Reading List Updated
July 25th, 2007 by SplineGuy
I have made a few adjustments to my “Reading List” page (see tab above).
ADDED to future reads:
Fiction
- * Next by Michael Crichton
- * Fallen Dragon by Peter Hamilton
- Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Non-Fiction
- On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
* - I already own the books with the asterisk.
I haven’t been reading as much for leisure this year. Most of my time has been committed to textbooks and papers in bioinformatics. I did manage to finish Freakonomics and you can check out my review, if you are interested.
Cryptonomicon is one of my favorite books, but it is definitely NOT nonfiction. It’s a novel set in two different times with World War II and cryptology as the unifying thread. But again, it’s a novel. That may not matter, but I wouldn’t want you to be unpleasantly surprised.
oops. Thanks for the correction. That was an accident my part.
I’ve dropped Crichton from my reading list after State of Fear. Yes, it’s fiction. But it’s the most misleading piece of fiction that i’ve ever read. It’s left a bad taste in my mouth that won’t go away. It’s unforgivable, and he should be sent to Azkaban.