{"id":13,"date":"2005-04-14T00:47:06","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/jfriedl-links\/books"},"modified":"2008-07-22T20:55:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T11:55:46","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/jfriedl-links\/books","title":{"rendered":"Books I Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#booklist a { text-decoration: none; }\n#booklist a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }\n.bookname    {\n  text-size: big;\n  font-weight: bold;\n  font-style: italic;\n}\n.bookauthor { font-size: small; }\n#booklist li { padding-bottom: 1em; }\n.bookdesc { }\n<\/style>\n\n\n<ul id=\"booklist\">\n\n<li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/076790818X\/masteringregu-20\">A Short History of Nearly Everything<\/a>\n-\n<a class=\"bookauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books\/masteringregu-20&amp;field-author=Bill%20Bryson\">Bill Bryson<\/a><div class=\"bookdesc\">A superbly written stroll through what in most anyone else's hands would be dry, boring science, in Bill Bryson's embrace becomes a funny, interesting, delightful experience that just happens leave you understanding a lot more about space, the universe, the earth, rocks, atoms, people, and, well, nearly everything. <span class='nobr'>It's a thoroughly<\/span> enjoyable read. 30 seconds after finishing it, <span class='nobr'>I turned<\/span> back to page one and started again.<\/div><\/li>\n\n<li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0679747044\/masteringregu-20\">Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman<\/a>\n-\n<a class=\"bookauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books\/masteringregu-20&amp;field-author=James%20Gleick\">James Gleick<\/a><div class=\"bookdesc\">I'm not sure which is better, the content or how well this book is written. <span class='nobr'>The science<\/span> is a bit too heavy a times, at least for me, but the book is otherwise so interesting that those few pages are worth it.<\/div><\/li>\n\n<li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0060536357\/masteringregu-20\">Barbarians at the Gate<\/a>\n-\n<span class=\"bookauthor\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books\/masteringregu-20&amp;field-author=Bryan%20Burrough\">Bryan Burrough<\/a> &amp;\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books&amp;field-author=John%20Helyar\/masteringregu-20\">John Helyar<\/a><\/span><div class=\"bookdesc\">It's hard to believe that a subject that sounds as boring as this (the corporate takeover of RJR Nabisco) can make such a compelling, interesting read. Riveting.<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/067179227X\/masteringregu-20\">Den of Thieves<\/a>\n-\n<a class=\"bookauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books\/masteringregu-20&amp;field-author=James%20B.%20Stewart\">James Stewart<\/a><div class=\"bookdesc\">It's hard to believe that a subject that sounds as boring as this (Wall Street's  junk bond scandal of the 1980s) can make such a compelling, interesting read. Riveting.<\/div><\/li>\n\n<li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596002890\/masteringregu-20\">Mastering Regular Expressions<\/a>\n-\n<a class=\"bookauthor\" href=\"\/\">Jeffrey Friedl<\/a><div class=\"bookdesc\">It's hard to believe that a subject that sounds as boring as this (regular expressions) can make such a compelling, interesting read. Riveting. <tt><b>\ud83d\ude42<\/b><\/tt><\/div><\/li>\n\n<li><a class=\"bookname\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0836228111\/masteringregu-20\">Making The &#8220;Terrible&#8221; Twos Terrific<\/a>\n-\n<a class=\"bookauthor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/index=books\/masteringregu-20&amp;field-author=John%20Rosemond\">John Rosemond<\/a><div class=\"bookdesc\">I found this book to be an absolute Godsend. Most of it just &#8220;clicked&#8221; with me (that is, <span class='nobr'>I instinctively<\/span> agreed with much of what he presented), and it made a lot of things about handling a toddler much more clear. <span class='nobr'>If nothing<\/span> else, it reminds you that your toddler is normal when he's doing all the things that drive you crazy -- it's you who can influence whether those &#8220;things that drive you crazy&#8221; actually do drive you crazy (and lead the kid into being a brat), or are faced with a calm that can only come from really understanding the situation. A must-have for anyone with a kid between 18 months and, say, three years. <span class='nobr'>I would<\/span> not recommend reading before 18 months, though, as none of the book applies before about then, and you've got enough on your plate w\/o having to read stuff that is, at the moment, irrelevant.<\/div><\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough &amp; John Helyar Den of Thieves - James Stewart Mastering Regular Expressions - Jeffrey Friedl Making The \"Terrible\" Twos Terrific - John Rosemond","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}