Flow matters as much as the content. Some people can just talk about X in a far more enjoyable manner than others. Isaacson is really good - his Jobs' biograph

Flow matters as much as the content. Some people can just talk about X in a far more enjoyable manner than others. Isaacson is really good - his Jobs' biography, the Innovators, the Code Breaker - all are firmly footed in facts, but very easy and interesting to read. "Kitchen Confidentials", "Blind Man's Bluff" and "Seizing the Enigma" are really good in the same sense. Level down there are "Skunk Works" and "The Soul of a New Machine" - interesting, but dense and sluggish. At the bottom, to me at least, there's "Unix" and "Most Secret War" - very difficult to get through with all joy lost to being buried in facts and no connective tissue.