This is a tricky book to review if you've read Spiekermann's later work, "Stop Stealing Sheep." It's not that "Rhyme & Reason" is a bad book, it's just that "Stop Stealing Sheep" covers basically the same material, but does a much better job. (It helps that it's almost twice as long, printed in color and the technology references are a couple of decades more up-to-date.)

So, this is a good little book, but if you've got access to "Stop Stealing Sheep," you don't need to track this one down, except as a curiosity. ( )