Michelle Slatalla

Great read. Gives a weird kind of nostalgia, with parallels seen in Brazil too.

Bruce Sterling's seminal work "The Hacker Crackdown" is a tough act to follow, but Masters of Deception does a pretty good job of doing just that - by discussing the split between the Hacker group The Legion of Doom and The Masters of Deception - with a split over philosophy (among other things) - should Hackers be about elitism - whose Kung Fu is the strongest, or should it be about exploration and sharing knowledge, the original hacker spirit.

You know who would have loved that book? My dad! He is garden-obsessed. Or a "gardenista" as per this book.
Whilst this one had some nice pictures of gardens with the required paired text, I don't think I was the target audience, as I am more on the indoors decoration.

I was disappointed with Gardenista. It was just another book full of photos of a variety of yards, none that excited me to any large extent.