Books I've read since the Summer of 2004

Submitted by joyce on Fri, 08/13/2004 - 10:07
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  1. Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Farcia Marquez
  2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  3. The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
  4. The Invisible Man by HG Wells
  5. Maurice by EM Forster
  6. A Seventh Child and The Law by Patrick Yu Shuk-siu
  7. I, Dreyfus by Bernice Rubens
  8. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
  9. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  10. Learning the Law by Glanville Williams
  11. Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
  12. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  13. If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien
  14. Lies my Teacher Told me: Everything your American history Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen
  15. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  16. The Catcher in the Rye
  17. Antigone by Sophocles
  18. The Awakening and other short stories by Kate Chopin
  19. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
  20. The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
  21. The Art of Living - Vipassana Meditation by S.N. Goenka
  22. The Outsider by Albert Camus
  23. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  24. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  25. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
  26. King Lear by Shakespeare
  27. How Would You Move Mount Fuji? by William Poundstone
  28. Introduction to Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
  29. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  30. Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson
  31. Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
  32. The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas
  33. How to be Good by Nick Hornby
  34. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
  35. A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
  36. The Rule of Four by Ian Cauldwell and Dustin Thomason
professor08/15/2004


The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is probably my all-time favourite. Unfortunately he only ever wrote the one novel.

lbangs02/23/2005

If you don't mind, tell me about the Poundstone book. I have been a fan of his since reading Big Secrets back in junior high.

Thanks!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

joyce02/24/2005

How Would You Move Fuji? is a very interesting book about the new trend of tech and business-related job interviews: brainteasers and puzzles. In the book, Poundstone explores the origins of this sort of interview, the logic behind them, and best of all, the book is filled with puzzles and elaborate answers at the back! I haven't gone through every single puzzle, but I finished most of the book in two days, it's that entertaining. Also, I suppose it'll be a good interview prep book if you're going for an interview at Microsoft!

lbangs02/24/2005

Thanks! He has always been curious concerning puzzles and logic, and he writes extremely clearly and well about the subjects, so I bet it is a terrific read. I will have to check it out!

Again, thanks!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs