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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> |