Like shoes, discarded books give a strong indication of the composition of one’s personality, at least through the process of elimination. I’m not sure what books Imelda Marcos has thrown out over the years, but here are some of mine that are on the junk heap. Some are quite good. Others are not. I have no use for either kind. Maybe you want some. Maybe some are, in fact, yours. If you claim it, it’s yours.
MultiMedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality, by Randal Packer and Ken Jordan
Summerland, by Michael Chabon
Hippocampus, Volume 15, Number 7, 2005
Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell
Identity Theft, The Silver Lake Edition
Identity Theft, by Robert Hammond
Coercion, by Douglas Rushkoff
Culture Inc., by Herbert Schiller
Double Cross, by Michael Barak
What I Did Wrong, by John Weir
The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem
The Book of Philip K. Dick
The Blue Nile, by Alan Moorehead
Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design, by George, Batra, et al.
Cognitive Psychology, by Medin & Ross
Will They Ever Trust Us Again?, by Michael Moore
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Leycka
Dialectic of Enlightenment, by Horkheimer and Adorno
How Much Is Enough?, by Alan Durning
Guitar Electronics for Musicians
What's Next? by Eamonn Kelly and Peter Leyden
- BunnyWith: My Book of a Thousand Bunnies
- Hackley School 1990 Yearbook
- Biological Psychology, Third Edition, by Rosenzweig, Breedlove, and Leiman
- Hackley School 1991 Yearbook
- Hackley School 1992 Yearbook
- C Arts Journal
- Cyberia, by Douglas Rushkoff
- On Decontstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- Turning Tables, by Heather & Rose MacDowell
- The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Concepts of Modern Art, Third Edition
- Bandits, by Eric Hobsbawm
- Essential McLuhan, ed. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone
- Composing Interactive Music, by Todd Winkler
- The Invisibles
- Dune, the Official Comic Book
- Finite and Infinite Games, by James Carse
- Zagat New York City Restaurants 2008
- Zagat New York City Restaurants 2007
- This is the Salvation Army
- Pagan Babies, by Elmore Leonard
- Frank O’Hara Early Writings
- Love Kills, ed. Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg
- Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert T. Kiyosaki
- Media Virus, by Douglas Rushkoff
- Time Out – California
- The Social Life of Information, by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
- The GhostWriter, by Philip Roth
- RE Search: William S. Burroughs, Throbbing Gristle, and Byron Gysin
- Orality & Literacy, by Walter J. Ong
- The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster
- Time Out – 1000 Films to Change Your Life
- Smart Mobs, by Howard Rheingold
- 14 Peck Slip, by Ed Dee
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This is obviously an extention of amos childhood penchant for collecting things obssessivly. Shoes books precise catalogs of object possessions. I am sure the amostle gains great satisfaction for these lists.
Yes, that’s most likely right. Luckily technology has caught up with my childhood predilections. People don’t change. Do you want any books? Are you interested in a list of books remaining on the shelf?
I am interested in:
Finite and Infinite Games, by James Carse
Bandits, by Eric Hobsbawm
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, by Marina Leycka
Dialectic of Enlightenment, by Horkheimer and Adorno
Please explain what the first 3 are. the last one i think i know.
Finite and Infinite Games, if I remember correctly, is a treatise on the value of infinite games – or challenges that have no end. It’s a mid-brow financial analyst’s guide to zen. But a quick read, so take it and chuck it if you don’t like.
Bandits is a semi-academic cross-cultural analysis of banditry – who are they, how does society represent them, what are their lives realistically like, are there common traits across cultures and time, etc…
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is fiction about a family whose father receives a mail order bride. I enjoyed it, but Nina thought it relied on tried stereotypes.
i’ll take them all except the ukranian tractors. I thought it was non fiction.
You coming to the beach tomorrow?
I have no bicycle. what time?
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