BETA
Books I Am Reading
Reading for 2 month after waiting 3 months to read
I Want to Read
  1. The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino - 5 days
  2. The Gold Coast: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 21 days
  3. Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 21 days
  4. The Wild Shore: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 21 days
  5. The Martians by Kim Stanley Robinson - 21 days
  6. The Exile Kiss by George Alec Effinger - 1 month
  7. The Difference Engine (Spectra Special Editions) by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - 1 month
    It's about time I read up on *real* steampunk.
  8. A Fire Upon The Deep (Zones of Thought) by Vernor Vinge - 1 month
  9. Fray by Joss Whedon - 2 months
  10. Taking the Red Pill: Science, Philosophy and Religion in The Matrix (Smart Pop series) by Glenn Yeffeth - 2 months
    Looks cheesy, but it should be a good read.
  11. Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen - 5 months
    Or, CS 124: the Payback!
  12. The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl (Bantam Spectra Book) by Tim Pratt - 5 months
  13. Palestine by Joe Sacco - 5 months
  14. Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco - 5 months
  15. Mortal Engines (The Hungry City Chronicles) by Philip Reeve - 6 months
    Stefan said this is similar but different to Larklight. I obey!
  16. Keeping It Real (Quantum Gravity, Book 1) by Justina Robson - 6 months
  17. Halting State by Charles Stross - 6 months
  18. The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman and Don Norman - 6 months
  19. The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel by Michael Chabon - 6 months
  20. The Scar by China Mieville - 6 months
  21. So You Want to Be a Wizard (digest): The First Book in the Young Wizards Series by Diane Duane - 6 months
  22. Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 7 months
  23. Green Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 7 months
I Have Read
  1. 22.
    The Art of SQL (Art of) by Stephane Faroult - 4 days ago A
    Good book if you have some intermediate-to-advanced SQL skills and want to deepen its knowledge. I don't want to agree 100% with the book, but it got me thinking. (So I fear SQL less; but I don't love it.) The book has this "war" metaphor going on throughout, and that metaphor alternates between charming and helpful and stretched-thin.
  2. 21.
    Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge - 5 days ago A-
    Read it straight through over a six-hour train ride. My mind was really quite warped afterwards.
  3. 20.
    Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson - 21 days ago A-
    Epic social spec-fic.. It's been over a decade since it came out, and it's flaws show, but it's still a strong novel, bearing down with the full force of technological and social change. If you're into space / futurism / specfic, you want to read this.
  4. 19.
    Deploying Rails Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide (Facets of Ruby) by Ezra Zygmuntowicz - 25 days ago
  5. 18.
    Nextwave: Agents Of H.A.T.E. Volume 2 - I Kick Your Face TPB (Nextwave: Agents of H.A.T.E.) by Warren Ellis - 1 month ago
    NEXTWAVE is SO AWESOME. And also, so insane. You need this kinda surreal in your reading life.
  6. 17.
    Saving and Investing: Financial Knowledge and Financial Literacy that Everyone Needs and Deserves to Have! by Michael Fischer - 1 month ago
    This is a really smart, quick book. Kind of like the elementary physics of personal finance. A must read; you might not know this stuff already.
  7. 16.
    How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What's Left of Your Career by Jason Seiden - 1 month ago
    Cute book with good advice. Kinda dude-ish at time, but generally like some smart guy telling you smart things, with enough pieces of wisdom within.
  8. 15.
    The Devil You Know by Mike Carey - 2 month ago
    Well-crated noir private-eye / private-exorcist supernatural urban horror mystery thriller. And, appropriately, chilling.
  9. 14.
    Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud - 2 months ago
    Masterwork. This books is a brilliant, creative redpill about all kinds of art, not just comics.
  10. 13.
    Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software by Scott Rosenberg - 2 months ago
    Damn. This book tells all of the epic glory and infamy and damnation that is software development - really, scaling up to nearly any project. Good for noncoders to understand coders, and for coders to understand WTF they're in the midst of. NOT a "management/programming" book, but a narrative.
  11. 12.
    Daredevil by Brian Michael Bendis & Alex Maleev Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Brian Michael Bendis - 3 months ago
    Eh.
  12. 11.
    Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby - 3 months ago
    A really great book, and a fun read. I'm ready for the Revs season now!
  13. 10.
    Marvel 1602 by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert - 3 months ago
    Finished this graphic novel in one weekend. Very sharp writing, with great love of the Marvel continuity but love for its own story as well.
  14. 9.
    Native Tongue by SUZETTE, HADEN ELGIN - 4 months ago
    Man. Difficult, fascinating, analytical, feminist, social science fiction. Not perfect, but quite good.
  15. 8.
    Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi - 5 months ago
    I love this one too! It's more of a story about growing up, coming of age, home, and other difficult stuff. A worthy successor. I love these novels so much.
  16. 7.
    Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space by Philip Reeve - 5 months ago
    Great! It got better and more fantastical as it went along, and stayed fun throughout. I think I'll continue with Reeve when I'm in the mood for Adventure fare.
  17. 6.
    Runaways, Vol. 3 by Brian K Vaughan - 5 months ago
    Solid fun. Gotta find Volume 4, now.
  18. 5.
    Smonk: A Novel by Tom Franklin - 6 months ago
    What a disgusting and hateful book. A fun read.
  19. 4.
    Practical Ruby for System Administration (Expert's Voice in Open Source) by André Ben Hamou - 6 months ago
    Pretty helpful. Though rather jokey.
  20. 3.
    Warrior and Witch by Marie Brennan - 6 months ago
    This was great! A totally fun read and I'm recommending it. (Do read her first book, "Doppleganger", first.)
  21. 2.
    Love Is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships by Robert J. Sternberg - 6 months ago
    First completed book of 2008! This is a pretty decent (if quick, light) read. I'll probably return to it later.
  22. 1.
    The Plain Janes (Minx) by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg - 7 months ago
    Better than I thought.
I Have Given Up
  1. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert - 8 years ago
    It's good, but I guess I'm not actively reading it straight through - more like, I'll just be browsing it generally.
  2. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan - 8 years ago
    I feel like I was 75% through a difficult book - I should get partial credit! But while the book had smart things to say, at some point I got tired of the repetitive examples, the aesthetically-pleasing-yet-groundless conclusions and especially, the way-colonialist depictions of "tribal" "primitive" "pre-civilization" man.