the morning after

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[badger]

I liked Sutin's _Divine Invasions_ bio of PKD shown there.

[deviant_]

I must admit, it's one of the 5 books on that shelf that I haven't fully read yet. I picked it up at the Harvard Book Store1 last month. Of the others, I got about half way through _Atlas Shrugged_ and failed to pick it up again maybe a year ago. _Capital_ came from *ahem* the shelf at the coin-op laundry near my apartment a couple of weeks ago, _Theory of Games and Economic Behavior_ arrived in the mail 2 weeks ago, _On Numbers And Games_ is one of those books I keep attempting to read, getting about half a chapter (any chapter) into, and finding out I don't have the time (much less math skills) required to make sense of it.

_Gravity's Rainbow_ is there because I don't have a fireplace.

1I think their only relationship with the school is via proximity, but I could be wrong.

[badger]

I also like Sutin's bio on Crowley, it's tied with Kacsynski's bio for my favorite on that subject. Sutin's PKD bio was extremely good, I thought.
Never read _Atlas Shrugged_. Not sure I need to at this point, I think I've grabbed all I need to know of Rand secondhand.
As for Pynchon, I like _The Crying of Lot 49_, and _V_. I keep meaning to read _GR_ just for completion's sake, partly because he just published he first new novel in years.

[grahams]

It's almost the perfect computer nerd movie set bookshelf. I would just omit Atlas Shrugged because it is horrible. :)

[deviant_]

I just thought it was wonderful that near totally random events put _Capital_ next to _Atlas Shrugged_ and _Theory of Games and Economic Behavior_. The irony was so palpable I nearly went back to sleep.

Ok, so there's a very strong urge to go back to sleep on any given morning. Still.

[rhiannonstone]

Amusingly enough, I also have Atlas Shrugged, Snow Crash, and that very same Hitchhiker's Guide Compendium on the same shelf on my bookshelf. I place books semi-randomly according to what will fit on which shelves. ;)