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Rules of Attraction, by Bret Easton Ellis

Just started it yesterday and I'm about 75 pages in, book is outrageous.

The History of Medieval Socio-Economics

The diary of Anne Frank

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i am interested in telephones, so i got a telephone book.
there is absolutely no information about telephones in it. i explored every page and there is no reference to telephone design or anything!! !

then i realized it was a just a book of peoples telephone numbers, so i went to look at the table of contents to find what page the index was on.
there was no table of contents, so i looked manually through the 2,700 pages for the index.

there is no index!! !!

even though i was disappointed that it did not teach me about telephones, i thought at least it may prove useful as a guide to what the telephone numbers of people were.

but how in the hell do i know what page anyone's phone number is on if there is no index?

it is an example of the inanity of the world i live in !.

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I am currently reading a travel guide of New England that I checked out from the library a few weeks ago.

The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asperger's Syndrome by William Stillman

Yes I'm fascinated to know everything about my disorder.

Wow. It's been ages since I've started this thread, now it's grown to a respectable size.

Yay. Anyways, I just got finished reading The Alchemyst by Michael Scott. Very good read, kind of filled the void left in me by the completion of the Harry Potter series. Going to read The Magician as soon as it's returned to the library.

Not reading it yet, but I'm hopefully getting it this weekend:

I'm slowly reading Plato's The Symposium.

Let's see, I've been slowed considerably by spending half my free time on Warband.

Hand of Mercy (Ni Claydon), I approached with some trepidation as it's self-published and I know the author, but putting the awful proofreading or lack thereof aside, it was good. Especially the dialogue.

The Forest of Boland Light Railway (BB), real nostalgia trip. Haven't read it since I was a child, rereading it set my pseudo-feminist hackles rising.

Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron, Dracula Cha Cha Cha (Kim Newman), which is basically The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen crossed with the World of Darkness, only pre-dating the first by a decade. Very good series, though a bit hectic in its name-dropping.

Fungus the Bogeyman (Raymond Briggs), more nostalgia. Excellent book, I missed most of the references way back when.

Seeds of Earth (Michael Cobley) soft space opera with a recommendation from Iain Banks. Ongoing.

Next up a couple of the Dune prequels that Quatermass mentioned and The Wizard of Boland, sequel to the above, which I haven't read before.

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Here's a hint, chelloveck.

Still haven't read Clockwork Orange. I need to read it some day.

Burgess, Borges.


me:
Finished:
Accidental Branding.
how brands were created by regular (non marketing) people. Burt's bees, Columbia sportswear, The Art of Shaving, Clifs Bar, etc.
Easy to read but way wayy too shallow, doesn't offer any interesting stuff. I found Outliers (by Malcolm Gladwell) 1000% times better.

Reading:
Made to Stick
How to create stuff that gets remembered. Good for advertising, Marketing, design, spots, teaching, science, etc.
Very good book, highly recommended!

Also reading:
The innovator's solution
Very good book, highly recommended!

Also "reading":
The art of looking sideways by Alan Fletcher
On amazon it says "A guide to visual awareness". This book is HUGE in all senses, every margin has some idea, some pic, some data, some drawing or some sketch, some thought, some tidbit, A LOT. It has so much stuff crammed in every single page, margin and footnote that I don't know if I'll ever finish it
A lot of love and care was put into this book, and it shows. I LOVE this book
RIP mr. Fletcher.

Next on queue:
The introvert advantage
DFW's Lobsters book
Stephen King - On writing
Napoleon Hill - Think and grow rich
and a couple more I'm forgetting...

I plan to buy: Euclid's Window : The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow and also The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock. I´m going to a bookshop with my occopational therapist tomorrow. I´m enjoying these popular science books. I´m really depressed right now so I can´t read anything! But I´m stocking these books that I like so I can read them in the future!