The first crossposting

Okay, I can do this.

I’ll start by cheating a little. I read the first 10 pages of iWoz while waiting for Chinese food on 12/23, but then didn’t pick it up again ‘til I was at Mom’s, only read a few more pages there, and finished it up this week. Woz is no doubt a brilliant engineer, but a writer he ain’t. The book reads like he dictated it into a tape recorder (or, more likely, an iPod with a mic attached), and his co-writer got credit for typing what he said without making any changes.

Stanley Newman’s Cruciverbalism is similarly colloquial, but far more cleanly readable. (It’s also short.) And fascinating. I made only a few token attempts at solving NY Times crosswords during the Eugene Maleska years—and found them far too frustrating to bother with. Now I know why.

Up next: Adam Felber’s Schrödinger’s Ball, and a Christmas gift.

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