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+$title = "Adam's <del>2020</del> <ins>Quarantine</ins> Reading List";
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+?>
+
+<ul>
+	<li>
+		Hammett, Dashiell. <em>The Maltese Falcon</em>
+		<p>
+			Excellent noir detective novel. Stolen treasure, murder, dames, all
+			the good stuff.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Chandler, Raymond. <em>The Big Sleep</em>
+		<p>
+			More good noir detective work. Cool cars, alcohol, mansions, hit
+			men, also dames. Yet more good stuff.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Lowry, Lois. <em>The Giver</em>
+		<p>
+			Second time I got to read this. Fantastic book just the same as
+			before. Movie was totally carried by the fact that Jeff Bridges is
+			the Giver. Super thought-provoking too.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Rowling, J.K.
+		<em>Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber
+			of Secrets, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry Potter
+			and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix,
+			Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly
+			Hallows</em>
+		<p>
+			Yep, all of them. I've read some of them multiple times but this was
+			the first time I read them all to completion myself. My dad used to
+			read them to me, so I only "listened" to the last couple. Always
+			great, always better than the movies. And I pick up more and more
+			forward- and backward-looking references when I read them in a row.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Miller, Rand, Miller, Robyn, Miller, David.
+		<em>Myst: The Book of Atrus, Myst: The Book of Ti'ana</em>
+		<p>
+			The great first two books in the Myst novel series. My favorite is
+			the second, it gives all of the meat-and-potatoes lore behind the
+			D'ni, The Art, and The Fall that I always wanted. The first is good
+			too, and I recommend book-and-game nerds read
+			<em>Myst: The Book of Atrus</em> after playing Myst: Masterpiece
+			Edition and before playing Riven: The Sequel to Myst.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Miller, Rand. <em>Myst: The Book of D'ni</em>
+		<p>
+			Probably my least favorite of the three Myst novels. It's
+			fascinating and has lots of dark themes like enslavement. I
+			recommend reading this one after Riven and before Myst III: Exile.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Paulsen, Gary. <em>Hatchet</em>
+		<p>
+			The last time I read this was probably in the sixth grade, and it
+			was one of the few books I was really glued to then. It's still a
+			great story about survival, nature, getting mauled by moose, etc.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Grisham, John. <em>Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer</em>
+		<p>
+			Also a re-read for me. I kind of sort of wanted to be a lawyer
+			growing up and this book was the "I can do it too!" book. It's still
+			a good crime, evidence, trial style lawyer book. I need to read the
+			sequels.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Wells, H.G.
+		<em>The Time Machine, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man</em>
+		<p>
+			These are three of my favorite H.G. Wells novels.
+			<em>The Time Machine</em> is super weird though and now that I'm
+			re-reading it I'm picking up on a ton of Communist undertones.
+			<em>Dr. Moreau</em> is fantastic. I love all books that take place
+			on a desert island and this one really creeps me out with the
+			doctor's surgically-humanized animals. <em>Invisible Man</em> is so
+			short it's worth reading on a weekend just to know what it's about
+			(spoiler: a man who is invisible).
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Stevenson, Robert Louis. <em>Treasure Island</em>
+		<p>
+			Dude, I watched Treasure Planet when I was a kid and I was really
+			into it for like a month. Now I finally got to read the real thing
+			and there's a reason why this is one of those perfect examples of
+			literature. It's the
+			<em>absolute perfect, truly American story</em>
+			about pirates, treasure, and sailing ships.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Dick, Harold G.
+		<em>The Golden Age of the Great Passenger Airships: Graf Zeppelin and
+			Hindenburg</em>
+		<p>
+			I'm a huge rigid airship junkie. They're freaking awesome, I wish
+			they were still around. I hate flying, and not because of the act of
+			being in the air but because airships make it seem more comfortable,
+			luxurious, and adventurous than a half a bag of peanuts, motion
+			sickness, and recycled oxygen. If you're at all interested in
+			Zeppelins and you can only read one book, this is the
+			<em>only</em> book worth reading. It chronicles the author's
+			experiences actually flying on and operating Graf Zeppelin and
+			Hindenburg, their flight logs, how they worked, how they were flown,
+			and the history behind their creation and demise. It's awesome.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+	<li>
+		Brown, Dan. <em>Digital Fortress</em>
+		<p>
+			Great story, I actually listened to this audiobook while painting
+			our house right around the start of 2020. It's an awesome story with
+			an intelligent, sleuthy programmer and her globe-trotting professor
+			significant other tracking down clues. It's got supercomputers and
+			hackers and espionage and murder and viruses and it would be perfect
+			if I knew nothing about cryptography or computing in general.
+		</p>
+	</li>
+</ul>