This is a list of the books I've read since Feb 1, 1997. The earlier items below contain a short commentary of random thoughts that occurred to me while and after reading. Magazines, newspapers, and journal articles will generally not be included.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Finished reading April 30, 2005.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. Finished reading April 11, 2005.
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl, Jr. Finished reading Augest 22, 2004.
the mythical man-month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. Finished reading May 26, 2004.
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse. Finished reading April 8, 2004.
The Davinci Code by Dan Brown. Finished reading March 28, 2004.
Mind Tools by Rudy Rucker. Finished reading March 20, 2004.
Chinese Poems by Aurthur Waley. Finished reading August 14, 2003.
Steppenwolf , by Herman Hesse. Finished reading July 19, 2003.
Siddhartha , by Herman Hesse. Finished reading July 12, 2003.
All the King's Men , by Robert Penn Warren. Finished reading July 10, 2003.
The Divine Comedy , by Dante Alighieri. Finished reading April 19, 2003.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , by Mark Twain. Finished reading February 4, 2003.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , by Mark Twain. Finished reading December 29, 2002.
How We Think , by John Dewey. Finished reading December 25, 2002.
HOWL and Other Poems , by Allen Ginsberg. Finished reading December 18, 2002.
A Deepness in the Sky , by Vernor Vinge. Finished reading December 11, 2002.
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels , by Henry James. Finished reading November 3, 2002.
Les Miserables , by Victor Hugo. Finished reading August 28, 2002.
Dubliners , by James Joyce. Finished reading August 5, 2002.
War and Peace , by Leo Tolstoy. Finished reading July 15, 2002.
Frankenstein , by Mary Shelly. Finished reading April 7, 2002.
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations , by David Landes. Finished reading March 31, 2002.
Bolo Book V: Old Guard , by William Keith, et. al. Finished reading February 23, 2002.
Typee , by Herman Melville. Finished reading June 21, 2001.
Starship Troopers , by Robert A. Heinlein. Finished reading June 9, 2001.
Sons and Lovers , by D. H. Lawrence. Finished reading June 8, 2001.
Invention: The care and feeding of ideas , by Norbert Wiener. Finished reading May 24, 2001.
Cryptonomicon , by Neal Stephenson. Finished reading May 20, 2001.
Four Plays by Karel Capek , by Karel Capek. Finished reading May 11, 2001.
Ulysses , by James Joyce. Finished reading April 12, 2001.
The Nature of the Universe , by Lucretius (translated by R. E. Latham). Finished reading December 31, 2000.
The Fractal Geometry of Nature , by Benoit Mandelbrot Finished reading November 14, 2000.
Lessons , by Dr. An Wang (with Eugene Linden). Finished reading October 13, 2000.
Visual C++ 6 In Record Time , by Steven Holzner. Finished reading September 13, 2000.
Antov Chekhov's Short Stories , edited by Ralph Matlaw. Finished reading September 3, 2000.
Slaughterhouse Five , by Kurt Vonnegut. Finished reading August 23, 2000.
A PhD is not Enough , by Feibelman. Finished reading August 23, 2000.
The Society of Mind , by Marvin Minsky. Finished rereading August 12, 2000.
The Age of Spiritual Machines , by Ray Kurzweil. Finished reading July 7, 2000.
The Cambridge Quintet , by John Casti. Finished reading July 5, 2000.
Bolo Brigade , by William Keith (Created by Keith Laumer). Finished reading July 3, 2000.
The Great Gatsby , by Fitzgerald. Finished reading February 12, 2000.
Enigmas of Chance , by Mark Kac. Finished reading December 19, 1999.
Military Misfortunes , by Cohen and Gooch. Finished reading December 5, 1999.
Not out of Africa , by Mary Lefkowitz. Finished reading December 3, 1999.
Heaven's Reach , by David Brin. Finished reading October 22, 1999.
Bolo Rising , by William Keith. Finished reading October 4, 1999.
Walden Two , by B. F. Skinner. Finished reading August 30, 1999.
How the Mind Works , by Steven Pinker. Finished reading August 28, 1999.
Burmese Days , by George Orwell. Finished reading July 7, 1999.
One Hundred Years of Solitude , by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Finished Reading June 23, 1999.
The Brothers Karamazov , by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Finished reading June 11, 1999.
ISHMAEL: An Adventure of Mind and Spirit , by Daniel Quinn. Finished reading in March 1999.
JavaScript: The Definitive Reference , by David Flanagan. Finished reading in March 1999.
ATM Volume I: Foundation for Broadband Networks , by Uyless Black. Finished Reading in February 1999.
Five Short Novels , by Various Authors. Finished reading November 7, 1998.
Walden , by Henry David Thoreau. Finished reading October 10, 1998.
Object-Oriented Modeling and Design , by James Rumbaugh, et. al. Finished reading September 20, 1998.
the philosophy of existentialism , by Gabriel Marcel. Finished reading September 12, 1998.
teach yourself JavaScript 1.1 in a week, 2nd edition , by Arman Danesh. Finished reading September 11, 1998.
Madame Bovary , by Gustave Flaubert. Finished reading August 2, 1998.
Moby dick; or, The Whale , by Herman Melville. Finished reading July 5, 1998.
The Human Genome Project: Cracking the Code Within Us , by Elizabeth Marshall. Finished reading May 16, 1998.
The Subtle Knife , by Philip Pullman. Finished reading May 15, 1998.
Elementary German , by Erika Meyer and Guenther Bicknese. Finished reading May, 1998
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy , by Douglas Adams. Finished reading April 23, 1998
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds , by Paul Zindel. Finished reading April 18, 1998
The Mathematical Theory of Communiation , by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver. Finished reading March 1998.
Mr. Sammler's Planet , by Saul Bellow. Finished reading February 12, 1998.
The Machineries of Joy , by Ray Bradbury. Finished reading February 11, 1998.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich , by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Finished reading February 6, 1998.
Cat's Cradle , by Kurt Vonnegut. Finished reading about January 22, 1998.
Infinity's Shore , by David Brin . Finished reading about January 12, 1998.
Understanding Thermodynamics , by H. C. Van Ness. Finished reading about January 1, 1998.
Otherness , by David Brin. Finished reading December 16, 1997.
Information Theory: an introduction for scientists and engineers , by Gordon Raisbeck. Finished reading November 27, 1997.
The C++ Programming Lanuage (Second Edition) , by Bjarne Stroustrup. Finished reading November 22, 1997.
The Truth about Money , by Ric Edelman . Finished reading in October.
The Millionaire Next Door , by T. J. Stanley & W. D. Danko. Finished reading on October 19, 1997.
Usability Engineering , by Jakob Nielsen . Finished reading in October.
The Golden Compass , by Philip Pullman. Finished reading in September.
Zod Wallop , by William Browning Spencer. Finished reading in September.
The Giants Novels , by James P. Hogan. Finished reading July 25, 1997.
Code of the Lifemaker , James P. Hogan. Finished reading May 1997.
Wittgenstein's Mistress , David Markson. Finished reading May 1997.
GO for Beginners , Kaoru Iwamoto. Finished reading Apr 20, 1997.
Brightness Reef , David Brin. Finished reading Mar 30, 1997.
Pierre; or, the Ambiguities , Herman Melville . Finished reading Mar 17, 1997.
The Basic School , Ernest L. Boyer. Finished reading Mar 15, 1997.
Just So Stories , Rudyard Kipling. Finished reading Mar 13, 1997.
BOLOS, Book 4, The Last Stand , created by Keith Laumer. Finished reading Mar 5, 1997.
The Flanders Panel , by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Finished reading Feb 28, 1997.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich , by William Shirer. Finished reading Feb 24, 1997.
How to Improve Your Chess , by I. A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfield. Finished reading Feb 12, 1997.
Science and Human Values , by Jacob Bronowski. Finished reading Feb 5, 1997.
Objective Knowledge: An Evolutionary Approach , by Karl Popper. Finished reading Feb 1, 1997.
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