Book Binge 2004

August 25, 2004

I went a little nuts at the used book store today, finally took a chunk out of my gigantic Amazon wishlist, and simultaneously assured myself that no, I will never finish my unread books pile.

New on the stack are:

  1. Liar’s Poker, Michael Lewis
  2. Sphere, Michael Crichton
  3. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
  4. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  5. The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
  6. The Mind of a Mnemonist, AR Luria
  7. Coercion, Douglas Rushkoff
  8. The Gift, Lewis Hyde
  9. The Circle of Innovation, Tom Peters
  10. The Trial, Franz Kafka
  11. Autobiography, Mohandas Gandhi
  12. Bobos in Paradise, David Brooks
  13. Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff
  14. McLuhan for Beginners
  15. Web Site Usability, Jared Spool - my review
  16. The Art of Happiness, The Dalai Lama
  17. Lila, Robert Pirsig
  18. Skipping Towards Gommorah, Dan Savage
  19. Why We Buy, Paco Underhill
  20. Three Scientists and Their Gods, Robert Wright
  21. The Clustered World, Michael J. Weiss

I’m not sure yet how to approach this stack, but am open to suggestions. A little bit each day? Which one first? Any not worth the time? Take a week off of work and read nonstop? I’d love to finish them, but it will take some serious work.

I’ll annotate this list soon with more detail on the books and why I’m interested in them. For now, it should keep me sufficiently accountable to get started.

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  2. Movie Binge Week - Jun 14, 2004

Comments

  1. Jennifer Rice:

    Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book of all time. She takes one philosophical concept and weaves it through every facet of human existence. Fiction philosophy at its finest!

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