The plot has become a cliché, which can mask the hilarity, bombast and humanity of this great play.
William Jackson
Worth Reading: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
One of Dickens’ best-known and best-loved books, a great mystery and a story of redemption—for Pip, his benefactor and his tormentor.
Supreme Court sidesteps decision on Microsoft’s Irish email servers
A new law allowed the justices to dismiss a DOJ suit seeking to enforce a warrant for data held in an off-shore datacenter. But the larger question of what happens when the United States orders a company to violate the laws of another country remains to be answered.
Worth Reading: The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The granddaddies of action adventure stories. But beyond the carnage and monsters there are characters that make these classics worth reading.
Worth Reading: Summer of ’49 by David Halberstam
Halberstam brings all of his reporting talent to bear on one idyllic season of the National Pastime and a pennant race between perennial rivals the Yankees and the Red Sox.
Worth Reading: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Master reexamines Pontius Pilate and Jesus, Margarita must decide what she is willing to do for love, and Satan punctures bureaucrats, hypocrites and thieves in Soviet-era Moscow.
Worth Reading: Rob Roy by Sir Walter Scott
A romantic adventure set in the Scottish borderlands and Northern England in 1715. The colorful outlaw and rebel Rob Roy MacGregor steps in to defend Scotland, the underdog and true love.
Happy ASCII Day – 50 years as a standard for federal computing
In March 1968 LBJ designated ASCII as a federal standard to help ensure compatibility among computers, paving the way for a new era of digital communications.
Worth Reading: The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler by H. Allen Smith
Both Gene Fowler and H. Allen Smith were journalists who went everywhere, knew everybody and wrote about all of it. This is Smith’s laugh-out-loud biography of his friend.
Worth Reading: The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club is the first and the most Dickensian of Dickens’s novels.