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[stiggywigget]

Feel free to skip it.  I read it this year, and it wasn't really all that compelling.

I disagree, it was a pretty good book.  If it's on your reading list, don't skip it.

I've listened to some of it on audiobook. If nothing else, Malcolm Gladwell is a good storyteller.

I'm reading Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct at the moment. One of his older books, I guess. Pinker, like Gladwell, is good with anecdotes and keeping things lively.

[pandamonium]

I should read some Pinker this year. I wanted to last year, but never got around to it.

Oy, is this thread also going to be the list thread? If so, I've almost finish a book and would like to start my count.

[David E.]

I should read some Pinker this year. I wanted to last year, but never got around to it.

Oy, is this thread also going to be the list thread? If so, I've almost finish a book and would like to start my count.

Sure, why not.

[Parrot]

I've read Steven Pinker's "The Stuff Of Thought", and I highly recommend it. 

[Parrot]

Feel free to skip it.  I read it this year, and it wasn't really all that compelling.

I disagree, it was a pretty good book.  If it's on your reading list, don't skip it.

I've listened to some of it on audiobook. If nothing else, Malcolm Gladwell is a good storyteller.

I'm reading Steven Pinker's The Language Instinct at the moment. One of his older books, I guess. Pinker, like Gladwell, is good with anecdotes and keeping things lively.

And I should specify here that I don't necessarily agree with Gladwell.  In Outliers, he makes a good case that luck and persistence may be the real keys to success.   But I don't think he was able to successfully write off any role for inborn affinity.

But I don't have to completely agree with an author in order to enjoy the book.  In fact, I usually find it fun to nitpick about the areas where I disagreed with the author.

[pandamonium]

List for 2010:
1. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
2. Science Friction - Michael Shermer (reading)

[Black_Magic]

List for 2010:
1. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein!? What are you, a commie!?


Srsly though, that's a great book if you're reading for the lulz.

[ricree]

So is this going to be the actual list thread, or just discussion about it.  Either way, I'll try to actually keep mine updated this year.

[pandamonium]

List for 2010:
1. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein!? What are you, a commie!?


Srsly though, that's a great book if you're reading for the lulz.

actually, i came out of reading it having less respect for libertarians than i had going into reading it. but that's only because i'm a commie-pinko-fascist-liberal-hippie, and this in no way biases me against other political ideas.

[Benx6444]

List for 2010:
1. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein!? What are you, a commie!?


Srsly though, that's a great book if you're reading for the lulz.

actually, i came out of reading it having less respect for libertarians than i had going into reading it. but that's only because i'm a commie-pinko-fascist-liberal-hippie, and this in no way biases me against other political ideas.

Well....I mean....yes. Did you expect otherwise?

[Benx6444]

Books for 2010:

1 How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
2 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3  Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
4  1066 And All That (Literature/Arts)
5  The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
6  Salamander (The Tome of Fire Trilogy)
7  Six Silent Men...Book Three (101st Lrp/Rangers) (Book 3)
8  Legacy (Warhammer 40,000)
9  Blind (Warhammer 40,000)
10  Relentless (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Only War)
11  Planetkill (Warhammer 40,000)
12  The Last Chancers (Warhammer 40,000)
13  Necromunda 4: Junktion
14  Warhammer 40,000: Fire and Honour
15  Horus Heresy: Mechanicum
16  Crossfire (Warhammer 40,000)
17  A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
18  Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
19  The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
20 The Affluent Society
21 
22  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
23 Kolyma Tales (Twentieth-Century Classics)
24  The Open Society & Its Enemies 2 Volumes Vol 1 The Spell of Plato Vol 2 The high tide of prophecy Hegel and Marx
25  Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
26 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
27  The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
28  Individualism and Economic Order
29  A Matter For Men (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1)
30  A Day for Damnation (War Against the Chtorr, Book 2)
31  Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
32 The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
33  SEASON FOR SLAUGHTER (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 4)
34  The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
35  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
36  United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror
37  A Rage for Revenge (War Against the Chtorr, Book 3)
38  The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
39 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
40 The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
41  A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
42  The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
43  Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
44  Marxism: For and Against
45  Pop Internationalism
46  From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
47  Gulag: Life And Death Inside The Soviet Concentration Camps 1917-1990
48  Electric Eel Calling: a Record of an Artist's Association With a Scientific Expedition to Study the
49  Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
50 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
51  The Myth of the Robber Barons
52  Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
53 Friedman on Galbraith, and on curing the British disease
54  Journey to the Forbidden China
55  21st Century Capitalism
56  The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
57  Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order
58  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
59  Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
60  The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
61  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
62 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
63  Pop Internationalism
----------------------------------------[KINDLE]---------------------------------------------------
64 At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
65 Men Are Better Than Women [Lolz]
66 Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks
67 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
68 Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
69 Money-Driven Medicine
70 Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants [REALLY looking forward to reading this one]
71 Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution [*sigh*]
72 The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War
73 The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
74 Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
75 Why Evolution Is True
76 Only a Theory
77 One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy [Please don't castrate me! I'm reading it solely because of the anti-POMO stuff in it!]
78 The Theory of Moral Sentiments
79 Schaum's Outline of Calculus [don't start laughing too hard just yet, there's more to come...]
80 Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 3/E
81 Schaum's Easy Outlines - College Algebra
82 Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
83 Economics For Dummies
84 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics
85 Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry
86 Schaum's Outline of PreCalculus [...yes, I know I suck]
87 The Logic of Scientific Discovery
88 The Mind of the Market
89 Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
90 Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
91 Cancer Ward
92 Exposing the Real Che Guevara
93 Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
94 No Logo
95 What We Say Goes
96 Broken Earth
97 Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World [written in the 70's-80's]
98 Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
99 Wealth of Nations
100 The Communist Manifesto
101 Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
102 Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
103 A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
104 The Conscience of a Liberal
105 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
106 The Cash Nexus: Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000
107 The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition
108 The Shock Doctrine
109 Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
110 Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
111 Life at the Bottom: The Worldview that makes the underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
^Not counting the books on my kindle and the books I still have yet to get on Venezuela ^

So, yeah, I'll be happy if I finish 3 of these in the next year. *sigh* Fuck I'm such a lazy ass!
 

[David E.]

Books for 2010:

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1 How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
2 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3  Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
4  1066 And All That (Literature/Arts)
5  The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
6  Salamander (The Tome of Fire Trilogy)
7  Six Silent Men...Book Three (101st Lrp/Rangers) (Book 3)
8  Legacy (Warhammer 40,000)
9  Blind (Warhammer 40,000)
10  Relentless (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Only War)
11  Planetkill (Warhammer 40,000)
12 
13  Necromunda 4: Junktion
14  Warhammer 40,000: Fire and Honour
15  Horus Heresy: Mechanicum
16  Crossfire (Warhammer 40,000)
17  A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
18  Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
19  The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
20 The Affluent Society
21 
22  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
23 Kolyma Tales (Twentieth-Century Classics)
24  The Open Society & Its Enemies 2 Volumes Vol 1 The Spell of Plato Vol 2 The high tide of prophecy Hegel and Marx
25  Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
26 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
27  The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
28  Individualism and Economic Order
29  A Matter For Men (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1)
30  A Day for Damnation (War Against the Chtorr, Book 2)
31  Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
32 The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
33  SEASON FOR SLAUGHTER (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 4)
34  The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
35  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
36  United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror
37  A Rage for Revenge (War Against the Chtorr, Book 3)
38  The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
39 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
40 The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
41  A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
42  The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
43  Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
44  Marxism: For and Against
45  Pop Internationalism
46  From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
47  Gulag: Life And Death Inside The Soviet Concentration Camps 1917-1990
48  Electric Eel Calling: a Record of an Artist's Association With a Scientific Expedition to Study the
49  Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
50 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
51  The Myth of the Robber Barons
52  Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
53 Friedman on Galbraith, and on curing the British disease
54  Journey to the Forbidden China
55  21st Century Capitalism
56  The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
57  Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order
58  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
59  Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
60  The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
61  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
62 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
63  Pop Internationalism
----------------------------------------[KINDLE]---------------------------------------------------
64 At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
65 Men Are Better Than Women [Lolz]
66 Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks
67 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
68 Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
69 Money-Driven Medicine
70 Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants [REALLY looking forward to reading this one]
71 Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution [*sigh*]
72 The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War
73 The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
74 Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
75 Why Evolution Is True
76 Only a Theory
77 One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy [Please don't castrate me! I'm reading it solely because of the anti-POMO stuff in it!]
78 The Theory of Moral Sentiments
79 Schaum's Outline of Calculus [don't start laughing too hard just yet, there's more to come...]
80 Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 3/E
81 Schaum's Easy Outlines - College Algebra
82 Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
83 Economics For Dummies
84 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics
85 Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry
86 Schaum's Outline of PreCalculus [...yes, I know I suck]
87 The Logic of Scientific Discovery
88 The Mind of the Market
89 Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
90 Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
91 Cancer Ward
92 Exposing the Real Che Guevara
93 Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
94 No Logo
95 What We Say Goes
96 Broken Earth
97 Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World [written in the 70's-80's]
98 Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
99 Wealth of Nations
100 The Communist Manifesto
101 Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
102 Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
103 A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
104 The Conscience of a Liberal
105 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
106 The Cash Nexus: Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000
107 The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition
108 The Shock Doctrine
109 Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
110 Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
^Not counting the books on my kindle and the books I still have yet to get on Venezuela ^

So, yeah, I'll be happy if I finish 3 of these in the next year. *sigh* Fuck I'm such a lazy ass!

At least you have a daunting goal   If you have not read Moon is a Harsh Mistress before; you will love it.

[Gaffer]

Read in 2010 -
Billions and Billions by Carl Sagan
Elric of Melniboné by Michael Moorcock
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock

Reading -
N/A

[Black_Magic]

List for 2010:
1. Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein!? What are you, a commie!?


Srsly though, that's a great book if you're reading for the lulz.

actually, i came out of reading it having less respect for libertarians than i had going into reading it. but that's only because i'm a commie-pinko-fascist-liberal-hippie, and this in no way biases me against other political ideas.

Nothing like poorly put together arguments, quote mining, and general dishonesty to make a non-libertarian have less respect for libertarians!  Honestly, reading Shock Doctrine and having less respect for libertarians is like watching Expelled and having less respect for darwinists! XD

[Benx6444]

Books for 2010:

(click to show/hide)

1 How to Build a Dinosaur: Extinction Doesn't Have to Be Forever
2 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3  Dark Cosmos: In Search of Our Universe's Missing Mass and Energy
4  1066 And All That (Literature/Arts)
5  The Devil in Dover: An Insider's Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America
6  Salamander (The Tome of Fire Trilogy)
7  Six Silent Men...Book Three (101st Lrp/Rangers) (Book 3)
8  Legacy (Warhammer 40,000)
9  Blind (Warhammer 40,000)
10  Relentless (Warhammer 40,000 Novels: Only War)
11  Planetkill (Warhammer 40,000)
12 
13  Necromunda 4: Junktion
14  Warhammer 40,000: Fire and Honour
15  Horus Heresy: Mechanicum
16  Crossfire (Warhammer 40,000)
17  A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science
18  Beyond the Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture
19  The Good Society: The Humane Agenda
20 The Affluent Society
21 
22  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
23 Kolyma Tales (Twentieth-Century Classics)
24  The Open Society & Its Enemies 2 Volumes Vol 1 The Spell of Plato Vol 2 The high tide of prophecy Hegel and Marx
25  Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag
26 Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
27  The Nature and Logic of Capitalism
28  Individualism and Economic Order
29  A Matter For Men (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 1)
30  A Day for Damnation (War Against the Chtorr, Book 2)
31  Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations
32 The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
33  SEASON FOR SLAUGHTER (The War Against the Chtorr, Book 4)
34  The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
35  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
36  United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror
37  A Rage for Revenge (War Against the Chtorr, Book 3)
38  The Poverty of Historicism (Routledge Classics)
39 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
40 The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule
41  A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
42  The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia
43  Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant
44  Marxism: For and Against
45  Pop Internationalism
46  From the Gulag to the Killing Fields: Personal Accounts of Political Violence and Repression in Communist States
47  Gulag: Life And Death Inside The Soviet Concentration Camps 1917-1990
48  Electric Eel Calling: a Record of an Artist's Association With a Scientific Expedition to Study the
49  Contra Keynes and Cambridge: Essays, Correspondence (Collected Works of F. A. Hayek)
50 Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism
51  The Myth of the Robber Barons
52  Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)
53 Friedman on Galbraith, and on curing the British disease
54  Journey to the Forbidden China
55  21st Century Capitalism
56  The Age of Diminished Expectations, Third Edition: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
57  Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order
58  The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
59  Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge Classics)
60  The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality in the Twentieth Century
61  Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Revolutions in Science)
62 The Economics of Innocent Fraud: Truth For Our Time
63  Pop Internationalism
----------------------------------------[KINDLE]---------------------------------------------------
64 At Aboukir and Acre - A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
65 Men Are Better Than Women [Lolz]
66 Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks
67 The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
68 Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist
69 Money-Driven Medicine
70 Will the Boat Sink the Water?: The Life of China's Peasants [REALLY looking forward to reading this one]
71 Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution [*sigh*]
72 The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil War
73 The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism
74 Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
75 Why Evolution Is True
76 Only a Theory
77 One-Party Classroom: How Radical Professors at America's Top Colleges Indoctrinate Students and Undermine Our Democracy [Please don't castrate me! I'm reading it solely because of the anti-POMO stuff in it!]
78 The Theory of Moral Sentiments
79 Schaum's Outline of Calculus [don't start laughing too hard just yet, there's more to come...]
80 Schaum's Outline of Probability and Statistics, 3/E
81 Schaum's Easy Outlines - College Algebra
82 Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
83 Economics For Dummies
84 The Complete Idiot's Guide to Statistics
85 Schaum's Outline of Trigonometry
86 Schaum's Outline of PreCalculus [...yes, I know I suck]
87 The Logic of Scientific Discovery
88 The Mind of the Market
89 Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design
90 Secrets of Mental Math: The Mathemagician's Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks
91 Cancer Ward
92 Exposing the Real Che Guevara
93 Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate
94 No Logo
95 What We Say Goes
96 Broken Earth
97 Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World [written in the 70's-80's]
98 Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
99 Wealth of Nations
100 The Communist Manifesto
101 Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order
102 Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
103 A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960
104 The Conscience of a Liberal
105 Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power
106 The Cash Nexus: Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000
107 The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition
108 The Shock Doctrine
109 Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe
110 Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today
^Not counting the books on my kindle and the books I still have yet to get on Venezuela ^

So, yeah, I'll be happy if I finish 3 of these in the next year. *sigh* Fuck I'm such a lazy ass!

At least you have a daunting goal   If you have not read Moon is a Harsh Mistress before; you will love it.

Oh MAN, have I ever read the HELL out of that book! Thanks for the recommend though! I love it! My favorite version is the Audiobook version read by George Wilson.