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Here you will find a list of books I have read and books I like a lot. You may like to read them too, you may not, but you get a better insight into what makes me tick. Although you will will be hard pressed to find what makes me tick by reading a few web site pages and the books I have read. Ask my wife, she still has no clue, and my parents and other family you ask? They gave up years ago, but encourage me as other than some strange plots, he is the most talented write that ever lived and they have in the past often bought me the new releases. And yes, the books are always better than the movies!

Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash

I was really moved in April of 2005 while listening to a Carl Sagan book,

Pale Blue Dot, he is a famous astronomer who died in 1996 (he wrote Cosmos and the book for the famous movie Contact) and is very interesting about the Earth, asteroids, the surrounding planets, space, the ozone, what may happen to us and exploring the solar system in layman's terms so even I can understand it! ;-) It also talks about how a new born has a 1 in 2,000 chance of being on the planet when a catastrophic asteroid hits, (flying and crashing in an airplane is a 1 in 2 million chance in case you were wondering,) and how scientists in the year 2005 will have a complete list of all asteroids larger than 1 KM in size and could impact the earth and possibly cause genocide of the human race. To me it is very interesting.


The trilogy Lord of the Rings and was very good, and a bit different from the movies, and very long, but a good read. I'd suggest it to anyone.


September 2005 I finished a book by Michael Crichton on government conspiracy's and global warming called State of Fear, and although fictional it makes you think. Look it up, it was a good read.

More to come when I can go through my books. OK, it is November 3rd, 2006 - I have not added updates to this in a long time. I have been listening to Pod Cast's more than books as of late, but need to get back to it as I love books. So one of my favorite (because it is fun, fantasy and makes me feel like a kid) is the:

Harry Potter series. Wow, that was fun. Give them all a try if you have not. It really brings you back to your childhood.

By Anne Rice, The Vampire Chronicles:
Interview with the Vampire
The Vampire Lestat
Queen of the Damned

The Mummy a.k.a. Ramses the Damned

The Feast of All Saints

Lasher

Servant of the Bones

Blood and Gold

Memnoch the Devil

The Tale of the Body Thief

The Witching Hour

Violin

Taltos

Merrick

Vittorio

Blood Canticle

The Vampire Armond

Pandora

Blackwood Farm

Tale of the Body Thief

Exit to Eden

Beauty's Punishment (Sleeping Beauty)

Beauty's Release

Robert A Heinlein's Citizen of the Galaxy

Robert A Heinlein's Strange in a Strange Land

Robert A Heinlein's Doublestar
Robert Ludlum - The Jason Bourne Novels:

The Bourne Identity

The Bourne Supremacy

Bourne Ultimatum

The Bourne Legacy

Bram Stroker's Dracula

Mary Shelly's Frankenstein

Clive Barker's Imajica

Clive Barker's Everville

Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story

Homer's Odyssey

Sun Tzu's The Art of War
StephenieMeyer.com | Twilight Series

Twilight

Twilight II - New Moon

Twilight III - Eclipse

Twilight IV - Breaking Dawn
I was so captivated by this youthful romance between a vampire and a young girl I had to read them all! I'll admit, it is more simple reading than say, Angels & Demons, more like Harry Potter, but it is very entertaining and after all, the intended audience is teenagers.
Stop laughing Cristian! He didn't like the movie and hates that I educate myself on an iPhone/iPod!

George Orwell's 1984

iCon Steve Jobs, the Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

Steve Wozniak's iWoz

Dexter Hawk's 25 Things to Say to the Interviewer

OK, this is crazy, my Stephen King collection is crazy long so I decided to give it it's own section.
April of 2009 I got back into reading/listening to some books as I am usually listening to Pod Casts. ;-)

OK, for those who know me this will be shocking as I am one of the biggest, most dedicated Stephen King fans, but I have not read all of his older books, so I am playing catch up on some of the older ones I have missed so my life is complete! ;-) I drive and commute a lot so I listen to them on my iPhone, previously on my Palm Treo 650 and my iPods. ;-)
More to come as I have an hour commute to work each way. Make it much more enjoyable!
Here are the rest!


By Stephen King:


Stephen King's The Gingerbread Girl

The Shining - April 2009

Christine May of 2009

Firestarter

The Dead Zone
Cycle of the Werewolf
Cujo
Storm of the Century

I bought Stephen Kings Lisey's Story. A love story! By King!! We shall see....very interesting. Thinking about joining Audible.com and downloading it for free. Would be good for me since I like audio Books to listen on my iPhone/iPod. ;-) More soon.

Rose Red

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

Four Past Midnight - Four Short Stories: Straight Up Midnight - The Intoduction;

One Past Midnight: The Langoliers

Two Past Midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden
Three Past Midnight: The Library Policeman
Four Past Midnight: The Sun Dog

Dream Catcher

The Green Mile

On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft

The Eyes of the Dragon

Cell

Riding the Bullet

IT

The Dark Half

Bag of Bones

The Dark Tower Series:

The Gunslinger

Drawing of the Three

The Waist Lands

Wizard and Glass

Wolves of the Calla

Song of Susannah

The Dark Tower

Desperation

The Regulators

The Stand

Everything's Eventual - 14 Dark Tales!
Autopsy Room
The Man in the Black Suit
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
The Death of Jack Hamilton
In the Deathroom

Little Sisters of Eluria
Everything's Eventual
L.T.'s Theory of Pets
The Road Virus Heads North
Lunch at the Gotham Cafe
That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is in French
1408
Riding the Bullet
Luckey Quarter

Hearts in Atlantis

Insomnia

Geralds Game

Misery

Different Seasons

Different Seasons - Hope Springs Eternal: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (really called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption) - The most satisfying tale of unjust imprisonment and offbeat escape since The Count of Monte Cristo.

Summer of Corruption: Apt Pupil - A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism.

Fall From Innocence: The Body or as some of you know it, Stand By Me - Four rambunctious young boys venture into the Maine woods and in sunlight and thunder find life, death, and intimations of their own mortality.
A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method - A tale told in a strange club about a woman determined to give birth no matter what.

Skeleton Crew - Short stories including:
The Mist
Here There Be Tigers
The Monkey
Cain Rose Up

Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
The Jaunt
The Wedding Gig
Paranoid: A Chant
The Raft
Word Processor of the Gods
The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands
Beachworld
The Reaper's Image
Nona
For Owen
Survivor Type
Uncle Otto's Truck
Morning Deliveries (Milkman #1)
Big Wheels: A Tale of the Laundry Game (Milkman #2) Gramma
The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet
The Reach


The Talisman

The Bachman Books - More Chilling Short Stories!

Rage (written under the name Richard Bachman)

The Long Walk
Roadwork

The Running Man

Needful Things

Night Shift - Chilling short stories:

Jerusalem's Lot (Salem's Lot)
Graveyard Shift
Night Surf
I Am the Doorway
The Mangler
The Boogyman
Gray Matter
Battleground
Trucks
Sometimes They Come Back
Strawberry Spring
The Ledge
The Lawnmower Man
Quitters, Inc.
I know What You Need
Children of the Corn
The Last Rung on the Ladder
The Man Who Loved Flowers
One for the Road
The Woman in the Room



Thinner

From a Buick 8


Nightmares and Dreamscapes has some great short stories:

Dolan's Cadillac
The End of the Whole Mess

Suffer the Little Children

The Night Flier
Popsy
It Grows On You
Chattery Teeth
Dedication
The Moving Finger
Sneakers
You Know They Got A Hell Of A Band
Home Delivery
Rainy Season

My Pretty Pony
Sorry, Right Number
The Ten O'Clock People
Crouch End
The House On Maple Street
The Fifth Quarter
The Doctor's Case

Umney's Last Case
Head Down
Brooklyn August

Dolores Claiborne

Rose Madder

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Blood and Smoke

Black House

It Grows on You

Chattery Teeth
Dedication
The Moving Finger
Sneakers
You Know They've Got a Hell of a Band
Home Delivery
Rainy Season
Sorry, Right Number
The Ten O'clock People
Crouch End
The House on Maple Street
The Fifth Quarter
The Doctor's Case
Head Down

Silver Bullet a.k.a. Cycle of the Werewolf

April of 2009 I got back into reading/listening to some books as I am usually listening to Pod Casts and keeping up with the latest tech news & gadgets! ;-)
Here are the books I read in the last 90 days:

Currently I am reading Neil Stephenson's Quick Silver.

Stephen King's Cycle of the Werewolf, a.k.a. Silver Bullet

Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? a.k.a. Blade Runner June 2009

Philip K Dick's Minority Report June 2009