2DoNext Books Updates

Great Reference Book

8/22/2010 8:32:27 AM

I am a CIO of a medium size company and did not have the IT background. However, this book will be a big help to me as I exercise my responsibilities. I enjoyed the chapter about managing IT professionals and aligning IT strategies with business strategies. It is also easy to read.

Modern Management's Guide to Information Technology

8/21/2010 11:18:57 AM

Great book for those in management who has to manage IT resources. It is written so that all management can clearly understand how to manage IT professionals and ensure that technology is in alignment with technology.

the adventure of all adventures

8/8/2010 11:50:59 AM

this book is definitive for a reason... its damn good. i think it was the first book i read after high school (surprisingly i was not required to read it while in). i mean theres not much else i can say other than read it, its damn good.

good

8/8/2010 11:48:12 AM

its been a while but i remember liking it. a man goes crazy after he realizes his american dream was really just a dream. solid read.

amazing

8/8/2010 11:47:03 AM

im only halfway through and this book is incredible. even the parts where melville just talks about knots and riggings is interesting, fuck.

side o' the road

8/8/2010 11:45:56 AM

"modern day huck finn" as some would say. well, its entertaining enough, but it does slump here and there. i read this after i had actually done a little bit of hitch-hiking myself and was curious to see what the beat-bible had to say about it. i was disappointed when it was more fictional then autobiographical. i suppose he drew from his experiences but i was expecting a sort of journal. either way the road stories are pretty great and the characters well constructed, its just not as relatable

thoreau was a punk

8/8/2010 11:42:01 AM

i credit this book with properly articulating much of what ive felt from my late-teens to now. most of what is done in this civilization is not only senseless but pointless. simplify your life as much as you can. walden was essentially written from pieces of his journal and reads as such, so its was a bit different from what im used to. getting going was difficult but once it got to the meat of the story i was hooked. theres a lot of wisdom here.

like an ever flowing stream

8/8/2010 11:34:26 AM

at the risk of sounding like a hippie, this book had a profound impact on my perspective on life quite a bit after i had actually read it. i feel like i can appreciate it better with each passing day having only read it once. its presentation on the buddhist (i suppose) take on existence and humanity is something i find agreeable to a certain extent, but more than that i just feel a peculiar connection to its description of life and time. to me hesse got it right.

my first shakespeare

8/8/2010 11:30:53 AM

for whatever reason i had chosen this to be my first true leap into shakespeare. i had tried king lear about 4 years ago but was so unaccustomed to the language that i could read a single page. i read this coming off canterbury tales and the inferno, so i knew i was good to go.

as for the story its fairly run-of-the-mill: love, betrayal, murder, etc. nothing special but the characters are well written to the point where you grow to hate iago. its short too, so if you have an afternoon to

epic poem... is epic

8/8/2010 11:27:37 AM

i recommend it solely for the language. im not exactly sure of the particular meter in which the poetry is written but it gets my creative juices flowing. i read poetry not necessarily for the story but to learn how to put words together in clever or powerful ways. for that i think this book is great. plus some of the stories are pretty fantastic, though others are totally forgettable.

Book Addict!

5/12/2008 6:25:28 PM

I love almost all books and finnish 3-4 a week. My favorite book is Harry Potter - and my least favorite is Our Only May Amelia. I hang out at the library whenever i get the chance, and one of my only dreams is to meet JK Rowling. Books Rock!!!!

Books of The Times: Wonder Bread and Curry: Mingling Cultures, Conflicted Hearts

4/4/2008 8:14:33 AM

In these stories, Jhumpa Lahiri writes about Indian immigrants and their American-reared children with an intimate knowledge of their conflicted hearts, using her lapidary eye for detail to conjure their daily lives with extraordinary precision.
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is anyone out there?

3/18/2008 4:49:22 PM

These recommendations are awful! They are nothing at all like the books I rated highly. What's up with that? Does anyone know a better site to recommend books?

He Stomps Like Godzilla, Stings Like a... Don’t Ask

2/26/2008 8:00:28 AM

David Maine has concocted a sly, minimalist pastiche of monster-movie clichés.
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He Stomps Like Godzilla, Stings Like a... Don’t Ask

2/25/2008 7:46:05 AM

David Maine has concocted a sly, minimalist pastiche of monster-movie clichés.
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One of the Biggest Sinners to Play in Sin City

2/22/2008 7:35:26 AM

John Huddy reconstructs the crime spree of a master criminal who led a series of brazen attacks on armored cars and, in his final caper, the main cashier’s desk at the Bellagio.
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Unshakable Optimist of the House of Bhutto

2/19/2008 11:30:30 AM

If Benazir Bhutto’s own life reads like a Greek tragedy, she was nonetheless a very modern politician, and the book she has written is part manifesto, part spin job, part selective history and part term-paper analysis.
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Harvard Research to Be Free Online

2/14/2008 7:39:36 AM

Harvard University will soon begin posting research and articles produced by its faculty on the Internet for free.
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There Will Be Scandal: An Oil Stain on the Jazz Age

2/13/2008 6:40:04 AM

Scandals in Washington come and go, but Teapot Dome remains one of the real humdingers: a Jazz Age affair in which a handful of oil tycoons and corrupt government officials nearly managed to make away with a hefty percentage of the nation’s petroleum reserves.
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Hemingway, Your Letter Has Arrived

2/10/2008 9:27:48 AM

Though no one talks about them much, Ernest Hemingway wrote two plays.
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Colorblind Conclusions on Racism

2/6/2008 7:58:03 AM

Richard Thompson Ford takes dead aim at racial opportunists, opponents of affirmative action, multiculturalists and the myriad rights organizations he sees trying to hitch a ride on the successes of the black civil rights movement.
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Tragicomic Tale of the 9/11 Report

2/4/2008 11:23:15 AM

Philip Shenon’s book chronicles the human frailty and folly that went into “The 9/11 Commission Report.”
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I'm an addict, I know it

3/27/2007 4:07:32 PM

I love to read. It's more than a habit, it's an obsession. I have a hard time putting down a book when someone starts talking to me. I have broken myself of the habit of giving a nasty glare to the interrupter, at least. I love it when I get gift cards to book stores, since I know I'm an addict and I try to avoid the bookstore unless I have a preset spending limit. And that, my friends, is why I love... the library.