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© 2010 Jason Delport
Out side of work my big goal for the year is to read over 25 books. Last year started and ended great but the middle part of the year was a bit disappointing. The below list is some of the books I would like to finish this year.
Highlights should be Simon Singh's Big Bang and William Gibson's Pattern Recognition. I read 2 Simon Singh books (The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem) last year and both were excellent. I have read everything William Gibson has written prior to Pattern Recognition and have enjoyed every single word and I'm sure Pattern Recognition won't be an exception. Any recommendations?
Non-Fiction
Simon Singh - Big Bang (cosmology)
Ben Goldacre - Bad Science (medicine)
Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everything (science)
Bertrand Russell - A History of Western Philosophy (philosophy)
Paul Hoffman - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers (maths)
Literary Fiction
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo
A Chuck Palahniuk novel
George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London
David Lodge - Changing Places
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood (previously abandoned)
JG Ballard - Concrete Island
SciFi/Fantasy Fiction
William Gibson - Pattern recognition
Joe Abercrombie - The Blade Itself
George Martin - A Dance with Dragons (if published)
Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker
Michael Chabon - The Yiddish Policemen's Union
Peter F. Hamilton - Pandora's Star
Peter F. Hamilton - Judas Unchained
I would like to try one of the eReaders / eBooks - like the idea of being able to get new books on-device.
i.e http://www.amazon.com/Kindle-Amazons-Wireless-Reading-Device/dp/B000FI73MA
I have somehow never tried an audio book which would work for long commute to work.
I walk to work and prefer not to listen to music etc but digital book readers are going to be huge. They will do to the book and publishing industry as what the iPod did to the music industry. But where I welcomed the digital age to music I think I will regret the digitalisation of books. I love my book collection. :)