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I am re-reading Catch 22 by Joseph Heller and loving it more second time round. I have nothing lined up so wondered if anyone else is immersed in a good book...
At the moment I'm trying to get into the Algebraist by Iain M Banks.. harder work than some of his others such as Consider Phlebas.
The Art of Project Management
by Scott Berkun
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
by Steve Krug
Agile Web Development with Rails, First Edition
by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
My "play" reading:
Just finished:
Grimm's Grimmest
by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Just started:
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
by Ray Bradbury
The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan, the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America by Russell Shorto
Great audio book about the Dutch shaping US law and commerce.
Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
Interesting (but loooooong) novel set in the early days of science as we know it.
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor
I know practically nothing about shell scripting, and just started digging into this one. Some good stuff.
Bradbury Speaks: Too Soon from the Cave, Too Far from the Stars
Ringworld and The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven, and any of his books of short stories, are great science fiction.
I have a great collection of real estate investing books, which are a bit late for this bubble.
I just used a 6-year-old manual for a web page maker as kindling... amazing how fast that stuff goes obsolete!
Next thing I re-read will be something from the master of scifi/fantasy Philip Jose Farmer. Probably "Time's Last Gift" I haven't read that for a while.
My girlfriend was a religion minor in college, and she has sucked me into this book. Political? Very. Good book? Absolutely.
"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K.Rowling
"Weaving the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee
"The Ecology of Commerce" by Paul Hawken
Finished all of Dan Browns books last week and pulled this out :) It has multiple endings and everything! If anyone has any other ones from the series I would be interested! An awesome read, I highly reccommend!
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Wicked
My wife LOVES The Wizard of Oz, but I could never get into it until I read Wicked. Now I watch the movie from the Wicked perspective and it actually has an interesting story...
I'm re-reading Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (a book born from what might have been one of the web's first blogs) and The Life of Pi, about a 16 year old kid stuck on a life boat in the middle of the Pacific with a 700 pound Bengal tiger. The ending to this one is simply chilling, an ending evocative of the world-reknowned Sixth Sense ending twist. The first time I read this book I spent four days walking around in a funk just trying to process the implications of the book's last 30 pages. I highly recommend it (and no, it's not that he's really dead).
cEM
Current read: The Sun & the Serpent P Broadhurst & H Miller.
Next read: One of the ten in the 'to read' pile (of which the bottom four have been sitting there for a couple of years - guess that means something :-))
Syzygy
That was the most entertaining non-fiction book i read in a while
Carry On
A very moving book devoid of political statements.
Just read 'Loadsa Money' autobiography of a counterfeiter very funny in places.
Await 'man buys dog' a year in the life of a loser.
Best I have ever read 'I was there' by Hans Peter Richter.
In a similar vein: The Forgotten Soldier - Guy Sajer. Read this 12 - 15 years ago. A remarkable story.
Syzygy
I'm alarmed by how boring it is, and by how little of the content is news to me. Really, nothing new to read here.
Next up:
Freakonomics
Wicked - awesome book and an awesome musical. Myself, oilman, WebGuerrilla, Mrs. WebGuerrilla & Dax skipped a search engine party while at SES NYC earlier this year to go and see the musical Wicked. Well worth every penny and I still listen to the CD regularly.
