him still belong to the loved ones..

freakonomics (from whom i forgot) – superfunny to read. in some cases more a statistics book. basic idea is that you shall think about common knowledge, sometimes the opposite is true (e.g. why do all the crackdealers still at their mom’s place instead of being rich as the public think?)

samuel p. huntington – clash of civilisations: interesting; standard political book of the 90s. in some parts still a bit outdated, but in some places the theorie of civilisations (and their fight against each other) seems to fit. altough this is pessimistic.

thomas wieczorek – die verblödete republik – just began it; cannot say yet. funny; left-winged; depremistic. update the book is stupid.

yesterday i had the chance to try out the new sony reader – something which is supposed to replace books in the far future. electronic paper seems to be a very nice development, yes you can read better than on regular displays. i would like to have a device like that for every-day-newspaper usage; but they did not even seem to really think about this possibility. imagine combining the economics part of newspaper #1 with feuilleton of newspaper #2, of course synchronized each day per wifi.

the only thing you can find on it are some bestseller books and al the things you put on yourself.

if you want more material (books) you have to get through a complicated registration/synchronization process (of course win32 / macosx only) and several minutes later you can read them, as cheap as the paper version. lol. of course all content is drm crippled (hey, we won the drm war?!); at least there seem to be support for pdf / rss newsfeeds (but why special software then?) but no wifi. goodbye idea of hacked reader with newspapers. eur299 saved ;)

update: with txtr, there seems to be a german challenger, linux equipped and much cleaner.

das buch war recht unterhaltsam. man darf nicht alles zu ernst nehmen, eventuell ist eine festanstellung für die meisten doch noch das ziel nummer 1. ich kann es leider garniemanden verleihen, da warten schon drei.