Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese
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The Big Short - Michael Lewis
REAMDE - Neal Stephenson
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
Life Itself - Roger Ebert
From a programmer’s perspective, Adjustment Bureau was a fun movie! Imagine God, er, The Chairman and his/her caseworkers maintaining a huge complicated piece of code that evolves over time. Bugs in the code reveal themselves every now and then, which the caseworkers then have to patch. It was a fun movie to watch, and much more than the simple chase movie the preview set it up to be.
![Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolf
Loved this book! It is a great crime drama (reminded me of Lush Life), and a great portrait of New York City. It captures NYC in the 80s, but doesn’t feel dated.
From the Wikipedia entry:
To overcome a case of writer’s block, Wolfe wrote to Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, to propose an idea drawn from Charles Dickens and Thackeray. The Victorian writers whom Wolfe viewed as his models had often written their novels in serial installments. Wenner offered Wolfe around $200,000 to serialize his work.[2] The deadline pressure gave him the motivation he had hoped for, and from July 1984 to August 1985 each biweekly issue of Rolling Stone contained a new installment. Wolfe was not happy with his “very public first draft”,[3] and thoroughly revised his work.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ln7zudWQku1qz6fuco1_400.jpg)
Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolf
Loved this book! It is a great crime drama (reminded me of Lush Life), and a great portrait of New York City. It captures NYC in the 80s, but doesn’t feel dated.
From the Wikipedia entry:
To overcome a case of writer’s block, Wolfe wrote to Jann Wenner, editor of Rolling Stone, to propose an idea drawn from Charles Dickens and Thackeray. The Victorian writers whom Wolfe viewed as his models had often written their novels in serial installments. Wenner offered Wolfe around $200,000 to serialize his work.[2] The deadline pressure gave him the motivation he had hoped for, and from July 1984 to August 1985 each biweekly issue of Rolling Stone contained a new installment. Wolfe was not happy with his “very public first draft”,[3] and thoroughly revised his work.
