Kristin's Book Page
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"A room without books is like a body without a
soul" --Cicero
If you're interested in any of the books, and
want to help support my reading habit, please click on any of the
links to get info or buy them from Powells
- Douglas Adams
- The
Hitchhiker's Guide Books
- Nicholson Baker
- The
Fermata
- Nick Bantock
- Griffin & Sabine
trilogy
- Julian Barnes
- A
History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
- Greg Bear
- Darwin's
Radio
- the
Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ficciones
- David Brin
- Glory
Season
- Startide
Rising
- The
Uplift War
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- the Vorksosigan series
- Italo Calvino
- If
On a Winter's Night a Traveler
- Orson Scott Card
- Ender's
Game
- The
Worthing Saga
- Peter Carey
- Oscar and Lucinda
- Jonathan Carroll
- A Child Across the Sky
- Bones of the Moon
- From the Teeth of Angels
- The Marriage of Sticks
- Outside the Dog Museum
- Sleeping in Flame
- Sarah Champion, ed
- Disco 2000
- Nicholas Christopher
- Franklin Flyer
- Billy Collins
- Picnic,
Lightning
- Douglas Coupland
- Microserfs
- Richard Dawkins
- The
Selfish Gene
- Daniel Dennett
- Darwin's
Dangerous Idea
- Bradley Denton
- Lunatics
- Paul Di Filippo
- The
Steampunk Trilogy
- Fractal
Paisleys
- Lost
Pages
- Umberto Eco
- Foucault's
Pendulum
- The
Name of the Rose
- Greg Egan
- Axiomatic
- Luminous
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- A
Coney Island of the Mind
- Jasper Fforde
- The Eyre Affair
- Neil Gaiman
- Neverwhere
- Good
Omens with Terry Pratchett
- Sandman:
Fables and Reflections
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera
- One Hundred Years of Solitude
- William Gibson
- Neuromancer
- James Gleick
- Chaos
- Alex Haley
- Roots
- Peter F Hamilton
- The Reality Dysfunction
- The Neutronium Alchemist
- Robert A. Heinlein
- Stranger
in a Strange Land
- Joseph Heller
- Catch-22
- Mark Helprin
- Winter's Tale
- Frank Herbert
- Dune
- Oscar Hijuelos
- The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
- Barry Hughart
- Bridge of Birds
- Paul Joannides
- The
Guide to Getting it On
- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- The Shadow of the Sun
- Guy Gavriel Kay
- Tigana
- Stephen King
- The
Stand
- The Dark Tower Series: (The Gunslinger,
The Drawing of the Three, The Wastelands,
Wizard
and Glass, Wolves of the Calla)
- Steve Kowit, editor
- The
Maverick Poets
- William Least Heat Moon
- Blue
Highways
- River-Horse
- Harper Lee
- To
Kill a Mockingbird
- Gregory Maguire
- Wicked
- Alberto Manguel
- A
History of Reading
- Ian McDonald
- Evolution's Shore
- China Mieville
- Perdido Street Station
- Walter Miller
- A
Canticle for Leibowitz
- Christopher Moore
- Bloodsucking
Fiends
- The
Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
- Practical
Demonkeeping
- James Morrow
- Bible
Stories for Adults
- City
of Truth
- Towing
Jehovah
- Only
Begotten Daughter
- Blameless
in Abaddon
- The
Eternal Footman
- Haruki Murakami
- Hard-Boiled
Wonderland and the End of the World
- George Orwell
- 1984
- Alan Paton
- Cry the Beloved Country
- Daniel Pinkwater
- Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars (in 5
Novels)
- Chaim Potok
- My Name is Asher Lev
- Richard Powers
- Galatea
2.2
- The
Gold Bug Variations
- Tim Powers
- The
Anubis Gates
- Terry Pratchett
- The Discworld Books (Small Gods, The Truth, Maskerade, etc)
- Tom Robbins
- Half
Asleep in Frog Pajamas
- Another
Roadside Attraction
- Jitterbug
Perfume
- Kim Stanley Robinson
- Red
Mars
- Green
Mars
- Blue
Mars
- Rudy Rucker
- Software
- Wetware
- Freeware
- Matt Ruff
- Sewer,
Gas & Electric
- Fool
on the Hill
- Mary Doria Russell
- The
Sparrow
- Will Self
- A
Quantity Theory of Insanity
- Great Apes
- Junk Mail
- Sharon Shinn
- Archangel
- Dan Simmons
- Hyperion
- Fall
of Hyperion
- Endymion
- Rise
of Endymion
- Art Spiegelman
- Maus
I and Maus II
- Neal Stephenson
- Cryptonomicon
- Snowcrash
- The
Diamond Age
- Interface (as Stephen Bury)
- Bruce Sterling
- Mirrorshades (edited by)
- Charles Stross
- Toast and Other Roasted Futures
- Vernor Vinge
- A
Deepness in the Sky
- A
Fire Upon the Deep
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Slaughter-House
5
- Cat's Cradle
- Daniel Evan Weiss
- The
Roaches Have No King
- Connie Willis
- Doomsday
Book
- Robert Anton Wilson
- The
Illuminatus! Trilogy with Robert Shea
- The
Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy
- Roger Zelazny
- Lord of Light
- Other
- Semiotext(e)
SF
- Principia
Discordia
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| Books I'm Currently Reading |
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"Reading is the most dangerous activity -- if
people read books, there is a distinct risk that they might start
to think. The consequences would be too terrible to imagine. There
are a million revolutions in just a handful of books" --
sborman@bach.helio.nd.edu
"Ballycumber(n): One of the six half-read books lying somewhere
in your bed." -- The Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams &
John Lloyd
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson
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| Books I Have Finished |
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The greatest gift is the passion for reading.
It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you
knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral
illumination. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Books read by year: 1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
My book log
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| Books I Have in My Stack to be Read |
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"Some books are to be tasted; others
swallowed; and some to be chewed and digested." --Francis
Bacon
- Kangaroo Notebook by Kobo Abe
- Drawing Down the Moon Margot Adler
- The Engineer by Neal L. Asher
- The Size of Thoughts Nicholson Baker
- Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard
- Against a Dark Background by Iain M. Banks
- Kepler by John Banville
- The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
- Eon by Greg Bear
- Digital Leatherette by Steve Beard
- Rim by Alexander Besher
- Count Geiger's Blues by Michael Bishop
- The Creators by Daniel J. Boorstin
- Lady of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The Transparent Society by David Brin
- Not the Only Planet by Damien Broderick
- Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
- Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
- Marcovaldo by Italo Calvino
- Bliss by Peter Carey
- A Model World by Michael Chabon
- In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin
- The Deep by John Crowley
- River out of Eden by Richard Dawkins
- Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delaney
- Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett
- Blackburn by Bradley Denton
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- 334 by Thomas M. Disch
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Three Muskateers by Alexander Dumas
- An Unusual Angle by Greg Egan
- Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh
- The Third Twin by Ken Follett
- The Magus by John Fowles
- The Shift by George Foy
- Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Relativity Explosion by Martin Gardner
- Perpetual Motion by Graeme Gibson
- Bully for Brontosaurus by Steven Jay Gould
- Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
- The Fourth Hand by John Irving
- In the Pond by Ha Jin
- Amerika by Franz Kafka
- Sailer's Song by Ken Kesey
- Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston
- Humpty Dumpty by Damon Knight
- The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem
- Stranger Things Happen by Kelly Link
- Iron Council by China Mieville
- The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
- The Pope's Rhinoceros by Lawrence Norfolk
- Operation Wandering Soul by Richard Powers
- V by Thomas Pynchon
- Frek and the Elixier by Rudy Rucker
- Was by Geoff Ryman
- Contact by Carl Sagan
- Permanence by Karl Schroeder
- Night Sky Mine by Melissa Scott
- Dorian by Will Self
- Wilt on High by Tom Sharpe
- Beast of the Heartland by Lucius Shepard
- Jenna Starborn by Sharon Shinn
- Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
- Downriver by Iain Sinclair
- The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Pastures of Heaven by John Steinbeck
- Flatterland by Ian Stewart
- Jack Faust by Michael Swanwick
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Steel Beach by John Varley
- The Collected Stories by Vernor Vinge
- The Atlas by William T. Vollman
- Denner's Wreck by Lawrence Watt-Evans
- Starfish by Peter Watts
- The Complete Stories by Evelyn Waugh
- Marabou Stork Nightmare by Irvine Welsh
- Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber
- Humans by Donald E. Westlake
- Islandia by Austin Tappan Wright
Books (and other
stuff) I know I want to get |
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| Books That Have Been Recommended to Me |
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""You want to know a Jew's idea of heaven?"
his father had replied... "It's an endless succession of long
winter nights on which we get paid a fair wage to sit in a warm
room and read all the books ever written.... Not just the famous
ones, no every book, the stuff nobody gets around to reading,
forgotten plays, novels by people you never heard of. However, I
profoundly doubt such a place exists." ... he began transforming
his immediate environment, making it characteristic of heaven. The
whole glorious span of Dewey's decimal system soon filled the
lighthouse, book after book spiraling up the tower walls like
threads of DNA, delivering intellectual to Murray's mammalian
cortex and wondrous smells to the reptilian regions below--the
gluey tang of a library discard, the crisp plebeian aroma of a
yard-sale paperback, the pungent mustiness of a thrift-store
encyclopedia." -- James Morrow, Only Begotten Daughter
- Einstein's Monsters by Martin Amis
- The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
- Gospel by Wilton Barnhardt
- Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth
- The Fringes of Reason edited by Stewart Brand
- Les Escales de la Haute Nuit by Marcel Brion
- Hitler, a Study in Tyranny by Allan Bullock
- Tabloid Dreams by Robert Olen Butler
- The Third Culture by John Brockman
- Theology for Non-Theologians by James Cantelon
- A Rumor of War by Philip J. Caputo
- Horn of Africa by Philip J. Caputo
- And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave
- History of the English Speaking Peoples by Winston Churchill
- Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen
- The Cornish Trilogy by Robertson Davies
- Niebla by Miguel de Unamuno
- The Three
Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Ubik, Collected Short Stories Vol. 5 by Philip K. Dick
- Stone Junction by Dodge
- Notes From Underground by Dostoyevsky
- Les Chants de Maldoror by Isidore Ducasse (Lautreamont),
- Darwin among the machines by Dyson
- American Tabloid by James Ellroy
- Days Between Stations and Arc d'X by Steve Erickson
- Music study in Germany by Fay
- La Ville Vampire by Paul Feval
- Killing time by Feyerabend
- The Magus by John Fowles
- Nothing in there, but it's exactly how things are by Bob Frissell
- Christopher Unborn by Carlos Fuentes
- "Constancia." by Carlos Fuentes
- Views from the Oldest House by Richard Grant
- I, Claudius by Robert Graves
- Daybreak on a Different Mountain by Colin Greenland
- The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key by Hammett
- The Chess Garden by Brook Hansen
- Magister Ludi by H. Hesse
- Narcissus and Goldmund by H. Hesse
- Almost anything by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Le Ton beau de Marot by Hofstadter
- French lessons by Kaplan
- Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
- Roots of Coincidence by Arthur Koestler
- Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things George Lakoff
- Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson
- Tinker, Tailer, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carre'
- The God Particle by Leon Lederman and Dick Teresi
- A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay
- Wordstruck by MacNeil
- Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester
- The Last Lion by William Manchester
- Time of the Assassins by Henry Miller
- Mother London by Michael Moorcock
- Beyond Good and Evil Friedrich Nietzsche
- A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
- In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
- Dreams of Reason by Heinz Pagels
- Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
- Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
- The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
- How the Mind Works by Pinker
- The Green Child by Herbert Read
- Trapped in the Cabinet by Robert Reich
- Flicker by Theodore Roszak
- The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
- The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
- Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
- Voltaire's Bastards by John Ralston Saul
- The Street of Crocodiles and
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
- The Sufis by Idres Shah
- Way Station by Clifford D. Simak
- Moo by Jane Smiley
- After Babel by Steiner
- Imagologies by Mark C. Taylor
- The Lost Traveller by Ruthven Todd
- Shibumi by Trevanian
- The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
- Exodus by Leon Uris
- A History of Knowledge by Charles Van Doren
- Messiah by Gore Vidal
- The Outline of History by H.G. Wells
- Star of the Unborn by Franz Werfel
- Aristoi, Hardwired, Voice of the Whirlwind
Metropolitan,City on Fire,Angel Station by Walter John Williams
- Sex Diary of Gerald Sorme by Colin Wilson
- Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
- M-81 by Stephen Wright
- the Chronicles of Amber by Zelazny
- Upanishads
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