An attempt to keep track of some of what goes into my head.
This page has become quite long, so I'm front-loading it with
links:
Index by Author
Index by Title
All (361)
Noticed (72)
Started (2)
Finished (259)
You may also be interested in my LibraryThing collection, which is largely the same information in a more Web 2.0 form.
Books on the shelf, waiting to be read
Presumably, this is the second book in the Abarat series.
This is actually my copy from when I was studying Cog Sci in school, finally returned to me. Maybe I'll finish it, this time.
More a reference book than a read.
Sent to me by my father, who didn't read it before sending it. Looks suspiciously like New Age Pop Science.
Started. Was underwhelmed. May try again someday.
Grabbed my father's copy after some people recommended it. I'll probably never read this. I started it, and felt almost immediately like I needed to start diagramming the characters and the relationships.
I'll probably never actually read this.
Browsed at Ken and Heather's. Neat geometric approach to body construction.
An amazing work. Requires more concentration than I routinely muster, though, so I'm only making progress in fits and starts.
An expansion of the paper in HOPL2. I need to return this to Paul. I'll never get around to actually reading it.
This looks like a good first book in Topology, which I've meant to study since my interest in math hit full steam. I made it as far as I could go on just reading the definitions. I'm going to have to start working the problems if I'm to make more progress.
Started. Stalled.
Recently (okay... in June 2001) reread Dune, and was even more impressed than the first time. I remember the series going sharply downhill after that, but I think I'll give it at least a try.
What's with all of the Amazon.com links? Have I sold out? Is my once-pristine and ad-free webspace now just another fishmongery? Well, yes. Money talks, after all. On a whim, I joined the Amazon Associates program. If you click those links and end up buying one of these books, I get a cut. I expect that, over time, this will translate into dozens of cents of profit for me. Amazon has done something very interesting by exposing their catalog to outside searches (and the folks behind the Net::Amazon perl module have made it quite easy to make use of that). I figure that, since they're providing the cover art for all of these books in an easy-to-use form, the least I can do is link back to them.
