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Recent books — Watchmen, Customer's Yachts, Broken Angels, GI Biomechanics

  • Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Wow, excellent.  Better as a graphic novel than it could have been as a book, the use of text and font and images to intertwine multiple stories works very well. You have to think as you read.
  • Where Are The Customer’s Yachts? by Fred Schwed Jr.  Timeless classic, its crtiticism of the financial services industry and customers’ foolishness is still dead on.
  • Broken Angels By Richard K Morgan.  Another Kovacs novel, this one wasn’t a home run for me.  With all the morally ambiguous factions, I could never quite get Kovacs’ motivations.  And his drawn out death postponed by one miracle drug after another quit working for me. The whole thing felt a little choppy and unmotivated.
  • Biomechanics of the Gastrointestinal Tract by Hans Gregersen. Interesting reference on the GI tract, treating it as a mechanical device and analyzing behaviour from that view. Useful to help you build up a complete picture.
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