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Vladimir gave

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The Design and Evolution of C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

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Vladimir gave

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)

by Harold Abelson

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Vladimir gave to: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse read in March, 2012	My rating:
Read this one in German with a dictionary (yay, my first real book in German!) -- still as good as the first time around.
Mar 13, 2012 07:03am · see review
Vladimir gave to: Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber read in February, 2012	My rating:
Numerous "everything was so horrible but then I used this trick and now everything is great!" real-life stories are a bit annoying, some pieces of advice are questionable, but generally it was a very useful reading (me being an only child and looking...more
Mar 13, 2012 06:59am · see review
Vladimir gave to: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell read in February, 2012	My rating:
Kinda nice, but maybe a bit more boring and repetitive than e.g. Outliers.
Mar 13, 2012 06:51am · see review
Vladimir gave to: Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling read in December, 2011	My rating:
Read the whole thing on vacation. Very relaxing.
Jan 06, 2012 02:55pm · see review
Vladimir gave to: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition by Frederick P. Brooks Jr. read in October, 2011	My rating:
Catching up with the classics.
Oct 12, 2011 09:48am · see review
Vladimir gave to: Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card read in October, 2011	My rating:
Somehow I missed that one -- catching up with the classics. The perfect superhuman protagonists are a bit annoying, but that's mormon sci-fi for you, I guess. Overall it was quite a nice read despite all clichés and convenient plot devices.
Oct 08, 2011 11:25am · see review
Vladimir gave to: Mafia State by Luke Harding read in October, 2011	My rating:
The field trip reports from Dagestan..Kyrgyzstan with historical/geographical notes are somewhat boring, but the "life of a Guardian reporter in modern Moscow" part compensates for that. I mean, it reads like some oldschool Aksyonov ("Скажи Изюм" wit...more
Oct 04, 2011 08:12am · see review
Vladimir gave to: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author) read in September, 2011	My rating:
Must read. My review (in Russian) and some random quotes at https://plus.sandbox.google.com/u/1/1...
Sep 27, 2011 12:30am · see review
Vladimir gave to: Вверх! Практический подход к карьерному росту by Инна Кузнецова read in September, 2011	My rating:
It's not as bad as the cover suggests, but the blog (lj user=karial) was somehow more fun to read.
Sep 27, 2011 12:28am · see review
Vladimir gave to: The Design and Evolution of C++ by Bjarne Stroustrup	My rating:
Sep 12, 2011 01:44am