Book List Up To 9

You probably think that all I do is read.

World War Z-Max Brooks

Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut

Starship Troopers- Robert Heinlen

Zuckerman Unbound- Philip Roth

The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie

Too Far To Go- John Updike

Empire Of Illusion: The end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle- Christopher Hedges

In The Beginning Was The Command Line- Neal Stephenson

Breakfast Of Champions- Kurt Vonnegut

Probably my least favorite work by one of my favorite authors. Vonnegut at his most intense level of moral indignation. The story doesn't have as much punch to it as the others, but on a critical level, it has a lot of interesting things to say.

Book List Up to 8

World War Z-Max Brooks

Mother Night- Kurt Vonnegut

Starship Troopers- Robert Heinlen

Zuckerman Unbound- Philip Roth

The Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie

Too Far To Go- John Updike

Empire Of Illusion: The end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle- Christopher Hedges

In The Beginning Was The Command Line- Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson's definitive essay on the beauty of programming. I regretted the gimmicky ending, but wished he would have gotten to that point sooner, and drawn even more conclusions from it. It basically is a history (partly personal) of the hacking from 1980 to 1999.