Category: Books

After 2 months of slogging through it, I finally finished reading The Eye of the World. It’s about 800 pages, so I guess that isn’t a horrible pace (even though it felt like I was moving pretty slow with it). I did the last 300 or so this week, so obviously it was pretty tough…

OK, so here’s the deal. I’ve yet to read any of the Harry Potter books. I’ve yet to read any of Dave Eggers books. I want and fully intend to read all of that stuff eventually. But, eventually isn’t now. Still, even I, with no understanding of the source material, can see that Harry Potter…

I finally managed to finish Perdido Street Station. It is as though a huge weight has been removed from my skull. Don’t get me wrong. It’s a reasonably good book filled with many interesting inventions. It’s just that I’ve been struggling to get through this thing since at least early December of last year. Other…

Wow! I think I HAVE to read The Da Vinci Code (Wired Book Review). It sounds like a cross between the show Alias and Cryptonomicon: Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Da Vinci Code, published by Doubleday Books, is about the famous Renaissance artist and the oblique references to the occult contained in his equally famous…

Alice in Wonderland has always seemed to me to be the most adult of children’s stories. Maybe it’s because I didn’t actually read it until I myself became an adult. Although, the truth is I didn’t read most children’s stories until I became an adult. Which is strange. I’ve always been an avid reader. My…

I finished Good Omens the other night. Good Omens is basically the story of the apocalypse. As you might expect from that brief description, it’s a comedy. I had some trouble getting through this one. I found the humor to be something less than funny. It’s very british, very much in the spirit of the…

So, I haven’t really been keeping up with my reading list. Oh, I’ve been reading them. I just haven’t been reporting them. So, here goes a clearing house type of list. Currently Reading: Good Omens – Recommended by a Friend, plus I like Gaiman, so… Also Started: Perdido Street Station – Also recommended by a…

I just finished cataloging my personal library. At least I’ve finished the bar code scanning portion of the festivities. Putting the library back together again may be a task best left to all the kings horses and all the kings men. Books have been stacked and flung here and there with wild abandon. And the…

Thanks to Shannon for pointing me to this review of the book, The Future and Its Enemies, The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel. Many, many subtle ideas to twist my little brain around for a while.

So, let’s say you do something, and it’s very unpleasant. And you do it again, and it’s even more unpleasant. So, you do it yet again and it’s absolutely miserable … How many times should you keep doing it before you stop, and if you don’t stop, how many times can you keep doing it…