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It seems like every decade or so a science fiction novel comes along that sends a lightning bolt through my nervous system: Philip Jose Farmer’s To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971). William Gibson’s Neuromancer (1984). Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash (1992). Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). And I recently discovered what my mind-blowing novel for the 2010s is: Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. http://boingboing.net/2011/08/15/ready-player-one-the-best-science-fiction-book-ive-read-in-a-decade.html
Rethinking Hemingway 50 years after his death Ernest Hemingway's two competing personas — the hard-living macho man and the bohemian writer whose style influenced many other authors — have something to teach today's men, as evidenced in some new books and an HBO film. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-hemingway-20110702,0,3840324.story
Favorite Rereads: Books You Read Over And Over Again. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/19/favorite-rereads_n_825362.html#s242713&title=The_Harry_Potter
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24325132/Suzuki-Beane
The Mystery of the Dragon Tattoo: Stieg Larsson, the World's Bestselling — and Most Enigmatic — Author Six years after his death, the facts of his life have morphed into myth: Was he murdered? Was he a spy? Was there really a girl with a dragon tattoo? http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/the-mystery-of-the-dragon-tattoo-stieg-larsson-the-worlds-bestselling-and-most-enigmatic-author-20110105
ian tregillis bitter seed. http://www.iantregillis.com/index.cfm?blog=164
How a brutal rape and a lifelong burden of guilt fuelled Girl with the Dragon Tattoo writer Stieg Larsson. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1299216/Stieg-Larsson-wrote-novel-The-Girl-Dragon-Tattoo-fuelled-brutal-rape.html
'To Kill A Mockingbird' Anniversary: On Its 50th Birthday, Why Is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' Being Attacked? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jesse-kornbluth/to-kill-a-mockingbird-ann_b_641473.html
slang http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/magazine/23Larsson-t.html?pagewanted=1&ref=world
The Fletch Novels http://www.gregorymcdonald.com/mysteries.html
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures Under Ground. http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/alice/accessible/introduction.html
Read Houdini's books via Google Books and Library of Congress. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/29/read-houdinis-books.html
Summer reading: Killer thrillers. Salon recommends four addictive novels to add intrigue and treachery to your beach book list. http://www.salon.com/books/summer_reading/2009/06/02/thrillers/index.html
sci-fi
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_Mistress
F me Ray Bradbury http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/6825/fuck-me-ray-bradbury
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IxOS4VzKM&feature=player_embedded
In their Tales from the KRYPT newsletter, one member of the KRYPTOS Society (“established in 1981 to promote interest in cryptoanalysis”) offers a summary of the group’s annual awards luncheon, held at Ft. Meade’s “Club Meade,” where prizes were doled out to winners of the annual KRYPTOS Literature Contest (top prize went to: “Fast Identification of Particular Features in a Specific Application Generated by a Particular Algorithm”). And then there’s the Crypto-Mathematics Institute (CMI), which seems kinda like the more exclusive version of KRYPTOS. The club’s manifesto includes six pages on entry-application requirements and the complex process of electing the club’s president, president-elect and executive director. They’ve also got a serious thing for word puzzles, with a fun nine-page test (some of which, they confess, was cribbed from the “Kryptos Kristmas Kwiz”) that includes such brain-busters as “Although it might ‘pain’ you to hear it, HEADACHE cannot follow. What word could follow and why?” Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/nsa-gets-geeky-after-dark-new-docs-show/#ixzz0rXgES0TL
Voyage to the heart of matter. http://www.atlas.ch/popupbook/photos.html
Philip K Dick's visionary journals to be published. Exegesis, Dick's 'personal laboratory for philosophical inquiry' to be issued in two volumes in 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/30/philip-k-dick-visionary-journals-published
Philip K. Dick, an uneasy spy inside 1970s suburbia. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-an-uneasy-spy-inside-1970s-suburbia.html
Philip K. Dick in the land of the John Birch Society. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/01/philip-k-dick-in-the-land-of-thejohn-birch-society.html
Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox. The Berkeley boho spent his final years in Orange County, which suited him fine, his daughter says. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-philip-k-dick24-2010jan24,0,3831068.story?page=1
The Man In The High Castle, By Philip K. Dick http://www.philipkdick.com/works_novels_mancastle.html
Authors
Ambrose Bierce, the anti-Santa. In his 'Devil's Dictionary,' Ambrose Bierce stripped all pretense from Americans' holiday of consumption: Christmas. But the nation's greatest cynic was hardly a Scrooge. http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-koenig-ambrose-bierce-and-christmas-20111220,0,7061408.story
The Real James Bond: Ian Fleming’s Commandos Reviewed. A new book relates the remarkable story of Ian Fleming’s daring commando group during World War Two and how they inspired the story of the greatest spy ever: James Bond. Michael Korda finds his own family story in its midst. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/19/the-real-james-bond-ian-fleming-s-commandos-reviewed.html
Hunter S. Thompson's Daily Routine… http://hstbooks.org/2008/09/17/a-day-in-the-life-of-hunter-s-thompson/
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: John Le Carre and reality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14846154
Hunter S. Thompson's Amazing Letter In Response To A Fan's Submission http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/16/hunter-s-thompson-letter_n_928491.html
e-books
http://www.freeinfosociety.com/media_index.php?cat=6
THE YOUNG MAN`S BOOK OF AMUSEMENT http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/ymboa/subjects.html
NASA Releases First Free E-Book, on History of X-15 Rocket Plane. Read More http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/nasa-e-books/#ixzz0eCjo1pS1 http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/ebooks/index.htm http://www.aeronautics.nasa.gov/current_docs.htm
American X-Vehicles: An Inventory, X-1 to X-45 http://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?Ntt=jenkins|jenkins+dennis&Ntk=AuthorList|AuthorList&Ntx=mode+matchall|mode+matchall&N=0&Ns=HarvestDate|1
kids
Girls gone Wilder. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/04/girls_gone_wilder/
http://thepowerfactory.com/stories.php
Daniel Pinkwater has put most of the text of his news kids' book The Yggyssey: How Iggy Wondered What Happened to All the Ghosts, Found Out Where They Went, and Went There online. http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/index.html http://www.theyggyssey.com/book/iggy1.mp3
Poetry
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One by Emily Dickinson. http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1151&pageno=10
88 books that shaped America
The Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America, sorted by title:
- "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain (1884)
- "Alcoholics Anonymous" by anonymous (1939)
- "American Cookery" by Amelia Simmons (1796)
- "The American Woman's Home" by Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869)
- "And the Band Played On" by Randy Shilts (1987)
- "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand (1957)
- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
- "Beloved" by Toni Morrison (1987)
- "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown (1970)
- "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London (1903)
- "The Cat in the Hat" by Dr. Seuss (1957)
- "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller (1961)
- "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger (1951)
- "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White (1952)
- "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine (1776)
- "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" by Benjamin Spock (1946)
- "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan (1980)
- "A Curious Hieroglyphick Bible" by anonymous (1788)
- "The Double Helix" by James D. Watson (1968)
- "The Education of Henry Adams" by Henry Adams (1907)
- "Experiments and Observations on Electricity" by Benjamin Franklin (1751)
- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury (1953)
- "Family Limitation" by Margaret Sanger (1914)
- "The Federalist" by anonymous/ thought to be Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay (1787)
- "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan (1963)
- "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin (1963)
- "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
- "Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
- "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)
- "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language" by Noah Webster (1783)
- "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck (1939)
- "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
- "Harriet, the Moses of Her People" by Sarah H. Bradford (1901)
- "The History of Standard Oil" by Ida Tarbell (1904)
- "History of the Expedition Under the Command of the Captains Lewis and Clark" by Meriwether Lewis (1814)
- "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis (1890)
- "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (1936)
- "Howl" by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
- "The Iceman Cometh" by Eugene O'Neill (1946)
- "Idaho: A Guide in Word and Pictures" by Federal Writers' Project (1937)
- "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote (1966)
- "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison (1952)
- "Joy of Cooking" by Irma Rombauer (1931)
- "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair (1906)
- "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman (1855)
- "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving (1820)
- "Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
- "Mark, the Match Boy" by Horatio Alger Jr. (1869)
- "McGuffey's Newly Revised Eclectic Primer" by William Holmes McGuffey (1836)
- "Moby-Dick; or The Whale" by Herman Melville (1851)
- "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass (1845)
- "Native Son" by Richard Wright (1940)
- "New England Primer" by anonymous (1803)
- "New Hampshire" by Robert Frost (1923)
- "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac (1957)
- "Our Bodies, Ourselves" by Boston Women's Health Book Collective (1971)
- "Our Town: A Play" by Thornton Wilder (1938)
- "Peter Parley's Universal History" by Samuel Goodrich (1837)
- "Poems" by Emily Dickinson (1890)
- "Poor Richard Improved and The Way to Wealth" by Benjamin Franklin (1758)
- "Pragmatism" by William James (1907)
- "The Private Life of the Late Benjamin Franklin, LL.D." by Benjamin Franklin (1793)
- "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane (1895)
- "Red Harvest" by Dashiell Hammett (1929)
- "Riders of the Purple Sage" by Zane Grey (1912)
- "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850)
- "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" by Alfred C. Kinsey (1948)
- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson (1962)
- "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats (1962)
- "The Souls of Black Folk" by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)
- "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner (1929)
- "Spring and All" by William Carlos Williams (1923)
- "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert E. Heinlein (1961)
- "A Street in Bronzeville" by Gwendolyn Brooks (1945)
- "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams (1947)
- "A Survey of the Roads of the United States of America" by Christopher Colles (1789)
- "Tarzan of the Apes" by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1914)
- "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (1960)
- "A Treasury of American Folklore" by Benjamin A. Botkin (1944)
- "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith (1943)
- "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)
- "Unsafe at Any Speed" by Ralph Nader (1965)
- "Walden; or Life in the Woods" by Henry David Thoreau (1854)
- "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes (1925)
- "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak (1963)
- "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum (1900)
- "The Words of Cesar Chavez" by Cesar Chavez (2002)