{"id":2155,"date":"2004-08-25T19:05:55","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2004-08-25T19:05:55","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T19:05:55","slug":"book-binge-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/book-binge-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Binge 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"

[](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/misc\/book-binge.jpg)<\/p>\n

I went a little nuts at the used book store today, finally took a chunk out of my gigantic [Amazon wishlist](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/brain\/wishlist-print), and simultaneously assured myself that no, I will never finish my unread books pile.<\/p>\n

New on the stack are:<\/p>\n

1. [Liar’s Poker](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0140143459\/bobdesigns-20\/), Michael Lewis<\/p>\n

2. [Sphere](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345353145\/bobdesigns-20\/), Michael Crichton<\/p>\n

3. [Atlas Shrugged](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451191145\/bobdesigns-20\/), Ayn Rand<\/p>\n

4. [The Stranger](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679720200\/bobdesigns-20\/), Albert Camus<\/p>\n

5. [The Dharma Bums](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0140042520\/bobdesigns-20\/), Jack Kerouac<\/p>\n

6. [The Mind of a Mnemonist](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0674576225\/bobdesigns-20\/), AR Luria<\/p>\n

7. [Coercion](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/157322829X\/bobdesigns-20\/), Douglas Rushkoff<\/p>\n

8. [The Gift](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0394715195\/bobdesigns-20\/), Lewis Hyde<\/p>\n

9. [The Circle of Innovation](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0679757651\/bobdesigns-20\/), Tom Peters<\/p>\n

10. [The Trial](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0805209999\/bobdesigns-20\/), Franz Kafka<\/p>\n

11. [Autobiography](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0807059099\/bobdesigns-20\/), Mohandas Gandhi<\/p>\n

12. [Bobos in Paradise](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684853787\/bobdesigns-20\/), David Brooks<\/p>\n

13. [Metaphors We Live By](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0226468011\/bobdesigns-20\/), George Lakoff<\/p>\n

14. [McLuhan for Beginners](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0863162312\/bobdesigns-20\/)<\/p>\n

15. [Web Site Usability](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/155860569X\/bobdesigns-20\/), Jared Spool – [my review](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/brain\/books\/web-site-usability)<\/p>\n

16. [The Art of Happiness](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1573221112\/bobdesigns-20\/), The Dalai Lama<\/p>\n

17. [Lila](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0553299611\/bobdesigns-20\/), Robert Pirsig<\/p>\n

18. [Skipping Towards Gommorah](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0525946756\/bobdesigns-20\/), Dan Savage<\/p>\n

19. [Why We Buy](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0684849135\/bobdesigns-20\/), Paco Underhill<\/p>\n

20. [Three Scientists and Their Gods](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0060972572\/bobdesigns-20\/), Robert Wright<\/p>\n

21. [The Clustered World](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0316929204\/bobdesigns-20\/), Michael J. Weiss<\/p>\n

I’m not sure yet how to approach this stack, but am open to suggestions. A little bit each day? Which one first? Any not worth the time? Take a week off of work and read nonstop? I’d love to finish them, but it will take some serious work.<\/p>\n

I’ll annotate this list soon with more detail on the books and why I’m interested in them. For now, it should keep me sufficiently accountable to get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/misc\/book-binge.jpg) I went a little nuts at the used book store today, finally took a chunk out of my gigantic [Amazon wishlist](http:\/\/ryskamp.org\/brain\/wishlist-print), and simultaneously assured myself that no, I will never finish my unread books pile. New on the stack are: 1. [Liar’s Poker](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0140143459\/bobdesigns-20\/), Michael Lewis 2. [Sphere](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0345353145\/bobdesigns-20\/), Michael Crichton 3. [Atlas Shrugged](http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0451191145\/bobdesigns-20\/), Ayn Rand…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[301],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-binge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-yL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}