Revisiting a couple old posts -

 Back in November 2005 I posted these two posts:

Top 20 Geek Novels

Blatantly stolen from the Technology Blog. I do a little better on this list:

1. The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- Douglas Adams 85% (102)
2. Nineteen Eighty-Four -- George Orwell 79% (92)
3. Brave New World -- Aldous Huxley 69% (77)
4. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? -- Philip Dick 64% (67)
5. Neuromancer -- William Gibson 59% (66)
6. Dune -- Frank Herbert 53% (54)
7. I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov 52% (54)
8. Foundation -- Isaac Asimov 47% (47)
9. The Colour of Magic -- Terry Pratchett 46% (46)
10. Microserfs -- Douglas Coupland 43% (44)
11. Snow Crash -- Neal Stephenson 37% (37)
12. Watchmen -- Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons 38% (37)
13. Cryptonomicon -- Neal Stephenson 36% (36)
14. Consider Phlebas -- Iain M Banks 34% (35)
15. Stranger in a Strange Land -- Robert Heinlein 33% (33)
16. The Man in the High Castle -- Philip K Dick 34% (32)
17. American Gods -- Neil Gaiman 31% (29)
18. The Diamond Age -- Neal Stephenson 27% (27)
19. The Illuminatus! Trilogy -- Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson 23% (21)
20. Trouble with Lichen - John Wyndham 21% (19)

Bold = Read
Italics = Started 

Bold Italics = Read since original post

Books every college freshman should read

I am shamelessly stealing this list from Amazon.com. I dont know how many people will agree with it but see what you think do you agree with the author?

1. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
2. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Other Stories - Franz Kafka
3. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes - Edith Hamilton - Read
4. Siddartha - Herman Hess
5. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
6. The Hobbit or There and Back Again - JRR Tolkien - Read
7. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
8. Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - Started, I hated it
9. Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus - Read (4th Grade I might read it again)
10. The Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - I have started this book about 5 times I always make it to page 2.
11. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
12. Animal Farm - George Orwell -Read
13. 1984 - George Orwell -Read
I read 12 and 13 in 6th grade. Those books really helped convince me communism was evil.
14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
15. The Awakening and selected stories - Kate Chopin
16. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
17. Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - Read somewhere around 7th or 8th Grade I dont remember it well but I do remember it being hard to get thru.
18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain - Read - Boring
19. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
20. Absalom, Absalom - William Faulkner
21. Dubliners - James Joyce
22. The Brother Karamazov - Fydor Dostevsky
23. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. A Streetcar Named Desire - Tenessee Williams
25. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

 No point to this update really, other than to show I can actually read I guess.