A little while ago I made a rather large book order from Chapters.ca. It's all arrived now and I've finished reading one of the books already, "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines" by Janna Levin. I read it pretty much in a day, through work and school. It was pretty amazing. I was really impressed. The book is about important moments in the lives of Alan Turing and Kurt Gödel. Alan Turing is one of my heroes, and lately I've been reading a lot about Gödel as well ("Gödel Escher Bach, an Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas R. Hofstadter for one). This book takes a wildly different path than everything else I've ever read about either of them, and approaches them from a much more human and personal, even emotional point of view. You get to know them much better as the people they were. It's a really interesting work that kept me reading, and wanting more. I really would recommend anyone interested in either of those two people check this book out (it's short and cheap too!). I'm now quite looking forward to reading Janna's other book "How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space". I hope it is just as different and compelling.
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