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Book Log
Here's a little information about the books I'm reading and have read. The topmost book is the one I have read from most recently. Some of the them have links to related journal entries.
Check out my overloaded Reading Queue and ReadingQueue for books and articles I'm planning on reading in the future. Suggestions are welcome.
| Title | Silent House |
| Author | Orhan Pamuk |
| ISBN | |
| Page | 44/333 |
| Started | 2013-12-21 |
| Title | Bloodsucking Fiends |
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | |
| Page | 300/300 |
| Started | 2013-12-31 |
| Finished | 2014-01-02 |
| Title | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency |
| Author | Douglas Adams |
| ISBN | |
| Page | 106/306 |
| Started | 2013-08-28 |
| Title | Everyday Drinking |
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | |
| Page | |
| Started | 2013-07-04 |
| Title | 1Q84 |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| Page | 945/945 |
| Started | 2012-01-03 |
| Finished | 2013 |
| Title | Four-Letter Words: And Other Secrets of a Crossword Insider |
| Author | Michelle Arnot |
| Page | 62/214 |
| Started | 2012-01-03 |
| Title | Sputnik Sweetheart |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| Page | 210/210 |
| Started | 2011-12-25 |
| Finished | 2012-01-01 |
| Title | The Tin Drum |
| Author | Günter Grass |
| Page | 589/589 |
| Started | 2011-01-04 |
| Finished | 2011-12-10 |
| Title | After Dark |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 9780307278739 |
| Page | 244/244 |
| Started | 2010-12-29 |
| Finished | 2011-01-03 |
| Title | The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen |
| Author | Philip Whalen, edited by Michael Rothenberg |
| ISBN | 0819568597 |
| Page | 5/932 |
| Started | 2010-11-22 |
| Notes |
| Title | Snow |
| Author | Orhan Pamuk |
| ISBN | 0375706860 |
| Page | 463/463 |
| Started | 2010-10-14 |
| Finished | 2010-12-29 |
| Notes | Nobel laureate |
| Title | Wandering Star (Lannan Translation Selection Series) |
| Author | J.M.G. Le Clézio |
| ISBN | 978-1931896566 |
| Page | 316/316 |
| Started | 2010-08-27 |
| Finished | 2010-10-14 |
| Notes | Nobel laureate |
| Title | Hard-Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | |
| Page | 400/400 |
| Started | 2010-08-14 |
| Finished | 2010-08-23 |
| Title | The Appointment |
| Author | Herta Müller |
| ISBN | 9780312420543 |
| Page | 214/214 |
| Started | 2010-07-10 |
| Finished | 2010-08-14 |
| Notes | Nobel laureate |
| Title | Planisphere |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | |
| Page | 36/143 |
| Started | 2010-07-04 |
| Title | The Magic Mountain |
| Author | Thomas Mann |
| ISBN | 9780679772873 |
| Page | 706/706 |
| Started | 2009-09-05 |
| Finished | 2010-07-03 |
| Notes | Nobel laureate |
| Title | Way More West |
| Author | Edward Dorn |
| ISBN | 9780143038696 |
| Page | 30/321 |
| Started | 2009-09-05 |
| Title | The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer |
| Author | Jack Spicer, edited by Peter Gizzi |
| ISBN | 0819563404 |
| Page | 198/265 |
| Started | 2008-12-26 |
| Title | The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara |
| Author | Frank O'Hara (edited by Donald Allen) |
| ISBN | 0520201663 |
| Page | 106/586 |
| Started | 2008-09-27 |
| Title | Corvus |
| Author | Anselm Hollo |
| ISBN | 156689039X |
| Page | 141/141 |
| Started | 2008-12-10 |
| Finished | 2009-03-23 |
| Title | The White Tiger: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) |
| Author | Aravind Adiga |
| ISBN | 1416562605 |
| Page | 288/288 |
| Started | 2008-12-11 |
| Finished | 2008-12-23 |
| Title | Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations |
| Author | Clay Shirky |
| ISBN | 1594201536 |
| Page | 327/327 |
| Started | 2008-10-01 |
| Finished | 2008-12-10 |
| Title | Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Rise of Intellectual Property and How it Threatens Creativity |
| Author | Siva Vaidhyanathan |
| ISBN | 0814788076 |
| Page | 255/255 |
| Started | 2006-07-11 |
| Finished | 2008-07-15 |
| Title | Turning the Mind Into an Ally |
| Author | Sakyong Mipham |
| ISBN | 157322345X |
| Page | 108/234 |
| Started | 2005-11-16 |
| Title | Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World |
| Author | Bruce Schneier |
| ISBN | 0471453803 |
| Page | 414/414 |
| Started | 2006-09-14 |
| Finished | 2008-06-28 |
| Notes | Read my review |
| Title | The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) |
| Author | Salman Rushdie |
| ISBN | 0312270828 |
| Status | 561/561 |
| Started | 2007-12-20 |
| Finished | 2008-06-14 |
| Title | The Baron in the Trees |
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156106809 |
| Status | 217/217 |
| Started | 2005-03-01 |
| Restarted | 2007-12-09 |
| Finished | 2007-12-17 |
| Title | The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan |
| Author | Ted Berrigan |
| ISBN | 0520239865 |
| Status | 55/749 |
| Started | Sometime in 2006 |
| Title | Ubik |
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0679736646 |
| Page | 216/216 |
| Started | 2007-11-13 |
| Finished | 2007-12-08 |
| Title | The Great Gatsby |
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 9780743273565 |
| Page | 180/180 |
| Started | 2007-11-05 |
| Finished | 2007-11-10 |
| Title | Norwegian Wood |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0375704027 |
| Page | 296/296 |
| Started | 2007-10-15 |
| Finished | 2007-11-04 |
| Title | A Worldly Country: New Poems |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0061173835 |
| Page | 96/96 |
| Started | 2007-09-01ish |
| Finished | 2007-10-09ish |
| Title | Love in the Time of Cholera |
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 140003468X |
| Page | 348/348 |
| Started | 2007-06-17 |
| Finished | 2007-06-27 |
| Title | Join the Planets |
| Author | Reed Bye |
| ISBN | 0935992235 |
| Page | 226/226 |
| Started | 2007-04-10 |
| Finished | 2007-05-14 |
| Title | One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) |
| Author | Gabriel García Márquez |
| ISBN | 006112009X |
| Page | 417/417 |
| Started | 2006-08-20 |
| Finished | 2007-01-23 |
| Title | Notes for Echo Lake (Notes for Echo Lake Ppr) |
| Author | Michael Palmer |
| ISBN | 0865470243 |
| Page | 93/93 |
| Started | 2006-11-21 |
| Finished | 2006-12-14 |
| Title | In Memory Of My Feelings |
| Author | Frank O'Hara |
| ISBN | 0870705105 |
| Page | 2 |
| Started | 2006-12-09 |
| Title | Braided River (Salt Modern Poets) |
| Author | Anselm Hollo |
| ISBN | 1844711099 |
| Page | 246/246 |
| Started | 2006-07-30 |
| Finished | 2006-12-09 |
| Title | Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity |
| Author | David Allen |
| ISBN | 0670899240 |
| Page | 96/267 |
| Started | 2006-01-20 |
| Title | Kafka on the Shore |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 1400079276 |
| Page | 467/467 |
| Started | 2006-08-07 |
| Finished | 2006-08-14 |
| Title | The Elephant Vanishes |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0679750533 |
| Page | 327/327 |
| Started | 2006-06-29 |
| Finished | 2006-07-30 |
| Title | A Scanner Darkly |
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 1400096901 |
| Page | 278/278 |
| Started | 2006-07-07 |
| Finished | 2006-07-09 |
| Title | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs |
| Author | Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman |
| ISBN | 0262011530 |
| Page | Chapter 1/5 |
| Started | 2006-06-28 |
| Notes | Reading the HTML version. |
| Title | Python Pocket Reference |
| Author | Mark Lutz |
| ISBN | 0596009402 |
| Page | 148/148 |
| Started | 2006-02-01 |
| Finished | 2006-06-26 |
| Title | Twisted: Network Programming Essentials |
| Author | Abe Fettig |
| ISBN | 0596100329 |
| Page | 24/213 |
| Started | 2006-05-26 |
| Title | Programming Python |
| Author | Mark Lutz |
| ISBN | 0596000855 |
| Page | 210/1255 |
| Started | 2004-11-28 |
| Title | Company of Moths |
| Author | Michael Palmer |
| ISBN | 0811216233 |
| Page | 70/70 |
| Started | 2006-01-06 |
| Finished | 2006-05-21 |
| Title | Rules for Radicals |
| Author | Saul Alinsky |
| ISBN | 0679721134 |
| Page | 224/224 |
| Started | 2006-04-20 |
| Finished | 2006-04-25 |
| Title | Conversational Brazilian Portuguese in 20 Lessons |
| Author | Edwin B. Williams and Marialice Pessoa |
| ISBN | 0805015035 |
| Page | 1/186 |
| Started | 2006-04-16 |
| Title | Lonely Planet Brazilian Portuguese Phrasebook |
| Author | Lonely Planet |
| ISBN | 1864503807 |
| Page | 1/254 |
| Started | 2006-04-16 |
| Title | Snow Crash |
| Author | Neal Stephenson |
| ISBN | 0553380958 |
| Page | 470/470 |
| Started | 2006-04-11 |
| Finished | 2006-04-20 |
| Title | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle |
| Author | Haruki Murakami |
| ISBN | 0679775439 |
| Page | 607/607 |
| Started | 2006-01-25 |
| Finished | 2006-03-28 |
| Notes | Read my review |
| Title | MySQL Weekend Crash Course |
| Author | Jay Greenspan |
| ISBN | 0764536341 |
| Page | 75/340 |
| Started | 2006-01-07 |
| Title | Postmodernism or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism |
| Author | Fredric Jameson |
| ISBN | 0822310902 |
| Page | 30/438 |
| Started | 2005-07-31 |
| Title | Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide |
| Author | David Thomas and Andrew Hunt |
| ISBN | 0974514055 |
| Page | 170/830 |
| Started | 2005-10-16 |
| Title | The Watcher and other stories |
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156949520 |
| Page | 181/181 |
| Started | 2005-12-25 |
| Finished | 2006-01-01 |
| Title | A Wave |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0374525471 |
| Page | 89/89 |
| Started | 2005-09-25 |
| Finished | 2005-12-23 |
| Title | Agile Web Development with Rails |
| Author | Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson |
| ISBN | 097669400X |
| Page | 120/558 |
| Started | 2005-10-24 |
| Title | Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen |
| Author | Shunryu Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0060957549 |
| Page | 162/162 |
| Started | 2005-09-17 |
| Finished | 2005-09-22 |
| Notes | Buddhism and knowing |
| Title | Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme |
| Author | Max Hailperin, Barbara Kaiser, and Karl Knight |
| ISBN | 0534952119 |
| Page | 40/653 |
| Started | 2005-08-11 |
| Title | Gasoline |
| Author | Gregory Corso |
| ISBN | 0872860884 |
| Page | 105/105 |
| Started | 2005-07-23 |
| Finished | 2005-08-10 |
| Title | The Zen of CSS Design |
| Author | David Shea and Molly E. Holzschlag |
| ISBN | 0321303474 |
| Page | 276/296 |
| Started | 2005-04-11 |
| Title | The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount |
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156659751 |
| Page | 246/246 |
| Started | 2005-06-27 |
| Finished | 2005-07-15 |
| Notes | A quick review |
| Title | Borrowed Love Poems |
| Author | John Yau |
| ISBN | 0142000515 |
| Status | 133/133 |
| Started | 2005-06-06 |
| Finished | 2005-06-19 |
| Notes | Read my review. |
| Title | Gun, with Occasional Music |
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0312858787 |
| Status | 260/260 |
| Started | 2005-05-24 |
| Finished | 2005-06-04 |
| Notes | Some comments |
| Title | Where Shall I Wander |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0060765291 |
| Status | 81/81 |
| Started | 2005-05-11 |
| Finished | 2005-05-24 |
| Title | Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro & Other Poems |
| Author | Tyler Doherty |
| ISBN | 0971193525 |
| Status | 82/82 |
| Started | 2005-05-07 |
| Finished | 2005-05-10 |
| Title | The Definitive Guide to Plone |
| Author | Andy McKay |
| ISBN | 1590593294 |
| Status | 294/568 |
| Started | 2005-01-21 |
| Title | A Flock of Fools: Ancient Buddhist Tales of Wisdom and Laughter... |
| Author | Kazuaki Tanahashi and Peter Levitt |
| ISBN | 0802141331 |
| Status | 206/206 |
| Started | 2005-02-03 |
| Finished | 2005-05-16 |
| Notes | Review, Excerpt |
| Title | Shadow Train |
| Author | John Ashbery |
| ISBN | 0140422889 |
| Status | 44% |
| Started | 2004-11-05 |
| Title | The Impossibly |
| Author | Laird Hunt |
| ISBN | 156689117 |
| Status | 100% |
| Started | 2005-01-01 |
| Finished | 2005-02-02 |
| Notes | Words for things |
| Title | Python in a Nutshell |
| Author | Alex Martelli |
| ISBN | 0596001886 |
| Status | 06% |
| Started | 2004-12-17 |
| Notes | Had to return this to the library. |
| Title | If on a winter's night a traveler |
| Author | Italo Calvino |
| ISBN | 0156439611 |
| Status | 100% |
| Started | 2004-12-04 |
| Finished | 2004-12-12 |
| Notes | Quote. Another quote. |
| Title | Trout Fishing in America |
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0395500761 |
| Status | 04% |
| Started | 2004-11-11 |
| Notes | Had to return it to the library. |
| Title | Dive Into Python |
| Author | Mark Pilgrim |
| ISBN | 1590593561 |
| Status | 100% |
| Started | 2004-10-17 |
| Finished | 2004-11-13 |
| Notes | Maybe the best computer book I've read. |
| Title | The Glass Bead Game |
| Author | Herman Hesse |
| ISBN | 080501246X |
| Status | 13% |
| Started | 2004-05-01 |
| Title | The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, Vol.1 |
| Author | Bill Lewis, Dan LaLiberte, Richard Stallman, and the GNU Manual Group |
| ISBN | 1882114736 |
| Status | 44% |
| Started | 2004-07-01 |
| Title | Learning Python |
| Author | Mark Lutz |
| ISBN | 0596002815 |
| Status | 80% |
| Started | 2004-09-01 |
| Notes | Had to return this to the library. |
| Title | The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories |
| Author | Philip K. Dick |
| ISBN | 0806523794 |
| Status | 100% |
| Started | 2004-07-01 |
| Finished | 2004-11-28 |
| Title | Life of Pi |
| Author | Yann Martel |
| ISBN | 0156027321 |
| Status | 100% |
| Started | 2004-06-01 |
| Finished | 2004-11-05 |
Delay not, Caesar. Read it instantly.
-- Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" 3,1
Here is a letter, read it at your leisure.
-- Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice" 5,1
[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to I/O system services.]
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