Books / Book 199
Date: 2001-08-15 (permlink)
Author: Tracy Kidder
Name: The Soul Of A New Machine
Rating: ***half

A fun and fast read, but I don't see anything Pulitzer-worthy in it. Maybe it's because the book is 20 years old and back then computers weren't such a big part of people's lives, so reading about them was exciting. The whole hardware part of the book is little more than a history lesson instead of cutting edge technology, and I think this has resulted in the book losing some of its appeal.