Books I've read this summer
In full:
"Chaos: Making a New Science", by James Gleick
"The Elegant Universe", "The Fabric of the Cosmos", by Brian Greene
"The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament", Edmund P. Clowney
"Ishmael", by Daniel Quinn
"Blue Like Jazz", "Searching for God Knows What", by Donald Miller
"Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand
"Ender's Game", by Orson Scott Card
"Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad
"A Severe Mercy", by Sheldon Vanauken
Genesis - II Kings, Titus (like, the Bible)
In part (half or so):
"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics", "Introduction to Elementary Particles", by David Griffiths
"A Brief History of Time", by Stephen Hawking
To be read in the next two weeks:
"The Christ of the Prophets", by O. Palmer Robertson
I'm going to miss reading when school starts. It is going to be slightly more difficult to read as much then, unfortunately.
"Chaos: Making a New Science", by James Gleick
"The Elegant Universe", "The Fabric of the Cosmos", by Brian Greene
"The Unfolding Mystery: Discovering Christ in the Old Testament", Edmund P. Clowney
"Ishmael", by Daniel Quinn
"Blue Like Jazz", "Searching for God Knows What", by Donald Miller
"Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand
"Ender's Game", by Orson Scott Card
"Heart of Darkness", by Joseph Conrad
"A Severe Mercy", by Sheldon Vanauken
Genesis - II Kings, Titus (like, the Bible)
In part (half or so):
"Introduction to Quantum Mechanics", "Introduction to Elementary Particles", by David Griffiths
"A Brief History of Time", by Stephen Hawking
To be read in the next two weeks:
"The Christ of the Prophets", by O. Palmer Robertson
I'm going to miss reading when school starts. It is going to be slightly more difficult to read as much then, unfortunately.
posted by Abe at 4:40 PM
11 Comments:
Did you like "Heart of Darkness?"
and I'm definitely going to miss the amount of reading time I have during the summer when school starts, too.
i know what you mean - school puts a damper on the fun of reading. fortunately in my graduate program, the required reading is generally what i would want to spend my time on anyway. i highly recommend the humanities!
How was a brief history of time?
Ender's Game! Isn't that one great?
I also own The Elegant Universe. I read about a third of it before I ran out of summer last year, and I have been wanting to pick it up again but keep getting busy. I like it, though. I'm sure you understand it better than I do, but he writes fairly clearly, so dummies like me can mostly follow what he's talking about. It helped me a lot (that is to say, made me look like a smarty-pants) when we started talking about relativity in Astronomy. :)
I will miss the reading too. I won't post my list, though, because it's not nearly as respectable as yours!
"Heart of Darkness" was really good, and "A Brief History of Time" seemed a little outdated after reading Brian Greene's stuff (it was written in the '80s), which sort of covered most of the stuff in there in at least some detail. Last night, I also bought "The Science of God", by Gerald Schroeder (see earlier post comments from post concerning Ishmael and incorporating evolution into intelligent design) and "Relativity", by Albert Einstein (that should look cool on my bookshelf, eh?).
That's uh, quite the list you have there.
Try reading something that isn't about philosophy, physics, or theology. I promise it won't make you dumber. (Unless you read Nicholas Sparks. His books will make you dumber.)
I'm just leaving you a comment to give you something to read when you're "compulsively checking blogs every 8 minutes or so.."
: )
see you in a couple days.
haha, good one.
hey, did you like ender's game? it's one of my brother's all-time favorites , and he was wondering if you liked it or not.
yes, "Ender's Game" was excellent.
I can't believe you made it through Heart of Darkness voluntarily.
A Brief History of Time is excellent and I would recommend it to anyone, although I haven't read The Elegant Universe. Also, the secondary (or even primary) purpose of A Brief History of Time is philosophical.
I have also been recommended Ender's Game. Is it worth it?
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