Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton Foundation - Isaac Asimov Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson *new*
I read the last half of this book over the past few days (after reading the first half very slowly since it came out). As far as writing goes, I thought Isaacson's biographies of both Franklin and Einstein were superior (I haven't read the Kissinger bio yet), but this one obviously had very different kinds of source material (interviews with the subject and his contemporaries). That said, it was very interesting to read about a history that I've lived through and witnessed, and fascinating to hear some of the stories surrounding Jobs' successes and failures. Worth reading if you've ever had an appreciation for Apple as a company, Jobs as a person, or Apple's products.
Dark Tower Series 3 and 4 House of Leaves Dexter In The Dark Artie Lange Too Fat To Fish STUFF Game of Kings The Quiet Room Prozac Diary The Sociopath next door Born Standing Up by Steve martin
Started but didn't finish: Awakenings by Oliver Sacks The Professor and the Madman
If you only read one book on this list, make it House of Leaves
Pirate Latitudes - Michael Crichton Foundation - Isaac Asimov Rhetoric Online: The Politics of New Media - Barbara Warnick and David S. Heineman Foundation and Empire - Isaac Asimov Korea's Online Gaming Empire - Dal Yong Jin Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson Eaters of the Dead - Michael Crichton *new*
This is one of the few Crichton novels I hadn't read yet, and I must say that it is a real shame that I didn't get to it long ago. I breezed through this fun Viking-tale/Beowulf romp, and it made me further appreciate the breadth of Crichton's fiction.
That gives me 7 for the year, which is somewhat depressing...I might try to squeeze in one more today/tomorrow, but I am probably going to fall short of the 10-15 I had hoped for.
