14/02/00
A Brief History of Everything , Ken Wilbur
(1996)
I read this book
21/01/00 A Midsummer
Night's Dream , William Shakespeare
Story is a little weak, but the fantastic charachter of the play is a
real pleasure.
29/02/00 The Chaos Balance , L. E. Modesitt (1998)
14/03/00 Soul of Fire , Terry Goodkind (2000)
20/03/00 Passions D'Amour , Anne-Marie Villefranche (2000)
22/03/00 The Netrinium Alchimist: Confilt (Part II) , Peter Hamilton (1998)
28/03/00 A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power , Stephen Donaldson (1993)
29/03/00 Dune:House Atreides , Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson (1999)
02/04/00 The Human Factor , Graham Greene (1978)
08/04/00 Dubia , Robin Moore (1976)
21/04/00 Spring Snow , Yukio Mishima (1965)
22/04/00 Bluebeard , Kurt Vonnegutt (1987)
06/05/00 Taoist Secrets of Love: Cultivating Male Sexual Energy , Mantak Chia and Micheal Winn (1984)
20/05/00 This Day All Gods Die: The Gap into Ruin , Stephen Donaldson (1997)
29/05/00 The Naked God , Peter Hamilton (2000)
30/07/00 The Eyes of Light and Darkness , Ivan Cat (1996)
10/08/00 The Best American Erotica 1993 ed. Sussie Bright (1993)
09/08/00 Foundation's Triumph , David Brin (2000)
22/08/00 Swallowing Clouds , Lillian Ng (1999)
26/08/00 Beowulf's Children , Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes, Larry Niven (1999)
05/09/00 Game of Thrones , George Martin (1997)
02/11/00 A Clash of Kings , George Martin (1999)
18/11/00 On the Basis of Morality Arthur Schopenhauer (1839)
01/12/00 The Arabian Nights' translated by Richard Burton
07/01/01 Rhapsody: Child of Blood Elizabeth Haydon (2000)
11/01/01 Ender's Shadow Orson Scott Card
20/01/01 The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language John Mayard Smith and Eors Szathmary (1999)
26/01/01 Singular Rebellion Saiichi Maryua (1990)
12/02/01 The Diarly of Anais Nin 1931-1934 , Anias Nin (1969)
13/03/01 The Republic , Plato (~380 B.C.E.)
02/04/01 Lords of the Seventh Swarm , Dave Wolverton (1997)
08/04/01 The Gilded Chain : A Tale of the King's Blades , Dave Duncan (1999)
10/04/01 Children of the Mind , Orson Scott Card (1997)
20/04/01 Legacy ,Greg Bear (1999)
27/04/01 Origins of Life Freeman Dyson (1985)
04/05/01 The Siege of Arrandin Marcus Herniman (1999)
30/04/01 Philosophy of Sex and Love Alan Soble (1998)
24/06/01 Herodotus: The Histories Herodotus ( 500 B.C.)
26/06/01 Glory Season David Brin (1996)
28/06/01 King's Dragon (Crown of Stars Vol 1) Kate Elliot (1998)
03/06/01 The Runelords: The Sum of All Men (Book 1) David Farland (1999)
07/08/01 Destiny: Child of Earth Elizabeth Haydon (2000)
13/08/01 Cosmic Trigger II Down to Earth Robert Anton Wilson (1996)
05/09/01 Brotherhood of the Wolf (The Rune Lords Book 2) David Farland (2000)
30/09/01 Dune: House Harkonnen Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson (2000)
15/10/01 Prince of Dogs (Crown of Stars, Vol 2) Kate Elliot (1999)
19/10/01 Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Socities Jared Diamond (1999)
28/10/01 The Burning Stone (Crown of Stars 3) Kate Elliot (2000)
02/11/01 Child of Flame (Crown of Stars 4) Kate Elliot (2001)
07/11/01 Black Hawk Down Mark Bowden (1999)
15/11/01 A Storm of Swords George Martin (2000)
20/11/01 Fellowship of the Ring J. R. R. R> Tolkien (1954)
23/11/01 Lord of the Fire Lands : A Tale of the King's Blades Dave Duncan (2000)
25/11/01 Sky of Swords : A Tale of the King's Blades Dave Duncan (2001)
15/12/01 Shadow of the Hegemon Orson Scott Card (2001)
20/12/01 Destiny: Child of Sky Elizabeth Haydon (2001)
16/01/02
Dune: House Corrino Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson (2001)
After finishing this book, the last prequel to Dune I went on to read
Dune again. I was slightly dissapointed by the inconsistencies I found
in Dune these begin: Jessica claims to have known the Suk doctor for
six years, but he is on Caladan before Paul is born so it would be more
like 16 years (maybe he was gone for 10 years?), In her conversation
with Reverend Mother Monhiam, Jessica says she had a boy thinking
he could be the Kwisatz Haderach, yet in House Corrino we find that
she didn't even know about the breeding program when she had Paul.
Finally it is made clear that the Duke bought her from the Sisterhood
yet in the prequels she is given as a gift. Otherwise the book was
pretty
good with tieing up the stories in the previous two books, and setting
the stage for why the Emperor would work with the Harkonens against the
Atredias.
19/01/02 Tractatus Logico Philosophicus Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922)
16/01/02 Dune Frank Herbert (1965)
02/02/02 Dune Messiah Frank Herbert (1969)
04/02/02 Children of Dune Frank Herbert (1976)
05/02/02 Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorists Benjamin Netanyahu (1995)
08/02/02
The Universal Computer Martin Davis (2000)
Leibniz, Boole, Frege, Cantor, Hilbert, Godel, and Turing the story of
the development that led to the Universal Turing machine. The book
combines the mathatmatics with biographical information about the
individuals who basically created the mathamatical foundation of
logic. I learned about Frege who Wittingstien refers to but who I was
basically unfamilliar with. An interesting is how Boole, Frege and
Cantor
worked on problems that most people thought were uninteresting at the
time.
17/02/02 God Emperor of Dune Frank Herbert (1981)
18/02/02 Heritics of Dune Frank Herbert (1984)
22/02/02 Chapterhouse Dune Frank Herbert (1984)
25/02/02
Winter's Heart (The Wheel of Time book 9) Robert Jordan (2002)
Well at least I can say that this book is better then the last few in
the series. There seems to be a little bit of plot development, and the
eternally repeating dialogue between the main charachters is kept far
below the painful levels of previous books. It is hard to feel
satisfied with reading parts of 4 or 5 almost unrelated stories, but
this book differs from the past few by making it seem that possibly in
another book or two the plot lines will finally converge. I couldn't
help thinking that the series would have come accross much better, if
the interweaving plot lines had been left as seperate stories. The key
to pulling off this kind of effort is for the reader to get one whole
story in the book and then bits and pieces of other ones can be
acceptable (The Crown of Thornes series is doing an excellent job with
this). Jordan's attempt to progress an equal amount in each plotline
just leaves the reader flustered.
26/02/02 Saturn's Race Larry Niven and Steven Barnes (2001)
30/03/02 Timeline Michael Crichton (2000)
05/04/02 Garden of Rama Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee (1984)
08/05/02 The Nano Flower Peter F. Hamilton (1998)
20/05/02
The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins (1976)
26/05/02 A Quantum Murder Peter F. Hamilton (1998)
02/06/02 The Two Towers J. R. R. Tolkien (1954)
25/06/02
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Stephen
J. Gould (1989)
11/07/02
Cryptonomicon Neal Stephenson (2000)
22/07/02
Mindstar Rising Peter F. Hamilton (1993)
15/08/02
The Blind Watchmaker Richard Dawkins (1987)
02/10/02
Macho Sluts Pat Califia (1989)
22/10/02
A History of the Arab Peoples Albert Hourani (1992)
15/11/02
Requiem for the Sun Elizabeth Haydon (2002)
19/11/02
Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card (2002)
04/12/02
Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad Gordan Thomas
(1999)
06/12/02
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two
Great Philosophers David Edmonds, John Eidinow (2001)
08/12/02
Kiln People David Brin (2002)
15/01/03
The Return of the King J. R. R. Tolkien (1963)
02/02/03
Noah's Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event That
Changed History Walter Pitman and William Ryan (2000)
26/02/03
Crossroads of Twilight Robert Jordan (2003)
Not expecting much from a new book in this series I actually thought on
a chapter by chapter basis this book wasn't bad and the story line
seemed to make a little progress. However, each subplot is only dealt
with for a few chapters so that at the end of the book there has still
been little motion. It may be possible that when the series is finally
finished one can rip out the few chapters of each subplot and combine
them in 12 new books that may actually be decent stories. Why Robert
Jordan can't see this as a more reasonable way to write the series is
beyond me.
08/03/03
War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a
Promised Land Anton La Guardia (2003)
This is a fairly good overview of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that
presents a decent summary of the differing views without trying to
include every possible detail. It's coverage of Israelies however is
much more thorough then the coverage of Palestinians, which if fine but
the book should be thought of as a history of the Israelies which
includes sections on Palestinians as they are an integral part of the
situation
in Israel. However, I did notice a certain subtle racism which often is
evident in coverage of Isreali-Palestinian issues where Isrealies are
held
to a certain western moral standard while Palestinians are not. An
example
of this is the authors rightful criticism of the general Isreali
populations inability to come to terms with their responsibility for
creating the
Palestinian refugee problem yet no similar standard of self-reflection
is even concieved of for the Palestinians. My interpurtation of this is
that this standard of accountability is only held up to Western
peoples.
14/03/03
Dune: The Butlerian Jihad Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson (2002)
25/03/03
Cuba : A Travelers Literary Companion (#8) Ann Bardach (Editor)
(2002)
07/04/03 The
Gathering Storm (Crown of Stars book 5) Kate Elliot (2003)
24/04/03 Fallen
Dragon Peter Hamilton (2002)
27/04/03 The
Fifth Sorceress Robert Newcomb (2002)
21/05/03 On
Secret Service John Jakes (2001) CD
29/05/03
Dragon's Fallen Sun (Dragonlance: The War of Souls, Book 1)
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (2001)
04/06/03 A
Kiss of Shadows Laurell K. Hamilton (2003)
23/06/03
Picoverse Robert A. Metzger (2003)
25/06/03
Beyond the Pale (The Last Rune, Book 1) Mark Anthony (1999)
03/07/03
The Sword and the Olive: A Critical History of the Israeli Defense Force
Martin Van Creveld (2002)
06/07/03
Idoru William Gibson (1997)
06/07/03
Sappho's Leap Erica Jong (2003)
05/08/03
Dragons of a Vanished Moon (Dragonlance: War of Souls, Book 3)
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (2003)
15/08/03
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. Catherine Millet (2003)
23/08/03
The Dante Club Matthew Pearl (2003)
08/09/03
Ilium Dan Simmons (2003)
06/11/03
The Keep of Fire Mark Anthony (2000)
10/11/03
The Dark Remains Mark Anthony (2001)
13/11/03 Naked
Empire Terry Goodkind (2003)
23/11/03 The
Pillars of Creation Terry Goodkind (2003)
28/11/03 Isle
Witch Terry Brooks (2001)
04/12/03
Antrax Terry Brooks (2002)
08/12/03
The Machine Crusade Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson (2003)
02/01/04
Morgawr Terry Brooks (2003)
01/02/04
The Arab Mind Rapheal Patai (1983)
26/02/04 The
Illuminatus Trilogy Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
(2003)
28/02/04 Bitten
Kelly Armstrong (2003)
25/03/04 Junky
William S. Burroughs (1953)
08/04/04 New
Spring (A Wheel of Time Prequel Novel) Robert Jordan (2004)
11/04/04 For
Love and Glory Poul Anderson (2004)
20/04/04 All
The King's Men Robert Warren (1946)
26/04/04 Fool's
Errand (The Tawny Man, Book 1) Robin Hobb (2002)
27/04/04 The
Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad Fareed Zakaria (2004)
29/04/04 Golden
Fool (The Tawny Man, Book 2) Robin Hobb (2003)
31/04/04 AJarka
Ruus (High Druid of Shannara, Book 1) Terry Brooks (2003)
15/05/04 Fool's
Fate (The Tawny Man, Book 3) Robin Hobb (2004)
20/06/04 The
Future of Life Edward Wilson (2004)
In truth I wasn't very impressed by this book. I thought the
arguments
were old and unorginal. I disliked the attempts to write as if
the
author was a differnt charachter and the story telling aspects of the
book.
There were some interesting numbers quoted, particular for the
value
of natural habitats, but not enough of these. Also the argument
for
saving every type of every creature amounted to the authors interest,
which
is not going to convince the skeptic. The unexpected consequences
of
and causes of the loss of certain species was interesting.
29/06/04 The
Curse of Chalion Lois McMaster Bujoki (2002)
30/06/04 Palladin
of Souls Lois McMaster Bujoki (2003)
07/07/04 Mage
of Clouds (The Cloudmages Book 2) S. L. Farrell (2004)
13/07/04 Lords
of Snow and Shadow (Tears
of Artamon Book 1)
Sarah Ash (2004)
05/08/04 Holder
of Lightning (The Cloudmages Book 1) S. L. Farrell (2004)
17/08/04 Beyond
Infinity Gregory Benford
(2004)
19/08/04 The
Darkness that Comes Before (Prince of Nothing Bk 1) R. Scott Bakker
(2004)
23/08/04 Adventures
of the Artificial Woman Thomas Berger (2004)
28/08/04 Smoke
and Shadows Tanya Huff (2004)
12/09/04 Narcissus
in Chains (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 10) Laurell K. Hamilton
(2002)
21/09/04 Pattern
Recognition William Gibson (2003)
29/10/04 Guilty Pleasures
(Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 1) Laurell K. Hamilton
(1995)
31/10/04 Circus of the Damned
(Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 3) Laurell K. Hamilton
(1995)
01/11/04 The Laughing Corpse
(Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 2) Laurell K. Hamilton
(1994)
03/11/04 The Lunatic Cafe
(Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 4) Laurell K. Hamilton
(1996)
07/11/04 Seduced by Moonlight
Laurell K. Hamilton (2004)
09/11/04 The Battle of Corrin
Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson
(2004)
13/11/04 Elegy for a Lost Star
Elizabeth Haydon (2004)
16/11/04
Impossible Odds: A Chronicle of the King's Blades
Dave Duncan (2004)
18/11/04
Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 7)
Laurell K. Hamilton (1998)
28/11/04
Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the
Right
Al Franken (2003)
20/12/04
The Jaguar Knights: A Chronicle of the King's Blades
Dave Duncan (2004)
29/12/04
The Runes of the Earth (The Last Chronicle of Thomas Covenant, Book 1)
Stephen R. Donaldson (2004)
29/01/05
Cerulean Sins (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 11)
Laurell K. Hamilton (2003)
31/01/05
Fire Logic
Laurie J. Marks (2002)
01/02/05
Earth Logic
Laurie J. Marks (2004)
03/02/05
The Killing Dance (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 6)
Laurell K. Hamilton (1997)
05/02/05
Obsedian Butterfly (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 9)
Laurell K. Hamilton (2000)
16/02/05
Bloody Bones (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 5)
Laurell K. Hamilton (1997)
??/02/05
Blue Moon (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter 8)
Laurell K. Hamilton (1999)
25/03/05
Soul Mountian
Gao Xingjian (2000)
08/04/05
Gai-jin
James Clavell (1994)
01/05/05
Waiting for the Barbarians
J. M. Coetzee (1982)
10/05/05
Pride of Kings
Judith Tarr (1994)
25/05/05
The Lair of Bones (Rune Lords book 4)
David Farland (2005)