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nyves rated The Old Man and the Sea: 4 stars

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1996)

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo …

nyves rated Méoires d'un gentilhomme corsaire: 4 stars

No cover — Edward John Trelawney: Méoires d'un gentilhomme corsaire (French language, 1988, Phebus)

Méoires d'un gentilhomme corsaire by Edward John Trelawney

nyves rated The Race For A New Game Machine Creating The Chips Inside The Xbox 360 And The Playstation 3: 4 stars

David Shippy: The Race For A New Game Machine Creating The Chips Inside The Xbox 360 And The Playstation 3 (2009, Citadel Press)

The Race For A New Game Machine Creating The Chips Inside The Xbox 360 And The Playstation 3 by David Shippy

nyves finished reading The Race For A New Game Machine Creating The Chips Inside The Xbox 360 And The Playstation 3 by David Shippy

Interesting read for those who want to have some insights of the CPU makings of the PS360 era. First part is bloated with auto-congrats of « top-notch-high-quality-skills-work-hard-party-hard-testosterone semiconductor engineering» but then it gets better

nyves rated La Fontaine pétrifiante: 3 stars

Jacques Chambon, Christopher Priest: La Fontaine pétrifiante (Paperback, French language, 2003, Gallimard)

La Fontaine pétrifiante by Jacques Chambon, Christopher Priest

nyves rated L'Aleph: 4 stars

Jorge Luis Borges: L'Aleph (Paperback, French language, 1977, Gallimard)

L'Aleph by Jorge Luis Borges

The Aleph and Other Stories (Spanish: El Aleph, 1949) is a book of short stories by Argentine writer Jorge Luis …