nice thread! Always good to see what other people read.
My list for 2014:
- Stoner - John Williams (you described this one well Bill)
- A good man is hard to find - Flannery O'conner (highly recommended! A
number of short stories; very human. It will rattle your cage)
- Hollywood - Charles Bukowski (alcohol-infused; well-written; fun;
Hollywood)
- The legend of Sleepy Hollow and other short stories- Washington Irving
(proudly purchased at the LOC, great great stories. Transports you to his
time.)
- Biography of Benjamin Franklin (very inspiring man, he did amazing stuff
and always worked on improving himself as a person; he even dissected all
world religions to make a list of shared virtues.)
- Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand (still struggling through this one. It's
interesting to find out first hand what her controversial views are all
about. It's definitely worth the read)
- A number of Dutch books: de Zonnewijzer, de Kroongetuige (Maarten 't
Hart); Sneeuw (Bernlef); Eindelijk oorlog (Herman Koch); VSV (Leon de
Winter).
- a Flemish book: De verlossing - Willem Elschot (really funny, about a
feud between the village shop owner and the new priest)
- more stuff, but can't remember right now
Jaap
2014-12-11 2:27 GMT+01:00 William Denton <[log in to unmask]>:
> On 9 December 2014, Andromeda Yelton wrote:
>
> Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did
>> you
>> read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too?
>>
>
> + Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel; memoirs of
> a mathematician who grew up and trained in the Soviet Union. Explains a
> lot about the Langlands program. + The Circle, Dave Eggers. No
> masterpiece, but an updated 1984, set in the company that succeeds Google
> and Facebook and all the others.
> + Stoner, by John Williams. Life of an American professor of English.
> Quiet and powerful.
> + Can't We Talk About Something More Please?, by Roz Chast. Cartoonist
> from the New Yorker; this is a graphic memoir about her parents growing old
> and dying. Very funny in some parts, very sad in others, always good.
> + The Peripheral, William Gibson. 100 pages in I had no clue what was
> going on. 200 pages in things fell into place and it (or I) took off like a
> jet.
> + Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, by
> Gabrille Coleman. An anthropologist explaining the history and workings of
> Anonymous. Includes the most gripping IRC logs I've ever read.
> + The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters. Old country house, post-WWII in
> England, is falling apart, family has no money, local doctor gets involved
> ... and strange things begin to happen. + The Org Manual (
> http://orgmode.org/org.html), where I always learn something new about
> this wonderful tool.
>
> Bill
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