Wednesday, November 26, 2008

nerd alert

I read more books this year than I've read in my past or future combined!

in particular order:
  1. Ages in Chaos: James Hutton and the Discovery of Deep Time (Stephen Baxter) nf
  2. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho) f
  3. Animal Farm (George Orwell) f
  4. Blue Like Jazz (Donald Miller) nf
  5. The Case for a Creator (Lee Strobel) nf
  6. The Chomsky / Foucault Debate – On Human Nature (Noam Chomsky and Michael Foucault) nf (you're boring me, stop boring me!)
  7. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess) f
  8. Deep Jungle: Travel to the Heart of the Rainforest (Fred Pearce) nf
  9. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why (Laurence Gonzales) nf
  10. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (Edward Abbey) nf
  11. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Phillip K. Dick) f
  12. DUNE (Frank Herbert) f
  13. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Hunter S. Thompson) f?
  14. The Fencing Master (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
  15. The Flanders Panel (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
  16. Frost at Christmas (R.D. Wingfield) f
  17. I love you, Beth Cooper (Larry Doyle) f
  18. The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man (Amir Aczel) nf
  19. The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini) f (holy crap depressing)
  20. Krakatau: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Simon Winchester) nf
  21. Lord of the Flies (William Golding) f
  22. The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (Simon Winchester) nf
  23. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) nf
  24. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) f
  25. Plato: The Last Days of Socrates (Plato) nf
  26. The Portrait of Dorian Grey (Oscar Wilde) f
  27. The Road (Cormac McCarthy) f (holy crap depressing)
  28. The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis) f
  29. The Seville Communion (Arturo Perz-Reverte) f
  30. The Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) f
  31. Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp (C.D. Payne) f
  32. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Charles Seife) nf
  33. 1984 (George Orwell) f
didn’t get around to:
The Phenomenon of Man (Pierre Teilhard De Chardin) nf
The Art of War (Sun Tzu) nf
Annals of the Former World (John McPhee) nf ~700pg (see ya)

4 comments:

ConorGlassey said...

That is awesome. Cheryl was making fun of me this weekend because of the ratio of books I brought to NC compared to those I've read...

mernando fonterey said...

technically from Jan 17 to Nov 25

Unknown said...

not to mention, i am on constant nerd alert and flaco beat me in our reading competition this month. he read over 900 pages! that's what the latinos call "raton de la biblioteca!"

mernando fonterey said...

actually it was 990 pages in 'less than' one month, giiirl frend