• Reading list
• Favorite authors
• Featured texts
• Favorite poems

Reading List

What I'm currently reading

• Making Money by Terry Pratchett
• The Frank Book by Jim Woodring
• Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor

What I've recently just read

• Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton
• Sandman Vol 1: Preludes and Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling
• Memories of Silk and Straw by Junichi Saga
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein
• The Amber Chronicles by Richard Zelazny
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Ilium and Olympos by Dan Simmons
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

Upcoming books I want to read

• The Yiddish Policeman's Union by Michael Chabon
• Prolegmena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
• Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary William Flake
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anny Lamott
• The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater
• I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter

Favorite Authors

• J. Krishanmurti
  Think On These Things
  The First and Last Freedom

• Robert M. Pirsig
  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  Lila

• Philip K. Dick
  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  A Scanner Darkly
  (various short stories)

• Neal Stephenson
  Zodiac
  Snow Crash
  The Diamond Age
  Cryptonomicon
  

• P. G. Wodehouse
  Imperial Blandings
  Heavy Weather
  Pigs Have Wings

• Michael Ende
  The Neverending Story
  Momo

• Olaf Stapledon
  The Starmaker
  First and Last Men

• Dan Simmons
  THe Hyperion Cantos

Featured texts

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• The Core of the Teaching of Krishnamurti
• Truth Is a Pathless Land
• Jefferson on "intellectual property" and monopoly

(I'm not really a Libertarian, but I'm keeping the following around in case they are useful to anyone.)

• The Stock Market Crash of 1987 (P.J. O'Rourke)
• Speech Given to Libertarians(P.J. O'Rourke)
• Forward to "A Modern Man's Guide to Women"(P.J. O'Rourke)
• Contribution to "Sixty Things a Man Should Know"(P.J. O'Rourke)
• "Thoughts on the Prospect of a Sixties Revival"(P.J. O'Rourke)
• Dedication from "Give War a Chance"(P.J. O'Rourke)