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Stephen King's The Stand Vol. 2: American Nightmares
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Marvel Books
Keep the digitalis at the ready and your seatbelt buckled
Marvel Books is the early days of a gutsy but respectful adaptation of The Stand by Stephen King. The story, as visualized through the narrative of Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, the art of Mike Perkins, and the colors of Laura Martin, is being published in five-issue arcs, ...
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Programming in Lua, Second Edition
Roberto Ierusalimschy
Lua.org, 2006
Pleasant surprise
What a pleasant surprise it was for me to discover this jewel of a book. Every few years I try to pick up another programming language in order to remain sharp in a competitive world. I've been using Perl extensively for many years now and was in search of a viable ...
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Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples' Organized Crime System
Roberto Saviano
Picador, 2008
Chilling and hard to put down
There are times that Robert Saviano's debut can be a bit slow at times with his knack for details, but what else could you expect from an investigative journalist? The majority of the book is gritty and gripping. Completely discounting the glamorized image created in ...
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Roberto & Me (Baseball Card Adventures)
Dan Gutman
HarperCollins, 2010
Dan Gutman's best book
I have read almost everything by Dan Gutman and this was by far the best book of his. It was interesting to learn more about Roberto Clemente. I like the books in this series where Stosh tells people that he is from the 21st century and this one was especially good ...
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2666: A Novel
Roberto Bolaņo
Picador, 2009
2666
I got all the info i needed to purchase this book. But this is definately not your ordinary mystery novel. Recommend it highly.
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The Savage Detectives: A Novel
Roberto Bolano
Picador, 2008
A Literary Adventure Novel
I first discovered The Savage Detectives almost by accident. I was probably killing time
before work in a bookstore in downtown Berkeley and its cover was striking, not to
mention the title! After glancing at it several times and flipping through its pages
over ...
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Los detectives salvajes (Vintage Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
Roberto Bolano
Vintage, 2010
Fantastic
Get hip to Bolano. His short stories are electrifying, a real revelation. I am enjoying Los Detectives Salvajes right now. Bolano was an intelligent writer: nuanced like Dylan Thomas, suspenseful like Kafka, learned like Borges, but with a modern fierceness and humor. ...
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Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Penguin Classics, 2003
A translation that laughs as Cervantes did --
Comparing some 7-8 translations in-store, judging from the author's preface alone, this penguin edition appeared to be the most faithful, both syntactically and rhythmically. The 'English' translations succeeded in reducing the pace of the original Spanish to pedantic ...
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Monsieur Pain
Roberto Bolaņo
New Directions, 2010
"The sensation of unreality . . . infiltrating everything"
The principal audience for this book is readers who have tackled and enjoyed Bolaņo's mature novels, most notably "The Savage Detectives" and "2666" -- and who would now like to engage in a bit of literary archeology. If you are such a reader, and want to trace back, ...
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Design Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean
Roberto Verganti
Harvard Business Press, 2009
A new meaning for design:fascinating!
If you want to be a real game changer and were highly disappointed by the homonymous book; and yet, if you are not a designer, but are eager to find out how design allows a breakthrough technology to disrupt an industry, then this book is certainly for you!
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March of the Microbes: Sighting the Unseen
John L. Ingraham
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010
Though nothing in the natural world would be quite the same without them, microbes go mostly unnoticed. They are the tiny, mighty force behind the pop in Champagne and the holes in Swiss cheese, the granite walls of Yosemite and the white cliffs of Dover, the workings of snowmaking machines, Botox, and gunpowder; and yet we tend to regard them as ...
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Roberto Bolle: An Athlete in Tights
Roberto Bolle
teNeues, 2009
Amazing to the 2nd power
IF you know the work of Bruce Weber, then no explanation is necessary. IF you are NOT familiar with his work, you should at least take a look.
I find him the Ansel Adams of the human form. While he does work in color, I find his black & white work excellent. In ...
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Latin American Spanish (Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)
Roberto Esposto
Lonely Planet, 2008
Great little book
For every significant trip out of country, I've picked up a copy of the pertinent Lonely Planet Phrasebook and I have yet to be disappointed. I purchased two of the Latin American Spanish edition prior to a recent trip to Honduras. As with other Lonely Planet ...
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Practice Made Perfect: How Anyone Can Master Anything Quicker, Easier and Better Than Ever
Roberto Moretti
Robert Salomone, 2009
Very Practical and Useful
The Strength of this book is that it is written generally, in a way that enables the reader to easily apply it's methods to whatever skill they practice. It covers a lot of useful information (virtually everything to be known on learning/skill acquisition that ...
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Tiepolo Pink
Roberto Calasso
Knopf, 2009
Tiepolo Pink
Roberto Calasso's newest book, //Tiepolo Pink//, is a study of Giambattista Tiepolo (1695-1769), a classic Venetian painter of the Rococo period. Calasso must no doubt be the foremost authority on this Old Master who has largely been left to history, and he brings an ...
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