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You know what a shit-rope is? It is a rope covered in shit.

books read this year.

2013
Books:
Sam Harris: Free Will
1,000s+: Bible KVJ
Carl Sagan: Demon-Haunted World
Francis Collins: The language of god
Richard Dawkins: The blind watch maker
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath
Christopher Hitchens: Arguably (various essays)

Plays:
Oscar Wilde: The importance of being Ernest. (book club)

2014
Books:
Malcolm Gladwell: David and Goliath was....ok.
Orwell: 1984 (book club)
Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot
Goethe : Faust 1 (book club)
Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five.  So it goes. (book club)
Lowry: The Giver (book club)
Franklin: Ben Franklin Autobiography.
Augustine of Hippo: The Confessions. Autobiography. 300-350ish
Benvenuto Cellini: Autobiography. 1500-1571
Louie Zamparini: Unbroken
Yes please: Amy Poehler
John Woolman: Personal Journal.  1720ish
Daniel Kahnman: Thinking, Fast and Slow (slow nighttime reading)

Plays:
Shakespeare: The Tempest (reading with dad).

Music?
Beau Soir, Debussey

2015
Steinbeck: Of mice and men (reread)
Gladwell: Blink
Emerson (b. 1803):

• The American Scholar
• An Address
• Man the Reformer
• Self-Reliance - (probably the best english essay I've ever read)
• Compensation

Roth: Divergent

Weir: The Martian

Walking Dead Compendium #1.
Tolkin: The Hobbit (reread)
HG Wells: Time Machine.
Hochschild: King Leopold's Ghost.
Paine: Common Sense
Behe: Darwin's Black Box

Arthur C. Clarke: The Nine Billion Names of God

2016
Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist
Peter Thiel: Zero to One

2017
Doris Kearns Goodwin: team of rivals
Ron Chernow: Washington: A life
Atul Gawande: Being Mortal

Papers

• Cuckoo Filters

2021

Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale

Jeanine Cummins: American Dirt

Ayn Rand: Anthem (Reread)

Roger Williams: The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

William Finnegan: Barbarian Days

Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary

Erich Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Tolkin: The Hobbit (Henry read)

Paulo Coelho: The Alchemist (Henry read)

C.S. Lewis: The lion, the witch, and the Wardrobe (Henry read)

Marc Brettler: How to read the jewish bible

Josephus: The Jewish War

James Pritchard: The Ancient Near East

Eusebius: The History of the Church

Dale Martin: New Testament History and Literature

Frank Herbert: Dune

Jonathan Bush: Where Does It Hurt?

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451

Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front

Plays:
Shakespeare: Hamlet

life views

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything.

RF