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Huey rated Cubed : a secret history of the workplace: 3 stars
Cubed : a secret history of the workplace by Nikil Saval
"Man is born free, but he is everywhere in cubicles." How did we get from Scrooge's office to "Office Space"? …
Huey rated The Magic of Reality: 3 stars
The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins
What are things made of? What is the sun? Why is there night and day, winter and summer? Why do …
Sandworm by Andy Greenberg
A chilling, globe-spanning detective story, tracking an elite group of Russian hackers and the future of global warfare
In 2014, …
Huey rated Chaos Monkeys: 5 stars
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez
"The industry provocateur behind such companies as Twitter and a nascent Facebook presents an irreverent exposé of life inside the …
Huey rated Ways of Heaven: 4 stars
Huey rated The Hound of the Baskervilles: 5 stars
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Huey rated Murder on the Orient Express: 5 stars
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped …
Huey rated A Study in Scarlet: 5 stars
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (A Study in Scarlet, #1)
A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first …
Huey reviewed The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Oliver Sacks
In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” …
Review of 'The man who mistook his wife for a hat' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Huey rated The wicked wit of Winston Churchill: 2 stars
Huey rated Fully Automated Luxury Communism: 3 stars
Fully Automated Luxury Communism by Aaron Bastani
In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision of a world of unimaginable …
Huey rated Welcome to the monkey house: 4 stars
Welcome to the monkey house by Kurt Vonnegut
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as …