Profil

Premier livre lu dans le cadre du prix littéraire du SRIAS-BFC (www.srias-bfc.com/culture-loisirs/avantages.html). Le style est particulier, en effet les très courts chapitres paraissent, au début, se succéder sans réel fil conducteur, et il n'est fait référence aux personnages qu'avec une initiale. Cela me les a fait paraître très distants. Néanmoins, cela n'empêche pas l'histoire familiale racontée par la narratrice d'être touchante. Heureusement pour moi, qui n'ai pas été sensible au style de l'autrice, le livre est court, ce qui m'a évité d'abandonner. Avis mitigé donc.

It has captured me and wouldn't release until I've found The Jester too. Honestly, I don't understand why this book receives such mixed reviews. The hunt for an elusive bug is a proper thriller, the story is well-paced and, most of all, it's the most accurate depiction of the reality of software development I've read in fiction so far. It's a solid novel I'd easily recommend even to non-programmers.

This book is a profound and compassionate response to a horrific "accident" (crash) that killed the author's best friend. Singer digs deep into U.S. society's flawed notion of "accidents" and unpacks the conditions that make these "accidents" inevitable, the biases that block us from seeing them clearly and the obstacles to preventing them. I'd recommend this to everyone really, but particularly anyone involved/interested in government, city planning, harm reduction, and societal systems. The more we know, the more we can work toward prevention.