Some of these I've read in the past year. Some I intend to in the next.
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THE ICE-SHIRT: A Novel
William T. Vollmann
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A wonderfully complex weaving of myth, history and travelogue into a tapestry of hallucinogenic richness. |
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EINSTEIN'S DREAMS
Alan P. Lightman
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An absolutely delightful, thought provoking novel. Bears reading and re-reading. Small volume with short chapters. There is no excuse for not reading it. |
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GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond
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Pulitzer Prize winning book that proports to explain much about why the world is the way it is. I haven't read it yet and am looking forward to it. |
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THE ETERNAL FRONTIER: An Ecological History of North America and it's Peoples
Tim Flannery
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I read a NY Times Book Review of it and was interested. Haven't read it yet. |
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THE LAST PLACE ON EARTH
Roland Huntford
(Previously published as SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN)
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I am in the early stages of a project based on this story. It's a wonderful story and an interesting lesson on the nature of history. |
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ISHMAEL
Daniel Quinn
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A controversial book. I know people who love it and people who hate it. I like parts of it but can't decide what I feel about the entire thing. Interesting perspective on the nature of the human species, in any case. |
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