Successive Reads
20 July 2008 – 1:06 am
While it may take longer to get through them, I have a tendency to read a handful of books at the same time. Mixing it up helps me digest the fact-packed books a little easier and it forces me to be more engaged because I have to remember what I read a few days earlier.
With my reading queue in flux it’s unusual for me to finish multiple books in succession, but over the last week I’ve finished three of them:
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- This one has been on my list for awhile now… the book maybe thirty-plus years old but it’s still a great read.
- Expands upon Darwinism with excellent examples of genes and there effect on the cells they inhabit and the world around them.
- Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge by Jean Noël Jeanneney
- Interesting read and offered some insight on the massive stream of information on the internet and it’s effects on individual cultures.
- While I understand the author’s point and some of his concerns, he offers no solutions and seems to want universal information to happen magically everywhere at the same time in multiple independent forms.
- It did stress however the importance of designing features that can be customized to fit the cultural style of individual locales.
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- One of those rare books that is both depressing and inspirational at the same time.
- It will definitely make you pause to put life in perspective.
Here are some others that are in my reading queue:
- The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein
- On The Wealth of Nations by P. J. O’Rourke
- How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff
Any suggestions on what I should add next?
