Books and Other Readings
A collection of things once (or twice) read, or things that I want to read, in no certain order.
Computing
“Most people, at one time or another in their careers as adults, reenact the molting of their adolescences.”
— Tracy Kidder – The Soul of a New Machine
Culture
Men are more easily made than Machinery,
Stockings will fetch higher than lives;
Gibbets on Sherwood will heighten the scenery,
Shewing how Commerce, how Liberty thrives.
— Lord Byron – An Ode to the Framers of the Frame Bill (Excerpt)
(As read in Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant)
Stuff I Have Not Yet Read
But would really like to. No spoilers please.
- Ursula K. Le Guin – The Lathe of Heaven
- Mark Z. Danielewski – Only Revolutions
- Georges Bataille – Story of the Eye
- Herman Melville – The Confidence-Man
- Joris-Karl Huysmans – Là-bas
- Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
- Michael Chabon – The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- Radek John – Memento
- Comte de Lautréamont – Les Chants de Maldoror