Reading List
READ The Daily Stoic: 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living stoicism philosophy selfhelp
Author: Ryan Holiday Added: 2025-04-06 ISBN: 9780735211735 Rating: ★★★
A bit of a mixed bag. Parts of it are inspiring and other parts of it are less convincing. The author complains that Stoics are often accused of suppressing their emotions and then goes on to say that if something bad happens to us, and rightfully makes us upset, it's really our fault for not having the correct "reactions".
Take it all with a grain of salt.
READ Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #3) fantasy greekmyth ya
Author: Rick Riordan Added: 2025-05-22 ISBN: 9780141321264 Rating: ★★★
READ Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2) fantasy greekmyth ya
Author: Rick Riordan Added: 2025-03-18 ISBN: 9780120000319 Rating: ★★★
READ The Neverending Story fantasy ya translation
Author: Michael Ende, Ralph Manheim Added: 2015-07-24 ISBN: 9780525457589 Rating: ★★★
READ Redshirts scifi
Author: John Scalzi Added: 2015-07-31 ISBN: 9780765316998 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Challenges of a Secular Quebec: Bill 21 in Perspective politics quebec
Author: Lucia Ferretti, Francois Rocher Added: 2025-01-21 ISBN: 9780774868426
TOREAD The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language linguistics
Author: Steven Pinker Added: 2025-01-12 ISBN: 9780060958336
TOREAD The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2025-01-03 ISBN: 9780316525572
TOREAD Taste: My Life Through Food food cooking
Author: Stanley Tucci Added: 2025-01-01 ISBN: 9781982168018
READ The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) fantasy greekmyth ya
Author: Rick Riordan Added: 2024-10-10 ISBN: 9780786838653 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Other Bennet Sister romance
Author: Janice Hadlow Added: 2024-10-09 ISBN: 9781250129413
READ Dragons of Spring Dawning (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #3) fantasy
Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Added: 2024-08-06 ISBN: 9780786930708 Rating: ★★★
READ Around the World in Eighty Days adventure classic
Author: Jules Verne, Brian W. Aldiss, Michael Glencross Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780140449068 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Call of Cthulhu horror classic
Author: H.P. Lovecraft Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9788562022753
TOREAD How Long 'til Black Future Month? scifi anthology
Author: N.K. Jemisin Added: 2024-08-06 ISBN: 9780316491341
TOREAD The Histories history classic rome
Author: Tacitus, Kenneth Wellesley Added: 2016-03-08 ISBN: 9780140441505
TOREAD Piranesi fantasy
Author: Susanna Clarke Added: 2024-06-13 ISBN: 9781635575637
READ Leviathan Falls (The Expanse, #9) fantasy
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2024-03-16 ISBN: 9780356510392 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Erasure fiction
Author: Percival Everett Added: 2024-05-20 ISBN: 9780786888153
TOREAD The Science Fiction Century, Volume 1 scifi anthology
Author: David G. Hartwell Added: 2024-04-23 ISBN: 9780312864842
TOREAD Dark Matter scifi
Author: Blake Crouch Added: 2024-04-22 ISBN: 9781101904220
TOREAD Project Hail Mary scifi
Author: Andy Weir Added: 2024-04-22 ISBN: 9780593135204
READ Tiamat's Wrath (The Expanse, #8) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2019-09-01 ISBN: 9780316332873 Rating: ★★★★
READ Persepolis Rising (The Expanse, #7) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2019-09-01 ISBN: 9780316332828 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) scifi
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky Added: 2023-12-21 ISBN: 9781447273288
TOREAD La Morte D'Arthure (Volume 1); The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the Round Table fantasy arthur
Author: Thomas Malory Added: 2023-12-06 ISBN: 9781150265969
TOREAD The Bell Jar classic fiction
Author: Sylvia Plath Added: 2023-12-01 ISBN: 9780571268863
TOREAD Backup & Recovery tech
Author: W. Curtis Preston Added: 2023-11-26 ISBN: 9780596102463
TOREAD Writing Efficient Programs (Prentice-Hall Software Series) tech software
Author: Jon L. Bentley Added: 2023-11-26 ISBN: 9780139702518
TOREAD Ideological Perspectives on Canada politics canada
Author: M Patricia Marchak Added: 2023-11-26 ISBN: 9780773590915
TOREAD Down and Out in Paris and London classic memoir
Author: George Orwell Added: 2023-10-26 ISBN: 9780156262248
TOREAD The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity history
Author: David Graeber, David Wengrow Added: 2023-10-15 ISBN: 9780374157357
TOREAD Code That Fits in Your Head : Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series) tech software
Author: Mark Seemann Added: 2023-10-15 ISBN: 9780137464401
TOREAD Why Nations Go to War politics
Author: John George Stoessinger Added: 2023-10-08 ISBN: 9780495097075
TOREAD Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention— and How to Think Deeply Again selfhelp productivity
Author: Johann Hari Added: 2023-10-01 ISBN: 9780593138519
READ My Man Jeeves (Jeeves, #1) classic humorous
Author: P.G. Wodehouse Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9781585678754 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Do You Remember Being Born? scifi
Author: Sean Michaels Added: 2023-09-16 ISBN: 9781039006768
TOREAD Letters from a Stoic stoicism philosophy
Author: Seneca Added: 2023-09-15 ISBN: 9780140442106
TOREAD Discourses and Selected Writings stoicism philosophy
Author: Epictetus, Robert Dobbin Added: 2023-09-15 ISBN: 9780140449464
TOREAD Saga, Volume 8 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781534303492
READ The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3) fantasy religion ya
Author: Philip Pullman Added: 2022-12-08 ISBN: 9780440238157 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World selfhelp
Author: David Epstein Added: 2022-11-17 ISBN: 9780735214484
TOREAD M Is for Magic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Teddy Kristiansen Added: 2022-11-04 ISBN: 9780061186424
READ Wendy, Darling (Wendy, Darling, #1) fantasy retelling
Author: A.C. Wise Added: 2022-10-26 ISBN: 9781789096811 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD A Memory of Light (The Wheel of Time, #14) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson Added: 2022-09-23 ISBN: 9780765325952
TOREAD Made for Love scifi
Author: Alissa Nutting Added: 2022-08-13 ISBN: 9780062280558
READ Northanger Abbey romance classic
Author: Jane Austen, Alfred Mac Adam Added: 2015-01-21 ISBN: 9781593082642 Rating: ★★★
Things I find odd about Northanger Abbey:
- She's only 17?
- They only knew each three months?
- Her parents just met the guy that day and they're okay with all this?
Things I find odd about Jane Austen's books in general:
- Why do the married couples refer to each other as Mr and Mrs? Especially the ones with children. I mean, you guys are banging, right? I feel like you should be on a first name basis.
TOREAD The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media tech history
Author: Kevin Driscoll Added: 2022-06-14 ISBN: 9780300248142
READ Dragons of Winter Night (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #2) fantasy
Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Added: 2022-06-09 ISBN: 9780786954384 Rating: ★★
READ Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic history rome
Author: Tom Holland Added: 2021-10-19 ISBN: 9781400078974 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Once and Future King fantasy arthur
Author: T.H. White Added: 2022-02-09 ISBN: 9780441627400
TOREAD The Thief (The Queen's Thief, #1) fantasy ya
Author: Megan Whalen Turner Added: 2021-12-24 ISBN: 9780060824976
READ Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2021-07-30 ISBN: 9780613090995 Rating: ★★
READ Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2019-09-01 ISBN: 9780356504261 Rating: ★★★★
READ Consider Phlebas (Culture, #1) scifi
Author: Iain M. Banks Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9781857231380 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Poetic Edda. Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes classic norsemyth
Author: Jackson Crawford Added: 2019-06-02 ISBN: 9781624663567
TOREAD The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma selfhelp
Author: Bessel van der Kolk Added: 2020-12-14 ISBN: 9780670785933
TOREAD At the Mountains of Madness horror classic
Author: H.P. Lovecraft, China Miéville Added: 2020-09-12 ISBN: 9780812974416
TOREAD White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism society
Author: Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson, Manon Smits, Rob Kuitenbrouwer, Amy Landon Added: 2020-06-19 ISBN: 9780807071168
READ Little Brother (Little Brother, #1) scifi cyberpunk ya
Author: Cory Doctorow Added: 2020-02-02 ISBN: 9780765319852 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Origin of Empire: Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) (The Profile History of the Ancient World Series) history rome
Author: David Stone Potter Added: 2020-02-02 ISBN: 9781847654434
READ The Complete Persepolis comic memoir
Author: Marjane Satrapi Added: 2016-03-17 ISBN: 9780375714832 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Circe fantasy greekmyth
Author: Madeline Miller Added: 2020-01-21 ISBN: 9780316556347
READ Ringworld (Ringworld, #1) fantasy
Author: Larry Niven Added: 2014-06-23 ISBN: 9780345247957 Rating: ★★
TOREAD Saga, Volume 7 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781534300606
TOREAD Saga, Volume 6 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781632157119
TOREAD Saga, Volume 5 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781632154385
READ Saga, Volume 4 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781632150776 Rating: ★★★★
READ Saga, Volume 3 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781607069317 Rating: ★★★
READ Saga, Volume 2 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781607066927 Rating: ★★★★
READ Saga, Volume 1 scifi comic
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781607066019
TOREAD Chosen comic religion
Author: Mark Millar, Peter Gross, Jeanne McGee, Cory Petit, Simon Pegg, Richard Hendrick, John Hanson Added: 2020-01-05 ISBN: 9781593072131
READ Nick Cave: Mercy on Me comic memoir
Author: Reinhard Kleist Added: 2019-12-11 ISBN: 9781910593363 Rating: ★★★★
READ How Did it Really Happen? nonfiction
Author: Reader's Digest Association Added: 2019-05-24 ISBN: 9780762102778 Rating: ★
READ Nemesis Games (The Expanse, #5) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2019-09-01 ISBN: 9780316217590 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany history ww2
Author: William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9781451651683
READ The Selfish Gene science evolution
Author: Richard Dawkins Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780199291151 Rating: ★★★
READ Caliban’s War (The Expanse, #2) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2019-09-01 ISBN: 9781841499901 Rating: ★★★
READ 2010: Odyssey Two (Space Odyssey, #2) scifi
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2019-07-02 ISBN: 9780345303066 Rating: ★★
I was teetering between two and three stars but settled on two. The plot, such as it was, lacked focus. The dialogue was awful. The ending was kinda cool and redeemed the book somewhat, but not enough. Maybe two and a half stars? Not three though.
READ Danny Dunn and the Homework Machine (Danny Dunn, #3) ya
Author: Jay Williams, Raymond Abrashkin Added: 2019-07-02 ISBN: 9780070705203 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Children of the New World scifi anthology
Author: Alexander Weinstein Added: 2019-06-30 ISBN: 9781250099006
READ The Age of Spiritual Machines tech philosophy
Author: Ray Kurzweil Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780140282023 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Nibelungenlied classic poetry german
Author: Unknown, Margaret Armour, A.T. Hatto Added: 2019-06-02 ISBN: 9780140441376
TOREAD The Prose Edda: Norse Mythology (Penguin Classics) norsemyth
Author: Snorri Sturluson, Jesse L. Byock Added: 2019-06-02 ISBN: 9780140447552
READ Wayne of Gotham superhero
Author: Tracy Hickman Added: 2019-03-16 ISBN: 9780062074201 Rating: ★★★
READ Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1) scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2016-04-03 ISBN: 9781841499888 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way linguistics
Author: Bill Bryson Added: 2019-04-30 ISBN: 9780380715435
READ Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition scifi anthology
Author: Rich Horton Added: 2019-03-16 ISBN: 9780809556496 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Master and Margarita classic fantasy
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov, Diana Lewis Burgin, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Ellendea Proffer, Hans Fronius, Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков Added: 2019-04-09 ISBN: 9780679760801
READ Eternals comic superhero
Author: Neil Gaiman, John Romita, Jr., Jack Kirby Added: 2019-03-01 ISBN: 9780785125419 Rating: ★★★
READ The Next 20 Years of Your Life: A Personal Guide into the Year 2017 nonfiction
Author: Richard Worzel Added: 2019-02-27 ISBN: 9780773730137 Rating: ★★
READ How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! humorous
Author: Neil Zawacki, James Dignan Added: 2019-01-29 ISBN: 9780811846660 Rating: ★★★
READ Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived humorous nonfiction
Author: Daniel H. Wilson, Richard Horne Added: 2019-01-29 ISBN: 9781596911369 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Microworlds: Writings on Science Fiction and Fantasy anthology
Author: Stanisław Lem Added: 2019-02-22 ISBN: 9780156594431
READ Microserfs tech fiction
Author: Douglas Coupland Added: 2016-04-11 ISBN: 9780060987046 Rating: ★★★★
The technology is quaintly dated and if that was all the book was about this would be a problem.
But the book is much less about the tech, and much more about the characters relationship to it. And that's a story that never gets old. It's as current as ever.
This book has a lot of heart. It was lovely.
READ Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure humorous romance
Author: Ryan North Added: 2017-12-30 ISBN: 9781101983300 Rating: ★★★
READ Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance: Chronicles, #1) fantasy
Author: Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman Added: 2019-01-05 ISBN: 9780786915743 Rating: ★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 10: One More Time scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781401202170 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 9: The Cure scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563899881 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 8: Dirge scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563899539 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 7: Spider's Thrash scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Darren Aronofsky Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563898945 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 6: Gouge Away scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563897962 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 5: Lonely City scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Rodney Ramos, Patrick Stewart Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563897221 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563896279 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9781563895685 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 2: Lust for Life scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson Added: 2013-02-10 ISBN: 9781563894817 Rating: ★★★★
READ Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street scifi cyberpunk comic
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, Darick Robertston, Rodney Ramos, Garth Ennis, Nathan Eyring, Patrick Stewart Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781563894459 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Dark Intelligence (Transformation, #1) scifi
Author: Neal Asher Added: 2018-07-22 ISBN: 9781597808248
TOREAD From Sumer to Rome: The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies (Contributions in Military Studies) history
Author: Richard A. Gabriel, Karen S. Metz Added: 2018-07-06 ISBN: 9780313276453
TOREAD Phantom fiction retelling
Author: Susan Kay Added: 2018-06-17 ISBN: 9781933626048
TOREAD Sanditon romance classic
Author: Jane Austen, A.C. Grayling Added: 2015-01-21 ISBN: 9781843911845
READING Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3) scifi translation
Author: Liu Cixin, Ken Liu Added: 2018-06-03 ISBN: 9780765386632
TOREAD The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World history linguistics
Author: David W. Anthony Added: 2018-05-29 ISBN: 9780691058870
TOREAD The Myth of Sisyphus classic philosophy
Author: Albert Camus, Justin Obrien Added: 2018-03-24 ISBN: 9780141182001
TOREAD The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures nonfiction science
Author: Anne Fadiman Added: 2018-03-21 ISBN: 9780374525644
READ Storage Made Easy selfhelp
Author: Candace Ord Manroe Added: 2017-10-29 ISBN: 9780895778208 Rating: ★★
Mostly meh. There are practical suggestions, but they are mostly obvious (use plastic coated wire racks, etc.) Mostly I think a lot of my storage problems would go away if I just had less stuff, so I'm going to try focusing on that.
TOREAD Old Man's War (Old Man's War, #1) scifi
Author: John Scalzi Added: 2017-12-28 ISBN: 9780765348272
TOREAD Arrowood (Arrowood, #1) mystery fiction history
Author: Mick Finlay Added: 2017-12-21 ISBN: 9780778330943
READ How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons selfhelp
Author: Albert Ellis, Arthur J. Lange Added: 2017-10-28 ISBN: 9780806516707 Rating: ★★
READ Wizard and Glass (The Dark Tower, #4) fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2013-01-09 ISBN: 9780451194862
READ Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time tech management
Author: Jeff Sutherland Added: 2017-10-05 ISBN: 9780385346450 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Complete Idiot's Guide to Organizing your Life selfhelp
Author: Georgene Lockwood Added: 2017-10-29 ISBN: 9781592574131
TOREAD Maximize Your Memory selfhelp
Author: John Lee Hancock Added: 2017-10-28 ISBN: 9780762102426
TOREAD Remember Everything You Read: The Evelyn Wood 7-Day Speed Reading and Learning Program selfhelp
Author: Stanley D. Frank Added: 2017-10-28 ISBN: 9780812917734
TOREAD A Newfoundlander in Canada: Always Going Somewhere, Always Coming Home canada
Author: Alan Doyle Added: 2017-10-21 ISBN: 9780385686198
TOREAD Where I Belong canada
Author: Alan Doyle Added: 2017-10-21 ISBN: 9780385680363
TOREAD Culture and Imperialism society politics
Author: Edward W. Said Added: 2017-10-18 ISBN: 9780679750543
TOREAD The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine religion
Author: Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt McGrath Added: 2017-10-18 ISBN: 9780830834464
READ The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2013-01-09 ISBN: 9780451925084 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Death and Life of Great American Cities society
Author: Jane Jacobs Added: 2017-09-24 ISBN: 9780375508738
TOREAD The Princess Bride fantasy ya
Author: William Goldman Added: 2017-08-28 ISBN: 9780345418265
TOREAD Astrophysics for People in a Hurry science
Author: Neil deGrasse Tyson Added: 2017-08-12 ISBN: 9780393609394
READ Scrum and XP from the Trenches (Enterprise Software Development) software
Author: Henrik Kniberg Added: 2017-07-31 ISBN: 9781430322641 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions psych
Author: Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths Added: 2017-03-25 ISBN: 9781627790369
TOREAD ISIS: The State of Terror society politics
Author: Jessica Stern, J.M. Berger Added: 2017-03-25 ISBN: 9780062395559
TOREAD Art History: The Basics art
Author: Diana Newall, Grant Pooke Added: 2017-03-24 ISBN: 9780415373081
TOREAD Inside the Third Reich history
Author: Albert Speer Added: 2017-03-19 ISBN: 9780684829494
READ The Republic philosophy
Author: Plato Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780140440485 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever philosophy religion
Author: Christopher Hitchens Added: 2017-02-20 ISBN: 9780306816086
TOREAD Starship Titanic (IMAGINAIRE) scifi
Author: Terry Jones, Marie-Catherine Caillava Added: 2017-02-20 ISBN: 9782290053652
TOREAD The Illusion of Conscious Will philosophy
Author: Daniel M. Wegner Added: 2017-02-04 ISBN: 9780262731621
TOREAD Second Treatise of Government (Hackett Classics) philosophy politics
Author: John Locke, C.B. MacPherson Added: 2017-01-31 ISBN: 9780915144860
READ Revolting Rhymes ya
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-03 ISBN: 9780142302262 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Metaphysics philosophy
Author: Aristotle, Joe Sachs, Michael Levine Added: 2017-01-28 ISBN: 9781888009033
TOREAD City of God religion philosophy
Author: Augustine of Hippo, Henry Bettenson Added: 2017-01-27 ISBN: 9780140448948
TOREAD Meditations philosophy stoicism
Author: Marcus Aurelius, Martin Hammond Added: 2017-01-27 ISBN: 9780140449334
TOREAD History of the Peloponnesian War history
Author: Thucydides, M.I. Finley, Rex Warner Added: 2017-01-27 ISBN: 9780140440393
READ Heart of Darkness classic
Author: Joseph Conrad, Stanley Appelbaum Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780486264646 Rating: ★★★★
I liked this book more than I thought I would. The prose is very dense, and there isn't much "action" and when you're faced with a book like that, your only choices are to avoid it or savour it. I attempted to do the latter.
The language was vivid, intense and memorable. Long, descriptive passages that one might be tempted to skip over in other works became the key to enjoying this one. The tension ratchets up in the last third, with the slow, inexorable journey to Kurtz. It was quite amazing.
READ Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3) scifi comedy
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780345418906 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Chocolate War ya
Author: Robert Cormier Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780440900320 Rating: ★★★
READ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1) ya
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780142403884 Rating: ★★★★
READ Exegesis scifi
Author: Astro Teller Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780375700514 Rating: ★★★★
READ Marvel 1602 comic superhero
Author: Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Richard Isanove, Peter Sanderson, Todd Klein Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780785123118 Rating: ★★★★
READ Stories of Your Life: and Others scifi philosophy
Author: Ted Chiang Added: 2016-03-03 ISBN: 9781931520898 Rating: ★★★★★
I don't often give 5 stars, but this guy's something else. You know when you finish a really good story and you're just itching to tell someone about it? Almost every single story in this anthology was like that.
TOREAD Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004 politics society
Author: Hendrik Hertzberg Added: 2017-01-21 ISBN: 9780143035534
TOREAD Pro Git (Expert's Voice in Software Development) tech software ref
Author: Scott Chacon Added: 2017-01-20 ISBN: 9781430218333
READ The Sandman: Overture comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, J.H. Williams III, Todd Klein, Dave Stewart Added: 2016-12-27 ISBN: 9781401248963 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2014-06-16 ISBN: 9780340837948 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking selfhelp
Author: Malcolm Gladwell, Barry Fox, Irina Henegar Added: 2016-11-19 ISBN: 9780316010665
READ The Rise of Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #4) scifi
Author: Dan Simmons Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553572988 Rating: ★★
I guess?
I mean, some questions we're answered. But at times it felt like the TV series Lost - the story kind of got away from him and he basically just gave up.
So I don't really know what the Shrike was supposed to be. Not really. Whatever happened to the people on the Tree of Pain? Did Aenea feel the people on the Tree of Pain? How did the Void entities manage to control the Shrike?
None of this was answered, and instead I get a story about people travelling on a river. Like Huckleberry Finn. Disappointing.
READ Twelve Tomorrows 2016 scifi anthology
Author: Bruce Sterling, Nick Harkaway, Charles Stross, Daniel Suarez, Ilona Gaynor, Pepe Rojo, Ned Beauman, John Kessle, Annalee Newitz Added: 2016-09-05 ISBN: 9780991044436 Rating: ★★★
READ Endymion (Hyperion Cantos, #3) scifi
Author: Dan Simmons, Gary Ruddell Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553572940 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection selfhelp society
Author: Michael Harris Added: 2016-09-19 ISBN: 9781591846932
TOREAD This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate politics society
Author: Naomi Klein Added: 2016-08-31 ISBN: 9781451697384
READ No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs society
Author: Naomi Klein Added: 2016-02-22 ISBN: 9780006530404 Rating: ★★★
READ The Best of Isaac Asimov scifi anthology
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2015-12-14 ISBN: 9780449230183 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD When You Are Engulfed in Flames mystery
Author: David Sedaris Added: 2016-08-01 ISBN: 9780316143479
TOREAD Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism society
Author: Benedict Anderson Added: 2015-03-11 ISBN: 9781844670864
READ Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth comic superhero
Author: Grant Morrison, Dave McKean Added: 2014-07-22 ISBN: 9781401204259 Rating: ★★★
This book came out perhaps 3 years after The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen. It shows. It's violent and disturbing, with a strong "Women in Refrigerator" vibe to it.
Nonetheless, the artwork is superb. And the story, when not over the top with gore, is engaging.
READ The End of Eternity scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov, Apostol András Added: 2016-02-20 ISBN: 9780449016190 Rating: ★★★★
Asimov is hit or miss, but this one was out of the park, if you can deal with the 1950's era sexism. It's mostly par for the course with this kind of book, though. It functions as a kind of prequel to the Foundation series, though the fact of that is somewhat of a twist ending.
TOREAD Continuous Delivery tech ref software
Author: Jez Humble, David Farley Added: 2016-07-12 ISBN: 9780321601919
TOREAD It Can't Happen Here fiction politics
Author: Sinclair Lewis Added: 2016-07-06 ISBN: 9780451216588
READ A Canticle for Leibowitz scifi
Author: Walter M. Miller Jr. Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780553273816 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Unseen War in Europe: Espionage and Conspiracy in the Second World War politics history
Author: John H. Waller Added: 2016-06-25 ISBN: 9780679448266
READ The Fabulous Riverboat (Riverworld #2) scifi
Author: Philip José Farmer Added: 2016-06-17 ISBN: 9780345419682 Rating: ★★★
READ To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Riverworld, #1) scifi
Author: Philip José Farmer Added: 2016-06-17 ISBN: 9780345419675 Rating: ★★★
READ Lady Susan romance comedy classic
Author: Jane Austen, R.W. Chapman Added: 2015-01-21 ISBN: 9780486444079 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Silmarillion fantasy
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien, Ted Nasmith Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780618391110
READ JavaScript Patterns: Build Better Applications with Coding and Design Patterns ref programming tech
Author: Stoyan Stefanov Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9780596806750 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine history
Author: Charles Petzold Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780470229057
TOREAD Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed science
Author: Jim Al-Khalili Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9781841882383
TOREAD QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter science
Author: Richard P. Feynman Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780691024172
TOREAD Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy science
Author: Kip S. Thorne, Stephen Hawking Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780393312768
TOREAD A Brief History of Time science
Author: Stephen Hawking Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780553380163
TOREAD A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present history
Author: Howard Zinn Added: 2016-06-09 ISBN: 9780060838652
READ The Left Hand of Darkness scifi
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Added: 2016-02-28 ISBN: 9780441478071 Rating: ★★★
This was going to be two stars, until about the last third of the book, which bumped it up to three. I enjoyed the camaraderie between Genly and Estraven, and the explorations of what it meant to be male or female. The politics I enjoyed less.
TOREAD The Last Temptation of Christ religion fiction
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis, Peter A. Bien Added: 2016-06-08 ISBN: 9780684852560
READ I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780553803709 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD It's Superman! comic superhero
Author: Tom De Haven Added: 2016-04-30 ISBN: 9780345493927
READ Kick-Ass comic superhero
Author: Mark Millar, John Romita Jr. Added: 2016-04-28 ISBN: 9780785132615 Rating: ★★★
READ Wanted comic superhero
Author: Mark Millar, J.G. Jones, Dick Giordano, Paul Mounts, Robin Spehar, Dennis Heisler, Mark Roslan, Brian K. Vaughan Added: 2016-04-28 ISBN: 9781582404974 Rating: ★★★
READ Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) scifi
Author: Ernest Cline Added: 2016-03-21 ISBN: 9780099560432 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Axiomatic scifi
Author: Greg Egan Added: 2016-04-24 ISBN: 9780061052651
TOREAD The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing selfhelp
Author: Marie Kondō Added: 2016-04-22 ISBN: 9781607747307
READ Harriet the Spy ya
Author: Louise Fitzhugh Added: 2016-04-20 ISBN: 9780440416791 Rating: ★★
READ The Witch Herself (Witch Saga, #3) ya fantasy
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Added: 2016-04-20 ISBN: 9780689853173 Rating: ★★★
READ Witch's Sister (Witch Saga, #1) ya fantasy
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Added: 2016-04-20 ISBN: 9780689853159 Rating: ★★★
READ Witch Water (Witch Saga, #2) ya fantasy
Author: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Added: 2016-04-20 ISBN: 9780689853166 Rating: ★★★
READ Diaspora scifi
Author: Greg Egan Added: 2014-06-05 ISBN: 9780061057984 Rating: ★★★★
READ JavaScript: The Good Parts tech programming ref
Author: Douglas Crockford Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9780596517748 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Transmetropolitan, Vol. 0: Tales of Human Waste comic cyberpunk
Author: Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson Added: 2016-04-12 ISBN: 9781401202446
TOREAD The Prince classic politics
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez, W.K. Marriott, Denis Daly, Μαρία Κασωτάκη Added: 2014-07-09 ISBN: 9780937832387
TOREAD The Alchemist fantasy
Author: Paulo Coelho, Alan R. Clarke Added: 2016-04-09 ISBN: 9780061122415
TOREAD The Steampunk Trilogy steampunk scifi
Author: Paul Di Filippo Added: 2016-04-08 ISBN: 9781568581026
TOREAD Chaos: Making a New Science science
Author: James Gleick Added: 2016-04-07 ISBN: 9780140092509
TOREAD Unto the Sons fiction
Author: Gay Talese Added: 2016-04-07 ISBN: 9780679410348
TOREAD The Catcher in the Rye fiction classic
Author: J.D. Salinger Added: 2016-04-07 ISBN: 9780316769174
TOREAD Reflections on the Revolution in France history politics
Author: Edmund Burke, L.G. Mitchell Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780192839787
TOREAD Leviathan classic politics
Author: Thomas Hobbes, Marshall Missner, Crawford Brough Macpherson Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780140431957
TOREAD The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism society
Author: Naomi Klein Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780805079838
TOREAD Mr. Sammler's Planet fiction
Author: Saul Bellow, Stanley Crouch Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780142437834
TOREAD Humboldt's Gift fiction
Author: Saul Bellow Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780140189445
TOREAD A Moment of True Feeling fiction
Author: Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim Added: 2016-04-04 ISBN: 9780374172916
READ Parasite Pig (Interstellar Pig, #2) ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780142400869 Rating: ★★★
READ Heat Wave (Nikki Heat, #1) mystery
Author: Richard Castle Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780786891412 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Learning GNU Emacs tech ref
Author: Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt Added: 2016-03-31 ISBN: 9780596006488
READ Beyond the Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #2) ya
Author: Robert Cormier Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780440905806 Rating: ★★★
READ The Boy Who Reversed Himself ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780553285703 Rating: ★★★★
READ A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) ya scifi
Author: Madeleine L'Engle Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780440800545 Rating: ★★★
READ The Duplicate ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780553286342 Rating: ★★
READ Interstellar Pig (Interstellar Pig #1) ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9780553255645 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Nicomachean Ethics philosophy classic
Author: Aristotle, Hugh Tredennick, J.A.K. Thomson, Jonathan Barnes Added: 2016-03-29 ISBN: 9780140449495
READ Danny the Champion of the World ya fiction
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-03 ISBN: 9780375814259 Rating: ★★★
READ Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1) ya biography
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780141311401 Rating: ★★★
READ Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (Charlie Bucket, #2) ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780142404126 Rating: ★★
READ Fantastic Mr. Fox ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780375822070 Rating: ★★★
READ The Twits ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780141318301 Rating: ★★★
READ The Witches ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780590032490 Rating: ★★★
READ James and the Giant Peach ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780375814242 Rating: ★★★
READ The Enormous Crocodile ya fantasy
Author: Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake Added: 2016-03-28 ISBN: 9780142302453 Rating: ★★★
READ Foundation and Earth (Foundation #5) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780345339966 Rating: ★★★
READ Kingdom Come comic superhero
Author: Mark Waid, Alex Ross Added: 2016-03-24 ISBN: 9781563893308 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Whiskey: The Definitive World Guide ref drinking
Author: Michael Jackson Added: 2016-03-24 ISBN: 9780789497109
TOREAD Two Solitudes society canada quebec
Author: Hugh MacLennan Added: 2016-03-17 ISBN: 9780771034824
TOREAD The Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome myth
Author: E.M. Berens Added: 2016-03-15 ISBN: 9780893410292
TOREAD Melmoth the Wanderer fantasy
Author: Charles Robert Maturin, Victor Sage Added: 2016-03-13 ISBN: 9780140447613
READ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scifi
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson, Vladimir Nabokov, Dan Chaon, Jerome Charyn, Simon Vestdijk Added: 2014-07-14 ISBN: 9780451528957 Rating: ★★★
Pretty good, but the problem with reading this book is that everyone knows the twist. Stevenson tries to makes things look like a simple case of Hyde blackmailing Jekyll, but everyone knows this isn't true. The big reveal therefore falls flat. I made an effort to pretend I was someone living in the Victorian era, reading this for the first time, but that was of limited success.
Anyway, I'm glad I read it, if only to see what all the fuss was about.
READ Robots and Empire (Robot, #4) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780345328946 Rating: ★★★
Overlong. Could have been shorter. And ended way too abruptly.
Nonetheless, not a bad bridge between the Robot novels and the Empire novels. Asimov did something quite cool - he took two unrelated series and put them in the same universe in a way that, to me, felt organic.
TOREAD The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory philosophy
Author: David J. Chalmers Added: 2016-03-09 ISBN: 9780195117899
READ The Stars, Like Dust (Galactic Empire, #1) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov, Paul Lehr Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780449023730 Rating: ★★★
I appear to be in the same boat as most people when it comes to Asimov. His plots are and characters are paper thin, but his ideas are pretty cool. As much as the plot didn't really grab me, I find myself wanting to learn more about Asimov's "Future History".
I even found myself occasionally liking his imagery in this book, and sharing the sense of wonder that he obviously must have felt about space travel (as dated as it seems - the book was written at a time when space travel was truly science fiction. We hadn't been to the moon yet)
Anyway, decent stuff. I shall read more.
READ The Currents of Space (Galactic Empire, #2) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780345311955 Rating: ★★★
Almost 4 stars, but it ended rather abruptly.
Storywise it was actually pretty good, with a plot that I imagine was extremely progressive for the 1950's. Character wise, it was thin, in the usual Asmovian style.
READ Batman: The Long Halloween comic superhero
Author: Jeph Loeb Added: 2014-07-03 ISBN: 9781563894695 Rating: ★★★
READ Crisis on Infinite Earths comic superhero
Author: Marv Wolfman, George Pérez Added: 2015-11-09 ISBN: 9781563897504 Rating: ★★★
READ Infinite Crisis comic superhero
Author: Geoff Johns, Phil Jimenez, George Pérez, Jerry Ordway, Ivan Reis, Andy Lanning Added: 2015-11-09 ISBN: 9781401209599 Rating: ★★★
READ The Bourne Identity (Jason Bourne, #1) thriller
Author: Robert Ludlum Added: 2016-03-09 ISBN: 9780752864327 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Quantum Night scifi
Author: Robert J. Sawyer Added: 2016-03-06 ISBN: 9780425256831
READ Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers (Red Dwarf, #1) scifi comedy
Author: Grant Naylor Added: 2014-07-09 ISBN: 9780451452016 Rating: ★★★
READ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 2 comic
Author: Alan Moore, Kevin O'Neill Added: 2014-07-14 ISBN: 9781401201180 Rating: ★★★
READ Cinderella, Volume 2: Fables are Forever comic
Author: Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Various Added: 2015-08-10 ISBN: 9781401233853 Rating: ★★★
READ Fairest, Volume 5: The Clamour for Glamour comic
Author: Mark Buckingham, Bill Willingham, Russ Braun, Meghan Hetrick, Andrew Pepoy, Andrew Dalhouse, Lee Loughridge, Guy Major, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes Added: 2015-08-15 ISBN: 9781401254261 Rating: ★★★
READ Bullet Gal: It's Not You, It's Me comic scifi
Author: Andrez Bergen Added: 2015-08-19 ISBN: 9780993853517 Rating: ★★★
READ Test-Driven Development: By Example tech software
Author: Kent Beck Added: 2015-09-14 ISBN: 9780321146533 Rating: ★★★
READ Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software tech ref software
Author: Erich Gamma, Grady Booch, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides Added: 2015-09-14 ISBN: 9780201633610 Rating: ★★★
READ The Outsiders ya fiction
Author: S.E. Hinton Added: 2015-09-14 ISBN: 9780670532575 Rating: ★★
READ Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs tech software
Author: Scott Meyers Added: 2015-10-07 ISBN: 9780321334879 Rating: ★★★
READ Blackbriar ya fantasy
Author: William Sleator Added: 2016-03-05 ISBN: 9780380002481 Rating: ★★★
READ Strange Attractors ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2016-03-05 ISBN: 9780140345827 Rating: ★★
TOREAD Distress scifi
Author: Greg Egan Added: 2016-03-05 ISBN: 0061057274
TOREAD Quarantine scifi
Author: Greg Egan Added: 2016-03-05 ISBN: 9780061054235
TOREAD Songs of Distant Earth scifi
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2016-03-03 ISBN: 9780007115860
READ The Robots of Dawn (Robot, #3) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780345315717 Rating: ★★★★
I choose to ignore the rather gratuitous scene of pseudo-erotic adultery near the end. With this in mind, I give the book 4 stars. It's an excellent read. As others have commented, it's the last 6 or 7 pages or so that do it.
TOREAD In Search of Schrödinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality science
Author: John Gribbin Added: 2014-08-18 ISBN: 9780553342536
TOREAD 1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3) scifi
Author: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin, Philip Gabriel Added: 2016-02-11 ISBN: 9780307593313
TOREAD The Predicates of Fate scifi
Author: V.A. Hezaran Added: 2016-02-18 ISBN: 9781771550840
TOREAD The Martian Chronicles scifi
Author: Ray Bradbury, Michael Whelan Added: 2016-02-18 ISBN: 9780553278224
TOREAD A Princess of Mars (Barsoom, #1) scifi
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Seelye Added: 2016-02-18 ISBN: 9780143104889
TOREAD Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2015-11-07 ISBN: 9780553565072
TOREAD The Shockwave Rider scifi
Author: John Brunner Added: 2015-08-12 ISBN: 9780345467171
TOREAD A Scanner Darkly scifi
Author: Philip K. Dick Added: 2015-07-29 ISBN: 9780575076815
TOREAD The War of the Worlds scifi
Author: H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2015-07-29 ISBN: 9780375759239
READ Lightning scifi
Author: Dean Koontz Added: 2016-02-26 ISBN: 9780425192030 Rating: ★★
READ Job: A Comedy of Justice scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2016-02-25 ISBN: 9780345316509 Rating: ★★★
READ Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780345308986 Rating: ★★★★
I'll probably have a more elaborate review later. I may write a blog entry about this. In the meantime:
- 2 stars for the lame characters
- plus 1 star for a decent plot and world building (3 stars)
- plus 1 star for the meta plot and canon welding (4 stars)
- minus 0.5 stars for the silly relationship between Bliss and Pel
That makes 3.5 stars. I'll be generous and round to 4.
TOREAD The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power society
Author: Joel Bakan Added: 2016-02-23 ISBN: 9780743247467
TOREAD Something Wicked This Way Comes ya fantasy
Author: Ray Bradbury Added: 2016-02-22 ISBN: 9780380729401
TOREAD A History of Western Philosophy philosophy
Author: Bertrand Russell Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780671201586
READ The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention linguistics
Author: Guy Deutscher Added: 2014-07-07 ISBN: 9780805080124 Rating: ★★★★
This book is an eye-opener. It explains not only how words and grammar have evolved over the centuries, but also how the very notion grammar (word endings, prepositions, etc.) could have evolved in the first place.
I thought the chapter on metaphors was profound - itself a metaphor, since "profound" means "deep", but I don't literally mean that the chapter was deep in the way that ocean is deep. The idea that tense markers could actually evolve from metaphors was something quite simply had never occurred to me.
It makes me want to take a real course in linguistics. It also makes me want to learn Old English so I can read Beowulf. I will likely do neither, but this book makes me want to :)
As a side note, it puts a song like "Word Crimes" into perspective. Amazingly clever song, yes, but I find I'm a little more tolerant of lapses in grammar after reading this book.
READ The Club Dumas fantasy
Author: Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780156032834 Rating: ★★★★
Don't be turned off by the fact that this was the basis for the movie "The Ninth Gate". That movie was a shadow of this work. I know everyone always says that but in this case it's true. In short, this is an awesome book.
It's a love sonnet to the adventure serials of old. And, weirdly, it gives the devil his due at the same time.
If you're the kind of person who loves old, leather bound, gold leafed books, who's excited to see a Gutenberg Bible or a Shakespeare Folio on display in a museum, who avoids e-books because they just don't feel right, then stop what you're doing and read this book right now. You won't be sorry. This was written just for you.
It's true, to fully appreciate it requires a certain amount of literacy. Knowledge of the works of Alexandre Dumas (particularly The Three Musketeers) helps, but it's not required. I've only read the Count of Monte Cristo, a long time ago, and I was still able to fully enjoy this book.
But you know what? I now really want to read The Three Musketeers.
Now it's also true that the ending was a bit anti-climactic. I don't care. Everything leading up to that was gold and I'm not going to dismiss a work just because the author faltered in the last page. It's given me food for thought and that's enough for me
READ Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? comic superhero
Author: Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert, Various Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9781401223038 Rating: ★★★★
READ Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? comic superhero
Author: Alan Moore, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Kurt Schaffenberger Added: 2015-05-04 ISBN: 9781563893155 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Puppet Masters scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2016-02-18 ISBN: 9781439133767
TOREAD Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10) mystery
Author: Agatha Christie Added: 2016-02-18 ISBN: 9780425200452
READ Second Foundation (Foundation, #3) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780380292806 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD 1066 and All That: A Memorable History of England history
Author: W.C. Sellar, R.J. Yeatman, John Reynolds Added: 2016-02-13 ISBN: 9780413772701
TOREAD Poetics philosophy
Author: Aristotle, Malcolm Heath Added: 2016-01-31 ISBN: 9780140446364
TOREAD S. fantasy
Author: J.J. Abrams, Doug Dorst Added: 2016-02-07 ISBN: 9780316201643
READ Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780380007745 Rating: ★★★
DNF The Emperor's New Mind philosophy science
Author: Roger Penrose Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780192861986
READ Foundation (Foundation, #1) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780380440658 Rating: ★★★
It seems appropriate that Issac Asimov, being the inventor of the fictional discipline of psychohistory - an odd blend of math, sociology and psychology, able to predict the future of very large groups of people while simultaneously being unable to predict the fate of a single individual - should be so awful at character development. As others have said, humanity is the protagonist in the Foundation trilogy, not any particular person.
It makes for quite a sweeping history, but quite a horrible plot, and paper thin characters. Watching an Empire collapse before your eyes is really cool, but my god there's no frickin' plot!
TOREAD Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words ref
Author: Randall Munroe Added: 2016-01-19 ISBN: 9780544668256
TOREAD Climbing Mount Improbable science
Author: Richard Dawkins Added: 2016-01-19 ISBN: 9780141026176
READ Lex Luthor: Man of Steel comic superhero
Author: Brian Azzarello Added: 2014-12-10 ISBN: 9781401204549 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False philosophy
Author: Thomas Nagel Added: 2016-01-13 ISBN: 9780199919758
TOREAD Odd and the Frost Giants ya fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Mark Buckingham Added: 2016-01-13 ISBN: 9780747595380
READ The God Delusion religion
Author: Richard Dawkins Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780618918249 Rating: ★★★
Good book, but feels little mean-spirited at times.
TOREAD Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder science
Author: Richard Dawkins Added: 2016-01-09 ISBN: 9780618056736
TOREAD The Lords of the Golden Horn: From Suleiman the Magnificent to Kamal Ataturk history
Author: Noel Barber Added: 2016-01-09 ISBN: 9780333138618
TOREAD Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong science
Author: Marc Hauser Added: 2016-01-08 ISBN: 9780060780708
TOREAD The Satanic Verses fiction
Author: Salman Rushdie Added: 2016-01-01 ISBN: 9780312270827
TOREAD The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers (Cornell Studies in Money) society
Author: Ngaire Woods Added: 2016-01-01 ISBN: 9780801474200
TOREAD A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing science
Author: Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins Added: 2015-12-28 ISBN: 9781451624458
TOREAD The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum and the Day that Almost Was society canada
Author: Chantal Hébert Added: 2015-12-26 ISBN: 9780345807625
TOREAD The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism economics society
Author: David D. Friedman Added: 2015-12-17 ISBN: 9780812690699
READ Fables: The Wolf Among Us, Volume 1 comic
Author: Lilah Sturges, Matthew Sturges, Dave Justus, Shawn McManus, Stephen Sadowski, Travis Moore, Christopher Mitten, Eric Nguyen, Andrew Pepoy, Lee Loughridge, Sal Cipriano, Chrissie Zullo Added: 2015-11-27 ISBN: 9781401256845 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue religion
Author: Sam Harris, Maajid Nawaz Added: 2015-12-11 ISBN: 9780674088702
READ Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780345335630 Rating: ★★★
Not as good as The Naked Sun, but not bad. The usual cardboard characters and awful dialogue, but with a certain redeeming world-building charm.
READ Les Misérables classic fiction
Author: Victor Hugo, Charles E. Wilbour, Laurence M. Porter Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9781593080662 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) biography
Author: Felicia Day, Joss Whedon Added: 2015-11-15 ISBN: 9781476785653
TOREAD Fairest, Volume 4: Of Men and Mice comic
Author: Marc Andreyko, Shawn McManus, Adam Hughes, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein Added: 2015-08-15 ISBN: 9781401250058
TOREAD Fairest: In All the Land comic
Author: Bill Willingham, Various Added: 2015-10-17 ISBN: 9781401239008
TOREAD Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference science
Author: Cordelia Fine Added: 2015-09-27 ISBN: 9780393068382
READ Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways to Write Better Python (Effective Software Development Series) tech software
Author: Brett Slatkin Added: 2015-04-13 ISBN: 9780134034287 Rating: ★★★
READ Le Petit Prince fantasy
Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Added: 2014-07-09 ISBN: 9785954200263 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship tech software
Author: Robert C. Martin Added: 2015-08-26 ISBN: 9780132350884
TOREAD Catch-22 fiction
Author: Joseph Heller Added: 2015-08-26 ISBN: 9780684833392
READ Fables, Vol. 19: Snow White comic
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham Added: 2014-06-05 ISBN: 9781401242480 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 20: Camelot comic
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Russ Braun, Barry Kitson, Andrew Pepoy, Gary Erskine, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein Added: 2015-05-01 ISBN: 9781401245160 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 21: Happily Ever After comic
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Lilah Sturges, Shawn McManus, Nimit Malavia, Dan Green, Jae Lee, Terry Moore, Eric Shanower, Russ Braun, Chrissie Zullo, Lee Loughridge, June Chung, Todd Klein Added: 2015-08-10 ISBN: 9781401251321 Rating: ★★
Seriously, dude, you can't unceremoniously kill off major characters and expect me to give you a good rating.
READ Fables, Vol. 22: Farewell comic
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green, José Marzán Jr., David Petersen, Russ Braun, Joëlle Jones, Mark Schultz, Lee Garbett, Teddy Kristiansen, Mike Allred, Aaron Alexovich, David Hahn, Lan Medina, Niko Henrichon, Terry Dodson, Rachel Dodson, Mark Farmer, Megan Levens, Bryan Talbot, Lee Loughridge, Andrew Dalhouse, Laura Allred, Todd Klein, Nimit Malavi Added: 2015-08-12 ISBN: 9781401252335 Rating: ★★
I can't give this more than 2 stars. Fables as a whole gets 4 stars, but this last volume just felt like too much of a mop job. Characters that I've read about for years deserve a better ending than they got.
READ The Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #2) scifi
Author: Dan Simmons Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553288209 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Ayn Rand and the World She Made biography
Author: Anne C. Heller Added: 2015-08-06 ISBN: 9780385513999
TOREAD Steampunk scifi anthology
Author: Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, Joe R. Lansdale, Molly Brown, Ted Chiang, Ian R. McLeod, Paul Di Filippo, Rachel E. Pollock, Joseph E. Lake, Stepan Chapman, Neal Stephenson, Mollly Brown, Jess Nevins, Rick Klaw, Bill Baker, Michael Moorcock, Rachel E. Pollack, Mary Gentle, Jay Lake, Michael Chabon, Ian R. MacLeod, James P. Blaylock, Amparo Ramajo Huélamo, Santiago Eximeno Added: 2015-07-29 ISBN: 9781892391759
TOREAD The Difference Engine scifi steampunk
Author: William Gibson Added: 2015-07-29 ISBN: 9780575099401
TOREAD Metaphors We Live By linguistics
Author: George Lakoff, Mark Johnson Added: 2015-07-28 ISBN: 9780226468013
TOREAD The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) mystery
Author: Raymond Chandler Added: 2015-07-27 ISBN: 9780394758282
TOREAD Gulliver’s Travels fantasy
Author: Jonathan Swift, Robert DeMaria Jr. Added: 2015-07-24 ISBN: 9780141439495
TOREAD The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature philosophy
Author: Steven Pinker Added: 2015-07-18 ISBN: 9780670063277
TOREAD Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others myth
Author: Stephanie Dalley, Anonymous Added: 2015-05-31 ISBN: 9780192835895
READ Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1) scifi
Author: Dan Simmons Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553283686 Rating: ★★★
I wish goodreads had the ability to give half stars, because I sort of feel like 3.5 stars is a better rating for this book - somewhere between "liked it" and "really liked it".
As far as the universe building goes, this one feels quite realistic to me. It feels like all the science fictions elements with which we're familiar - time dilatation, farcaster portals, interplanetary politics - are all woven seamlessly into the fabric of the story. There wasn't too much useless exposition and I liked that.
The story itself had its highs and lows. I enjoyed the tales in the following order:
- The Scholar's Tale
- The Consul's Tale
- The Priest's Tale
- The Poet's Tale
- The Soldier's Tale
- The Detective's Tale
I found the detective's tale disappointing, especially after the first few pages showed such promise. It felt a little too derivative of William Gibson's work. I don't really enjoy Gibson at the best of times, and derivative Gibson is even worse.
The Scholar's Tale I found the most compelling. I very much want Rachel to survive this whole ordeal.
TOREAD The Batman Adventures: Mad Love comic superhero
Author: Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Rick Taylor, Tim Harkins Added: 2014-07-22 ISBN: 9781563892448
TOREAD The Practice Effect scifi
Author: David Brin Added: 2014-08-23 ISBN: 9780553269819
TOREAD Joker comic superhero
Author: Brian Azzarello, Lee Bermejo Added: 2015-05-04 ISBN: 9781401215811
TOREAD Batman: The Killing Joke comic superhero
Author: Alan Moore, Brian Bolland, Tim Sale Added: 2015-05-04 ISBN: 9780930289454
TOREAD Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software tech software
Author: Eric Evans Added: 2015-05-09 ISBN: 9780321125217
TOREAD The Sirens of Titan scifi
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Added: 2015-05-12 ISBN: 9780385333498
TOREAD Foucault’s Pendulum fiction mystery
Author: Umberto Eco, William Weaver Added: 2015-04-07 ISBN: 9780156032971
TOREAD God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything religion society
Author: Christopher Hitchens Added: 2015-04-06 ISBN: 9780446579803
TOREAD Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers society economics
Author: Éric Toussaint, Damien Millet Added: 2015-04-05 ISBN: 9781583672228
READ The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks drinking
Author: David A. Embury Added: 2014-12-10 ISBN: 9781603111645 Rating: ★★★
DNF Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid philosophy
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780465026562
DNF Atlas Shrugged fiction
Author: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff Added: 2015-03-11 ISBN: 9780452011878 Rating: ★★
TOREAD Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians politics society
Author: Noam Chomsky Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780745315300
READ Night of January 16th fiction mystery
Author: Ayn Rand Added: 2015-03-11 ISBN: 9780452264861 Rating: ★★
TOREAD I, Claudius (Claudius, #1) history fiction
Author: Robert Graves Added: 2015-02-21 ISBN: 9780679724773
READ Dune (Dune, #1) scifi
Author: Frank Herbert Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780340839935 Rating: ★★
I finally finished it. I'm very proud of myself.
Unfortunately, I can't say I liked it very much. I appreciate the rich, detailed world-building Herbert has accomplished here, but I find his prose…off-putting, I guess? I would call it "florid", but that's not really it. Nonsensical? As in, most of his explanations for what was going on made no sense to me.
This book is very much a product of the 60's, with its emphasis on "awareness-spectrum narcotics" allowing people, apparently, to see though time. It's not really my jam.
Also, the ending was anti-climactic. The evil Baron dispatched so quickly? I was disappointed. Like Alia, I was enjoying watching him squirm, and I wanted the scene to last a little longer. So I guess Herbert did a good job there - he successfully made me hate the Baron enough that I enjoyed watching him receive his comeuppance. I just wish there had been more of it.
I did find myself vaguely intrigued by the oblique references to the Butlerian Jihad but, alas, very little of it was detailed. I suspect I won't be reading the sequels.
TOREAD The Inferno of Dante religion classic
Author: Dante Alighieri, Robert Pinsky Added: 2015-02-09 ISBN: 9780374524524
TOREAD Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2015-02-05 ISBN: 9780062330291
TOREAD Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2015-01-27 ISBN: 9780465073511
TOREAD The Society of Mind philosophy
Author: Marvin Minsky Added: 2015-01-27 ISBN: 9780671657130
TOREAD I Am a Strange Loop philosophy
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter Added: 2015-01-23 ISBN: 9780465030781
TOREAD Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3) ya fantasy
Author: L. Frank Baum Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9780543895141 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower, #5) fantasy
Author: Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson Added: 2013-01-09 ISBN: 9781416516934
TOREAD Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6) fantasy
Author: Stephen King, Darrel Anderson Added: 2013-01-09 ISBN: 9781416521495
TOREAD Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue: The Untold History of English linguistics
Author: John McWhorter Added: 2013-07-01 ISBN: 9781592403950
TOREAD The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind philosophy
Author: Julian Jaynes Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780618057078
TOREAD Civilization Before Greece and Rome history
Author: Henry William Frederick Saggs Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780300050318
TOREAD A History of the Ancient World history
Author: Chester G. Starr Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780195066296
TOREAD The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values science philosophy
Author: Sam Harris Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9781439171219
TOREAD The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics philosophy
Author: Steven E. Landsburg Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9781439148211
TOREAD Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media politics society
Author: Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780375714498
TOREAD Gödel's Proof philosophy
Author: Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter Added: 2014-08-19 ISBN: 9780814758168
TOREAD Free Will philosophy
Author: Sam Harris Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9781451683400
TOREAD Chasm City scifi
Author: Alastair Reynolds Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780441010646
TOREAD Revelation Space (Revelation Space #1) scifi
Author: Alastair Reynolds Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780441009428
TOREAD House of Suns scifi
Author: Alastair Reynolds Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780575099128
TOREAD Pushing Ice scifi
Author: Alastair Reynolds Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780441014019
TOREAD Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe philosophy religion society
Author: Greg M. Epstein Added: 2014-07-20 ISBN: 9780061670114
TOREAD The Essential Turing: Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma philosophy
Author: Alan M. Turing, B. Jack Copeland Added: 2014-07-20 ISBN: 9780198250807
TOREAD Plutarch's Lives: Volume II biography
Author: Plutarch, John Dryden, James Atlas, Arthur Hugh Clough Added: 2014-07-13 ISBN: 9780375756771
TOREAD Plutarch's Lives: Volume I biography
Author: Plutarch, John Dryden, James Atlas, Arthur Hugh Clough Added: 2014-07-13 ISBN: 9780375756764
TOREAD Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2014-08-20 ISBN: 9780393348781
TOREAD The Intentional Stance philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2014-08-20 ISBN: 9780262540537
TOREAD Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code tech software
Author: Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Don Roberts, Erich Gamma Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9780201485677
TOREAD Introduction to Algorithms tech programming
Author: Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein Added: 2015-01-06 ISBN: 9780262032933
TOREAD Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools tech programming
Author: Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman Added: 2015-01-06 ISBN: 9780201100884
TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms tech programming
Author: Donald Ervin Knuth Added: 2015-01-06 ISBN: 9780201896831
TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2: Seminumerical Algorithms tech programming
Author: Donald Ervin Knuth Added: 2015-01-06 ISBN: 9780201896848
TOREAD The Art of Computer Programming: Volume 3: Sorting and Searching tech programming
Author: Donald Ervin Knuth Added: 2015-01-06 ISBN: 0785342896855
TOREAD Wiring a House (For Pros By Pros) ref
Author: Rex Cauldwell Added: 2015-01-08 ISBN: 9781561585274
TOREAD Why the West Rules—for Now: The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future society
Author: Ian Morris Added: 2015-01-07 ISBN: 9781429977043
TOREAD Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First 2,000 Years society
Author: Tom Standage Added: 2015-01-05 ISBN: 9781620402856
TOREAD Illustrated Cabinetmaking: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works (American Woodworker) ref woodworking
Author: Bill Hylton Added: 2014-12-13 ISBN: 9781565233690
TOREAD The Complete Manual of Woodworking: A Detailed Guide to Design, Techniques, and Tools for the Beginner and Expert ref woodworking
Author: Albert Jackson, David Day Added: 2014-12-13 ISBN: 9780679766117
TOREAD The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life society
Author: Richard J. Herrnstein, Charles Murray Added: 2014-12-03 ISBN: 9780684824291
TOREAD Malt Whisky Companion ref drinking
Author: Michael Jackson Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9780751307085
TOREAD Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies society
Author: Jared Diamond Added: 2014-09-12 ISBN: 9780739467350
TOREAD The Meme Machine philosophy society
Author: Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins Added: 2014-08-20 ISBN: 9780192862129
TOREAD The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal science
Author: Jared Diamond Added: 2014-08-18 ISBN: 9780060845506
TOREAD In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto food
Author: Michael Pollan Added: 2014-08-18 ISBN: 9781594201455
TOREAD Fermat's Enigma math
Author: Simon Singh, John Lynch Added: 2014-08-18 ISBN: 9780385493628
READ Snow Crash scifi cyberpunk
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780553380958 Rating: ★★★★
READ Queen of Angels (Queen of Angels, #1) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780446361309 Rating: ★★★★
READ Anvil of Stars (Forge of God, #2) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780446364034 Rating: ★★★★
READ Anansi Boys fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780060515195 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Man in the High Castle scifi
Author: Philip K. Dick Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780679740674 Rating: ★★★★
READ Watchmen comic superhero
Author: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780930289232 Rating: ★★★
READ And Another Thing… (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #6) scifi humorous
Author: Eoin Colfer Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9781401323585 Rating: ★★★★
READ Pride and Prejudice classic romance
Author: Jane Austen Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553211542 Rating: ★★★★
I find that Jane Austen's sense of humour resonates with mine. This is a very funny book. It also gives hope to socially awkward men!
READ Atheism: The Case Against God religion philosophy
Author: George H. Smith Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780879751241 Rating: ★★★★
READ Slant (Queen of Angels, #4) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780812524826 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 5: A Game of You comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Shawn McManus, Colleen Doran, Bryan Talbot, George Pratt, Stan Woch, Dick Giordano, Todd Klein Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563890932 Rating: ★★★
READ A Random Walk Down Wall Street finance
Author: Burton G. Malkiel Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780393325355 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 10: The Wake comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563892875 Rating: ★★★
READ Fade ya scifi
Author: Robert Cormier Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780385731348 Rating: ★★★
READ Freedom Evolves philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780142003848 Rating: ★★★★
READ Brave New World scifi classic
Author: Aldous Huxley Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780060929879 Rating: ★★
READ Peter & Max fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Steve Leialoha Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9781401215736 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Vince Locke, Peter Straub Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563891373 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Marc Hempel, Richard Case, D'Israeli, Teddy Kristiansen, Glyn Dillon, Charles Vess, Dean Ormston, Kevin Nowlan, Todd Klein, Frank McConnell Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563892042 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli, Steve Parkhouse, Todd Klein, Clive Barker Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563892257 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Matt Wagner, Dick Giordano, George Pratt, P. Craig Russell Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563890352 Rating: ★★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life (Scott Pilgrim, #1) comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781932664089 Rating: ★★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Scott Pilgrim, #2) comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781932664126 Rating: ★★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 3: Scott Pilgrim & The Infinite Sadness comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781932664225 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 6: Fables & Reflections comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563891069 Rating: ★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781932664492 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time scifi humorous
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780345455291 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 8: Worlds' End comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Mike Allred, Gary Amaro, Mark Buckingham, David Giordano, Tony Harris, Steve Leialoha, Vince Locke, Shea Anton Pensa, Alec Stevens, Bryan Talbot, John Watkiss, Todd Klein, Michael Zulli, Stephen King Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563891700 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Todd Klein, Karen Berger, Daniel Vozzo Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563892271 Rating: ★★★
READ The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country comic fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Bob Kahan Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781563892264 Rating: ★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781934964101 Rating: ★★★★
READ Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour comic
Author: Bryan Lee O'Malley Added: 2012-10-13 ISBN: 9781934964385 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (Dirk Gently, #2) fantasy humorous
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780671742515 Rating: ★★★
READ Neverwhere (London Below, #1) fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780060557812 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Celts: A History history
Author: Peter Berresford Ellis Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780786712113 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Count of Monte Cristo adventure classic
Author: Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780140449266 Rating: ★★★
READ Language, Truth and Logic philosophy
Author: Alfred Jules Ayer Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780486200101 Rating: ★★★
READ A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) fantasy
Author: George R.R. Martin Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553588484 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Graveyard Book ya fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780060530921 Rating: ★★★★
READ Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780345459817 Rating: ★★★
READ Stardust ya fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780061142024 Rating: ★★★★
READ A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) fantasy
Author: George R.R. Martin Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780553381696 Rating: ★★★★
READ Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life science philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780684824710 Rating: ★★★
READ Consciousness Explained philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780316180665 Rating: ★★★
READ Persuasion classic romance
Author: Jane Austen, Deidre Shauna Lynch, James Kinsley Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780192802637 Rating: ★★★
READ Sense and Sensibility classic romance
Author: Jane Austen, Ros Ballaster, Джейн Остин Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780141439662 Rating: ★★★★
READ So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #4) scifi humorous
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780330491235 Rating: ★★
READ Emma classic romance
Author: Jane Austen, Fiona Stafford Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780141439587 Rating: ★★★
I found this to be somewhere between "It was ok" and "Liked it". A few things bothered me. For one thing, I simply did not like the main character. To be fair, I realize this was more or less Austen's intent, but I find it hard to really like a novel when I can't sympathize with the main character.
Second, the values dissonance was a bit much at times. When Harriet says that she has a crush on Mr. Knightly, my first thought was "So, what?". Emma's reaction was a bit more…severe.
Now, I realize that, to some extent, Emma is an unreliable narrator, and in love with Mr. Knightly herself, so that we aren't to take everything she says at face value. But she can't be that unreliable; Austen must have agreed with her to some extent, to have Harriet marry Mr. Martin by the end. In general, I found it hard to figure out where Emma's opinion ended and Austen's opinion began.
Add to this rambling of Miss Bates and…well, you get the picture.
I much preferred Pride and Prejudice. I liked Elizabeth Bennet. I liked her father. I liked Darcy. I didn't really like anyone in Emma.
READ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4) mystery
Author: Agatha Christie Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9781579126278 Rating: ★★★★
READ Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1) fantasy retelling
Author: Gregory Maguire, Douglas Smith Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780060987107 Rating: ★★★
READ The Wealthy Barber: The Common Sense Guide to Successful Financial Planning finance
Author: David Chilton Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780968394731 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780765301079 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Wealthy Barber Returns finance
Author: David Chilton Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780968394748 Rating: ★★★★
READ Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, #1) fantasy horror
Author: Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9781594743344 Rating: ★★
READ The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer scifi
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780553380965 Rating: ★★★
READ Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character biography
Author: Richard P. Feynman, Albert R. Hibbs, Ralph Leighton, Edward Hutchings Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780393316049 Rating: ★★★
READ What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character biography
Author: Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780393320923 Rating: ★★★
READ Sophie’s World philosophy fiction
Author: Jostein Gaarder, Paulette Møller Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9781857993288 Rating: ★★★
READ Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity productivity selfhelp
Author: David Allen Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780142000281 Rating: ★★★
READ Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fiction and Illusions fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780380789023 Rating: ★★★★
READ V for Vendetta comic scifi
Author: Alan Moore, David Lloyd, Steve Whitaker, Siobhan Dodds Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9781401207922 Rating: ★★★
READ Superman: Red Son comic superhero
Author: Mark Millar, Dave Johnson, Kilian Plunkett Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9781401201913 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Politics philosophy politics classic
Author: Aristotle, T.A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780140444216
READ The Ocean at the End of the Lane fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9780062255655 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Jim Fern Added: 2013-02-10 ISBN: 9781401224790 Rating: ★★
READ A Flight of Angels comic fantasy
Author: Rebecca Guay, Holly Black, Louise Hawes, Todd Mitchell, Alisa Kwitney, Bill Willingham Added: 2013-02-10 ISBN: 9781401232009 Rating: ★★★
I'm a bit of a sucker for religious fiction. Catholic school does that to some people. So this one, about a half-dead fallen angel, and a groups of fairies reaction to it, struck a chord.
READ Superman: Birthright comic superhero
Author: Mark Waid, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Dave McCaig, Gerry Alanguilan, Leinil Francis Yu Added: 2013-06-30 ISBN: 9781401202521 Rating: ★★★★
READ Lord of the Flies fiction
Author: William Golding Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780140283334 Rating: ★★
READ A Wind in the Door (Time Quintet, #2) ya scifi
Author: Madeleine L'Engle Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780440487616 Rating: ★★★
READ The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering software
Author: Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780201835953 Rating: ★★★
READ Dracula horror classic
Author: Bram Stoker, Rubén Toledo, Nina Auerbach, David J. Skal Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780393970128 Rating: ★★★★
READ Contact scifi
Author: Carl Sagan Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9782266079990 Rating: ★★★★
READ A Virtual Soul scifi
Author: Kevin Teixeira Added: 2014-06-29 ISBN: 9780345426758 Rating: ★★
READ Locus Awards, The: Thirty Years of the Best in Science Fiction and Fantasy scifi anthology
Author: Charles N. Brown Added: 2014-06-29 ISBN: 9780060594268 Rating: ★★★
READ Songs of Earth and Power fantasy
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2014-07-02 ISBN: 9780812536034 Rating: ★★★
READ The New Hacker's Dictionary ref tech
Author: Eric S. Raymond Added: 2014-07-07 ISBN: 9780262680929 Rating: ★★★
READ The Phantom of the Opera horror classic
Author: Gaston Leroux Added: 2014-07-08 ISBN: 9780060809249 Rating: ★★★
READ The Screwtape Letters fantasy religion
Author: C.S. Lewis Added: 2014-07-14 ISBN: 9780060652890 Rating: ★★★
READ Hamlet classic
Author: William Shakespeare, Harold Bloom, Rex Gibson, Israel Gollancz, Henry Norman Hudson, L.A. Sherman, Max J. Herzberg Added: 2014-07-15 ISBN: 9780521618748 Rating: ★★
READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted comic superhero
Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Added: 2014-07-21 ISBN: 9780785115311 Rating: ★★★★
READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous comic superhero
Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Added: 2014-07-21 ISBN: 9780785116776 Rating: ★★★★
READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 3: Torn comic superhero
Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Added: 2014-07-21 ISBN: 9780785117599 Rating: ★★★★
READ Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable comic superhero
Author: Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Added: 2014-07-21 ISBN: 9780785122548 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Prisoner: Shattered Visage comic
Author: Dean Motter, Mark Askwith Added: 2014-07-27 ISBN: 9780930289539 Rating: ★★★
READ Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens ya fantasy
Author: J.M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9780486466071 Rating: ★★★
READ A Christmas Carol classic
Author: Charles Dickens, Joe L. Wheeler Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9781561797462 Rating: ★★★
READ Anthem fiction
Author: Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9780452281257 Rating: ★★
READ Tangents scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2014-08-03 ISBN: 9781857989793 Rating: ★★
READ Vitals scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2014-08-03 ISBN: 9780345423344 Rating: ★★
READ Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds philosophy
Author: Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2014-08-04 ISBN: 9780140265637 Rating: ★★★
READ Planet of the Apes scifi
Author: Pierre Boulle, Xan Fielding Added: 2014-08-03 ISBN: 9780345447982 Rating: ★★★
READ Blood Music scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2014-08-03 ISBN: 9781596871069 Rating: ★★★
READ Peter Pan ya fantasy
Author: J.M. Barrie, Michael Hague Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9780805072457 Rating: ★★★
READ Candide classic
Author: Voltaire, Rockwell Kent, Walter Jerrold, Don Hagen, Sara Gioacchino Corcos Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9780486266893 Rating: ★★
READ Thrice Upon A Time scifi
Author: James P. Hogan Added: 2014-08-01 ISBN: 9780671319489 Rating: ★★★
READ Chocky scifi
Author: John Wyndham Added: 2014-07-28 ISBN: 9780140031218 Rating: ★★
READ Nightfall scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg Added: 2014-07-26 ISBN: 9780553290998 Rating: ★★★
READ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn classic adventure
Author: Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, E.W. Kemble, John Seelye, Walter Trier, Tom Wilson, William Little Hughes Added: 2014-07-15 ISBN: 9780142437179 Rating: ★★★
READ The Merchant of Venice classic
Author: William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, David Scott Kastan, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, محمد عناني, David Bevington, Robert Jackson Added: 2014-07-15 ISBN: 9780743477567 Rating: ★★★
READ Romeo and Juliet classic
Author: William Shakespeare Added: 2014-07-15 ISBN: 9780743477116 Rating: ★★★
READ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) ya fantasy
Author: L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow Added: 2012-12-21 ISBN: 9780140621679 Rating: ★★★
I was curious to read this book seeing as how I a) have just read Wicked and b) am a fan of the movie. It's interesting to see the differences. The Wicked Witch of the West, for example, is barely a character in this book; she takes up only a couple of chapters. The winged monkeys aren't quite as fearsome as they are in the movie. Glinda is actually the witch of the South , not the North.
Still, not a bad read, though I'll never think of the Scarecrow in the same way again after reading Wicked.
READ The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 comic
Author: Alan Moore Added: 2014-07-14 ISBN: 9781563898587 Rating: ★★★
READ And Then There Were None mystery
Author: Agatha Christie Added: 2014-06-22 ISBN: 9780312330873 Rating: ★★★★
Definitely a page turner, but I found the ending a bit off. Gauging my reaction, I concluded that there weren't that many clues that could have led one to guess the murderer. This wasn't like Encyclopaedia Brown. It was more like The Illusionist - you find yourself trying to guess the mechanics of how the murders were done, rather than who did them.
READ Stupid White Men politics society
Author: Michael Moore Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9780141019994 Rating: ★★
READ The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals food
Author: Michael Pollan Added: 2014-07-09 ISBN: 9781594200823 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Art of UNIX Programming tech software
Author: Eric S. Raymond Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780131429017
TOREAD The Hero With a Thousand Faces psych
Author: Joseph Campbell Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780691017846
TOREAD Steps towards Life: A Perspective on Evolution science
Author: Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, Paul Woolley Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780198547525
TOREAD The Inimitable Jeeves (Jeeves, #2) fiction humorous
Author: P.G. Wodehouse Added: 2014-07-05 ISBN: 9780393339802
TOREAD Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1) scifi
Author: Frederik Pohl Added: 2014-07-04 ISBN: 9780345475831
TOREAD The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1) scifi
Author: Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle Added: 2014-07-04 ISBN: 9781568650548
READ Coraline ya fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean Added: 2014-06-16 ISBN: 9780061139376 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The Player of Games (Culture, #2) scifi
Author: Iain M. Banks Added: 2014-07-01 ISBN: 9780061053566
READ Fortunately, the Milk ya adventure
Author: Neil Gaiman, Skottie Young Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780062224071 Rating: ★★★
READ The Invisible Man scifi
Author: H.G. Wells, Daniel Philpott, Дмитро Паламарчук, Микола Іванов, Герберт Велз Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780451528520 Rating: ★★★
READ The Green Futures of Tycho ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780765352385 Rating: ★★★★
READ Singularity ya scifi
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780844669038 Rating: ★★★
READ Fingers ya mystery
Author: William Sleator Added: 2014-06-28 ISBN: 9780765353498 Rating: ★★★
READ Children of the Mind (Ender's Saga, #4) scifi
Author: Orson Scott Card Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780765304742 Rating: ★★
READ Xenocide (Ender's Saga, #3) scifi
Author: Orson Scott Card Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780312861872 Rating: ★★★
READ Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2) scifi
Author: Orson Scott Card Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780812550757 Rating: ★★★
READ Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) scifi
Author: Orson Scott Card Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780812550702 Rating: ★★★★
READ Mars (The Grand Tour, #4) scifi
Author: Ben Bova, Bruno Bodin Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9782265071223 Rating: ★★
READ Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions scifi math
Author: Edwin A. Abbott Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9780486272634 Rating: ★★★
READ The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2) fantasy
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Peter S. Beagle Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780618346264 Rating: ★★★
READ The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1) fantasy
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien, Francis Ledoux, Maria Skibniewska Added: 2014-06-27 ISBN: 9780618346257 Rating: ★★★
READ Fairest, Volume 3: The Return of the Maharaja comic fantasy
Author: Sean E. Williams, Stephen Sadowski, Phil Jimenez, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green, Russ Braun, Meghan Hetrick, Christian Alamy, José Marzán Jr., Andrew Dalhouse, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes Added: 2014-06-23 ISBN: 9781401245931 Rating: ★★★
READ For Love of Evil (Incarnations of Immortality, #6) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780380752850 Rating: ★★★
READ Being a Green Mother (Incarnations of Immortality, #5) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780345322234 Rating: ★★★
READ Wielding a Red Sword (Incarnations of Immortality, #4) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780345322210 Rating: ★★★
READ Bearing an Hourglass (Incarnations of Immortality, #2) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780345313157 Rating: ★★
READ And Eternity (Incarnations of Immortality, #7) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780380752867 Rating: ★★
READ With a Tangled Skein (Incarnations of Immortality, #3) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780345318855 Rating: ★★
READ On a Pale Horse (Incarnations of Immortality #1) fantasy
Author: Piers Anthony Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780345338587 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Conquest of Gaul classic history
Author: Gaius Julius Caesar, S.A. Handford, Jane F. Gardner, James Bradstreet Greenough, Benjamin Leonard d'Ooge, Aulus Hirtius, Moses Grant Daniell Added: 2014-06-21 ISBN: 9780140444339
READ Fairest, Volume 2: The Hidden Kingdom comic fantasy
Author: Lauren Beukes, Bill Willingham, Inaki Miranda, Barry Kitson, Eva de la Cruz, Andrew Dalhouse, Todd Klein, Adam Hughes Added: 2014-06-05 ISBN: 9781401240219 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Poetics classic philosophy
Author: Aristotle, Theodore Alois Buckley Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9780879757762
TOREAD A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1) scifi
Author: Vernor Vinge Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9780812515282
TOREAD The Mind’s I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul philosophy
Author: Douglas R. Hofstadter, Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2014-06-18 ISBN: 9780553345841
READ The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide, #1) mystery
Author: Sarah Graves Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780553578577 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) scifi
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781857231588
READ Of Mice and Men fiction classic
Author: John Steinbeck Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780142000670 Rating: ★★★
READ Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time, #9) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812575583 Rating: ★★
READ The Path of Daggers (The Wheel of Time, #8) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812550290 Rating: ★★
READ A Crown of Swords (The Wheel of Time, #7) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812550283 Rating: ★★
READ Lord of Chaos (The Wheel of Time, #6) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780765334657 Rating: ★★★
READ The Fires of Heaven (The Wheel of Time, #5) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781857232097 Rating: ★★★
READ The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812513738 Rating: ★★★
READ The Dragon Reborn (The Wheel of Time, #3) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780765305114 Rating: ★★★
READ The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time, #2) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812517729 Rating: ★★★
READ The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1) fantasy
Author: Robert Jordan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780812511819 Rating: ★★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 9: The End comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401231552 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 8: The Fulminate Blade comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401229825 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 7: The New Adventures of Jack and Jack comic fantasy
Author: Chris Roberson, Bill Willingham, Brian Bolland Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401227128 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 6: The Big Book of War comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401225001 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 5: Turning Pages comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401221386 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 4: Americana comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401219796 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 3: The Bad Prince comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401218546 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 2: Jack of Hearts comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Steve Leialoha Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401214555 Rating: ★★
READ Jack of Fables, Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401212223 Rating: ★★
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 11: Evensong comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Jon J. Muth, Zander Cannon, Dean Ormston, Aaron Alexovich Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401212001
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 10: Morningstar comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Colleen Doran Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401210069
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 9: Crux comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401210052
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 8: The Wolf Beneath the Tree comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401205027
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 7: Exodus comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401204914
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 6: Mansions of the Silence comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelley, Dean Ormston, David Hahn Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401202491
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 5: Inferno comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston, Craig Hamilton Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401202101
TOREAD Lucifer, Vol. 4: The Divine Humorous comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401200091
READ Lucifer, Vol. 3: A Dalliance With the Damned comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781563898921 Rating: ★★★
READ Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Peter Gross, Ryan Kelly, Dean Ormston Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781563898006 Rating: ★★★
READ Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway comic fantasy
Author: Mike Carey, Scott Hampton, Chris Weston, James Hodgkins, Warren Pleece, Dean Ormston, Neil Gaiman Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781563897337 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Todd Klein Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9781401203672 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD I, Lucifer fantasy religion
Author: Glen Duncan Added: 2014-06-17 ISBN: 9780802140142
TOREAD Anathem scifi
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2014-06-16 ISBN: 9780061474095
TOREAD Reamde scifi
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2014-06-16 ISBN: 9780061977961
TOREAD The Brothers Karamazov classic fiction
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky Added: 2014-06-16 ISBN: 9780374528379
READ Fairest, Volume 1: Wide Awake comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Phil Jimenez, Andy Lanning, Shawn McManus Added: 2013-02-10 ISBN: 9781401235505 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Permutation City scifi
Author: Greg Egan Added: 2014-06-05 ISBN: 9780061054815
READ The Cider House Rules fiction
Author: John Irving Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9780786226740 Rating: ★★★
READ A Prayer for Owen Meany fiction
Author: John Irving Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9780552135399 Rating: ★★★
READ Fahrenheit 451 scifi
Author: Ray Bradbury Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9780307347978 Rating: ★★
READ The Great Gatsby fiction classic
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald Added: 2013-07-29 ISBN: 9780743273565 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Gene Ha Added: 2013-02-10 ISBN: 9781401237691 Rating: ★★★
READ The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) fantasy
Author: L. Frank Baum, David McKee Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9780140350418 Rating: ★★
READ Fables, Vol. 17: Inherit the Wind comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, P. Craig Russell, Adam Hughes, Rick Leonardi, Ron Randall, Zander Cannon, Jim Fern, Ramón F. Bachs, Lee Loughridge, Todd Klein Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401235161 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 16: Super Team comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Terry Moore, Eric Shanower Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401233068 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 15: Rose Red comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401230005 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 14: Witches comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401228804 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, Mark Buckingham Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401223168 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 11: War and Pieces comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Niko Henrichon, Andrew Pepoy Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401219130 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401216863 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges, Russ Braun, José Marzán Jr., Mark Buckingham, Andrew Pepoy Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401225728 Rating: ★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, James Jean, Mike Allred, Joëlle Jones Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401213169 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 8: Wolves comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Shawn McManus Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401210014 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 7: Arabian Nights (and Days) comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Jim Fern, Jimmy Palmiotti, Andrew Pepoy Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401210007 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 6: Homelands comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, David Hahn, Mark Buckingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401205003 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 5: The Mean Seasons comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401204860 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables, Vol. 4: March of the Wooden Soldiers comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham, Craig Hamilton, Steve Leialoha, P. Craig Russell Added: 2013-01-03 ISBN: 9781401202224 Rating: ★★★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401210106 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10: Whys and Wherefores comic fantasy
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Claudia Fliege, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401218133 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6: Girl on Girl comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401205010 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401210090 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401202019 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401204877 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9: Motherland comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401213510 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4: Safeword comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, Goran Parlov, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401202323 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra, José Marzán Jr. Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781401200763 Rating: ★★
READ Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra Added: 2012-10-23 ISBN: 9781563899805 Rating: ★★
READ Fables, Vol. 1: Legends in Exile comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Terry Moore, Mike Allred, Mark Buckingham, Matthew Sturges, Russ Braun, Craig Hamilton, James Jean, Tony Akins, Eric Shanower, Shawn McManus, Jae Lee, Chrissie Zullo, David Petersen Added: 2012-10-18 ISBN: 9781563899423 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Ideological Perspectives on Canada (McGraw-Hill Series in Fundamentals of Physics: An Undergradu) politics canada
Author: M. Patricia Marchak Added: 2012-10-17 ISBN: 9780070821972
READ Batman: Year One comic superhero
Author: Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, Richmond Lewis, Dennis O'Neil, Todd Klein Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9781401207526 Rating: ★★★
READ Batman: The Dark Knight Returns comic superhero
Author: Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, Lynn Varley Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9781563893414 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness philosophy science
Author: Roger Penrose Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780195106466
TOREAD Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs tech software
Author: Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780262510875
TOREAD Paradise Lost classic religion fantasy
Author: John Milton Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780140424393
TOREAD The Concept of Mind philosophy
Author: Gilbert Ryle, Daniel C. Dennett Added: 2012-10-15 ISBN: 9780226732961
READ Gods Behaving Badly fantasy myth
Author: Marie Phillips Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780316067621 Rating: ★★★★
READ The White Tiger fiction
Author: Aravind Adiga Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9781416562597 Rating: ★★★
READ The Door Into Summer scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2012-10-14 ISBN: 9780345413994 Rating: ★★
READ Moving Mars (Queen of Angels, #3) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780765318237 Rating: ★★★
READ Eon (The Way, #1) scifi
Author: Greg Bear Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780812520477 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design science
Author: Richard Dawkins Added: 2012-10-12 ISBN: 9780141026169
READ Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones selfhelp
Author: James Clear Added: 2025-04-06 ISBN: 9798613461172 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Mansfield Park classic romance
Author: Jane Austen Added: 2025-04-06 ISBN: https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:019280264X&jscmd=data&format=json
READ The Philip K. Dick Reader scifi anthology
Author: Philip K. Dick Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780806537948
READ The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth'ss Past, #2) scifi translation
Author: Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9781784971618
TOREAD Memory's Legion scifi
Author: James S.A. Corey Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780316669191
TOREAD The Great Divorce fantasy religion
Author: C.S. Lewis Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780060652951
READ The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #2) scifi translation
Author: Liu Cixi, Ken Liu Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780765382030 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Virtual light (Bridge Trilogy, #1) scifi cyberpunk
Author: William Gibson Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 0553566067
TOREAD Count Zero (Sprawl, #2) scifi cyberpunk
Author: William Gibson Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 0441117732
TOREAD The Exorcist (The Exorcist, #1) horror religion
Author: William Peter Blatty Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780553113402
READ Hooked (Wendy, Darling #2) fantasy retelling
Author: A. C. Wise Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9781789096835 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage steampunk
Author: Sydney Padua Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780307908278
READ The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) fantasy
Author: N. K. Jemisin Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780316229241 Rating: ★★★
READ The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) fantasy
Author: N. K. Jemisin Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780316229265 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) fantasy
Author: N. K. Jemisin Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780316229296 Rating: ★★★★
READ How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking productivity selfhelp
Author: Sönke Ahrens Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9781542866507 Rating: ★★★
READ The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1) fantasy religion
Author: Philip Pullman Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780440418603 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) fantasy religion
Author: Philip Pullman Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780440418610 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD City We Became (Great Cities, #1) fantasy
Author: N. K. Jemisin Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780356512686
TOREAD So You Want to Talk About Race society
Author: Ijeoma Oluo Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9781580056779
TOREAD Lady Susan / The Watsons / Sanditon classic romance
Author: Jane Austen Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 0140431020
TOREAD Saga, Volume 9 comic scifi
Author: Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9781534308374
READ Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4) scifi
Author: James S. A. Corey Added: 2025-04-11 ISBN: 9780316217620 Rating: ★★★
READ Exhalation scifi anthology
Author: Ted Chiang Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9781101947883 Rating: ★★★★
READ Abaddon's Gate (The Expanse, #3) scifi
Author: James S. A. Corey Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9780316129077 Rating: ★★★★
READ A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court fantasy classic
Author: Mark Twain Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9780393013788 Rating: ★★★
READ 2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1) scifi
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 0451118642 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD House of Leaves fantasy
Author: Mark Z. Danielewski Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9780375420528
READ In Cold Blood crime
Author: Truman Capote Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 0816156646 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Carpet Diem religion fantasy
Author: Justin Lee Anderson Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9781527224070
READ Breakfast of Champions scifi
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 0440131480 Rating: ★★★★
READ Picture of Dorian Gray classic fantasy
Author: Oscar Wilde Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9781784871710 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Conquest of Gaul history classic
Author: Gaius Julius Caesar, S.A. Handford Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9780140444339
READ The Waste Lands fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 0452267404 Rating: ★★
READ American Gods fantasy
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9780380973651 Rating: ★★★★★
READ Norse Mythology myth
Author: Neil Gaiman Added: 2025-04-12 ISBN: 9781526619211 Rating: ★★★★
READ The Gunslinger fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0451210840 Rating: ★★★
READ Romantically Apocalyptic - Book 1 comic scifi
Author: Vitaly S. Alexius Added: 2025-04-19 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Nicomachean ethics philosophy
Author: Aristotle Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780140449495
TOREAD On the Good Life philosophy
Author: Cicero Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0140442448
READ The Restaurant at the End of the Universe scifi humorous
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780330262132 Rating: ★★★
READ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy scifi humorous
Author: Douglas Adams Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780671432416 Rating: ★★★★
READ Good Omens fantasy religion humorous
Author: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780060853976 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Dubliners classic fiction
Author: James Joyce Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781420953282
READ Waiting for Godot classic play
Author: Samuel Beckett Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780571058082 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD New Skies scifi anthology
Author: Patrick Nielsen Hayden Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0765300168
TOREAD Tuesdays with Morrie biography
Author: Mitch Albom Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780767905923
TOREAD Mastering Emacs tech software
Author: Mickey Petersen Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781320673914
READ Needful Things horror
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 Rating: ★★★
READ The Stand fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780451160959 Rating: ★★★
READ The Eyes of the Dragon fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780340899069 Rating: ★★★
READ I Am the Cheese ya
Author: Robert Cormier Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0440940605 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Childhood's End scifi
Author: Arthur C. Clarke Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781439557167
READ Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More ya anthology
Author: Roald Dahl Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780553155419 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD The Annals of imperial Rome history classic rome
Author: P. Cornelius Tacitus Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780140440607
TOREAD The Three Muskateers classic
Author: Alexandre Dumas, William Robson Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781494423919
READ The Naked Sun (Robot #2) scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0586010165 Rating: ★★★★
Alright, I think this is the first Asimov novel that I actually thoroughly enjoyed. "The Caves of Steel" was okay, "The Stars, Like Dust" was okay, but "The Naked Sun" was downright good.
The only wobble was the last 5 pages, when the murderer is finally revealed. That fell kinda flat, and was frankly unbelievable.
But the depiction of two vastly different cultures, Earth and Solaria, was fascinating and detailed. And the seeds that were sown near the end for easing into the Galactic Empire series of novels was a nice touch. Even then, Asimov had aspirations towards uniting his novels.
All in all, this book makes me want to read the rest of the stuff in this timeline. I even kinda want to re-read the Foundation novels now
TOREAD Slaughterhouse-Five scifi
Author: Kurt Vonnegut Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780385333849
TOREAD Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It society
Author: Karl Webber Added: 2025-04-19
TOREAD Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell fantasy
Author: Susanna Clarke Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 1582346038
TOREAD Notes from the Underground fiction classic
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 1095835548
DNF The Fountainhead fiction
Author: Ayn Rand Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0451191153 Rating: ★★
TOREAD The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9780743254564
TOREAD The Wind Through the Keyhole fantasy
Author: Stephen King Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781444731729
TOREAD Crime and Punishment fiction
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781986348539
TOREAD Thus Spake Zarathustra philosophy
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9781071248454
TOREAD The Dispossessed scifi
Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: https://openlibrary.org/api/books?bibkeys=ISBN:006051275X&jscmd=data&format=json
TOREAD The Stranger fiction classic
Author: Albert Camus Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 9798441401265
READ Ivanhoe fiction classic
Author: Sir Walter Scott Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0140431438 Rating: ★★★★
I remember reading this and really liking it. The anti-semitism felt real - you can tell the heores from the villains by how they treat the Jews of the story. The villains want them dead; the heroes are merely impolite.
READ Cryptonomicon fiction history
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2025-04-19 ISBN: 0380973464 Rating: ★★★★
READ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Dirk Gently, #1) scifi
Author: Douglas Adams ISBN: 1529034582 Added: 2025-04-21 Rating: ★★★
READ 1984 scifi politics
Author: George Orwell ISBN: 0241430976 Added: 2025-04-21 Rating: ★★★★
READ Mostly Harmless (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #5) scifi humorous
Author: Douglas Adams ISBN: 0434009261 Added: 2025-04-21 Rating: ★★★
READ Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1) scifi cyberpunk
Author: William Gibson ISBN: 0441007465 Added: 2025-04-21
READ A Clockwork Orange scifi classic
Author: Anthony Burgess ISBN: 3453130790 Added: 2025-04-21 Rating: ★★★
READ Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders fantasy anthology
Author: Neil Gaiman ISBN: 9780060515225 Added: 2025-04-21 Rating: ★★★
READ Wuthering Heights classic romance
Author: Emily Brontë Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9798542843742 Rating: ★★★
READ The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) mystery
Author: Thomas Harris Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780312915445 Rating: ★★★
READ Frankenstein classic scifi
Author: Mary Shelley Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 0451523369 Rating: ★★
READ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Hound of the Baskervilles mystery classic
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9781587265310 Rating: ★★★
READ The Caves of Steel scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780345329004 Rating: ★★
I was going back and forth between a 2 star and a 3 star rating. The book started with 2 stars. Sometimes I thought it might go to 3. I finally settled on 2 stars.
While I appreciate certain aspects of this story (the eponymous "caves of steel" themselves are fascinating) the plot and the characterization are just…blah. Lije and Daneel are barely more real than cardboard cut outs.
The book was at its best when describing what the far future might be like, even if it seems at the same time to be horribly dated. But the rest was just tough to slog through.
READ The Cyberiad scifi anthology translation
Author: Stanisław Lem Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780156027595 Rating: ★★★
READ King Lear classic play
Author: William Shakespeare Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9798720402907 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Omnibus scifi
Author: Philip K. Dick Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9781608867844
TOREAD Time Enough For Love scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780425079904
READ Prelude to Foundation scifi
Author: Isaac Asimov Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 0385233132 Rating: ★★★
TOREAD Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1) fiction history
Author: Neal Stephenson Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780380977420
TOREAD Stranger in a Strange Land scifi
Author: Robert A. Heinlein Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780425017562
READ Fables Vol 3: Storybook Love comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9781401202569 Rating: ★★★★
READ Fables Vol 2: Animal Farm comic fantasy
Author: Bill Willingham Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9781401200770 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD The History of the Decline and Fall of the Romas Empire history classic
Author: Edward Gibbon Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9781346102832
TOREAD Idylls of the King fantasy poetry arthur
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 0140422536
READ The Hobbit fantasy
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780395520215 Rating: ★★★
READ Animal Farm fiction politics
Author: George Orwell Added: 2025-04-21 ISBN: 9780141036137 Rating: ★★★★
TOREAD Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds scifi anthology
Author: Alastair Reynolds Added: 2025-04-29 ISBN: 9781473219861
TOREAD Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Battle of the Labyrinth ya fantasy myth
Author: Rick Riordan Added: 2025-05-27 ISBN: 9781405664417
TOREAD Piranesi fantasy
Author: Susanna Clarke Added: 2025-06-14 ISBN: 9788417918484
TOREAD The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories fantasy anthology
Author: Susanna Clarke Added: 2025-06-14 ISBN: 9781596912519
TOREAD Labyrinths fantasy
Author: Jorge Luis Borges Added: 2025-06-16 ISBN: 9780140093131
TOREAD The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends arthur fantasy
Author: Ronan Coghlan Added: 2025-06-22 ISBN: 9781843330059
READ Code Complete
Author: Steve McConnell Added: 2025-06-24 ISBN: 1556154844