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Trevor Curtis tcurtisweb — this book was a treasured favorite of mine as a child. however, i had read it so long ago that i really maintained no recollection of any aspect of the story aside from the concept of daemons and a slippery memory of the existence of the armored bears. that said, re-reading this book was like a fantastical trip to a world i've never visited before. i found myself so caught up in the story that i could sit for hours on end without noticing the passage of time in the slightest. i was brought into lyra's world so fully that it was sometimes jarring to find myself suddenly drawn back to the reality of my couch or chair or bed beneath my body by some startling moment of my present reality. there were many points at which i truly felt as though i was in svalbard or bolvangar, fighting alongside lyra and pan. if you've never read this book, i emphatically recommend it. and if you have in the past found yourself nestled between the pages of this amazing novel, i recommend revisiting it whenever you next have the opportunity. (you can borrow it from walker, i'm sure. :))

Hayat Kh hayat_k_a — You gotta read it, right? It wasn't as bad as I'd been told (by an adult) and wasn't as good as I'd been told (by a teen.) It was better than the movie!

Designworld Designworld design_world — Well, 3 1/2 stars, really, but GoodReads won't permit that. Don't let the horrifically dull title fool you. Edward Tufte knows a thing or two about chart design, to say the least (he's built a second career on this obsession). Think this is dull stuff? Ha, and again I say ha. It's darn sexy. Don't believe me? Consider this consequence of the era of optimism or this version of Little Red Riding Hood or this nifty day-in-the-life or this graphic design shop which is such a brilliant specialist in the whimsical-cum-nostalgic info-graphic style that They Might Be Giants commissioned them to produce everything from the liner notes to Mink Car to the flash animations embedded on No! to their website TMBG.com. And Tufte's book has its share of worthwhile "Aha!" moments as well. Take this snippet from p. 20, which follows six maps of the continental US depicting various types of cancer over a 19 year period by age, sex, and county. Tufte points out the clarity and key moments of interest in the various images (such as death "rates in areas where you have lived"), and then critiques: "The maps repay careful study. Notice how quickly and naturally our attention has been directed toward exploring the substantive content of the data rather than toward questions of methodology and technique. Nonetheless the maps do have their flaws. They wrongly equate the visual importance of each county with its geographic area rather than with the number of people living in the county (or the number of cancer deaths). Our visual impression of the data is entangled with the circumstance of geographic boundaries, shapes, and areas -- the chronic problem afflicting shaded-in-area designs of such 'blot maps' or 'patch maps.'" He goes on to further dissect the presentation and the foundational data in a way that I would never have dreamed of. Talk about your perfectionists... these map examples were drawn by him. At any rate, this book is all about comprehensible, usable design, and Tufte even designed it for maximum impact. Its slim girth (a mere 190 pages) is chock-full of historic graphical errors and successes, but you can read the first 50 alone and get the idea. Given that, I'm a bit taken aback (and yet strangely curious) to have discovered that Tufte has managed to produce at least three more disparate volumes. However, I've since learned that Tufte has some serious (and seriously earned) followers. Just last week, on the theory of in for a penny, in for a pound, I attended a program on improving data analytics, and was pulled aside at the end by one of the organizers who spotted my copy of The Visual Display.... "An important book," he sagely nodded. "You should have them all. But check out Steven Few's perceptualedge.com," he continued. "That's where the rubber really meets the road." Okay, fine, leave me alone! I swear that I'll never look at another pie chart again, just don't make me give up my dependence on the color copier?