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authorAdam T. Carpenter <atc@53hor.net>2021-04-21 22:57:39 -0400
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- <h1>Adam's <del>2020</del> <ins>Quarantine</ins> Reading List</h1>
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- Hammett, Dashiell. <em>The Maltese Falcon</em>
- <p>
- Excellent noir detective novel. Stolen treasure, murder, dames, all
- the good stuff.
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- Chandler, Raymond. <em>The Big Sleep</em>
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- More good noir detective work. Cool cars, alcohol, mansions, hit
- men, also dames. Yet more good stuff.
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- 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.
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- 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
- >
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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>
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- <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).
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- 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>
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- <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.
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- 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.
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