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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat are your reading tonight Lounge? I'm reading "Dewey's Nine Lives" the legacy of the
small town library cat who inspired millions. I can't wait to start it.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)A friend who reads a lot said this is the best book he read in 2011.
So far, Jobs has developed from a spoiled brat into a real S.O.B. I expect he'll get even worse as I get farther into the book.
applegrove
(118,880 posts)but not anymore.
Lionel Mandrake
(4,076 posts)JANUARY 12, 2012
While it may be convenient to suppose that Apple is no different than any other company doing business in Chinawhich is as fine a textbook example of a logical fallacy as there isin reality, it is worse. According to a study reported by Bloomberg News last January, Apple ranked at the very bottom of twenty-nine global tech firms in terms of responsiveness and transparency to health and environmental concerns in China. Yet walking into the Foxconn factory, where people routinely work six days a week, from early in the morning till late at night standing in enforced silence, Steve Jobs might have entered his biggest reality distortion field of all. You go into this place and its a factory but, my gosh, theyve got restaurants and movie theaters and hospitals and swimming pools, he said after being queried by reporters about working conditions there shortly after a spate of suicides. For a factory, its pretty nice.
Read more:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/jan/12/who-was-steve-jobs/?pagination=false
Oddly enough, the communist leaders of China have not created a workers' paradise, but quite the opposite. And Jobs didn't see any problem with that.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)Adsos Letter
(19,459 posts)DUer elisonz turned me on to it.
HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)I've started to read God, No! by Penn Jillette and next is Bill Maher's The New New Rules.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)So far, pretty good. Galileo, St. Thomas Aquinas, Goethe, all in the first 15 pages.
sarge43
(28,946 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)meh
His memoir "Jarhead" was very good.
This is his first attempt at fiction.
Picked it up from a remnants bin for $1.50.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)bif
(22,797 posts)RiffRandell
(5,909 posts)Rebuilding after a zombie apocalypse:
http://www.amazon.com/Zone-One-Novel-Colson-Whitehead/dp/0385528078/?tag=gmgamzn-20
KatyaR
(3,447 posts)Since I bought my Nook Color back in October, I'm constantly reading several books at the same time. Here's what I'm in the middle of right now:
"Elisabeth Sladen: An Autobiography"--Doctor Who's Sarah Jane tells her story, published shortly after her death last year.
"World War Z"-- Max Brooks. I'm really not into zombies much at all, but this is a really good book.
"Christmas on Ladybug Farm"--Donna Ball. A fun, easy read about 3 middle-aged women who buy an old historical home and farm and renovate it.
"The Constant Princess"--Philippa Gregory. Interesting novel about the marriage of Catalina, Princess of Spain, to Prince Arthur of England.
"The Metropolis Case"--Matthew Gallaway. Four characters connected by music, opera, and life.
An at some point I need to finish "The Great Influenza," "The Leftovers," "Fannie's Last Supper: Recreating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook," "Kill Alex Cross," and "Russian Winter" by Daphne Kaotay.
And thanks for the reminder about the two "Dewey" books. They're now in my library, waiting to be read!
Have you heard of the book "Oogy: The Dog Only a Family Could Love?" It's on my short list, about a disfigured dog rescued from a dog-fighting operation and adopted by a loving family.
Happy New Year! Any year with books is a GREAT year!
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I got it for a Christmas present. I can't put it down!
I loved his other two books, Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)by Barbara Kingsolver.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I got it on clearance when Borders closed. How do you like it?
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)but bought it because I so many people here said it was great. So far, it is a nice read, but I don't see that this is Kingsolver's best book---unless it progresses. My favorite Kingsolver book was The Poisonwood Bible, and so far, this is not holding me like that book did. We shall see. I reserve judgment.
But it is an interesting book.
one_voice
(20,043 posts)meaningful books and I'm reading...nothing deep and meaningful. I wanted something that was easy and fun. My guilty pleasure....supernatural books...
New author: Claire Farrell
New series: Ava Delaney
the first one...Thirst.
I got it for like 99 cents on my Kindle.