9 of 10.
I am thouroughly enjoying this one. It takes a historical tour of the design and evolution of the C++ language, from it's inception based on Bjarne's work with Simula in the late 70's, to his C with Classes, it's codification as C++, and its evolution from 1.0 and beyond. Great insight into why certain decisions were made, and a great way to get some context around where we are today and how we got here.

9 of 10.
A fairly detailed tour of the parallel processing space, with some practical advice as it pertains to modern shared memory architectures and systems. I mentioned it a few weeks back, but I'm just now reading straight through the book. Material is introduction-to-medium-level, but offers some meaty chunks (whatever that means...it just came out, sorry) in many areas. Especially good coverage on data dependence analysis.

8 of 10.
I bought this book primarily for its coverage of Constrained Execution Regions, Critical Finalization, and reliability as it pertains to our hosting APIs. But then I started reading from the beginning and couldn't stop. This book will certainly serve as a good reference for anybody doing hosting coding, and could serve as a source of endless hours of fun...just toying around with some of the cool extensibility hooks the CLR provides. Happy hacking!

7 of 10.
Despite it's potentially offensive title, this book offers interesting insight from an Indian programmer working in the United States. Funny, entertaining, and very raw (i.e. little to no editing). I am slightly annoyed by the triple spaced typesetting, but so be it. Definitely a lighter read than my norm, but it's a welcome change.