books are fun
06/16/2002 - One would imagine that, in London, with no job, one would have plenty of time to sit and read and catch up on all of those works that one should have encountered throughout one's life. One would soon find that one was increasingly neurotic about one's own contributions to the world and would often get distracted by grander thoughts than could simply be gleaned from the words in a text and one would further find one's time occupied by worry of not being "productive" enough. One would soon find one's self worrying more and reading less.
if there's a book you think i should read, please let me know.
also, if you're feeling particularly heavy in the wallet, feel free to buy me something nice.
books i am currently reading (or, short attention span)
books i should read
- the long tail (chris anderson)
- writing down the bones (natalie goldber)
- on photography (susan sontag)
books you should buy for me
- The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman) - recommended by stacie
- The Disappearance of Childhood (Neil Postman) - recommended by bryanboyer
- the lexus and the olive tree (thomas l. friedman)
- another flavor of the bible
- actually, here's a link to my wishlist again
things i've read (recently)
go home
- my tiny life (julian dibbell) 06/2007
- writing down the bones (natalie goldberg)
- generation me (jean m. twenge, ph.d.)
- to engineer is human (henry petroski)
- whatever (michel houellebecq)
- blink (malcolm gladwell) 05/2006
- the paradox of choice (barry schwartz) 04/21/2006
- freakonomics (steven d. levitt, stephen j. dubner) 2006
- the world is flat (thomas friedman) 02/2006
...- invisible cities (italo calvino) 07/24/2002
- mcsweeney's issue #6
- mr landen has no brain (stephen walker) 06/2002
- les enfants terribles (jean cocteau / trans. rosamond lehmann) 05/2002
...- generation x (douglas coupland) 12/08/2001
- white teeth (zadie smith) 11/16/2001
- phone calls from the dead (wendy brenner) 11/2001
- Burn Collector collection (al burian) 08/2001
- we ain't got no car #6 (jack saturn) 07/31/2001
- the pharmacists's mate (amy fusselman) 07/26/2001
- franny and zooey (j. d. salinger) 07/2001
- visible amazement (gale zoe garnett) 04/24/2001
- anthropology (dan rhodes) 04/22/2001
- pure (rebecca ray) 04/2001
- cometbus #47 (aaron cometbus) 03/2001
- brief interviews with hideous men (david foster wallace) 03/2001
- cryptonomicon (neal stephenson) 12/28/2000
- the diagnosis (alan lightman) 12/05/2000
- the neal pollack anthology of american literature (neal pollack) 10/10/2000
- mcsweeney's issue #5
- american skin (don de grazia) 08/2000
- syrup (maxx barry) 08/20/2000
- welcome to my planet: where english is sometimes spoken (shannon olson) 06/00
- a heartbreaking work of staggering genius (dave eggers) 05/29/00
- neuromancer (william gibson) - 05/00
- novel with cocaine (m. ageyev) - 04/08/00
- the crucible (arthur miller) - 03/00
- the great gatsby (f scott fitzgerald) - 02/00
- the girls' guide to hunting and fishing (melissa bank) - 01/06/00
- this side of paradise (f scott fitzgerald) - 12/31/99
- the rest of the tales of the city books (armistead maupin) - 08/28/99
- survival of the prettiest (nancy etcoff) - 08/03/99
- einstein's dreams (alan lightman) - 08/01/99
- et tu, babe (mark leyner)
- bridget jones' diary (helen fielding)
- wired women (lynn cherny and elizabeth reba weise, eds)