books!
after uberfunk expressed such interest in the post about the music i've been into lately, i thought it might be worthwhile to post some other media i'm surrounded by lately.
today's topic: books.
this year has been very scattered in terms of reading. lots of magazines, lots of news, and a fair amount of nonfiction. a little bit of some other stuff, but mostly that. i've started a lot of books that i have yet to finish, and i just sort of let them float around, eventually finishing one every few months, or maybe longer if i'm more into other stuff (look for games, movies, television posts in the future).
anyway, these are just the books that are around, mostly not in bookcases, but some recently placed there. i have books on my nightstand, in the bathroom, on tables in the living room, on my dining room table, and stacked up on my desk in my office. they're the overflow of the last year or two, and they include the most recent acquisitions, the ones i'm actually reading, and stuff i started a while ago and then haven't had time for or whatever. i skimmed through all my books, and this should be a good list of what i've been reading the past couple/few years, what i'm into right now, and what i'll be reading in the next year or two.
some of these could have fit into more than one of the headings below. a good deal of what i read straddles the divide between philosophy and science, or between fiction and theology.
poetry
e.e. cummings - 100 selected poems
rabindranath tagore - gitanjali
dylan thomas - selected poems 1934-1952
humor
david sedaris - me talk pretty one day (i've had friends tell me they love this guy, but i couldn't even finish it i was so bored.)
jon stewart, ben karlin, david javerbaum - america (the book): a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
miscellaneous fiction
douglas adams - dirk gently's holistic detective agency
jorge luis borges - collected fictions
dan brown - angels & demons
dan brown - the da vinci code
mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita
mikhail bulgakov - the heart of a dog
mark dunn - ella minnow pea
umberto eco - the name of the rose
david eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
alan lightman - the diagnosis
yann martel - life of pi
j.d. salinger - franny and zooey
neal stephenson - cryptonomicron
hunter s. thompson - fear and loathing in las vegas
j.r.r. tolkien - the silmarillion
biology/chemistry/psychology/physics/math/science/computer science/linguistics
amir d. aczel - the mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infininity
samuel avery - the dimensional structure of consciousness - a physical basis for immaterialism
valentino braitenberg - vehicles
joshua bloch - effective java
david bohm - wholeness and the implicate order
david crystal (editor) - cambridge encylopedia of language
malcolm gladwell - the tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
amit goswami - the self-aware universe
steven pinker - the language instinct
kuhn, swartzwelder, & wilson - buzzed: the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs, from alcohol to ecstasy
michael talbot - the holographic universe
michael talbot - mysticism and the new physics
religion/theology/philosophy
allan bloom (editor) - the republic of plato
allan bloom - the closing of the american mind
david a. cooper - god is a verb: kabbalah and the practice of mystical judaism
h. byron earhardt - religious traditions of the world: a journey through africa, north america, mesoamerica, judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, buddhism, china, and japan
the holy bible (new king james version)
m. esther harding - the i and the not i: a study in the development of consciousness
keith harary & pamela weintraub - lucid dreams in 30 days
douglas r. hofstadter - godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid
immanuel kant - critique of judgment
immanuel kant - critique of practical reason
immanuel kant - critique of pure reason
stephen laberge & howard rheingold - exploring the world of lucid dreaming
stephen mitchell (editor) - bhagavad gita
daryl h. rice - a guide to plato's republic
martial arts
gichin funakoshi - karate-do nyumon: the master introductory text
history/politics/economics/news
the economist - pocket world in figures 2005
james m. mcpherson (editor) - to the best of my ability: the american presidents
kevin phillips - wealth and democracy: a political history of the american rich
howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
magazines (over the last few years)
acoustic guitar
atlantic monthly
cmj new music monthly
discover
the economist
maxim
recording
rolling stone
scientific american
today's topic: books.
this year has been very scattered in terms of reading. lots of magazines, lots of news, and a fair amount of nonfiction. a little bit of some other stuff, but mostly that. i've started a lot of books that i have yet to finish, and i just sort of let them float around, eventually finishing one every few months, or maybe longer if i'm more into other stuff (look for games, movies, television posts in the future).
anyway, these are just the books that are around, mostly not in bookcases, but some recently placed there. i have books on my nightstand, in the bathroom, on tables in the living room, on my dining room table, and stacked up on my desk in my office. they're the overflow of the last year or two, and they include the most recent acquisitions, the ones i'm actually reading, and stuff i started a while ago and then haven't had time for or whatever. i skimmed through all my books, and this should be a good list of what i've been reading the past couple/few years, what i'm into right now, and what i'll be reading in the next year or two.
some of these could have fit into more than one of the headings below. a good deal of what i read straddles the divide between philosophy and science, or between fiction and theology.
poetry
e.e. cummings - 100 selected poems
rabindranath tagore - gitanjali
dylan thomas - selected poems 1934-1952
humor
david sedaris - me talk pretty one day (i've had friends tell me they love this guy, but i couldn't even finish it i was so bored.)
jon stewart, ben karlin, david javerbaum - america (the book): a citizen's guide to democracy inaction
miscellaneous fiction
douglas adams - dirk gently's holistic detective agency
jorge luis borges - collected fictions
dan brown - angels & demons
dan brown - the da vinci code
mikhail bulgakov - the master and margarita
mikhail bulgakov - the heart of a dog
mark dunn - ella minnow pea
umberto eco - the name of the rose
david eggers - a heartbreaking work of staggering genius
alan lightman - the diagnosis
yann martel - life of pi
j.d. salinger - franny and zooey
neal stephenson - cryptonomicron
hunter s. thompson - fear and loathing in las vegas
j.r.r. tolkien - the silmarillion
biology/chemistry/psychology/physics/math/science/computer science/linguistics
amir d. aczel - the mystery of the aleph: mathematics, the kabbalah, and the search for infininity
samuel avery - the dimensional structure of consciousness - a physical basis for immaterialism
valentino braitenberg - vehicles
joshua bloch - effective java
david bohm - wholeness and the implicate order
david crystal (editor) - cambridge encylopedia of language
malcolm gladwell - the tipping point: how little things can make a big difference
amit goswami - the self-aware universe
steven pinker - the language instinct
kuhn, swartzwelder, & wilson - buzzed: the straight facts about the most used and abused drugs, from alcohol to ecstasy
michael talbot - the holographic universe
michael talbot - mysticism and the new physics
religion/theology/philosophy
allan bloom (editor) - the republic of plato
allan bloom - the closing of the american mind
david a. cooper - god is a verb: kabbalah and the practice of mystical judaism
h. byron earhardt - religious traditions of the world: a journey through africa, north america, mesoamerica, judaism, christianity, islam, hinduism, buddhism, china, and japan
the holy bible (new king james version)
m. esther harding - the i and the not i: a study in the development of consciousness
keith harary & pamela weintraub - lucid dreams in 30 days
douglas r. hofstadter - godel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid
immanuel kant - critique of judgment
immanuel kant - critique of practical reason
immanuel kant - critique of pure reason
stephen laberge & howard rheingold - exploring the world of lucid dreaming
stephen mitchell (editor) - bhagavad gita
daryl h. rice - a guide to plato's republic
martial arts
gichin funakoshi - karate-do nyumon: the master introductory text
history/politics/economics/news
the economist - pocket world in figures 2005
james m. mcpherson (editor) - to the best of my ability: the american presidents
kevin phillips - wealth and democracy: a political history of the american rich
howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
magazines (over the last few years)
acoustic guitar
atlantic monthly
cmj new music monthly
discover
the economist
maxim
recording
rolling stone
scientific american