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+ <h1>Adam's <del>2020</del> <ins>Quarantine</ins> Reading List</h1>
+
+ <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, hitmen,
+ also dames. Yet more good stuff.
+ </p>
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+ <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>
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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.
+ </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
+ a globe-trotting professor tracking down clues and his intelligent
+ programmer significant other. 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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