Light Reading

The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends

A Very Trippy Miscellany

by Adriano Sack and Ingo Niermann

This is my secondary read of the moment. I like to always have another book to read, for when I get tired of my primary book. Ususally it's a graphic novel or something with lots of pictures in it, something funny or non fiction. These usually take me a lot longer to read because I keep them in my car and sometimes forget about them for weeks or even months at a time.

2008

Books I read this year.

1. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
2. White Noise by Don DeLillo
3. MASH by Richard Hooker
4. The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
5. Naked by David Sedaris
6. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
7. The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by Anne Rice
8. The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
9. Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker
10. Mind Swap by Robert Sheckley
11. Confessions of a Crap Artist by Philip K. Dick
12. Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress by Shelly Mazzanoble
13. Dress your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
14. Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson
15. Myth-Gotten Gains by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
16. Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl
17. Interzone by William S. Burroughs
18. End Zone by Don DeLillo
19. Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski
20. High Culture by William Novak
21. The Crack in Space by Philip K. Dick
22. Public Enemy #2 by Aaron McGruder
23. Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog by Kitty Burns Florey
24. The Making of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman
25. Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees & Other Creatures Unique to the Republic by Robert Lanham
26. Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker
27. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
28. Barrel Fever by David Sedaris
29. Flow my Tears the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick
30. Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft
31. The Cosmic Puppets by Philip K. Dick
32. The Hipster Handbook by Robert Lanham
33. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell by Tucker Max
34. Radio Free Albemuth by Philip K. Dick
35. Celebration by Harry Crews

Currently Reading

Celebration by Harry Crews

2007

Books I read in '07.

1. The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker
2. The Green Millennium by Fritz Leiber
3. No Plot? No Problem!* by Chris Baty
4. Blood Curdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft
5. Mad Proffessor by Rudy Rucker
6. Saucer Wisdom By Rudy Rucker
7. Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire
8. The Sinful Ones by Fritz Leiber
9. A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
10. Writing on Drugs* by Sadie Plant
11. Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
12. Cthulhu 2000 edited by Jim Turner
13. Ships to the Stars by Fritz Leiber
14. Red Dwarf: Better Than Life by Grant Naylor
15. Tetherballs of Bougainville* by Mark Leyner
16. Count Zero by William Gibson
17. Options by Robert Sheckley
18. The Borribles by Michael DeLarrabeiti
19. Dimension of Miracles by Robert Sheckley
20. The Zen of Fish by Trevor Corson
21. The Big Time by Fritz Leiber
22. Neuromancer by William Gibson
23. Immortality Inc. By Robert Sheckley
24. Burning Chrome by William Gibson
25. The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs
26. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
27. Star wars Tales Vol. 4
28. The 10th Victim by Robert Sheckley
29. That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
30. Citizen in Space by Robert Sheckley
31. The Sushi Economy by Sasha Issenberg
32. Star Wars Tales Vol. 5
33. Concrete Island by J.G. Ballard
34. The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain
35. Star Wars Tales Vol. 6
36. The Wizard's Dilemma by Diane Duane

*indicates book that I started prior to this year and finished reading this year.

2006

Books I read in '06.

1. Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
2. Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker
3. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
4. Toothpaste For Dinner by Drew
5. Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg
6. Shroud of the Thwacker by Chris Elliott
7. Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
8. Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
9. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time By Mark Haddon
10. Perelandra by C.S. Lewis
11. Swords of Lankhmar by Fritz Leiber
12. The Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
13. Swords Against Wizardry by Fritz Leiber
14. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
15. Ozma of Oz by L. Frank Baum
16. Swords in the Mist by Fritz Leiber
17. Sweet Myth-tery of Life by Robert Asprin
18. Star Wars Tales Vol. 1
19. Swords and Ice Magic by Fritz Leiber
20. Star Wars Tales Vol. 2
21. Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
22. Star Wars Tales Vol. 3
23. Drift House by Dale Peck

2005

List of books I read in '05.

1. The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus by Harry Harrison
2. The Dreamfields by KW Jeter
3. The Hacker and the Ants by Rudy Rucker
4. Spaceland by Rudy Rucker
5. Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker
6. Fuzzy Dice by Paul DiFilippo
7. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
8. The Salmon of Doubt by Douglas Adams
9. Myth-Taken Identity by Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye
10. Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart
11. The Mulching of America by Harry Crews
12. High Wizardry by Diane Duane
13. The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis
14. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
15. The Horse and His Boy by C. S. Lewis
16. Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis
17. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C. S. Lewis
18. The Silver Chair by C. S. Lewis
19. The Last Battle by C. S. Lewis
20. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski
21. A Wizard Abroad by Diane Duane

A Blog is Born

For the last few years I've been keeping track of the books I've read. Recently I'd been thinking that I'd like a more formal place to chronicle and discuss my reads. This is that place.