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Have read it multiple times. I can't resist comparing it to the affairs in America under Trump + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - A Christmas Carol.md b/Reading List - A Christmas Carol.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29c331e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - A Christmas Carol.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - A Christmas Carol +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: A Christmas Carol + +## Author: Charles Dickens + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-12-02 + +I wanted to read the original. + +END NOTE: Written in old(er) english, I'm glad that I'd seen so many adaptations of the story and just as glad the edition I read had plenty of footnotes. I was surprised at how many direct quotes from the book have survived in the many film adaptations I've seen. As Tiny Tim has opined: "God Bless Us, Every One!" + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - A Clockwork Orange.md b/Reading List - A Clockwork Orange.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..22c9ebd --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - A Clockwork Orange.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - A Clockwork Orange +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: A Clockwork Orange + +## Author: Burgess, Anthony + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange) + +Love the Movie, love the book. For different reasons. I really liked the 21st chapter (Alex's Denouement). While it almost seemed like a "too-quick-wrap-up" of the events of the preceding chapters, it rings a bit true how young men one day just "grow up" and leave childish things behind. I also respect Kubrick's take in the movie that there can be no denouement. Some men are born evil and remain that way their entire lives. + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America.md b/Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d93517 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - A Very Stable Genius - Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America + +## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker + +**Started**: 2020-02-24 + +**Finished**: DNF + +I can't believe I'm reading a book about politics, but it's really more about current events. UPDATE: after he was acquitted during his impeachment trial I gave up on this book. Not that's it's not true (all of it), but because there's new, more damning information released on a daily basis. diff --git a/Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md b/Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b91c3f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten + +## Author: Fulghum, Robert + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Almost Interesting.md b/Reading List - Almost Interesting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e3e781 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Almost Interesting.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Almost Interesting +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Almost Interesting + +## Author: David Spade + +**Started Reading**: 2017-12-18 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-01-08 + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24805706-almost-interesting) + +I've always liked David Spade when I saw him on SNL and in movies. But I kinda forgot about him after his popularity waned. This was by no means a best-seller, but I think he knew that with the title of the book. +I enjoyed this book a lot. His narrative style (“He writes like he talks!”) was a little unnerving early on, but the stories about his rise to fame at Saturday Night Live and the behind the scenes peeks at the show were really good. +Especially good if you remember the incidents he refers to (and I do) like the Chris Farley/Patrick Swayze Chippendale's sketch and pretty much the best parts of Tommy Boy. +A fun, easy read that left me hoping to see more of him and wishing him the best in the future. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3).md b/Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c47431 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3).md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3) +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3) + +## Author: [[Scott Meyer]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-05-11 + +Finally got back into reading this year and finished this book that I started sometime early 2019. All-in-all a good book (I read the whole thing). Todd is back and Jimmy tries to convince the gang that he's not a total dickhead. Another ending that leaves me wondering about the events in the next book. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Armada.md b/Reading List - Armada.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c757cd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Armada.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Armada +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Armada + +## Author: [[Ernest Cline]] + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-21 + +I love [[Reading List - Ready Player One]]. I'm hoping this is as good. + +End Note: Amidst bad reviews, I liked this enough to finish it in about 24 hours. Wow. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Bossypants.md b/Reading List - Bossypants.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a21a392 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Bossypants.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Bossypants +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Bossypants + +## Author: Tina Fey + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Building a Second Brain.md b/Reading List - Building a Second Brain.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..68fe784 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Building a Second Brain.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Building a Second Brain +tags: [ readinglist/inprogress ] +--- + +# Title: Building a Second Brain + +## Author: Tiago Forte + +**Started Reading**: 2022-07-06 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain) + +--- + +## My Take + +2022-07-07: I ran across a [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/vsejrx/-/if1kzxy) today where someone asked about a note note taking system and was recommended to read the book "Building a Second Brain". The book purports to explain a way to think about notes and how to organize things rather than recommend apps (or so I hope). This morning, while looking for something to listen to while I walk I found the Art of Manliness podcast had just dropped an episode where he [interviewed Tiago Forte about the book](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-816-building-a-second-brain/)! So I spent my walk listening to the author talk about the book. I was relieved to hear that he doesn't necessarily recommend any specific software and talks more about the higher-level concepts of personal knowledge management. I was also pleased to discover that I am doing most of the things he talks about already. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md b/Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..20cf163 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill + +## Author: Bryan Smith + +**Started Reading**: 2020-11-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-22 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113652-christmas-eve-on-haunted-hill) + +--- + +This was... + - short (just over 100 pages) + - holiday-themed (obviously. It took place all on Christmas Eve) + - bad. Well, to be fair it was more like a Tales from the Crypt episode. For such a short story it skipped a lot of background and took some liberties with characters and backstory. Hey I read the whole thing, so it wasn't that bad. + +Luke is the lone survivor of a Christmas Eve massacre committed by his Santa-suited father 10 years ago. Ten years later, Luke is back in town, in a Santa suit, with plans to commit suicide after getting wasted in the local bar. When he runs into an old friend (divine providence?) things take a different turn and he decides to destroy his old house, the scene of the original tragedy. But a bunch of kids have beat them to the house and are about to come face-to-face with an evil that visits the house once a year to bring something far more sinister than presents. + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.md b/Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c179a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Content, Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future + +## Author: [[Cory Doctorow]] + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-13 + +I liked “Little Brother” and I recognize Cory Doctorow as a sort of patron-saint of open-source (or probably more correctly free-use). +I'm about half way through this. I like it. Small digestible chunks of advocacy for free-use and arguments against copyright and DRM and other crap. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Critical Failures 1.md b/Reading List - Critical Failures 1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1b34ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Critical Failures 1.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Critical Failures 1 +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Critical Failures: Shit is About to get Real (Caverns and Creatures Book 1) + +## Author: [[Robert Bevan]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15701981-critical-failures) + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Critical Failures 2.md b/Reading List - Critical Failures 2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b695eb2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Critical Failures 2.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Critical Failures 2 +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Critical Failures: Fail Harder (Caverns and Creatures Book 2) + +## Author: [[Robert Bevan]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667253-critical-failures-ii) + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Critical Failures 3.md b/Reading List - Critical Failures 3.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7868518 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Critical Failures 3.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Critical Failures 3 +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Critical Failures - A Storm of S-Words (Caverns and Creatures Book 3) + +## Author: [[Robert Bevan]] + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-07-16 + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22963010-critical-failures-iii) + +#readinglist/read + +Started this book a long time ago after reading [[Reading List - Critical Failures 1|Critical Failures 1]] & [[Reading List - Critical Failures 2|Critical Failures 2]]. I stopped about 3/4 of the way through and it got away from me. Glad to have this finished. A good story that sets up part 4. The gang chased Mordred back into the game. The next book should be good. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Critical Failures 4.md b/Reading List - Critical Failures 4.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfc9e73 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Critical Failures 4.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Critical Failures 4 +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Critical Failures: The Phantom Pinas (Caverns and Creatures Book 4) + +## Author: [[Robert Bevan]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-07-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23 + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27880863-critical-failures-iv) + +#readinglist/read + +Pretty good so far - not able to read continuously for whatever reason. It's taking a while to get through this one. +END NOTE: holy shit! Tim fucked up at the end forcing ANOTHER book! Ploy to sell more books? Maybe, but I've got book five so I'll have to see what happens next. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue.md b/Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5bae86f --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Dead Clown Barbecue +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Dead Clown Barbecue + +## Author: Jeff Strand + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-01 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16482018-dead-clown-barbecue) + +--- + +This is book full of short stories that remind me a lot of [J Plummer](https://www.joeplummer.com/)'s Notebook. They're short. They're funny (most of the time). They're gory. They're politically-incorrect. + +That being said, they're not **amazing**, but that fact is offset nicely by the fact that they are short. I can usually read an entire story while the girls are brushing their teeth at night before bed. + +I was planning on writing up a sentence or two about each but there are 29 stories. Nope. + +Note: This got sort of painful by the end. Some of these stories were just silly. I get the writing style and appreciate the in-your-face, pragmatic narrative style, but I found myself reading a story every few day more out the sense of duty, wanting to finish the book, rather than wondering what was going to come next or if the next story was going to be good. + +But I did read the whole thing. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil.md b/Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..67325b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Deliver Us From Evil +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Deliver Us From Evil + +## Author: Allen Lee Harris + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52414163-deliver-us-from-evil) + +From the back cover: + +> Deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, in a place called 'the snake well' by the locals, a twelve year old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret...NOW...A young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town...and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the 'snake well.' An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawlspaces. The townsfolk's darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets. And two young boys must face an evil that has been waiting for millennia to bring humanity an everlasting night. + +From inside the back cover: + +> Allen Lee Harris lives in Georgia with his eight cats. He began college when he was 14, graduated at 19, then attended Harvard Divinity School before getting a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He returned to Georgia, where he was working toward his PhD when he began writing full-time. While writing he supported himself at various jobs, including tending an all-night gas station where he wrote some of the more frightening parts of Deliver Us From Evil. + + +Only in paperback. + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Dmitri.md b/Reading List - Dmitri.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ba1a44e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Dmitri.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Dmitri +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Dmitri + +## Author: Jamey Cohen + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103452.Dmitri) + +From the back cover: + +> THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING. +It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and heir to the Russian throne, has less than a week to live unless he can find a way to escape an assassin's blade.... +> It is Monday, May tenth, and in twenty-first century America, college senior John Greene is about to participate in a simple hypnosis experiment - an experiment that will catapult him into a terrifying battle for his very existence.... +> It is Monday, May tenth, and in a world where time has lost all meaning, beautiful graduate student Marina Kuryev can only wait and watch in helpless horror as the man she loves is caught in a lethal conflict with a boy long-dead.... + +Only available in paperback. I never thought I'd be interested in a book like this (Russian history) but just like Jamey says in the Epilogue: + +While the twentieth-century characters were fictional, there really was a [Dmitri Ivanovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_of_Uglich) and there really was a [false Dmitri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry): +> ...I omitted telling you that there was a second false Dmitri. And a third. And a fourth. +> And they all wanted one thing. +> To be tsar. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Doctor Sleep.md b/Reading List - Doctor Sleep.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bbc5f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Doctor Sleep.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Doctor Sleep +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Doctor Sleep + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + +[[Reading List - The Shining]] Part 2? + +At first I thought the "True Knot" was a little hokey, but it's grown on me. Have read this multiple times. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Driven to Distraction.md b/Reading List - Driven to Distraction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..44b1711 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Driven to Distraction.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Driven to Distraction +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: Driven to Distraction +## Author: Edward M Hallowell MD + +**Started Reading**: 2021-01-11 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108593.Driven_to_Distraction) + +--- + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Election.md b/Reading List - Election.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..034de57 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Election.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Election +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Election + +## Author: Tom Perrotta + +**Started Reading**: 2017-11-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-09 + + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282.Election) + +I always liked the movie and I was interested once I found out that it was based on a book. I finally found the book and decided to check it out. I am half through the book at this point. It reads just like the movie - I'm even picturing the characters from the movie as I read. +END NOTE: The end took a different turn than the movie that, while thought provoking, wasn't as satisfying as the movie. Still glad I read it. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Elevation.md b/Reading List - Elevation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5ece2e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Elevation.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Elevation +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Elevation + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-27 + +Borrowed from Cuyahoga County library via Libby. I'm having a hard time finding the time to read, but this seems like typical King so far. + +END NOTE: Too long for a short story and too short for a novel. Felt like it belonged in Bazaar of Bad Dreams except it wasn't really a horror story. More of a fantasy. Not mad that that I read it. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - End of Watch.md b/Reading List - End of Watch.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d94b05e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - End of Watch.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - End of Watch +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: End of Watch + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-12 + +Book three of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]] + +More of a true sequel to the [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]]. The call-backs to the previous books are nice, but he sets them up well - you didn't have to read the previous books to understand this one. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Finders Keepers.md b/Reading List - Finders Keepers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7af1fd9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Finders Keepers.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Finders Keepers +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Finders Keepers + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-08 + +#readinglist/read + +Book two of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]] + +OK - within the first few chapters, we're seeing the events that started [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes]] from another point of view. I guess I'll be reading this one too. - Well, I finished it. Like a good "second-in-a-trilogy" this one left us with shadows of what's to come for book three. I'm not sure I'll get to book three right away. I should, but I've found that Mr Mercedes was a mini-series on TV. From what I can see they butchered the plot. I might have to peek at that before moving on to [[Reading List - End of Watch]] + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Forrest Gump.md b/Reading List - Forrest Gump.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..290b8e4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Forrest Gump.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Forrest Gump +tags: [ readinglist/dnf, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Forrest Gump + +## Author: Winston Groom + +**Started Reading**: 2021-02-08 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186190.Forrest_Gump) + + +We watched Forrest Gump recently and I got caught up in the IMDB trivia. There was [one entry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/trivia?item=tr1311738) that alluded to there being a sequel to the first book. First book? I never knew Forrest Gump was a book. So I found it on Libby and read the first chapter before checking it out. I'm not sure if I'll finish it (it's really different from the movie), but I was able to get through the first chapter pretty quickly. + +I couldn't get through this. It's just too weird after watching the movie. It's like a bad fan-fiction of the movie. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Gerald's Game.md b/Reading List - Gerald's Game.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..40664c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Gerald's Game.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Gerald's Game +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Gerald's Game + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2017-12-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-12-06 + +#readinglist/read + +I've begun binging Netflix shows and found this in their 'Netflix Originals' section. I watched the trailer only to find it was a movie and not a series, but still - it looked really interesting. Thinking I must have this book somewhere - I found it and am on Chapter 10. I'm promising myself I'll read it before I watch the movie. So far - so good. A bit of "United States of Tara"-style multiple-personality going on but only in Jessie's head. Stephen rarely lets me down, so I'll keep reading this one. UPDATE: This was a strange book. I still think it should have been over after chapter 34. The last six chapters were almost unnecessary. It took a story about survival and introspection and made it a monster movie. Meh. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Hack.md b/Reading List - Hack.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2bad7c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Hack.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Hack +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Hack + +## Author: Peter Wrenshall + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-12 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-16 + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377037-hack) + + +This is YA title that seems to get the technology right. It's a short book that I'm enjoying so far, but the copy I found is poorly formatted. Doesn't matter, I halfway through it. + +END NOTE: this was bad. It really was like a young adult book. No real details and no satisfactory resolution. You could see the end coming a mile away. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution.md b/Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a10aac5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution + +## Author: Levy, Steven + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8646752-hackers) + +#readinglist/read + +I love this book and have read it multiple times. Fuck the reviewers on goodreads. This book is fantastic. + +### Highlights + +> "When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (mashed until no good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack". + +> "...to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity." + +> "Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine." Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing." + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3).md b/Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b17a922 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3).md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3) +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Helltown (World's Scariest Places, #3) + +## Author: Bates, Jeremy + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-11-26 + +#readinglist/read + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25591451-helltown) + +Very entertaining read! Having been to the area and having heard all the legends it was fun to read a story where someone tied them all together in a fictional piece. There were a few editing errors in the text that threw me off. I also had a tough time keeping track of the characters initially. Reads like a good B Horror movie at a drive-in on a Friday night. Not a life-changer, but a fun time nonetheless. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Hocus Pocus.md b/Reading List - Hocus Pocus.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df21764 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Hocus Pocus.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Hocus Pocus +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel + +## Author: A.W. Jantha + +**Started Reading**: 2020-09-12 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-03 + +Via Libby + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36244389-hocus-pocus-the-all-new-sequel) + +Meh. +This first part was a novelization of the movie. While it was good, I gave up 3/4 through it since it was, pretty much, word-for-word the movie. + +The second part was a poor take on an obvious sequel. There's talk of making a movie sequel. If so, I hope they don't base it on this book (or at least make some sweeping changes) + +There was not enough of the original cast and at times the story was darker than I'd expect a sequel to the movie to be (the "Switching Spell" sends people to Hell?) + +An effort to update us on the exploits of the Sanderson legend and the original cast involved falls flat without enough background on the newly introduced characters (another Sanderson sister? And their mother was a bitch, but only appears for a few pages?) while the original cast recede to cardboard cutouts of themselves in the background with no real part to play + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Holidays on Ice.md b/Reading List - Holidays on Ice.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cae695b --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Holidays on Ice.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Holidays on Ice +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ] +--- + +# Title: Holidays on Ice + +## Author: David Sedaris + +**Started Reading**: 2019-11-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-13 + +**AUDIOBOOK** + +In pursuit of another classic holiday book (I was looking for a Thanksgiving book) I found this on Libby and thought "what the hell?" It's early - but it looks funny. Halfway through the first chapter I'm already thinking I want to own this book. + +END NOTE: Like a foul-mouthed Jean Sheppard, some of these stories were only tangentially related to Christmas, but there were a few real gems. A new yearly tradition, for sure + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Homeland.md b/Reading List - Homeland.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b3f458 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Homeland.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Homeland +tags: [ readinglist/dnf, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Homeland + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-31 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12917338-homeland) + +--- + +## My Take + +This is the sequel to "Little Brother", which I read long ago , but never logged in my reading list. I enjoyed Little Brother with all it's high-tect storyline and real world examples. I am hoping this is just as good. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - I Alone Can Fix It.md b/Reading List - I Alone Can Fix It.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f856ec --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - I Alone Can Fix It.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - I Alone Can Fix It +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Trump's Catastrophic Final Year + +## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker + +**Started Reading**: 2021-08-02 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-18 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58411199-i-alone-can-fix-it) + +--- + +Another book I was surprised to have found interesting. I knew all the bullet points already as we'd lived through them, but seeing it all layed out makes me wonder how many people out there might see the last year in a different light. I suppose the hard-core Trumpies will never see the disaster this man wrought on this country, but much like Trump himself repeating lies over and over again until they are accepted as truth, hopefully the flood of these books hitting the market will start to sink into the zeitgeist and remind people of what a sack of shit Donald Trump is. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - I Quit Sugar.md b/Reading List - I Quit Sugar.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c92d87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - I Quit Sugar.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - I Quit Sugar +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: I Quit Sugar + +## Author: Sarah Wilson + +**Started Reading**: 2019-10-25 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-28 + +via LIBBY + +I wasn't going to count this book on my reading list, but I *did* read almost all of it (except the 2nd half of the book which are all recipes). It was interesting that she leans so hard on the no-sugar angle without ever touching the carbs angle (or mentioning keto). But I agree with all her claims about feeling better and how hard it is to find really sugar-free foods. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - IT.md b/Reading List - IT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6505546 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - IT.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - IT +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: IT + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-14 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-26 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It) + +I read this years ago although I can't remember if it was before or after the TV movie. Last weekend we went to see the new movie and I thought it was time to give this book another go. It's as good as I remember... Having finished the book I can only say that I must not have finished it last time I read it. More than 3/4 of the way through the book I stopped remembering things and started reading new things. I must have given up last time and only remember the details from the TV movie. In any event, I feel accomplished and glad I've finally read the whole thing. A classic, for sure. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - If It Bleeds.md b/Reading List - If It Bleeds.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..28ad24b --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - If It Bleeds.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - If It Bleeds +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: If It Bleeds + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2020-05-17 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-12 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46015758-if-it-bleeds) + +--- + +His latest book of short stories. + +**MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE**: I liked the concept of this story. The thought of a cell phone ringing in a casket 6 feet underground is creepy. The thought of getting a text message in response is worse. + +**THE LIFE OF CHUCK**: I'm not sure I entirely got this one. I think I read somewhere that if references other works of his that I'm not familiar with. + +**IF IT BLEEDS**: The best of the bunch, for sure. Not until I got to this story did I remember hearing about a reappearance of Holly Gibney. I'm glad I read the [[Reading List - The Outsider|The Outsider]] and the Bill Hodges trilogy ([[Reading List - Mr Mercedes|Mr Mercedes]], [[Reading List - Finders Keepers|Finders Keepers]] & [[Reading List - End of Watch|End of Watch]]. It makes this story make a lot more sense. + +**RAT**: Started good and ended meh. + +END NOTES: typical Stephen King lately: these really good stories ended with a shrug + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md b/Reading List - I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ff6aaf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - I’m Thinking of Ending Things +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ] +--- + +# Title: I’m Thinking of Ending Things + +## Author: Iain Reid + +**Started Reading**: 2019-10-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-11 + +**AUDIOBOOK** + +I am trying to avoid spoilers, but I have heard this book has a surprise, twist ending that most people find unsatisfying. But I want to decide for myself. + +END NOTE: I'm still not sure what to think. A lot of people recommend reading it twice (like "The Sixth Sense" you see the ending coming upon a second viewing). There's a lot to think about and whole [webpages](http://afterthingsend.com/) devoted to interpretation of the book. + +2020-08: The [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7939766/) is coming to Netflix. I may have to check it out. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md b/Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..715a6c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams' +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Let's Go Play at the Adams' + +## Author: Mendal W. Johnson + +**Started Reading**: 2021-02-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-03-02 + + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202604.Let_s_Go_Play_at_the_Adams_) + +--- + +~~PDF file~~ (I found an [epub](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50490085-let-s-go-play-at-the-adams) from the [[Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction|Paperbacks from Hell Collection]]) + +I don't know how I feel about this book. It's not something I would have picked up on my own, I don't think. The reputation was what drew me to it. Written in the 70's I think it probably was more shocking then. Not that it isn't a sad, twisted story. I read reviews praising it's "well-written" style and I guess I see that. For the subject matter - the book was pretty thorough in trying to flesh out the characters and see all the viewpoints. + +This quote from a [reviewer on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/905239662?utm_content=reviews_full_review&utm_medium=email&utm_source=bookend&ref_=pe_7171740_474197500) sums it up pretty well: +> 5 kids are not going to quickly turn into psychopaths able to systematically abuse and murder a person within a week unless they were already deranged. only one of them is characterized as having mental issues; none have traumatic backgrounds or guidance from a disturbed adult. there is no believable context to why they do the things they do, unless it is mere coincidence that brings these 5 deeply disturbed individuals together. that's a hell of a coincidence. no, I don't believe in the world of this book. + +I suppose it's books like this that inspired more graphic horror in the years following, but it's premise of "killing for killing's sake" is disturbing and sad. You don't finish this book feeling good, that's for sure. + +I'm glad I can say I read it, but I won't be looking for similar books. + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Life as I Blow It.md b/Reading List - Life as I Blow It.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db9a282 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Life as I Blow It.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Life as I Blow It +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Life as I Blow It + +## Author: Sarah Colonna + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-01-28 + +#readinglist/read + +Silly "junk-food" book. I can't believe I finished the whole thing + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Lila.md b/Reading List - Lila.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9c7dd44 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Lila.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Lila +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Lila + +## Author: [[Robert Pirsig]] + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31093.Lila) + +--- + +### Highlights + +**Pirsig's Zettelkasten** - here's where he describes his paper-tray, slips-of-paper method of note-taking. I've read that Pirsig did not consider this a Zettelkasten, but the similarities are striking. Zettelkasten or not, these categories have inspired my notes as well. + +> "The first was UNASSIMILATED. This contained new ideas that interrupted what he was doing. They came in on the spur of the moment while he was organizing the other slips or sailing or working on the boat or doing something else that didn't want to be disturbed." + +> "PROGRAM slips were instructions for what to do with the rest of the slips. They kept track of the forest while he was busy thinking about individual trees." + +> "The next slips were the CRIT slips. These were for days when he woke up in a foul mood and could find nothing but fault everywhere. He knew from experience that if he threw stuff away on these days he would regret it later, so instead he satisfied his anger by just describing all the stuff he wanted to destroy and the reasons for destroying it." + +> "The next to the last group was the TOUGH category. This contained slips that seemed to say something of importance but didn't fit into any topic he could think of." + +> "The final category was JUNK. These were slips that seemed of high value when he wrote them down but which now seemed awful." + +--- + +> "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it." + +### Links + +* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Mazes and Monsters.md b/Reading List - Mazes and Monsters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..431039a --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Mazes and Monsters.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Mazes and Monsters +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Mazes and Monsters + +## Author: Rona Jaffe + +**Started Reading**: 2017-01-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-20 + +About as good as the movie. Robbie was sick way before he played the game. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Microserfs.md b/Reading List - Microserfs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bdbf37e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Microserfs.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Microserfs +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: Microserfs + +## Author: Douglas Coupland + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-26 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Wasn't sure I was going to read this, then I got to the third chapter. Still not sure I'll finish it... + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Mr Mercedes.md b/Reading List - Mr Mercedes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d06f4e2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Mr Mercedes.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Mr Mercedes +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Mr Mercedes + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-06 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-07 + +#readinglist/read + +Book one of the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]] + +Found out there is a character in [[Reading List - The Outsider|The Outsider]] (Holly Gibney) that originated in the "Bill Hodges Trilogy" of [[Reading List - Mr Mercedes|Mr Mercedes]], [[Reading List - Finders Keepers|Finders Keepers]] and [[Reading List - End of Watch|End of Watch]]. So I started Mr Mercedes. So far so good. + +I never pegged Stephen King as a crime writer - or me as a crime reader. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Nest of Nightmares.md b/Reading List - Nest of Nightmares.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dc71563 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Nest of Nightmares.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Nest of Nightmares +tags: [ readinglist/inprogress ] +--- + +# Title: Nest of Nightmares + +## Author: Lisa Tuttle + +**Started Reading**: 2021-04-29 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753143.A_Nest_of_Nightmares) + +--- + + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Nightmare Alley.md b/Reading List - Nightmare Alley.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b64685b --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Nightmare Alley.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Nightmare Alley +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: Nightmare Alley + +## Author: William Lindsay Gresham + +**Started Reading**: 2021-10-10 + +**Finished Reading**: dnf + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140096-nightmare-alley) + +--- + +Based on a recommendation from [Nocturnal Revelries](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2021/09/19/freaks-and-con-artists-william-lindsay-greshams-nightmare-alley/), I decided to give this book a try. + +Months after not being able to really get into this book, I saw the [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/) and that took all the zest for finishing the book out of me. + +It was a good story, though. + + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Nos4a2.md b/Reading List - Nos4a2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2e1ac65 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Nos4a2.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Nos4a2 +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: NOS4A2 + +## Author: Joe Hill + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-26 + +#readinglist/read + +NOS4A2 (Nosferatu? Heh, I just got that.) +Pretty good. Reminds me a lot of his father. Not a vampire story (I missed the reference until I started the book) and apparently his longest book (700+ pages?) + +AMC has turned this into a [TV series](https://www.amc.com/shows/nos4a2--68) that has seemed to deviate from the book a bit. I don't know, I've only seen the first three episodes of season one and kind of lost interest. + +2020: Update - Carrie and I have taken to watching this and are starting to get into Season One. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1).md b/Reading List - Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2772c0e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1).md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1) +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1) + +## Author: [[Scott Meyer]] + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-11 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-11 + +#readinglist/read + +Just read the first few pages and before I knew it I was on chapter 12. Feels like a less foul-mouthed version of Caverns and Creatures. Have a feeling I'll be finishing this soon. +UPDATE: yep. Finished it in one day. A fun book with an original concept. I might have liked it better if Martin and the gang didn't pick Medieval England. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md b/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..195c2a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction.md @@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction +## Author: [[Grady Hendrix]] + +**Started Reading**: 2020-09-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-05 + +[Goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33670466-paperbacks-from-hell) + +#readinglist/read + + +## Highlights +* Introduction + "The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. Shortly after we meet them, the author lets us know that these are not just any Nazi leprechauns. These are psychic Nazi leprechauns who enjoy S&M, are covered with scars from pleasure/pain sessions with their creator, were trained as sex slaves for full-sized human men, and are actually stunted fetuses taken from Jewish concentration camp victims. And one of them is named Adolph." - The Little People (John Christopher) + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "McGill, who returned in 1982 to write an Omen novel not based on a film, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, which opens with a scene of rectal childbirth" + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "1974’s [[Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'|Let’s Go Play at the Adams’]] still elicits passionate loathing. Search online and you’ll find readers who describe destroying the book after finishing it, who write about being left ill, about how sick the author must have been." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Fictional clowns come with a body count. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop-Frog (1849) was a dwarf forced to be a jester who burned eight courtiers to death." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "The Voice of the Clown (1982) would be the snarling six-year-old standing slightly to the side, staring into the camera, clutching a clown doll. Her name is Laura, and she sees right through you. Whatever tricks you try to make her like you, she and her clown are ready." - The Voice of the Clown (Brenda Brown Canary) + **Note**: [Nocturnal Revelries Link](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2020/02/16/the-voice-of-the-clown-brenda-brown-canary/) + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 1984, the year Jack Chick published his infamous anti-RPG (role-playing game) tract Dark Dungeons, claiming that these dice-and-paper games were a gateway to satanism and suicide." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "[[Reading List - Mazes and Monsters|Mazes and Monsters]] is best remembered today for its TV movie adaptation, which aired in 1982 and featured Tom Hanks in his first leading role, as Pardieu the Holy Man, freaking out on the streets of New York before trying to jump off the World Trade Center." + **Note** The book and the movie are both good late-night, b-rated fun + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Hobgoblin (1981). + Protagonist Scott Gardiner is exactly the kind of kid Jaffe warned us was vulnerable to RPGs’ lurid lure: brilliant, creative, socially awkward, and with a dead dad. He’s also into a truly terrible RPG called Hobgoblin" + **Note** Hey! I like this book! + +* Chapter 3: When Animals Attack + "It was the year punk rock broke: 1974. It was also the year James Herbert published The Rats, which is pretty much the same thing." + +* Chapter 4: Real Estate Nightmares + "But it all started with Robert Marasco’s Burnt Offerings (1973), a chilling tale about a family who escapes the city to move into a summer rental... from hell." + +* Chapter 5: Weird Science + "In Little Brother (1983), aliens land on Earth in 1908 and take over the Soviet Union. By 1983 they've infiltrated the American market with an iPad-esque toy called the Possum, which beams addictive subliminal messages into the brains of good American kids." + +* Chapter 6: Gothic and Romantic + "The story of the Dollanganger children, locked away by their mother, poisoned by their grandmother, and falling in love with each other, became Flowers in the Attic." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "the PMRC publicly demanded that record labels reassess the contracts of musicians who performed violent or sexualized stage shows. They managed to hold Senate hearings on explicit lyrics and “porn rock,” which accomplished little except to show Americans that Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider was more levelheaded and informed than Tipper Gore." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "The first female character in The Scream is introduced to readers as we’re invited to look up her skirt. The second is “all tits and tan and perfect even teeth.” Then she’s murdered." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "Graham Masterton dominated the first cover of Frighteners with his outrageous cannibal-kid story “Eric the Pie,” which evoked instant outrage. The publisher pulled the magazine from newsstands, and it limped through two more issues before shutting down." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "In February 1991 the first Abyss book, The Cipher by Kathe Koja, hit the racks. A sharply observed slice of early-’90s bohemia, it was about a couple of starving artists in a dying Rust Belt city who find a hole in their storage space. Dubbing it the Funhole (the original title of the book), they discover that anything organic fed into the Funhole comes out disturbingly mutated" + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md b/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac187af --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Pet Sematary.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Pet Sematary +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Pet Sematary + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +This is probably my all-time favorite book. + +## Highlights + +> That’s what you do, all right, he thought with immeasurable relief. You pass it like a stone, and that’s the end of it... unless there comes a campfire some night with friends when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap. + +> He raised his face into the wind after the door had clicked closed, the garbage bag with Church’s body in it riffling between his feet. +> Content. +> Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood. +> Something gonna happen here, Bubba. Something pretty weird, I think. + +> Days which seem genuinely good—good all the way through—are rare enough anyway, he thought. It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man's life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. + +> It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls—as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself. + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md b/Reading List - Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25e6484 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Prisoners at the Kitchen Table +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Prisoners at the Kitchen Table + +## Author: Barbara Holland + +**Started Reading**: 2021-05-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-05-24 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/184269) + +--- + +This was a Weekly Reader book I remember reading in grade-school. I found the PDF online and started thumbing through it. Before long I was actually reading it again. I'm sure it wouldn't have held my interest if I had discovered it recently, but having read it over 30 years ago, it was filled with nostalgia. + +I remember identifying with Josh, the more level-headed, high-anxiety, character. I'm sure that the fact that of the two main characters, a boy and a girl, I identified with Josh because he was a boy my age. Polly was brash and loud and spoiled by her parents. She spent the entire book complaining about not getting her way and giving up when the situation got too intense. Josh was a careful thinker, too easily cowed by adults and what was "accepted as correct behavior". He was also less well-off than Polly and seemed to respect his possessions more because of it. + +Apart from the moral of the story a Weekly Reader book was trying to teach, 30 years or more has put more perspective on the story. While the lesson in the book is timeless (independence, courage and the ability to stand up for oneself) the sad fact is that in reality, both of those kids would have been sexually abused and possibly murdered once the ransom was not paid. + +A neat little buttoned up ending befitting a Weekly Reader. + +Nevertheless I found a couple more Weekly Readers online and may just read them as well. + + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Radicalized.md b/Reading List - Radicalized.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f186c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Radicalized.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Radicalized +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ] +--- + +# Title: Radicalized + +## Author: [[Cory Doctorow]] + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24 + +via LIBBY + +I got the job at OverDrive and now have access to thousands of ebooks and audiobooks! This is my first loan from Cuyahoga County library and experienced with the Libby app. I'm about halfway through. The first story, "Unauthorized Bread" was really good. I'm not a huge fan of the second story (Model Minority) so far, the Title story was red by Wil Wheaton (what's not to like?) and the last story is a fun modern version of The Masque of the Red Death that I kind of kept on in the background. I think I may have given up if I'd been reading this book, but I liked listening to it. I certainly like some stories more than others. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Ready Player One.md b/Reading List - Ready Player One.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de0c4af --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Ready Player One.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Ready Player One +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Ready Player One + +## Author: [[Ernest Cline]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read +#readinglist/audiobook + +I love this book. Have read it multiple times and even bought the audiobook from Google Play Books + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Ready Player Two.md b/Reading List - Ready Player Two.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9218955 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Ready Player Two.md @@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Ready Player Two +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Ready Player Two + +## Author: [[Ernest Cline]] + +**Started Reading**: 2020-11-24 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-04-27 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26082916-ready-player-two?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=iWcx1KK4lO&rank=1) + +--- + +### Reading Notes: + +This book felt like such a slog at times. It took so long to finish it. Yet every time I picked it up I was drawn back in for a few chapters. The problem is, it just never drew me back. I'd eventually feel guilty that I wasn't reading it and told myself I shouldn't start something new until I finished it. Then I'd pick it up and get engrossed for another few chapters. + +It definitely suffered from the sophomore slump, and I've heard that there are plans to try to make this one a movie, too. +Good luck with that. It was a good book — but I don't see myself re-reading it like I did with the original. + +--- + +Highlights: +* Cutscene + "“In other words, the ONI allows you to relive moments of other people’s lives. To see the world through their eyes, hear it through their ears, smell it through their nose, taste it with their tongue, and feel it through their skin.” Halliday gave the camera a matter-of-fact nod. “The ONI is the most powerful communication tool humans have ever invented. And I think it’s also probably the last one we will ever need to invent.” He tapped the center of his forehead. “Now we can plug right in to the old noodle.”" + + +* Cutscene + "Warning! For safety reasons, the OASIS Neural Interface headset can only be used for a maximum of twelve consecutive hours at a time. When this limit has been reached, you will be logged out of your account automatically, and you will be unable to use your ONI headset again until twelve hours of downtime have elapsed." + + +* Cutscene + "As the timestamp faded away, it was replaced by a short message, just three words long—the last thing I would see before I left the real world and entered the virtual one. + But they weren't the three words I was used to seeing. I — like every other ONI user to come — was greeted by a new message Halliday had created, to welcome those visitors who had adopted his new technology: + + READY PLAYER TWO" + + +* 0000 + "We didn't make our decision lightly. We weighed all of the pros and cons. Then, after a heated debate, the four of us held a vote. The ayes had it. And just like that, we changed the course of human history forever. + After another series of safety trials, GSS patented the OASIS Neural Interface technology and began to mass-produce the headsets. We put them on sale at the lowest possible price, to make sure as many people as possible could experience the OASIS Neural Interface for themselves. + + We sold a million units that first day." + + Note + This part seemed kind of rushed. I feel like we needed to hear each the groups opinions on whether to do this or not. But I get that he needed to cover some ground to get to the next part - namely that once sales reached a certain level, the new game kicks off + +* 0000 + "A few seconds after the OASIS servers reached 7,777,777 simultaneous ONI users, a message appeared on Halliday’s long-dormant website, where the Scoreboard for his contest had once resided: + + Seek the Seven Shards of the Siren’s Soul + On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role + For each fragment my heir must pay a toll + To once again make the Siren whole + + It came to be known as the Shard Riddle," + + +* 0000 + "The “Siren” seemed to be a reference to Kira Morrow, Og’s deceased wife and Halliday’s unrequited love." + + +* 0000 + "Kira had named her Dungeons & Dragons character Leucosia, after one of the Sirens of Greek myth." + + +* 0000 + "Other companies made attempts to reverse-engineer the ONI headset and steal our neural-interface technology—but the software and processing power required to make the ONI technology function was all part of the OASIS. Experiences could be recorded offline as an .oni file, even a bootleg one, but the file could only be played back by being uploaded to the OASIS. " + + Note + Uh oh, vendor lock in. Did they learn nothing from Apple? + + +* 0000 + "“Sims” were recordings made inside the OASIS, and “Recs” were ONI recordings made in reality. Except that most kids no longer referred to it as “reality.” They called it “the Earl.” (A term derived from the initialism IRL.) And “Ito” was slang for “in the OASIS.” So Recs were recorded in the Earl, and Sims were created Ito." + + Note + I feel like this will get confusing if I don't remember this terminology + + +* 0000 + "Moderating all of this user-generated content was a challenge—and a huge responsibility. GSS implemented CenSoft, our custom strong-AI censor software, which scanned every .oni recording before it was released and flagged suspicious content for human review." + + Note + Youtube? + + +* 0000 + "Finally, out of a mixture of disgust and desperation, I offered a billion dollars to anyone who could provide me with information on how to locate just one of the Seven Shards." + + Note + Parzival turns into Sargento before the book even starts? + + +* 0000 + "just a few weeks after the third anniversary of the ONI’s launch, it finally happened. An enterprising young gunter led me to the First Shard." + + +* Level Four + "To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels." + + +* 0001 + "Samantha shakes her head. “No amount of money will be able to undo the damage these headsets are going to cause,” she replies, sounding defeated now. " + + Note + Seems obvious. + + + + + +[[Reading List Index]] + diff --git a/Reading List - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md b/Reading List - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b73f2c --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) + +## Author: Harris, Thomas + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-12-03 + +#readinglist/read + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Santa Took Them.md b/Reading List - Santa Took Them.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35502d0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Santa Took Them.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Santa Took Them +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Santa Took Them + +## Author: William Malmborg + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +#readinglist/read + +Starting my self-imposed regiment of reading holiday-themed books with this book I started last year and never finished. It's short - so I'm making myself finish it this year. A pretty good Halloween/Xmas segue book. Open-ended makes me wonder if there will be a sequel or if the author just wanted to leave us with a cliff-hanger. A fun read reminiscent of [[Reading List - Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3)]] + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Say You Love Satan.md b/Reading List - Say You Love Satan.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a1931a --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Say You Love Satan.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Say You Love Satan +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Say You Love Satan + +## Author: David St Clair + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +The story behind the Acid King, [Ricky Kasso](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-island-devil-cult-murder-ricky-kasso-david-breskin-901069/). Found and read during my flirtation with Satanism in the early 90's. Only in paperback + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Secret Circles.md b/Reading List - Secret Circles.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71e1145 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Secret Circles.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Secret Circles +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Secret Circles + +## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]] + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-15 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-24 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6835887-secret-circles) + +--- + +From GoodReads: +> When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by...something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous—a true wilderness filled with people, creatures, and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, fifteen-foot-tall stone pyramid he, Weezy, and Eddie discover. Jack thinks it might have been a cage of some sort, but for what kind of animal, he can’t say. Eddie jokes that it could have been used for the Jersey Devil. Jack doesn't believe in that old folk tale, but something is roaming the Pines. Could it have Cody? And what about the strange circus that set up outside town? Could they be involved? So many possibilities, so little time... + +This was as good as the first one. From what I remember about the short "Repairman Jack" stories I've read, this seems like a fine introduction to the man that became Repairman Jack. +F. Paul Wilson has mentioned there are (or will be) 15 Repairman Jack novels. I don't know if he's including these or not, but at this point, I'd like to read these in order and there's one more in the "Teen Repairman Jack" series that I'll have to track down before I get into the novels. I don't know how far I'll get, but hell, I've read two books in under a month and that's pretty good. + + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Secret Histories.md b/Reading List - Secret Histories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3a2b1bf --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Secret Histories.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Secret Histories +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: Secret Histories + +## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]] + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-13 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-15 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories) + +--- + +From GoodReads: +> THE FIRST OF A TRILOGY OF REPAIRMAN JACK PREQUELS Read for the first time Jack's formative years. You'll meet his mother and father, big sister Kate and his bully of a brother Tom. While aimed for young adults, F. Paul Wilson doesn't write down and the book is as enjoyable for adults as it is for teens. And, as you can see from the above description there's plenty of foreshadowing of events that were to overtake Jack as an adult + +I've run across a couple Repairman Jack stories in a few of my anthology books and enjoyed them. I decided to really try to use Libby since I work for her at OverDrive and found this. It's technically a young-adult title, but it was a fun and short read. F. Paul Wilson has written more than a dozen Repairman Jack books. I'm not sure if I'll read them all, but I have already started the next book in the prequels - [[Reading List - Secret Circles]]. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Secret Vengeance.md b/Reading List - Secret Vengeance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d68acf --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Secret Vengeance.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Secret Vengeance +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Reading List - Secret Vengeance + +## Author: [[F Paul Wilson]] + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-24 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-30 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories) + +--- + +From Goodreads: +> Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High—especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend Weezy has a crush on him. And unlike most of the popular kids at school, he's not stuck up. Jack even sees him defending a piney kid who is being bullied in the hall. Which is why Jack is so surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her. + +--- + +## My Take + +This was a pretty good introduction to the character I've come to know as Repairman Jack in the short stories I've read. There was a bit more sci-fi/fantasy in this trilogy than I would have expected, but they were enjoyable nonetheless. I am planning on reading at least "The Tomb" (book 1 in the [Repairman Jack Series](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=repairman+jack&qid=C0ZsSoFoua)), since I've enjoyed everything I've read so far. + +--- + +I decided to start reading more and to start using Libby to do so, when I stumbled upon this prequel trilogy to the Repairman Jack stories I've read in some of my anthology books. I read [[Reading List - Secret Histories]] in a few days. I read [[Reading List - Secret Circles]] in a little over a week and decided to finish off the trilogy when I found that the library does not have this title and may not ever get it. +> Dan Lasco 3 minutes ago +> That's a metered access (MA) title, and the library has run out of licenses. +> Some libraries allow MA titles without licenses to remain in the collection and accumulate holds, so they can gauge interest. + +Have I mentioned how cool it is to work at the place that supports the app and knows all the answers? + +I guess I'll have to resort to my old ways to find this one. + +UPDATE: about an hour later, Meghan from Public Library Development contacted me and asked me about the book. She then introduced me to OverDrive's Digital Library (not the Corporate library I already knew about) and offered to upload the trilogy to that service. I set up an account using my work credentials and within a couple hours I was able to checkout the book in Libby! Again, it's good to work in a place that manages the thing you like. diff --git a/Reading List - Shit My Dad Says.md b/Reading List - Shit My Dad Says.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ea24b90 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Shit My Dad Says.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Shit My Dad Says +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Shit My Dad Says + +## Author: Justin Halpern + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-05 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-09 + +#readinglist/read + +I'm just glad to be reading again - I was doing pretty well the first few months of the year. Then... nothing. + +But this book is fun and seems like an easy read. Like Robert Fulghum spent time with Tucker Max + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Shock Rock.md b/Reading List - Shock Rock.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eae5791 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Shock Rock.md @@ -0,0 +1,90 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Shock Rock +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Shock Rock + +## Author: Jeff Gelb (editor) + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641739.Shock_Rock_Volume_I) + +--- + +From a [goodreads.com review](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1157940834) + +I) FORWARD - ALICE COOPER (February 16, 2017) +Cool! + +II) INTRODUCTION - JEFF GELB (February 16, 2017) +Nostalgic summary of rock/metal and horror mashups. + +III) "YOU KNOW THEY GOT A HELL OF A BAND" - STEPHEN KING - (February 16 - February 17, 2017) (**** Rating) +To stumble into the small town of Rock 'n' Roll Heaven, Oregon would definitely be shocking for anyone who knows music. This is still not a half bad short story. I'd watched the short movie on You Tube a couple years ago and it was as good as the story in the book. + +IV) "BOB DYLAN, TROY JONSON, AND THE SPEED QUEEN" - F. PAUL WILSON (February 17, 2017) (**** Rating) +This one left me wanting more, as the story seemed to just be getting started. It was alright. +V) "ODEED" - DAVID J. SCHOW (February 17, 2017) (* Rating) +Too short and too much chaos in the writing of it. Too much going on in too short of a story. + +VI) "VARGR RULE" - NANCY A. COLLINS (February 17, 2017) (*** Rating) +Once again, another short story that left me wanting more. It sort of reminded of Whitley Strieber's, "The Wolfen". + +VII) "BLOOD SUEDE SHOES" - RONALD KELLY (February 18, 2017) (**** Rating) +Interesting concept! Didn't mind this one. + +VIII) "THE DEAD BEAT SOCIETY" - DON D'AMMASSA (February 19, 2017) (* Rating) +Nothing special here. Didn't care for it. + +IX) "VOODOO CHILD" - GRAHAM MASTERTON (February 19, 2017) (** Rating) +Wasn't too bad. I like to believe that this is an original idea for a story. + +X) "RITES OF SPRING" - PAUL DALE ANDERSON (February 19, 2017) (* Rating) +Too short for my liking. + +XI) "DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOATHE" - MICHAEL GARRETT (February 19, 2017) (*** Rating) +I'd rate it a three out of five. Would make a decent work of fiction if the author developed the story another three hundred pages or so. + +XII) "REQUIEM" - BRIAN HODGE (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +This one didn't do anything for me. The writing was okay. + +XIII) "HEAVY METAL" - R. PATRICK GATES (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +It started out interesting and then interest failed for me. + +XIV) "BUNKY" - REX MILLER (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +Starts off like concert banter from Ted Nugent ad becomes so much worse than it does better. Too much, "Ya dig?" and other nonsense in the writing style. Not for me, + +XV) "THE BLACK '59" - BILL MUMY & PETER DAVID (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating) +Held my interest enough to enjoy it. It reminded me of the movie, "Trick or Treat" for the most part. + +XVI) "GROUPIES" - RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +What the fuck did I just read? + +XVII) "REUNION" -MICHAEL NEWTON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +A lot of action but no chub! + +XVIII) "BOOTLEG" - MARK VERHEIDEN (February 20, 2017) (** Rating) +It was okay. Had a couple good moments. + +XIX) "WEIRD GIG" - RAY GARTON (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating) +Something straight out of "Tales From The Crypt"! Not bad at all. + +XX) "HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT" - JOHN L. BYRNE (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating) +Another one which fits well with "Tales From The Crypt". Decent. + +XXI) "ADDICTED TO LOVE" - THOMAS TESSIER (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating) +Potential for something good....but was just okay. + +XXII) "FLAMING TELEPATHS" - JOHN SHIRLEY (February 21, 2017) (*** Rating) +This one too, would make an awesome mini-movie for "Tales From The Crypt"! + +XXIII) CONTRIBUTING BIOGRAPHIES (February 21, 2017) +Backstory of authors. + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - Skipping Christmas.md b/Reading List - Skipping Christmas.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f74e49d --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Skipping Christmas.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Skipping Christmas +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Skipping Christmas + +## Author: Grisham, John + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-11-11 + +#readinglist/read + +Strangely, this book was almost the script for the movie. The movie added the Marvin character who I suppose was Santa at the end, but other than that the book was almost exactly the same as the movie. Not a bad book - but I'll just watch the movie every year instead of re-reading this. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2).md b/Reading List - Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..24f9378 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2).md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2) +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2) + +## Author: [[Scott Meyer]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-03-21 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-03-27 + +I just found out that "Off to be the Wizard" is a series! This is book 2 that series. I'm halfway through it and so far I'm wondering if I'm going to have a tough time keeping track of the timelines in a book so focused on time travel. UPDATE: by the end of the book there were two storylines that I just knew were going to converge. Until they didn't. Unsatisfactory ending that I suspect is just "middle-movie-in-a-trilogy" style to prepare for the third book. At least I hope so. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Suck It, Wonder Woman.md b/Reading List - Suck It, Wonder Woman.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7defe40 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Suck It, Wonder Woman.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Suck It, Wonder Woman +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Suck It, Wonder Woman + +## Author: Olivia Munn + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Surfing on the Internet A Netheads Adventures On-Line.md b/Reading List - Surfing on the Internet A Netheads Adventures On-Line.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..881ae48 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Surfing on the Internet A Netheads Adventures On-Line.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Surfing on the Internet A Netheads Adventures On-Line +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Surfing on the Internet: A Netheads Adventures On-Line + +## Author: JC Herz + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-03 + +#readinglist/read + +This is the book that contains the [[Herz, J C - Confessions of an Internet Junkie (Playboy 1994).pdf|Playboy article]] I read back in the mid-90's. I finally tracked down the book and Carrie bought it for me (an actual paper book) years ago. + +I've been reading it a few pages at a time each night while the girls were brushing their teeth before bed and finally finished it. + +I wish I could find a digital copy. + +## Links +- [A 23-year-old book about the internet predicted the web’s worst problems](https://qz.com/1634166/what-made-the-internet-bad-30-years-ago-still-applies-today) + + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Bedwetter.md b/Reading List - The Bedwetter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a01d330 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Bedwetter.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Bedwetter +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Bedwetter + +## Author: Sarah Silverman + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +#readinglist/read + + + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Black Arts.md b/Reading List - The Black Arts.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fd7662 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Black Arts.md @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Black Arts +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages + +## Author: Richard Cavendish + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354619.The_Black_Arts_) + +--- + +I bought this soft-cover book from the Ninth House Book Shoppe in Brecksville over 30 years ago. In May of 2021 I found a decent PDF. + +--- + +## Highlights + +> Knots are very sinister things, much used by witches, because to tie a knot is magically to tie and impede the person who is the target of the spell. An example is the terrible death talisman of the string with nine knots, sometimes called 'the witches' ladder'. The string is tied with fierce concentration of hatred against an enemy and hidden somewhere close to hlm. The knots slowly thottle the life out of him and he dies. The only cure is to find the string in time and untie the knots. +> -- pg 17 + +> The blood of an executed criminal is a strong protection against disease and misfortune, because it carries the vigorous energy of a man cut off in full health and the powerful force of his resentment and fury at the fact. Spectators at executions, includlng those of Charles I of England and Louis XVI of France, struggled to dip cloths and hand-kercheifs in the dead man's blood. +> -- pg 25 + + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Circle.md b/Reading List - The Circle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2436583 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Circle.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Circle +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Circle + +## Author: Dave Eggers + +**Started Reading**: 2017-03-01 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-03-14 + +Carrie and Ashley went to a movie and saw the preview for this. It looked interesting, so I got the book. No opinion yet. + +END NOTE: Mae loved Big Brother. The parallels between this book and 1984 are obvious. But this time Winston was a willing participant. I am writing this before reading other reviews or seeing the movie. + +I liked this book. A lot. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Greatest Gift.md b/Reading List - The Greatest Gift.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..749b05c --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Greatest Gift.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Greatest Gift +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Greatest Gift + +## Author: Philip Van Doren Stern + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +#readinglist/read + +The inspiration for the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", this book is very short. No more than a short story really. But It encompasses all the ideas in the movie. I was expecting a longer read, but really, what more is there to say? + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Halloween Tree.md b/Reading List - The Halloween Tree.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3e2c569 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Halloween Tree.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Halloween Tree +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: The Halloween Tree + +## Author: Ray Bradbury + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-18 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24 + +I thought this looked interesting but it wasn't available on Libby - so I put a hold on it and got a message a couple hours later that it had been checked out to me! So far so good - a little stilted in the language - but a cool concept. I had to watch a couple YouTube reviews before I understood what's going on with Pipkin. It's a YA title - I'm hoping to finish it soon. UPDATE: what a cool book. A little hard to read, but the way it told the history of Halloween was awesome. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business.md b/Reading List - The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b9456bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business + +## Author: Ron Jeremy + +**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Gave up half-way through this, need to finish + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Haunting of Hill House.md b/Reading List - The Haunting of Hill House.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..015a6b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Haunting of Hill House.md @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Haunting of Hill House +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: The Haunting of Hill House + +## Author: Shirley Jackson + +**Started Reading**: 2020-10-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-18 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393407-the-haunting-of-hill-house) + +--- + +via Libby + +This was much more difficult of a read than I'd expected. I'm glad to have the experience under my belt, but I feel like after seeing so many re-imaginings of this story, the original fell a bit flat. Sort of like the original War of the Worlds inspired so many, much more intense variations on the "alien attack" theme. I respect this story for the door it opened in the "haunted house" genre, but ultimately found it a bit tedious. + +## Highlights + +All from the introductory chapter: Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors: On the Penguin Horror Series by GUILLERMO DEL TORO + +> I take great pride in presenting a new edition of Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories as part of this Penguin Horror series. + +> Which brings us to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. There is so much to say about him and such illuminating texts have been written by brilliant scholars (above all else my kind accomplice S. T. Joshi), colleagues (L. Sprague de Camp’s Lovecraft biography), or fellow authors (H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Michel Houellebecq) + +> Henry James was fascinated by ghost stories—which he defined as fairy tales for adults—and studied them carefully. He devoted considerable time to the creation and contemplation of such tales and, in my opinion, devised one of the most moving and tenuous of all ghost tales in “The Way It Came." + +> It is not until Poe that the seat of evil is transferred back to its proper place: the human mind. + +> "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex." + + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Hawley Book of the Dead.md b/Reading List - The Hawley Book of the Dead.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c29d418 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Hawley Book of the Dead.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: The Hawley Book of the Dead +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Hawley Book of the Dead + +## Author: Chrysler Szarlan + +**Started Reading**: 2021-09-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-10-10 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342498-the-hawley-book-of-the-dead) + +--- + +I found this through Libby a few months back and naturally thought the title was interesting. I've read almost the first section and am intrigued. There's a part of me that's afraid I am reading a ladies romance-novel without the romance (at least so far). It's told from a female protagonists perspective. The main character was part of a magic duo with her husband, whom she accidentally killed in a botched magic act. They have three daughters. The husband's death was suspicious and a back-story involving real magic is just starting up. It's interesting enough to keep reading. So far, it seems like a good book for this time of year. + +Glad to have finished this book. It had a lot to do with mythology and magic and a dark family secret, but I agree with a lot of th GoodReads reviews that this book had a pacing problem and the main character became incredibly dense near the end. It wasn't as "fluffy" as I was afraid it would be, but it also wasn't what I expected fro the title. + + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Impossible Fortress.md b/Reading List - The Impossible Fortress.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6337124 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Impossible Fortress.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Impossible Fortress +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Impossible Fortress + +## Author: Jason Rekulak + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-05 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-05 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753698-the-impossible-fortress) + +--- + +Finished this in an afternoon. Liked it a lot. It was like the book version of a fun 80's movie. Some situations were contrived and some plot-lines were obvious but all-in-all I had fun reading it. Hard to believe I finished it in one afternoon. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Jungle.md b/Reading List - The Jungle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3bdc073 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Jungle.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Jungle +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Jungle + +## Author: Upton Sinclair + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +#readinglist/read + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle) + +> "Sinclair famously quipped, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." His primary concern, what initially drew him to the subject of the packing yards, was the condition of labor following the failed meatpackers' strike of 1904, and not the corruption of meat." + +--- + +I never thought I'd be a fan of this kind of fiction, but I found the story engrossing. Admittedly, I was attracted to the graphic descriptions of the fledgling food industry, but I stuck around for the story. + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Keto Reset Diet, Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever.md b/Reading List - The Keto Reset Diet, Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a3da5aa --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Keto Reset Diet, Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Keto Reset Diet, Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever + +## Author: Mark Sisson + +**Started Reading**: 2018-08-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23 + +#readinglist/read + +Fueled by my recent liver disease diagnosis I started losing weight and following the keto diet (mostly). Thought I'd read a book about it. I was impressed with Mark's Youtube videos, so I'm giving it a chance. End note: A good book, I gave up at the end because the entire second half of the book is recipes. Great reference material for keto, though. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md b/Reading List - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ab2ce6e --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow + +## Author: Washington Irving + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-30 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-08 + +#readinglist/read + +Much like [[Reading List - A Christmas Carol]] last year, I decided it was time to read a classic story that I've know my whole life, it seems, but never read the original. + +UPDATE: Sort of disappointing: the book leads you to believe that Brom Bones was the horseman and there never was a ghost. Fascinating how many (better) derivatives this story has inspired. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins.md b/Reading List - The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ec12434 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins +tags: [ readinglist/inprogress ] +--- + +# Title: The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmins + +## Author: + +**Started Reading**: 2021-04-28 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40014223-the-linux-philosophy-for-sysadmins) + +--- + + + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Nerdist Way, How to Reach the Next Level.md b/Reading List - The Nerdist Way, How to Reach the Next Level.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c810e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Nerdist Way, How to Reach the Next Level.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Nerdist Way, How to Reach the Next Level +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level + +## Author: Chris Hardwick + +**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Gave up half-way through this, need to finish + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Outsider.md b/Reading List - The Outsider.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bf04c5b --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Outsider.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Outsider +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Outsider + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-05 + +A page-turner to be sure. I was disappointed to find the seemingly main character killed off before the half-way point. The rest of the book took a fantastical turn to explain the events of the first half. While it was good, it just feels like it was kind of a cop out. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, however. + +This book introduced me to Holly Gibney and was the reason I read the [[Bill Hodges Trilogy]] + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Perks of being a Wallflower.md b/Reading List - The Perks of being a Wallflower.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8390af9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Perks of being a Wallflower.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Perks of being a Wallflower +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Perks of being a Wallflower + +## Author: Stephen Chbosky + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-24 + +This one snuck up on me. I found the movie online and I remember watching the movie with Ashley and Carrie. I googled the story and found the book online and the next thing you know it I was finished reading it. I wish there had been a book like this when I was 14. Maybe there was, but I just never found it. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Queen's Gambit.md b/Reading List - The Queen's Gambit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0406655 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Queen's Gambit.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Queen's Gambit +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Queen's Gambit + +## Author: Walter Tevis + +**Started Reading**: 2021-06-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-23 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) + +--- + +This took me forever to finish. Probably because it was pretty much exactly the same as the Netflix series (which I enjoyed). I wound up taking a break and reading another book in the middle of this one, which made it take even longer, but since I knew the outcome of the book I wasn't chomping at the bit to see what came next. + +I did make me want to get back into chess a little bit though. + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - The Shining.md b/Reading List - The Shining.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a410cce --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Shining.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Shining +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Shining + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +A must-read every fall/winter. One of my top 5 books of all time. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The Winter People.md b/Reading List - The Winter People.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..58b4943 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The Winter People.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The Winter People +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The Winter People + +## Author: Jennifer McMahon + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-16 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-22 + +[goodreads.com link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007535-the-winter-people) + +--- + +Found on this list: [11 Scary Books So Terrifying, Readers Wish They Never Read Them](https://www.bookbub.com/blog/scary-books-terrify-reader-blurbs) + +This was a fun horror story. A female-focused sort of Pet Sematary. Gertie lives on forever and Sara is left to learn the hard way that "sometimes dead is better" + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.md b/Reading List - The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30205cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2017-11-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-08 + +#readinglist/read + +A short-story that reminds me of 1984 - but somehow in the future. One of those books that I'm gonna have to think about for a bit to decide how I feel. An easy read with a few bumps in the the flow that had me going back and re-reading parts to make sure I was understanding things. Doctorow's books have all been interesting, at least, and this one is no different. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.md b/Reading List - Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06f3021 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man + +## Author: Mary L Trump + +**Started Reading**: 2020-07-14 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-07-15 + +Well, I'm almost 1/4 through the book on the day I got it, so I'd better log it here. +UPDATE: I finished the book in just over 24 hours. What a piece of shit Donald Trump is. Had I any reservations about that before, they are completely dismissed. I hope like hell everyone reads this book. What a dick. + + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Under the Dome.md b/Reading List - Under the Dome.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e557c29 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Under the Dome.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Under the Dome +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Under the Dome + +## Author: [[Stephen King]] + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-13 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-22 + +#readinglist/read + +Just picked book at random and am 5 chapters in. May as well count it as a book I'm going to read. Pretty good so far - another story that was made into a miniseries - but I think I'll wait on that until I'm finished. DONE: Stephen King really has a thing with aliens and monsters. This was a really good story, though. An adult "Lord of the Flies" that only worked because they were trapped. This took a long time to get through, but it was worth it. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - We Sold Our Souls.md b/Reading List - We Sold Our Souls.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d359020 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - We Sold Our Souls.md @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - We Sold Our Souls +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby ] +--- + +# Title: We Sold Our Souls + +## Author: [[Grady Hendrix]] + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-27 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-30 + +Found by searching Libby for "Halloween". Looks like a novel version of a "Shock Rock" story. Pretty interesting so far. +UPDATE: It was a great Shock Rock story written out long-form as a novel! I'll be looking into more things Grady's written! + +[[Reading List Index]] + +## Tracklist + +I found this on GoodReads and I figured I'd better include it here. The background soundtrack for reading this book. + +**[We Sold Our Souls](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37715859-we-sold-our-souls) Tracklist** + +* True as Steel - Warlock +* Welcome to Hell - Venom +* Powerslave - Iron Maiden +* Reign in Blood - Slayer +* Under the Blade - Twisted Sister +* Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses +* Destroyer - Kiss +* Awaken the Guardian - Fates Warning +* Holy Diver - Dio +* From Enslavement to Obliteration - Napalm Death +* Countdown to Extinction - Megadeth +* High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard +* Theatre of Pain - Motley Crue +* Fighting the World - Manowar +* Destroy Erase Improve - Meshuggah +* Let's Rumble - Love/Hate +* Sleep's Holy Mountain - Sleep +* Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister +* Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate +* With Oden on Our Side - amon amarth +* Twilight of the Gods - Bathory +* Master of Puppets - Metallica +* Into Glory Ride - Manowar +* Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton +* Toxicity - System of a Down +* In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor +* Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne +* Devil is Fine - Zeal & Ardor +* You Can't Stop Rock and Roll - Twisted Sister +* Troglodyte - Jimmy Castor Bunch +* For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Reading List - When You Are Engulfed in Flames.md b/Reading List - When You Are Engulfed in Flames.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88fdbb8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - When You Are Engulfed in Flames.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - When You Are Engulfed in Flames +tags: [ readinglist/read, readinglist/libby, readinglist/audiobook ] +--- + +# Title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames (audiobook) + +## Author: David Sedaris + +**Started Reading**: 2019-11-15 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-22 + +via Libby audiobook + +Like Robert Fulghum (or Jean Sheppard) with swearing. Another audiobook. Still funny. I've only ever listened to David read his books. Now I may never read one. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md b/Reading List - Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bb81ba9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Where Wizards Stay Up Late +tags: [ readinglist/dnf ] +--- + +# Title: Where Wizards Stay Up Late + +## Author: Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-09 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Wanted to read this one for a while. Seems like a Hacker's (Heroes of the Computer Revolution) - type book. So far so good. + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md b/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aaa2e18 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.md @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +--- +title: Reading List - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + +## Author: [[Robert Pirsig]] + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +### Highlights + +A repair shop filled with youngsters listening to music. +> "The shop was a different scene from the ones I remembered. The mechanics, who had once all seemed like ancient veterans, now looked like children. A radio was going full blast and they were clowning around and talking and seemed not to notice me. When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets." +> Tappets? I should have known then what was coming. +> Two weeks later I paid their bill for 140 dollars, rode the cycle carefully at varying low speeds to wear it in and then after one thousand miles opened it up. At about seventy-five it seized again and freed at thirty, the same as before." + +Fixing John's motorcycle handlebars with a piece of beer can "shimstock" +> "As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!" + +DeWeese's Light Switch +> "He had the illusion the trouble was in the wire near the bulb because immediately upon toggling the switch the light went out. If the trouble had been in the switch, he felt, there would have been a lapse of time before the trouble showed up in the bulb. Phaedrus did not argue with this, but went across the street to the hardware store, bought a switch and in a few minutes had it installed. It worked immediately, of course, leaving DeWeese puzzled and frustrated. +> "How did you know the trouble was in the switch?" he asked. +> "Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch." +> "Well - couldn't it jiggle the wire?" +> "No." +> Phaedrus' cocksure attitude angered DeWeese and he started to argue. +> "How do you know all that?" he said. +> "It's obvious." +> "Well then, why didn't I see it?" +> "You have to have some familiarity." +> "Then it's not obvious, is it?" + +Gradeless University +> "it dealt with the specific career of an imaginary student who more or less typified what was found in the classroom, a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent" + +### Links + +* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) + +[[Reading List Index]] diff --git a/Reading List Index.md b/Reading List Index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c092981 --- /dev/null +++ b/Reading List Index.md @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +--- +title: Reading List Index +tags: [ readinglist ] +--- + +# Reading List Index + +Once upon a time I read somewhere that smart people take notes about the books they read. Being somewhat of an egomaniac I also like to be able to track how many books I've read and how long it took me to finish them. Lastly, it took me three chapters once to realize I was reading a book I'd already read a long time ago. + +This will be the index page that ties together all my reading list documents for the books I've read. + +I'm trying to create a workflow for reading (is that too much? Am I making reading a job? Nah.) When I decide to read a book, I'm going to create a note (with the below template) and Update [GoodReads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/61550335?ref=nav_mybooks). Once finished I will update with my thoughts/review/highlights and update Goodreads. + +That's not too much, is it? + +## Ebook Directories + +All my ebooks live in a directory on [[PHNAS02|Western Digital MyCloud EX2 Ultra]] (under `/archive/ebooks/) with the following sub-directories. +This directory is archived to ISO once a month (currently about 10GB) + +### ebooks-master + +* Epub ebooks. This is the master list of well-formed epubs. +* This directory is synced (including deletions) daily to [[ph-bigbrother]] in the directory `/home/chawley/Documents/ebooks-local` via rsync and cron as a local backup + +### ebook-overflow + +* ebooks-overflow - either non-epubs or related collections of epubs + * 2600 - (epub) A small collection of 2600 Magazines + * comics - Misc cbr/cbz collection + * linuxjournal - (epub) Linux Journal Magazine (2011 - 2019) + * pdf - Books in PDF format + +### ebook-unsync +* ebooks-unsync - random collections of misc formats and non-well-formed epubs + * Complete Peanuts 1950-2000 (CBR) Display issues on ReadEra + * Computer Magazines - Random classic computer magazines in PDF format + * Foxtrot Comics - (CBZ) Display issues on ReadEra + * epubs-misc - Miscellaneous unchecked epubs + * epubs-triage - Checked books that need cleaned up (TOC, spell-check) + * epubs-unprocessed - books to check for formatting or layout errors + * epubs-x - erotic ebooks + +## Calibre + +As of Oct 2021, I've gone back to Calibre as a library for my epubs because of ease of handling meta-data and the sheer number of solutions that are compatible with the calibre database. The latest version of [[Calibre|HowTo - Calibre Server in Docker]] and calibre-server is installed on [[overlook]]. + +On the phone and the tablet I use [Calibre-Companion](https://calibrecompanion.co/) to access and download titles from the ebook library. I use [ReadEra Premium](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera.premium&hl=en_US&gl=US) to read because it renders the most file formats and synchronizes books, progress and annotations between devices. + +## Libby + +I work for OverDrive and have long been only a casual fan of Libby. I am hoping to change that since I've spent years looking for a cross-platform reader that allows me to highlight, take notes and sync between the web, phone and tablet and have only found Libby. ReadEra is awesome for books I own and it does sync between the phone and the tablet, but has no web interface. Besides, Libby lets me sample books and helps me discover new books. Lastly, the audiobooks interface on Libby is first-class. I need to listen to more books, too. + + +## Reading List Template + +Use this template to create a new Reading List Note/Document + +``` +--- +title: +tags: [ readinglist/read ] +--- + +# Title: + +## Author: + +**Started Reading**: or unknown + +**Finished Reading**: or unknown/dnf + +[Goodreads Link]() + +--- + + + +--- + +[[Reading List Index]] +``` + +## Notes + +Get reading list by finished date (via terminal in `ncnotes` directory) + +List all books with a start date (or 'unknown') +```bash +grep "\*\*Started Reading\*\*" Reading\ List*.md | awk -F':' '$3 ~ "^ ([1-2][0-9]{3})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})" || $3 ~ "^ unknown" {print $3, $1}' | sort +``` + +List all books with finish date (or 'unknown') +```bash +grep "\*\*Finished Reading\*\*" Reading\ List*.md | awk -F':' '$3 ~ "^ ([1-2][0-9]{3})-([0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})" || $3 ~ "^ unknown" {print $3, $1}' | sort +``` + +List all books with no finish date +```bash +grep "\*\*Finished Reading\*\*" Reading\ List*.md | awk -F':' '$3 ~ "^$" {print $3, $1}' | sort +``` \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title - Reading List Template.md b/Title - Reading List Template.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..30ed12a --- /dev/null +++ b/Title - Reading List Template.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: + +## Author: + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link]() + +Tags: + booknotes, template \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title 1984.md b/Title 1984.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f4cd7e --- /dev/null +++ b/Title 1984.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: 1984 + +## Author: Orwell, George + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +A true classic. Have read it multiple times. I can't resist comparing it to the affairs in America under Trump + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title A Christmas Carol.md b/Title A Christmas Carol.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d9d4c28 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title A Christmas Carol.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: A Christmas Carol + +## Author: Charles Dickens + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-12-02 + +I wanted to read the original. + +END NOTE: Written in old(er) english, I'm glad that I'd seen so many adaptations of the story and just as glad the edition I read had plenty of footnotes. I was surprised at how many direct quotes from the book have survived in the many film adaptations I've seen. As Tiny Tim has opined: "God Bless Us, Every One!" + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title A Clockwork Orange.md b/Title A Clockwork Orange.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9c6905 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title A Clockwork Orange.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: A Clockwork Orange + +## Author: Burgess, Anthony + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41817486-a-clockwork-orange) + +Love the Movie, love the book. For different reasons. I really liked the 21st chapter (Alex's Denouement). While it almost seemed like a "too-quick-wrap-up" of the events of the preceding chapters, it rings a bit true how young men one day just "grow up" and leave childish things behind. I also respect Kubrick's take in the movie that there can be no denouement. Some men are born evil and remain that way their entire lives. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title A Very Stable Genius.md b/Title A Very Stable Genius.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b57fe8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title A Very Stable Genius.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: A Very Stable Genius: Donald J. Trump’s Testing of America + +## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker + +**Started**: 2020-02-24 + +**Finished**: DNF + +I can't believe I'm reading a book about politics, but it's really more about current events. UPDATE: after he was acquitted during his impeachment trial I gave up on this book. Not that's it's not true (all of it), but because there's new, more damning information released on a daily basis. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md b/Title All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e84fdf4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Title: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten + +## Author: Fulghum, Robert + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Almost Interesting.md b/Title Almost Interesting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c8d9c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Almost Interesting.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Title: Almost Interesting + +## Author: David Spade + +**Started Reading**: 2017-12-18 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-01-08 + +[goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24805706-almost-interesting) + +I've always liked David Spade when I saw him on SNL and in movies. But I kinda forgot about him after his popularity waned. This was by no means a best-seller, but I think he knew that with the title of the book. +I enjoyed this book a lot. His narrative style (“He writes like he talks!”) was a little unnerving early on, but the stories about his rise to fame at Saturday Night Live and the behind the scenes peeks at the show were really good. +Especially good if you remember the incidents he refers to (and I do) like the Chris Farley/Patrick Swayze Chippendale's sketch and pretty much the best parts of Tommy Boy. +A fun, easy read that left me hoping to see more of him and wishing him the best in the future. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 bo.md b/Title An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 bo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb19a1b --- /dev/null +++ b/Title An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 bo.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: An Unwelcome Quest (Magic 2.0 book 3) + +## Author: Scott Meyer + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-05-11 + +Finally got back into reading this year and finished this book that I started sometime early 2019. All-in-all a good book (I read the whole thing). Todd is back and Jimmy tries to convince the gang that he's not a total dickhead. Another ending that leaves me wondering about the events in the next book. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Armada.md b/Title Armada.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..010be2e --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Armada.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Armada + +## Author: Ernest Cline + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-21 + +I loveed Ready Player One. I'm hoping this is as good. + +End Note: Amidst bad reviews, I liked this enough to finish it in about 24 hours. Wow. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Bossypants.md b/Title Bossypants.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4472461 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Bossypants.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Title: Bossypants + +## Author: Tina Fey + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Building a Second Brain A Proven.md b/Title Building a Second Brain A Proven.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d47ba2f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Building a Second Brain A Proven.md @@ -0,0 +1,68 @@ +# Title: Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential + +## Author: Tiago Forte + +**Started Reading**: 2022-07-06 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59616977-building-a-second-brain) + +--- + +2022-07-07: I ran across a [Reddit thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/vsejrx/-/if1kzxy) today where someone asked about a note note taking system and was recommended to read the book "Building a Second Brain". The book purports to explain a way to think about notes and how to organize things rather than recommend apps (or so I hope). This morning, while looking for something to listen to while I walk I found the Art of Manliness podcast had just dropped an episode where he [interviewed Tiago Forte about the book](https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/podcast-816-building-a-second-brain/)! So I spent my walk listening to the author talk about the book. I was relieved to hear that he doesn't necessarily recommend any specific software and talks more about the higher-level concepts of personal knowledge management. I was also pleased to discover that I am doing most of the things he talks about already. + +## Notes + +In the professional world: +* It’s not at all clear what you should be taking notes on. +* No one tells you when or how your notes will be used. +* The “test” can come at any time and in any form. +* You’re allowed to reference your notes at any time, provided you took them in the first place. +* You are expected to take action on your notes, not just regurgitate them. + +--- + +So much of our intellectual output—from brainstorms to photos to planning to research—all too often is left stranded on hard drives or lost somewhere in the cloud. + +--- + +Most important of all, don’t get caught in the trap of perfectionism: insisting that you have to have the “perfect” app with a precise set of features before you take a single note. It’s not about having the perfect tools—it’s about having a reliable set of tools you can depend on, knowing you can always change them later. + +--- + +`CODE` +Capture; Organize; Distill; Express. + +_This sounds very "Getting Things Done"_ + +--- + +We have a natural bias as humans to seek evidence that confirms what we already believe, a well-studied phenomenon known as "confirmation bias." + +--- + +If you’re not surprised, then you already knew it at some level, so why take note of it? + +--- + +The moment you first encounter an idea is the worst time to decide what it means. You need to set it aside and gain some objectivity. + +--- + +First, you are much more likely to remember information you’ve written down in your own words. Known as the “Generation Effect,”10 researchers have found that when people actively generate a series of words, such as by speaking or writing, more parts of their brain are activated when compared to simply reading the same words. + +--- + +There is even significant evidence that expressing our thoughts in writing can lead to benefits for our health and well-being.11 One of the most cited psychology papers of the 1990s found that “translating emotional events into words leads to profound social, psychological, and neural changes.” + +_Jornaling through problems._ + +--- + +the Cathedral Effect. Studies have shown that the environment we find ourselves in powerfully shapes our thinking. + +_This is why people expect psychic readings and seances in a dark room with candles and incense._ + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md b/Title Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5f637ed --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Title: Christmas Eve on Haunted Hill + +## Author: Bryan Smith + +**Started Reading**: 2020-11-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-22 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28113652-christmas-eve-on-haunted-hill) + +--- + +This was... + - short (just over 100 pages) + - holiday-themed (obviously. It took place all on Christmas Eve) + - bad. Well, to be fair it was more like a Tales from the Crypt episode. For such a short story it skipped a lot of background and took some liberties with characters and backstory. Hey I read the whole thing, so it wasn't that bad. + +Luke is the lone survivor of a Christmas Eve massacre committed by his Santa-suited father 10 years ago. Ten years later, Luke is back in town, in a Santa suit, with plans to commit suicide after getting wasted in the local bar. When he runs into an old friend (divine providence?) things take a different turn and he decides to destroy his old house, the scene of the original tragedy. But a bunch of kids have beat them to the house and are about to come face-to-face with an evil that visits the house once a year to bring something far more sinister than presents. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Content Selected Essays on Techn.md b/Title Content Selected Essays on Techn.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f48dba0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Content Selected Essays on Techn.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-13 + +I liked “Little Brother” and I recognize Cory Doctorow as a sort of patron-saint of open-source (or probably more correctly free-use). +I'm about half way through this. I like it. Small digestible chunks of advocacy for free-use and arguments against copyright and DRM and other crap. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Critical Failures - Fail Harder.md b/Title Critical Failures - Fail Harder.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c53897a --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Critical Failures - Fail Harder.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Critical Failures: Fail Harder (Caverns and Creatures Book 2) + +## Author: Robert Bevan + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Godreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18667253-critical-failures-ii) + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Critical Failures - A Storm of S Words.md b/Title Critical Failures - A Storm of S Words.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dfbdc64 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Critical Failures - A Storm of S Words.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Critical Failures - A Storm of S-Words (Caverns and Creatures Book 3) + +## Author: Robert Bevan + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-07-16 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22963010-critical-failures-iii) + +Started this book a long time ago after reading Critical Failures 1 & Critical Failures 2. I stopped about 3/4 of the way through and it got away from me. Glad to have this finished. A good story that sets up part 4. The gang chased Mordred back into the game. The next book should be good. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Critical Failures - Shit is About to Get Real .md b/Title Critical Failures - Shit is About to Get Real .md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4fa571d --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Critical Failures - Shit is About to Get Real .md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Critical Failures: Shit is About to get Real (Caverns and Creatures Book 1) + +## Author: Robert Bevan + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/15701981-critical-failures) + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Critical Failures - The Phantom Pinas.md b/Title Critical Failures - The Phantom Pinas.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dad57b0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Critical Failures - The Phantom Pinas.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Title: Critical Failures: The Phantom Pinas (Caverns and Creatures Book 4) + +## Author: Robert Bevan + +**Started Reading**: 2018-07-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27880863-critical-failures-iv) + +Pretty good so far - not able to read continuously for whatever reason. It's taking a while to get through this one. +END NOTE: holy shit! Tim fucked up at the end forcing ANOTHER book! Ploy to sell more books? Maybe, but I've got book five so I'll have to see what happens next. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Dead Clown Barbecue.md b/Title Dead Clown Barbecue.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e6b2e44 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Dead Clown Barbecue.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Title: Dead Clown Barbecue + +## Author: Jeff Strand + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-11-01 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16482018-dead-clown-barbecue) + +--- + +This is book full of short stories that remind me a lot of [J Plummer](https://www.joeplummer.com/)'s Notebook. They're short. They're funny (most of the time). They're gory. They're politically-incorrect. + +That being said, they're not **amazing**, but that fact is offset nicely by the fact that they are short. I can usually read an entire story while the girls are brushing their teeth at night before bed. + +I was planning on writing up a sentence or two about each but there are 29 stories. Nope. + +Note: This got sort of painful by the end. Some of these stories were just silly. I get the writing style and appreciate the in-your-face, pragmatic narrative style, but I found myself reading a story every few day more out the sense of duty, wanting to finish the book, rather than wondering what was going to come next or if the next story was going to be good. + +But I did read the whole thing. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Deliver Us From Evil.md b/Title Deliver Us From Evil.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b50caf8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Deliver Us From Evil.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Title: Deliver Us From Evil + +## Author: Allen Lee Harris + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52414163-deliver-us-from-evil) + +From the back cover: + +> Deep in the steamy backwoods of Georgia, in a place called 'the snake well' by the locals, a twelve year old girl is bound and ritually tortured. The details of the crime are bizarre, and the few citizens of Lucerne who know the shocking truth of the crime keep it secret...NOW...A young orphan boy arrives in the sleepy town...and in the dark woods something inhuman stirs in the 'snake well.' An ancient hunger has awakened. Soft voices call out from the dark forest, drifting over the bayou, echoing in the crawlspaces. The townsfolk's darkest nightmares stalk the moonlit streets. And two young boys must face an evil that has been waiting for millennia to bring humanity an everlasting night. + +From inside the back cover: + +> Allen Lee Harris lives in Georgia with his eight cats. He began college when he was 14, graduated at 19, then attended Harvard Divinity School before getting a Masters in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He returned to Georgia, where he was working toward his PhD when he began writing full-time. While writing he supported himself at various jobs, including tending an all-night gas station where he wrote some of the more frightening parts of Deliver Us From Evil. + + +Only in paperback. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Dmitri.md b/Title Dmitri.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0780d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Dmitri.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# Title: Dmitri + +## Author: Jamey Cohen + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2103452.Dmitri) + +From the back cover: + +> THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK IS TICKING. +It is Monday, May tenth, and in a sixteenth-century palace, nine-year-old Dmitri Ivanovich, son of Ivan the Terrible and heir to the Russian throne, has less than a week to live unless he can find a way to escape an assassin's blade.... +> It is Monday, May tenth, and in twenty-first century America, college senior John Greene is about to participate in a simple hypnosis experiment - an experiment that will catapult him into a terrifying battle for his very existence.... +> It is Monday, May tenth, and in a world where time has lost all meaning, beautiful graduate student Marina Kuryev can only wait and watch in helpless horror as the man she loves is caught in a lethal conflict with a boy long-dead.... + +Only available in paperback. I never thought I'd be interested in a book like this (Russian history) but just like Jamey says in the Epilogue: + +> While the twentieth-century characters were fictional, there really was a [Dmitri Ivanovich](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_of_Uglich) and there really was a [false Dmitri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Dmitry): +> +> ...I omitted telling you that there was a second false Dmitri. And a third. And a fourth. +> And they all wanted one thing. +> To be tsar. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Doctor Sleep.md b/Title Doctor Sleep.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9da8664 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Doctor Sleep.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Title: Doctor Sleep + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +The Shining Part 2 + +At first I thought the "True Knot" was a little hokey, but it's grown on me. Have read this multiple times. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Driven to Distraction.md b/Title Driven to Distraction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b573a1f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Driven to Distraction.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: Driven to Distraction + +## Author: Edward M Hallowell MD + +**Started Reading**: 2021-01-11 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/108593.Driven_to_Distraction) + +--- + +A book abot ADHD that I didn't finish. That's irony. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Election.md b/Title Election.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bd55ff --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Election.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Title: Election + +## Author: Tom Perrotta + +**Started Reading**: 2017-11-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-09 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28282.Election) + +I always liked the movie and I was interested once I found out that it was based on a book. I finally found the book and decided to check it out. I am half through the book at this point. It reads just like the movie - I'm even picturing the characters from the movie as I read. +END NOTE: The end took a different turn than the movie that, while thought provoking, wasn't as satisfying as the movie. Still glad I read it. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Elevation.md b/Title Elevation.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3829ab9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Elevation.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Elevation + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-27 + +Borrowed from Cuyahoga County library via Libby. I'm having a hard time finding the time to read, but this seems like typical King so far. + +END NOTE: Too long for a short story and too short for a novel. Felt like it belonged in Bazaar of Bad Dreams except it wasn't really a horror story. More of a fantasy. Not mad that that I read it. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title End of Watch.md b/Title End of Watch.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d784d01 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title End of Watch.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: End of Watch + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-12 + +Book three of the Bill Hodges Trilogy + +More of a true sequel to the "Mr Mercedes". The call-backs to the previous books are nice, but he sets them up well - you didn't have to read the previous books to understand this one. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Finders Keepers.md b/Title Finders Keepers.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..913571f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Finders Keepers.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Finders Keepers + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-08 + +Book two of the Bill Hodges Trilogy + +OK - within the first few chapters, we're seeing the events that started "Mr Mercedes" from another point of view. I guess I'll be reading this one too. - Well, I finished it. Like a good "second-in-a-trilogy" this one left us with shadows of what's to come for book three. I'm not sure I'll get to book three right away. I should, but I've found that Mr Mercedes was a mini-series on TV. From what I can see they butchered the plot. I might have to peek at that before moving on to "End of Watch" + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Forrest Gump.md b/Title Forrest Gump.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f6f1116 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Forrest Gump.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: Forrest Gump + +## Author: Winston Groom + +**Started Reading**: 2021-02-08 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/186190.Forrest_Gump) + +We watched Forrest Gump recently and I got caught up in the IMDB trivia. There was [one entry](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/trivia?item=tr1311738) that alluded to there being a sequel to the first book. First book? I never knew Forrest Gump was a book. So I found it on Libby and read the first chapter before checking it out. I'm not sure if I'll finish it (it's really different from the movie), but I was able to get through the first chapter pretty quickly. + +I couldn't get through this. It's just too weird after watching the movie. It's like a bad fan-fiction of the movie. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Furiously Happy.md b/Title Furiously Happy.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee18cc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Furiously Happy.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +# Title: Furiously Happy + +## Author: Jenny Lawson + +**Started Reading**: 2022-11-27 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848559-furiously-happy) + +# Quotes + + +> I can’t think of another type of illness where the sufferer is made to feel guilty and question their self-care when their medications need to be changed. + +--- + +> Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn’t mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. + +--- + +>And also, WHY IS THERE A BEAR IN MY BED?” and I was like, “Because that one’s juuust right,” and Victor looked at me incredulously because apparently his mother never read him “Goldilocks.” + +--- + +> like when I heard about “microdermabrasion,” which I suspect is Latin for “I want to pull off your skin and turn it into a jacket.” My dermatologist sent me an e-mail about it, saying something about how my new skin was suffocating underneath layers of my old, dead skin, and I suddenly felt like I was wearing a mask of dust mites and dirt. + +--- + +> I use nothing but soap and water until one of those mall beauticians stops me on my way to buy a pretzel to tell me how bad I look and convinces me to lavish my face with an expensive cream that makes me immediately break out, probably because my face is not used to being cared for and is panicking. + +--- + +> Imagine carrying seven pockets with you at the carnival. You can’t. You’d need a purse. Then you’d get on the Zipper and it’d be fine for a minute until your purse popped open and all of your stuff was being poltergeisted around the cage at you like you were a kitten in a dryer full of batteries, and then your phone gave you a black eye. This is all based on real life, by the way. + +--- + +> Here’s a picture of just a few of the buttons on a Japanese toilet: +>I’m not entirely sure what these are all for but I think the top one that looks like a stick figure is to notify people that you’ve found the Blair Witch, and I think the next one means “Poop won’t go down. Use your foot.” I assume the orange button on the far left is for starting a war, and then there are two for washing your boobs for some reason, and then one about levitating on a fountain, and I think the last one is for ordering bacon? diff --git a/Title Gerald's Game.md b/Title Gerald's Game.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..22352b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Gerald's Game.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Gerald's Game + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2017-12-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-12-06 + +I've begun binging Netflix shows and found this in their 'Netflix Originals' section. I watched the trailer only to find it was a movie and not a series, but still - it looked really interesting. Thinking I must have this book somewhere - I found it and am on Chapter 10. I'm promising myself I'll read it before I watch the movie. So far - so good. A bit of "United States of Tara"-style multiple-personality going on but only in Jessie's head. Stephen rarely lets me down, so I'll keep reading this one. UPDATE: This was a strange book. I still think it should have been over after chapter 34. The last six chapters were almost unnecessary. It took a story about survival and introspection and made it a monster movie. Meh. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Hack.md b/Title Hack.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..adae8f2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Hack.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: Hack + +## Author: Peter Wrenshall + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-12 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-16 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6377037-hack) + + +This is YA title that seems to get the technology right. It's a short book that I'm enjoying so far, but the copy I found is poorly formatted. Doesn't matter, I halfway through it. + +END NOTE: this was bad. It really was like a young adult book. No real details and no satisfactory resolution. You could see the end coming a mile away. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Hackers Heroes of the Computer R.md b/Title Hackers Heroes of the Computer R.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..55477e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Hackers Heroes of the Computer R.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Title: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution + +## Author: Levy, Steven + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8646752-hackers) + +I love this book and have read it multiple times. Fuck the reviewers on goodreads. This book is fantastic. + +### Highlights + +> "When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (mashed until no good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack". + +> "...to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity." + +> "Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine." Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing." + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Helltown (World's Scariest Place.md b/Title Helltown (World's Scariest Place.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38a6677 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Helltown (World's Scariest Place.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Helltown (World's Scariest Places, #3) + +## Author: Bates, Jeremy + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-11-26 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25591451-helltown) + +Very entertaining read! Having been to the area and having heard all the legends it was fun to read a story where someone tied them all together in a fictional piece. There were a few editing errors in the text that threw me off. I also had a tough time keeping track of the characters initially. Reads like a good B Horror movie at a drive-in on a Friday night. Not a life-changer, but a fun time nonetheless. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel.md b/Title Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6002d97 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +# Title: Hocus Pocus & The All New Sequel + +## Author: A.W. Jantha + +**Started Reading**: 2020-09-12 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-03 + +Via Libby + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36244389-hocus-pocus-the-all-new-sequel) + +Meh. +This first part was a novelization of the movie. While it was good, I gave up 3/4 through it since it was, pretty much, word-for-word the movie. + +The second part was a poor take on an obvious sequel. There's talk of making a movie sequel. If so, I hope they don't base it on this book (or at least make some sweeping changes) + +There was not enough of the original cast and at times the story was darker than I'd expect a sequel to the movie to be (the "Switching Spell" sends people to Hell?) + +An effort to update us on the exploits of the Sanderson legend and the original cast involved falls flat without enough background on the newly introduced characters (another Sanderson sister? And their mother was a bitch, but only appears for a few pages?) while the original cast recede to cardboard cutouts of themselves in the background with no real part to play. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Holidays on Ice.md b/Title Holidays on Ice.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0bc71ea --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Holidays on Ice.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Title: Holidays on Ice + +## Author: David Sedaris + +**Started Reading**: 2019-11-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-13 + +**AUDIOBOOK** + +In pursuit of another classic holiday book (I was looking for a Thanksgiving book) I found this on Libby and thought "what the hell?" It's early - but it looks funny. Halfway through the first chapter I'm already thinking I want to own this book. + +END NOTE: Like a foul-mouthed Jean Sheppard, some of these stories were only tangentially related to Christmas, but there were a few real gems. A new yearly tradition, for sure[[Reading List Index]] + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Homeland.md b/Title Homeland.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e822050 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Homeland.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: Homeland + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-31 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12917338-homeland) + +--- + +## My Take + +This is the sequel to "Little Brother", which I read long ago , but never logged in my reading list. I enjoyed Little Brother with all it's high-tect storyline and real world examples. I am hoping this is just as good. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Tr.md b/Title I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Tr.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10ae748 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Tr.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: I Alone Can Fix It - Donald J Trump's Catastrophic Final Year + +## Author: Carol Leonnig, Philip Rucker + +**Started Reading**: 2021-08-02 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-18 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58411199-i-alone-can-fix-it) + +--- + +Another book I was surprised to have found interesting. I knew all the bullet points already as we'd lived through them, but seeing it all layed out makes me wonder how many people out there might see the last year in a different light. I suppose the hard-core Trumpies will never see the disaster this man wrought on this country, but much like Trump himself repeating lies over and over again until they are accepted as truth, hopefully the flood of these books hitting the market will start to sink into the zeitgeist and remind people of what a sack of shit Donald Trump is. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title I Quit Sugar.md b/Title I Quit Sugar.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dffbd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title I Quit Sugar.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: I Quit Sugar + +## Author: Sarah Wilson + +**Started Reading**: 2019-10-25 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-28 + +via LIBBY + +I wasn't going to count this book on my reading list, but I *did* read almost all of it (except the 2nd half of the book which are all recipes). It was interesting that she leans so hard on the no-sugar angle without ever touching the carbs angle (or mentioning keto). But I agree with all her claims about feeling better and how hard it is to find really sugar-free foods. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title IT.md b/Title IT.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d2925f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title IT.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: IT + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-14 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-26 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It) + +I read this years ago although I can't remember if it was before or after the TV movie. Last weekend we went to see the new movie and I thought it was time to give this book another go. It's as good as I remember... Having finished the book I can only say that I must not have finished it last time I read it. More than 3/4 of the way through the book I stopped remembering things and started reading new things. I must have given up last time and only remember the details from the TV movie. In any event, I feel accomplished and glad I've finally read the whole thing. A classic, for sure. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title If It Bleeds.md b/Title If It Bleeds.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6507b1f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title If It Bleeds.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# Title: If It Bleeds + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2020-05-17 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-12 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/46015758-if-it-bleeds) + +--- + +His latest book of short stories. + +**MR. HARRIGAN’S PHONE**: I liked the concept of this story. The thought of a cell phone ringing in a casket 6 feet underground is creepy. The thought of getting a text message in response is worse. + +**THE LIFE OF CHUCK**: I'm not sure I entirely got this one. I think I read somewhere that if references other works of his that I'm not familiar with. + +**IF IT BLEEDS**: The best of the bunch, for sure. Not until I got to this story did I remember hearing about a reappearance of Holly Gibney. I'm glad I read the "The Outsider" and the Bill Hodges trilogy. It makes this story make a lot more sense. + +**RAT**: Started good and ended meh. + +END NOTES: typical Stephen King lately: these really good stories ended with a shrug + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md b/Title I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c4e5862 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title I’m Thinking of Ending Things.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: I’m Thinking of Ending Things + +## Author: Iain Reid + +**Started Reading**: 2019-10-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-11 + +**AUDIOBOOK** + +I am trying to avoid spoilers, but I have heard this book has a surprise, twist ending that most people find unsatisfying. But I want to decide for myself. + +END NOTE: I'm still not sure what to think. A lot of people recommend reading it twice (like "The Sixth Sense" you see the ending coming upon a second viewing). There's a lot to think about and whole [webpages](http://afterthingsend.com/) devoted to interpretation of the book. + +2020-08: The [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7939766/) is coming to Netflix. I may have to check it out. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md b/Title Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..241c202 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Let's Go Play at the Adams'.md @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +# Title: Let's Go Play at the Adams' + +## Author: Mendal W. Johnson + +**Started Reading**: 2021-02-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-03-02 + + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1202604.Let_s_Go_Play_at_the_Adams_) + +--- + +~~PDF file~~ (I found an [epub](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50490085-let-s-go-play-at-the-adams) from the [[Reading List - Paperbacks from Hell - The Twisted History of 70s and 80s Horror Fiction|Paperbacks from Hell Collection]]) + +I don't know how I feel about this book. It's not something I would have picked up on my own, I don't think. The reputation was what drew me to it. Written in the 70's I think it probably was more shocking then. Not that it isn't a sad, twisted story. I read reviews praising it's "well-written" style and I guess I see that. For the subject matter - the book was pretty thorough in trying to flesh out the characters and see all the viewpoints. + +This quote from a [reviewer on Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/905239662?utm_content=reviews_full_review&utm_medium=email&utm_source=bookend&ref_=pe_7171740_474197500) sums it up pretty well: +> 5 kids are not going to quickly turn into psychopaths able to systematically abuse and murder a person within a week unless they were already deranged. only one of them is characterized as having mental issues; none have traumatic backgrounds or guidance from a disturbed adult. there is no believable context to why they do the things they do, unless it is mere coincidence that brings these 5 deeply disturbed individuals together. that's a hell of a coincidence. no, I don't believe in the world of this book. + +I suppose it's books like this that inspired more graphic horror in the years following, but it's premise of "killing for killing's sake" is disturbing and sad. You don't finish this book feeling good, that's for sure. + +I'm glad I can say I read it, but I won't be looking for similar books. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Life as I Blow It.md b/Title Life as I Blow It.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2732fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Life as I Blow It.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Life as I Blow It + +## Author: Sarah Colonna + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-01-28 + +Silly "junk-food" book. I can't believe I finished the whole thing + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Lila.md b/Title Lila.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e41fd46 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Lila.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +# Title: Lila + +## Author: Robert Pirsig + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31093.Lila) + +--- + +## Highlights + +**Pirsig's Zettelkasten** - here's where he describes his paper-tray, slips-of-paper method of note-taking. I've read that Pirsig did not consider this a Zettelkasten, but the similarities are striking. Zettelkasten or not, these categories have inspired my notes as well. + +> "The first was UNASSIMILATED. This contained new ideas that interrupted what he was doing. They came in on the spur of the moment while he was organizing the other slips or sailing or working on the boat or doing something else that didn't want to be disturbed." + +> "PROGRAM slips were instructions for what to do with the rest of the slips. They kept track of the forest while he was busy thinking about individual trees." + +> "The next slips were the CRIT slips. These were for days when he woke up in a foul mood and could find nothing but fault everywhere. He knew from experience that if he threw stuff away on these days he would regret it later, so instead he satisfied his anger by just describing all the stuff he wanted to destroy and the reasons for destroying it." + +> "The next to the last group was the TOUGH category. This contained slips that seemed to say something of importance but didn't fit into any topic he could think of." + +> "The final category was JUNK. These were slips that seemed of high value when he wrote them down but which now seemed awful." + +--- + +> "There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it." + +## Links + +* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Mazes and Monsters.md b/Title Mazes and Monsters.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6a1622f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Mazes and Monsters.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Mazes and Monsters + +## Author: Rona Jaffe + +**Started Reading**: 2017-01-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-20 + +About as good as the movie. Robbie was sick way before he played the game. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Microserfs.md b/Title Microserfs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f3d727 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Microserfs.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Microserfs + +## Author: Douglas Coupland + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-26 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Wasn't sure I was going to read this, then I got to the third chapter. Still not sure I'll finish it... + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Mr Mercedes.md b/Title Mr Mercedes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eafd2c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Mr Mercedes.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: Mr Mercedes + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-06 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-07 + +Book one of the Bill Hodges Trilogy + +Found out there is a character in "The Outsider" (Holly Gibney) that originated in the "Bill Hodges Trilogy" of "Mr Mercedes, "Finders Keepers" and "End of Watch". So I started "Mr Mercedes". So far so good. + +I never pegged Stephen King as a crime writer - or me as a crime reader. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title NOS4A2.md b/Title NOS4A2.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a89391a --- /dev/null +++ b/Title NOS4A2.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +# Title: NOS4A2 + +## Author: Joe Hill + +**Started Reading**: 2017-02-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-02-26 + +NOS4A2 (Nosferatu? Heh, I just got that.) +Pretty good. Reminds me a lot of his father. Not a vampire story (I missed the reference until I started the book) and apparently his longest book (700+ pages?) + +AMC has turned this into a [TV series](https://www.amc.com/shows/nos4a2--68) that has seemed to deviate from the book a bit. I don't know, I've only seen the first three episodes of season one and kind of lost interest. + +2020: Update - Carrie and I have taken to watching this and are starting to get into Season One. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Nest of Nightmares.md b/Title Nest of Nightmares.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e44eea8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Nest of Nightmares.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: Nest of Nightmares + +## Author: Lisa Tuttle + +**Started Reading**: 2021-04-29 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/753143.A_Nest_of_Nightmares) + +--- + +A Paperback from Hell + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Nightmare Alley.md b/Title Nightmare Alley.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac0cd69 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Nightmare Alley.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Title: Nightmare Alley + +## Author: William Lindsay Gresham + +**Started Reading**: 2021-10-10 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140096-nightmare-alley) + +--- + +Based on a recommendation from [Nocturnal Revelries](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2021/09/19/freaks-and-con-artists-william-lindsay-greshams-nightmare-alley/), I decided to give this book a try. + +Months after not being able to really get into this book, I saw the [movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7740496/) and that took all the zest for finishing the book out of me. + +It was a good story, though. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 .md b/Title Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 .md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e0671a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 .md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Off To Be The Wizard (Magic 2.0 book 1) + +## Author: Scott Meyer + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-11 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-11 + +Just read the first few pages and before I knew it I was on chapter 12. Feels like a less foul-mouthed version of Caverns and Creatures. Have a feeling I'll be finishing this soon. +UPDATE: yep. Finished it in one day. A fun book with an original concept. I might have liked it better if Martin and the gang didn't pick Medieval England. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted.md b/Title Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f5c1da --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Paperbacks from Hell The Twisted.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# Title: Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction + +## Author: Grady Hendrix + +**Started Reading**: 2020-09-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-05 + +[Goodreads link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33670466-paperbacks-from-hell) + +## Highlights (Libby) + +| Date | Chapter | Percent | Color | Quote | +| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | +| October 03, 2020 18:38 | Chapter 4: Real Estate Nightmares | 30.6% | #FFB | Robert Marasco’s Burnt Offerings (1973), a chilling tale about a family who escapes the city to move into a summer rental…from hell. | +| September 18, 2020 18:47 | Chapter 3: When Animals Attack | 24.8% | #FFB | 1974\. It was also the year James Herbert published The Rats, | +| September 18, 2020 18:39 | Chapter 2: Creepy Kids | 32.2% | #FFB | Mazes and Monsters is best remembered today for its TV movie adaptation, which aired in 1982 and featured Tom Hanks in his first leading role, as Pardieu the Holy Man, freaking out on the streets of New York before trying to jump off the World Trade Center. | +| September 18, 2020 18:38 | Chapter 2: Creepy Kids | 31.5% | #FFB | Dungeons | +| September 18, 2020 18:38 | Chapter 2: Creepy Kids | 31.2% | #FFB | Jack Chick published his infamous anti-RPG (role-playing game) tract Dark | +| September 18, 2020 18:19 | Chapter 2: Creepy Kids | 29.0% | #FFB | Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop-Frog (1849) | + + +## Highlights (ReadEra) + +* Introduction + "The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. Shortly after we meet them, the author lets us know that these are not just any Nazi leprechauns. These are psychic Nazi leprechauns who enjoy S&M, are covered with scars from pleasure/pain sessions with their creator, were trained as sex slaves for full-sized human men, and are actually stunted fetuses taken from Jewish concentration camp victims. And one of them is named Adolph." - The Little People (John Christopher) + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "McGill, who returned in 1982 to write an Omen novel not based on a film, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, which opens with a scene of rectal childbirth" + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "1974’s [[Reading List - Let's Go Play at the Adams'|Let’s Go Play at the Adams’]] still elicits passionate loathing. Search online and you’ll find readers who describe destroying the book after finishing it, who write about being left ill, about how sick the author must have been." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Fictional clowns come with a body count. Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop-Frog (1849) was a dwarf forced to be a jester who burned eight courtiers to death." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "The Voice of the Clown (1982) would be the snarling six-year-old standing slightly to the side, staring into the camera, clutching a clown doll. Her name is Laura, and she sees right through you. Whatever tricks you try to make her like you, she and her clown are ready." - The Voice of the Clown (Brenda Brown Canary) + **Note**: [Nocturnal Revelries Link](https://nocturnalrevelries.com/2020/02/16/the-voice-of-the-clown-brenda-brown-canary/) + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 1984, the year Jack Chick published his infamous anti-RPG (role-playing game) tract Dark Dungeons, claiming that these dice-and-paper games were a gateway to satanism and suicide." + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "[[Reading List - Mazes and Monsters|Mazes and Monsters]] is best remembered today for its TV movie adaptation, which aired in 1982 and featured Tom Hanks in his first leading role, as Pardieu the Holy Man, freaking out on the streets of New York before trying to jump off the World Trade Center." + **Note** The book and the movie are both good late-night, b-rated fun + +* Chapter 2: Creepy Kids + "Hobgoblin (1981). + Protagonist Scott Gardiner is exactly the kind of kid Jaffe warned us was vulnerable to RPGs’ lurid lure: brilliant, creative, socially awkward, and with a dead dad. He’s also into a truly terrible RPG called Hobgoblin" + **Note** Hey! I like this book! + +* Chapter 3: When Animals Attack + "It was the year punk rock broke: 1974. It was also the year James Herbert published The Rats, which is pretty much the same thing." + +* Chapter 4: Real Estate Nightmares + "But it all started with Robert Marasco’s Burnt Offerings (1973), a chilling tale about a family who escapes the city to move into a summer rental... from hell." + +* Chapter 5: Weird Science + "In Little Brother (1983), aliens land on Earth in 1908 and take over the Soviet Union. By 1983 they've infiltrated the American market with an iPad-esque toy called the Possum, which beams addictive subliminal messages into the brains of good American kids." + +* Chapter 6: Gothic and Romantic + "The story of the Dollanganger children, locked away by their mother, poisoned by their grandmother, and falling in love with each other, became Flowers in the Attic." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "the PMRC publicly demanded that record labels reassess the contracts of musicians who performed violent or sexualized stage shows. They managed to hold Senate hearings on explicit lyrics and “porn rock,” which accomplished little except to show Americans that Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider was more levelheaded and informed than Tipper Gore." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "The first female character in The Scream is introduced to readers as we’re invited to look up her skirt. The second is “all tits and tan and perfect even teeth.” Then she’s murdered." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "Graham Masterton dominated the first cover of Frighteners with his outrageous cannibal-kid story “Eric the Pie,” which evoked instant outrage. The publisher pulled the magazine from newsstands, and it limped through two more issues before shutting down." + +* Chapter 8: Splatterpunks, Serial Killers, and Super Creeps + "In February 1991 the first Abyss book, The Cipher by Kathe Koja, hit the racks. A sharply observed slice of early-’90s bohemia, it was about a couple of starving artists in a dying Rust Belt city who find a hole in their storage space. Dubbing it the Funhole (the original title of the book), they discover that anything organic fed into the Funhole comes out disturbingly mutated" + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Pet Sematary.md b/Title Pet Sematary.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..815b7f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Pet Sematary.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +# Title: Pet Sematary + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +This is probably my all-time favorite book. + +## Highlights + +> That’s what you do, all right, he thought with immeasurable relief. You pass it like a stone, and that’s the end of it... unless there comes a campfire some night with friends when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap. + +> He raised his face into the wind after the door had clicked closed, the garbage bag with Church’s body in it riffling between his feet. +> Content. +> Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood. +> Something gonna happen here, Bubba. Something pretty weird, I think. + +> Days which seem genuinely good—good all the way through—are rare enough anyway, he thought. It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man's life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. + +> It's probably wrong to believe there can be any limit to the horror which the human mind can experience. On the contrary, it seems that some exponential effect begins to obtain as deeper and deeper darkness falls—as little as one may like to admit it, human experience tends, in a good many ways, to support the idea that when the nightmare grows black enough, horror spawns horror, one coincidental evil begets other, often more deliberate evils, until finally blackness seems to cover everything. And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity. That such events have their own Rube Goldberg absurdity goes almost without saying. At some point, it all starts to become rather funny. That may be the point at which sanity begins either to save itself or to buckle and break down; that point at which one's sense of humor begins to reassert itself. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md b/Title Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4f7ef6a --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Prisoners at the Kitchen Table.md @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +# Title: Prisoners at the Kitchen Table + +## Author: Barbara Holland + +**Started Reading**: 2021-05-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-05-24 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/184269) + +--- + +This was a Weekly Reader book I remember reading in grade-school. I found the PDF online and started thumbing through it. Before long I was actually reading it again. I'm sure it wouldn't have held my interest if I had discovered it recently, but having read it over 30 years ago, it was filled with nostalgia. + +I remember identifying with Josh, the more level-headed, high-anxiety, character. I'm sure that the fact that of the two main characters, a boy and a girl, I identified with Josh because he was a boy my age. Polly was brash and loud and spoiled by her parents. She spent the entire book complaining about not getting her way and giving up when the situation got too intense. Josh was a careful thinker, too easily cowed by adults and what was "accepted as correct behavior". He was also less well-off than Polly and seemed to respect his possessions more because of it. + +Apart from the moral of the story a Weekly Reader book was trying to teach, 30 years or more has put more perspective on the story. While the lesson in the book is timeless (independence, courage and the ability to stand up for oneself) the sad fact is that in reality, both of those kids would have been sexually abused and possibly murdered once the ransom was not paid. + +A neat little buttoned up ending befitting a Weekly Reader. + +Nevertheless I found a couple more Weekly Readers online and may just read them as well. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Radicalized.md b/Title Radicalized.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4b4a98b --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Radicalized.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: Radicalized + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-10 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24 + +via LIBBY + +I got the job at OverDrive and now have access to thousands of ebooks and audiobooks! This is my first loan from Cuyahoga County library and experienced with the Libby app. I'm about halfway through. The first story, "Unauthorized Bread" was really good. I'm not a huge fan of the second story (Model Minority) so far, the Title story was red by Wil Wheaton (what's not to like?) and the last story is a fun modern version of The Masque of the Red Death that I kind of kept on in the background. I think I may have given up if I'd been reading this book, but I liked listening to it. I certainly like some stories more than others. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Ready Player One.md b/Title Ready Player One.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29e87f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Ready Player One.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Ready Player One + +## Author: Ernest Cline + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +I love this book. Have read it multiple times and even bought the audiobook from Google Play Books + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Ready Player Two.md b/Title Ready Player Two.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6dc1721 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Ready Player Two.md @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +# Title: Ready Player Two + +## Author: Ernest Cline + +**Started Reading**: 2020-11-24 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-04-27 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26082916-ready-player-two?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=iWcx1KK4lO&rank=1) + +--- + +### Reading Notes: + +This book felt like such a slog at times. It took so long to finish it. Yet every time I picked it up I was drawn back in for a few chapters. The problem is, it just never drew me back. I'd eventually feel guilty that I wasn't reading it and told myself I shouldn't start something new until I finished it. Then I'd pick it up and get engrossed for another few chapters. + +It definitely suffered from the sophomore slump, and I've heard that there are plans to try to make this one a movie, too. +Good luck with that. It was a good book — but I don't see myself re-reading it like I did with the original. + +--- + +Highlights: +* Cutscene + "“In other words, the ONI allows you to relive moments of other people’s lives. To see the world through their eyes, hear it through their ears, smell it through their nose, taste it with their tongue, and feel it through their skin.” Halliday gave the camera a matter-of-fact nod. “The ONI is the most powerful communication tool humans have ever invented. And I think it’s also probably the last one we will ever need to invent.” He tapped the center of his forehead. “Now we can plug right in to the old noodle.”" + + +* Cutscene + "Warning! For safety reasons, the OASIS Neural Interface headset can only be used for a maximum of twelve consecutive hours at a time. When this limit has been reached, you will be logged out of your account automatically, and you will be unable to use your ONI headset again until twelve hours of downtime have elapsed." + + +* Cutscene + "As the timestamp faded away, it was replaced by a short message, just three words long—the last thing I would see before I left the real world and entered the virtual one. + But they weren't the three words I was used to seeing. I — like every other ONI user to come — was greeted by a new message Halliday had created, to welcome those visitors who had adopted his new technology: + + READY PLAYER TWO" + + +* 0000 + "We didn't make our decision lightly. We weighed all of the pros and cons. Then, after a heated debate, the four of us held a vote. The ayes had it. And just like that, we changed the course of human history forever. + After another series of safety trials, GSS patented the OASIS Neural Interface technology and began to mass-produce the headsets. We put them on sale at the lowest possible price, to make sure as many people as possible could experience the OASIS Neural Interface for themselves. + + We sold a million units that first day." + + Note + This part seemed kind of rushed. I feel like we needed to hear each the groups opinions on whether to do this or not. But I get that he needed to cover some ground to get to the next part - namely that once sales reached a certain level, the new game kicks off + +* 0000 + "A few seconds after the OASIS servers reached 7,777,777 simultaneous ONI users, a message appeared on Halliday’s long-dormant website, where the Scoreboard for his contest had once resided: + + Seek the Seven Shards of the Siren’s Soul + On the seven worlds where the Siren once played a role + For each fragment my heir must pay a toll + To once again make the Siren whole + + It came to be known as the Shard Riddle," + + +* 0000 + "The “Siren” seemed to be a reference to Kira Morrow, Og’s deceased wife and Halliday’s unrequited love." + + +* 0000 + "Kira had named her Dungeons & Dragons character Leucosia, after one of the Sirens of Greek myth." + + +* 0000 + "Other companies made attempts to reverse-engineer the ONI headset and steal our neural-interface technology—but the software and processing power required to make the ONI technology function was all part of the OASIS. Experiences could be recorded offline as an .oni file, even a bootleg one, but the file could only be played back by being uploaded to the OASIS. " + + Note + Uh oh, vendor lock in. Did they learn nothing from Apple? + + +* 0000 + "“Sims” were recordings made inside the OASIS, and “Recs” were ONI recordings made in reality. Except that most kids no longer referred to it as “reality.” They called it “the Earl.” (A term derived from the initialism IRL.) And “Ito” was slang for “in the OASIS.” So Recs were recorded in the Earl, and Sims were created Ito." + + Note + I feel like this will get confusing if I don't remember this terminology + + +* 0000 + "Moderating all of this user-generated content was a challenge—and a huge responsibility. GSS implemented CenSoft, our custom strong-AI censor software, which scanned every .oni recording before it was released and flagged suspicious content for human review." + + Note + Youtube? + + +* 0000 + "Finally, out of a mixture of disgust and desperation, I offered a billion dollars to anyone who could provide me with information on how to locate just one of the Seven Shards." + + Note + Parzival turns into Sargento before the book even starts? + + +* 0000 + "just a few weeks after the third anniversary of the ONI’s launch, it finally happened. An enterprising young gunter led me to the First Shard." + + +* Level Four + "To win the videogame of life you just have to try to make the experience of being forced to play it as pleasant as possible, for yourself, and for all of the other players you encounter in your travels." + + +* 0001 + "Samantha shakes her head. “No amount of money will be able to undo the damage these headsets are going to cause,” she replies, sounding defeated now. " + + Note + Seems obvious. + + + + + +[[Reading List Index]] + + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md b/Title Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..03ab481 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1).md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Title: Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) + +## Author: Harris, Thomas + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-12-03 + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Santa Took Them.md b/Title Santa Took Them.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..966299f --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Santa Took Them.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Santa Took Them + +## Author: William Malmborg + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +Starting my self-imposed regiment of reading holiday-themed books with this book I started last year and never finished. It's short - so I'm making myself finish it this year. A pretty good Halloween/Xmas segue book. Open-ended makes me wonder if there will be a sequel or if the author just wanted to leave us with a cliff-hanger. A fun read reminiscent of "Helltown (World's Scariest Places 3)" + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Say You Love Satan.md b/Title Say You Love Satan.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..964b9f7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Say You Love Satan.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Say You Love Satan + +## Author: David St Clair + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +The story behind the Acid King, [Ricky Kasso](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/long-island-devil-cult-murder-ricky-kasso-david-breskin-901069/). Found and read during my flirtation with Satanism in the early 90's. Only in paperback + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Secret Circles.md b/Title Secret Circles.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df9ff7d --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Secret Circles.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Title: Secret Circles + +## Author: F Paul Wilson + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-15 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-24 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6835887-secret-circles) + +--- + +From GoodReads: + +> When his five-year-old neighbor goes missing, Jack can’t help feeling responsible. He should have taken Cody home when he found him riding his bicycle near the Pine Barrens. And then a lost man wanders out of the woods after being chased all night by...something. Jack knows, better than anyone, that the Barrens are dangerous—a true wilderness filled with people, creatures, and objects lost from sight and memory. Like the ancient, fifteen-foot-tall stone pyramid he, Weezy, and Eddie discover. Jack thinks it might have been a cage of some sort, but for what kind of animal, he can’t say. Eddie jokes that it could have been used for the Jersey Devil. Jack doesn't believe in that old folk tale, but something is roaming the Pines. Could it have Cody? And what about the strange circus that set up outside town? Could they be involved? So many possibilities, so little time... + +This was as good as the first one. From what I remember about the short "Repairman Jack" stories I've read, this seems like a fine introduction to the man that became Repairman Jack. +F. Paul Wilson has mentioned there are (or will be) 15 Repairman Jack novels. I don't know if he's including these or not, but at this point, I'd like to read these in order and there's one more in the "Teen Repairman Jack" series that I'll have to track down before I get into the novels. I don't know how far I'll get, but hell, I've read two books in under a month and that's pretty good. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Secret Histories.md b/Title Secret Histories.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2c5532d --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Secret Histories.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +# Title: Secret Histories + +## Author: F Paul Wilson + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-13 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-15 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories) + +--- + +From GoodReads: +> THE FIRST OF A TRILOGY OF REPAIRMAN JACK PREQUELS Read for the first time Jack's formative years. You'll meet his mother and father, big sister Kate and his bully of a brother Tom. While aimed for young adults, F. Paul Wilson doesn't write down and the book is as enjoyable for adults as it is for teens. And, as you can see from the above description there's plenty of foreshadowing of events that were to overtake Jack as an adult + +I've run across a couple Repairman Jack stories in a few of my anthology books and enjoyed them. I decided to really try to use Libby since I work for her at OverDrive and found this. It's technically a young-adult title, but it was a fun and short read. F. Paul Wilson has written more than a dozen Repairman Jack books. I'm not sure if I'll read them all, but I have already started the next book in the prequels - "Secret Circles". + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Secret Vengeance.md b/Title Secret Vengeance.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3c5955d --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Secret Vengeance.md @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +# Title: Secret Vengeance + +## Author: F Paul Wilson + +**Started Reading**: 2022-05-24 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-05-30 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2407121.Secret_Histories) + +--- + +From Goodreads: +> Everyone loves senior Carson Toliver, the captain and quarterback of the football team, heartthrob of South Burlington County Regional High—especially the girls. Even Jack's best friend Weezy has a crush on him. And unlike most of the popular kids at school, he's not stuck up. Jack even sees him defending a piney kid who is being bullied in the hall. Which is why Jack is so surprised when Weezy tells him that Carson took her on a date and attacked her. + +--- + +## My Take + +This was a pretty good introduction to the character I've come to know as Repairman Jack in the short stories I've read. There was a bit more sci-fi/fantasy in this trilogy than I would have expected, but they were enjoyable nonetheless. I am planning on reading at least "The Tomb" (book 1 in the [Repairman Jack Series](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=repairman+jack&qid=C0ZsSoFoua)), since I've enjoyed everything I've read so far. + +--- + +I decided to start reading more and to start using Libby to do so, when I stumbled upon this prequel trilogy to the Repairman Jack stories I've read in some of my anthology books. I read [[Reading List - Secret Histories]] in a few days. I read [[Reading List - Secret Circles]] in a little over a week and decided to finish off the trilogy when I found that the library does not have this title and may not ever get it. +> Dan Lasco 3 minutes ago +> That's a metered access (MA) title, and the library has run out of licenses. +> Some libraries allow MA titles without licenses to remain in the collection and accumulate holds, so they can gauge interest. + +Have I mentioned how cool it is to work at the place that supports the app and knows all the answers? + +I guess I'll have to resort to my old ways to find this one. + +UPDATE: about an hour later, Meghan from Public Library Development contacted me and asked me about the book. She then introduced me to OverDrive's Digital Library (not the Corporate library I already knew about) and offered to upload the trilogy to that service. I set up an account using my work credentials and within a couple hours I was able to checkout the book in Libby! Again, it's good to work in a place that manages the thing you like. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Shit My Dad Says.md b/Title Shit My Dad Says.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8f52acd --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Shit My Dad Says.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Title: Shit My Dad Says + +## Author: Justin Halpern + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-05 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-09 + +I'm just glad to be reading again - I was doing pretty well the first few months of the year. Then... nothing. + +But this book is fun and seems like an easy read. Like Robert Fulghum spent time with Tucker Max + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Shock Rock.md b/Title Shock Rock.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c035e87 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Shock Rock.md @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +# Title: Shock Rock + +## Author: Jeff Gelb (editor) + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/641739.Shock_Rock_Volume_I) + +--- + +From a [goodreads.com review](https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1157940834) + +I) FORWARD - ALICE COOPER (February 16, 2017) +Cool! + +II) INTRODUCTION - JEFF GELB (February 16, 2017) +Nostalgic summary of rock/metal and horror mashups. + +III) "YOU KNOW THEY GOT A HELL OF A BAND" - STEPHEN KING - (February 16 - February 17, 2017) (**** Rating) +To stumble into the small town of Rock 'n' Roll Heaven, Oregon would definitely be shocking for anyone who knows music. This is still not a half bad short story. I'd watched the short movie on You Tube a couple years ago and it was as good as the story in the book. + +IV) "BOB DYLAN, TROY JONSON, AND THE SPEED QUEEN" - F. PAUL WILSON (February 17, 2017) (**** Rating) +This one left me wanting more, as the story seemed to just be getting started. It was alright. +V) "ODEED" - DAVID J. SCHOW (February 17, 2017) (* Rating) +Too short and too much chaos in the writing of it. Too much going on in too short of a story. + +VI) "VARGR RULE" - NANCY A. COLLINS (February 17, 2017) (*** Rating) +Once again, another short story that left me wanting more. It sort of reminded of Whitley Strieber's, "The Wolfen". + +VII) "BLOOD SUEDE SHOES" - RONALD KELLY (February 18, 2017) (**** Rating) +Interesting concept! Didn't mind this one. + +VIII) "THE DEAD BEAT SOCIETY" - DON D'AMMASSA (February 19, 2017) (* Rating) +Nothing special here. Didn't care for it. + +IX) "VOODOO CHILD" - GRAHAM MASTERTON (February 19, 2017) (** Rating) +Wasn't too bad. I like to believe that this is an original idea for a story. + +X) "RITES OF SPRING" - PAUL DALE ANDERSON (February 19, 2017) (* Rating) +Too short for my liking. + +XI) "DEDICATED TO THE ONE I LOATHE" - MICHAEL GARRETT (February 19, 2017) (*** Rating) +I'd rate it a three out of five. Would make a decent work of fiction if the author developed the story another three hundred pages or so. + +XII) "REQUIEM" - BRIAN HODGE (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +This one didn't do anything for me. The writing was okay. + +XIII) "HEAVY METAL" - R. PATRICK GATES (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +It started out interesting and then interest failed for me. + +XIV) "BUNKY" - REX MILLER (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +Starts off like concert banter from Ted Nugent ad becomes so much worse than it does better. Too much, "Ya dig?" and other nonsense in the writing style. Not for me, + +XV) "THE BLACK '59" - BILL MUMY & PETER DAVID (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating) +Held my interest enough to enjoy it. It reminded me of the movie, "Trick or Treat" for the most part. + +XVI) "GROUPIES" - RICHARD CHRISTIAN MATHESON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +What the fuck did I just read? + +XVII) "REUNION" -MICHAEL NEWTON (February 20, 2017) (* Rating) +A lot of action but no chub! + +XVIII) "BOOTLEG" - MARK VERHEIDEN (February 20, 2017) (** Rating) +It was okay. Had a couple good moments. + +XIX) "WEIRD GIG" - RAY GARTON (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating) +Something straight out of "Tales From The Crypt"! Not bad at all. + +XX) "HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT" - JOHN L. BYRNE (February 20, 2017) (**** Rating) +Another one which fits well with "Tales From The Crypt". Decent. + +XXI) "ADDICTED TO LOVE" - THOMAS TESSIER (February 20, 2017) (*** Rating) +Potential for something good....but was just okay. + +XXII) "FLAMING TELEPATHS" - JOHN SHIRLEY (February 21, 2017) (*** Rating) +This one too, would make an awesome mini-movie for "Tales From The Crypt"! + +XXIII) CONTRIBUTING BIOGRAPHIES (February 21, 2017) +Backstory of authors. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Skipping Christmas.md b/Title Skipping Christmas.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80d4165 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Skipping Christmas.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Skipping Christmas + +## Author: Grisham, John + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2016-11-11 + +Strangely, this book was almost the script for the movie. The movie added the Marvin character who I suppose was Santa at the end, but other than that the book was almost exactly the same as the movie. Not a bad book - but I'll just watch the movie every year instead of re-reading this. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 b.md b/Title Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 b.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fbbf9aa --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 b.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Spell or High Water (Magic 2.0 book 2) + +## Author: Scott Meyer + +**Started Reading**: 2018-03-21 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-03-27 + +I just found out that "Off to be the Wizard" is a series! This is book 2 that series. I'm halfway through it and so far I'm wondering if I'm going to have a tough time keeping track of the timelines in a book so focused on time travel. UPDATE: by the end of the book there were two storylines that I just knew were going to converge. Until they didn't. Unsatisfactory ending that I suspect is just "middle-movie-in-a-trilogy" style to prepare for the third book. At least I hope so. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Suck It, Wonder Woman.md b/Title Suck It, Wonder Woman.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c212df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Suck It, Wonder Woman.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +# Title: Suck It, Wonder Woman + +## Author: Olivia Munn + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Surfing on the Internet A Nethea.md b/Title Surfing on the Internet A Nethea.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..de7d22d --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Surfing on the Internet A Nethea.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +# Title: Surfing on the Internet: A Netheads Adventures On-Line + +## Author: JC Herz + +**Started Reading**: + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-03 + +This is the book that contains the [[Herz, J C - Confessions of an Internet Junkie (Playboy 1994).pdf|Playboy article]] I read back in the mid-90's. I finally tracked down the book and Carrie bought it for me (an actual paper book) years ago. + +I've been reading it a few pages at a time each night while the girls were brushing their teeth before bed and finally finished it. + +I wish I could find a digital copy. + +## Links + +- [A 23-year-old book about the internet predicted the web’s worst problems](https://qz.com/1634166/what-made-the-internet-bad-30-years-ago-still-applies-today) + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Bedwetter.md b/Title The Bedwetter.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8a220cf --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Bedwetter.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +# Title: The Bedwetter + +## Author: Sarah Silverman + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Black Arts A Concise History.md b/Title The Black Arts A Concise History.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7b7725 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Black Arts A Concise History.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# Title: The Black Arts: A Concise History of Witchcraft, Demonology, Astrology, and Other Mystical Practices Throughout the Ages + +## Author: Richard Cavendish + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/354619.The_Black_Arts_) + +--- + +I bought this soft-cover book from the Ninth House Book Shoppe in Brecksville over 30 years ago. In May of 2021 I found a decent PDF. + +--- + +## Highlights + +> Knots are very sinister things, much used by witches, because to tie a knot is magically to tie and impede the person who is the target of the spell. An example is the terrible death talisman of the string with nine knots, sometimes called 'the witches' ladder'. The string is tied with fierce concentration of hatred against an enemy and hidden somewhere close to hlm. The knots slowly thottle the life out of him and he dies. The only cure is to find the string in time and untie the knots. +> -- pg 17 + +> The blood of an executed criminal is a strong protection against disease and misfortune, because it carries the vigorous energy of a man cut off in full health and the powerful force of his resentment and fury at the fact. Spectators at executions, includlng those of Charles I of England and Louis XVI of France, struggled to dip cloths and hand-kercheifs in the dead man's blood. +> -- pg 25 + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Circle.md b/Title The Circle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8850be --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Circle.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: The Circle + +## Author: Dave Eggers + +**Started Reading**: 2017-03-01 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-03-14 + +Carrie and Ashley went to a movie and saw the preview for this. It looked interesting, so I got the book. No opinion yet. + +END NOTE: Mae loved Big Brother. The parallels between this book and 1984 are obvious. But this time Winston was a willing participant. I am writing this before reading other reviews or seeing the movie. + +I liked this book. A lot. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Greatest Gift.md b/Title The Greatest Gift.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d4a195 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Greatest Gift.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Greatest Gift + +## Author: Philip Van Doren Stern + +**Started Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-11-28 + +The inspiration for the movie "It's a Wonderful Life", this book is very short. No more than a short story really. But It encompasses all the ideas in the movie. I was expecting a longer read, but really, what more is there to say? + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Halloween Tree.md b/Title The Halloween Tree.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e77499e --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Halloween Tree.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Halloween Tree + +## Author: Ray Bradbury + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-18 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-24 + +I thought this looked interesting but it wasn't available on Libby - so I put a hold on it and got a message a couple hours later that it had been checked out to me! So far so good - a little stilted in the language - but a cool concept. I had to watch a couple YouTube reviews before I understood what's going on with Pipkin. It's a YA title - I'm hoping to finish it soon. UPDATE: what a cool book. A little hard to read, but the way it told the history of Halloween was awesome. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Hardest (Working) Man in Sho.md b/Title The Hardest (Working) Man in Sho.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b1f0fa --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Hardest (Working) Man in Sho.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Hardest (Working) Man in Show Business + +## Author: Ron Jeremy + +**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Gave up half-way through this, need to finish + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Haunting of Hill House.md b/Title The Haunting of Hill House.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1813dfb --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Haunting of Hill House.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +# Title: The Haunting of Hill House + +## Author: Shirley Jackson + +**Started Reading**: 2020-10-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-10-18 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6393407-the-haunting-of-hill-house) + +--- + +via Libby + +This was much more difficult of a read than I'd expected. I'm glad to have the experience under my belt, but I feel like after seeing so many re-imaginings of this story, the original fell a bit flat. Sort of like the original War of the Worlds inspired so many, much more intense variations on the "alien attack" theme. I respect this story for the door it opened in the "haunted house" genre, but ultimately found it a bit tedious. + +## Highlights + +All from the introductory chapter: Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors: On the Penguin Horror Series by GUILLERMO DEL TORO + +> I take great pride in presenting a new edition of Haunted Castles: The Complete Gothic Stories as part of this Penguin Horror series. + +> Which brings us to Howard Phillips Lovecraft. There is so much to say about him and such illuminating texts have been written by brilliant scholars (above all else my kind accomplice S. T. Joshi), colleagues (L. Sprague de Camp’s Lovecraft biography), or fellow authors (H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Michel Houellebecq) + +> Henry James was fascinated by ghost stories—which he defined as fairy tales for adults—and studied them carefully. He devoted considerable time to the creation and contemplation of such tales and, in my opinion, devised one of the most moving and tenuous of all ghost tales in “The Way It Came." + +> It is not until Poe that the seat of evil is transferred back to its proper place: the human mind. + +> "To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls. In that, it is no different, or less controversial, than humor, and no less intimate than sex." + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Hawley Book of the Dead.md b/Title The Hawley Book of the Dead.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57b1c72 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Hawley Book of the Dead.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: The Hawley Book of the Dead + +## Author: Chrysler Szarlan + +**Started Reading**: 2021-09-22 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-10-10 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342498-the-hawley-book-of-the-dead) + +--- + +I found this through Libby a few months back and naturally thought the title was interesting. I've read almost the first section and am intrigued. There's a part of me that's afraid I am reading a ladies romance-novel without the romance (at least so far). It's told from a female protagonists perspective. The main character was part of a magic duo with her husband, whom she accidentally killed in a botched magic act. They have three daughters. The husband's death was suspicious and a back-story involving real magic is just starting up. It's interesting enough to keep reading. So far, it seems like a good book for this time of year. + +Glad to have finished this book. It had a lot to do with mythology and magic and a dark family secret, but I agree with a lot of th GoodReads reviews that this book had a pacing problem and the main character became incredibly dense near the end. It wasn't as "fluffy" as I was afraid it would be, but it also wasn't what I expected from the title. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Impossible Fortress.md b/Title The Impossible Fortress.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..51ff61e --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Impossible Fortress.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +# Title: The Impossible Fortress + +## Author: Jason Rekulak + +**Started Reading**: 2017-09-05 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-09-05 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30753698-the-impossible-fortress) + +--- + +Finished this in an afternoon. Liked it a lot. It was like the book version of a fun 80's movie. Some situations were contrived and some plot-lines were obvious but all-in-all I had fun reading it. Hard to believe I finished it in one afternoon. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Jungle.md b/Title The Jungle.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7c75edb --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Jungle.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: The Jungle + +## Author: Upton Sinclair + +**Started Reading**: 'unknown' + +**Finished Reading**: 'unknown' + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681.The_Jungle) + +> "Sinclair famously quipped, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach." His primary concern, what initially drew him to the subject of the packing yards, was the condition of labor following the failed meatpackers' strike of 1904, and not the corruption of meat." + +--- + +I never thought I'd be a fan of this kind of fiction, but I found the story engrossing. Admittedly, I was attracted to the graphic descriptions of the fledgling food industry, but I stuck around for the story. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Keto Reset Diet Reboot Your .md b/Title The Keto Reset Diet Reboot Your .md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6390526 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Keto Reset Diet Reboot Your .md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Keto Reset Diet: Reboot Your Metabolism in 21 Days and Burn Fat Forever + +## Author: Mark Sisson + +**Started Reading**: 2018-08-07 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-09-23 + +Fueled by my recent liver disease diagnosis I started losing weight and following the keto diet (mostly). Thought I'd read a book about it. I was impressed with Mark's Youtube videos, so I'm giving it a chance. End note: A good book, I gave up at the end because the entire second half of the book is recipes. Great reference material for keto, though. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md b/Title The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..26434c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow + +## Author: Washington Irving + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-30 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-10-08 + +Much like "A Christmas Carol" last year, I decided it was time to read a classic story that I've know my whole life, it seems, but never read the original. + +UPDATE: Sort of disappointing: the book leads you to believe that Brom Bones was the horseman and there never was a ghost. Fascinating how many (better) derivatives this story has inspired. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmi.md b/Title The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmi.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..846a54e --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmi.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Title: The Linux Philosophy for Sysadmins + +## Author: David Both + +**Started Reading**: 2021-04-28 + +**Finished Reading**: + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40014223-the-linux-philosophy-for-sysadmins) + +--- + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Nerdist Way How to Reach the.md b/Title The Nerdist Way How to Reach the.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a7aa4c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Nerdist Way How to Reach the.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level + +## Author: Chris Hardwick + +**Started Reading**: 2016-12-16 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Gave up half-way through this, need to finish + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Outsider.md b/Title The Outsider.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43c0535 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Outsider.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: The Outsider + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-04 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-05 + +A page-turner to be sure. I was disappointed to find the seemingly main character killed off before the half-way point. The rest of the book took a fantastical turn to explain the events of the first half. While it was good, it just feels like it was kind of a cop out. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, however. + +This book introduced me to Holly Gibney and was the reason I read the Bill Hodges Trilogy + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Perks of being a Wallflower.md b/Title The Perks of being a Wallflower.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4783426 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Perks of being a Wallflower.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The Perks of being a Wallflower + +## Author: Stephen Chbosky + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-20 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-07-24 + +This one snuck up on me. I found the movie online and I remember watching the movie with Ashley and Carrie. I googled the story and found the book online and the next thing you know it I was finished reading it. I wish there had been a book like this when I was 14. Maybe there was, but I just never found it. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Queen's Gambit.md b/Title The Queen's Gambit.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fa2119 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Queen's Gambit.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: The Queen's Gambit + +## Author: Walter Tevis + +**Started Reading**: 2021-06-09 + +**Finished Reading**: 2021-08-23 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62022.The_Queen_s_Gambit) + +--- + +This took me forever to finish. Probably because it was pretty much exactly the same as the Netflix series (which I enjoyed). I wound up taking a break and reading another book in the middle of this one, which made it take even longer, but since I knew the outcome of the book I wasn't chomping at the bit to see what came next. + +I did make me want to get back into chess a little bit though. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Shining.md b/Title The Shining.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..72b6672 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Shining.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: The Shining + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +A must-read every fall/winter. One of my top 5 books of all time. + + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The Winter People.md b/Title The Winter People.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9be1591 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The Winter People.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +# Title: The Winter People + +## Author: Jennifer McMahon + +**Started Reading**: 2020-08-16 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-08-22 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18007535-the-winter-people) + +--- + +Found on this list: [11 Scary Books So Terrifying, Readers Wish They Never Read Them](https://www.bookbub.com/blog/scary-books-terrify-reader-blurbs) + +This was a fun horror story. A female-focused sort of Pet Sematary. Gertie lives on forever and Sara is left to learn the hard way that "sometimes dead is better" + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title The things that make me weak and.md b/Title The things that make me weak and.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9aa05d4 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title The things that make me weak and.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: The things that make me weak and strange get engineered away + +## Author: Cory Doctorow + +**Started Reading**: 2017-11-08 + +**Finished Reading**: 2017-11-08 + +A short-story that reminds me of 1984 - but somehow in the future. One of those books that I'm gonna have to think about for a bit to decide how I feel. An easy read with a few bumps in the the flow that had me going back and re-reading parts to make sure I was understanding things. Doctorow's books have all been interesting, at least, and this one is no different. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Time Management for System Admin.md b/Title Time Management for System Admin.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09ef9a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Time Management for System Admin.md @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +# Title: Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart + +## Thomas A. Limoncelli + +**Started Reading**: 2022-07-06 + +**Finished Reading**: 2022-10-18 + +[Goodreads Link](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/376236.Time_Management_for_System_Administrators) + +I didn't even count this book as "currently reading" and before I knew it, I was done reading it. Admittedly, I started reading it several times (and the author actually recommends doing so), but never got very far. +Truthfully, I think it was because the meat of the book was so inspirational, I stopped reading to apply some of the methods and then never came back to the book! + +The first 3/4 of the book are where the real theory lies. (The meat) It's where I was inspired to keep all my lists and notes in a single system and learned that any system is pointless unless you review it periodically. + +The last 1/4 of the book talks about documentation and automation in ways that I found were eerily familiar. I was already doing many of the tips he suggests in much the same way. Unfortunately, since this book was written in the mid-2000s, some of the technical advice is pretty dated. I skipped most of the command-line examples in favor of my own recipies, but appreciated the inclusion of these time-savers. + +## Notes + +> most sysadmins are tenacious problem solvers. They will attach themselves to a problem like a bulldog and not let go until the problem relents. Other tasks, such as appointments and life support (like food or sleep), become secondary as they persevere, and work on the problem either in person or in their head far beyond the usual time limits. For people who habitually say, "Just one sec, I almost have this fixed," time management can be a challenge. + +--- + +*Important themes* + +* Keep all your time-management stuff in one place. +* Use your brain for what you are working on right now, and use external storage for everything else. +* Develop routines for things that happen periodically. +* Pre-compute decisions by developing habits and mantras. +* Maintain focus during project time. +* Improve your social life by applying these tools outside of work, too. + +--- + +> We lack quality mentoring. SAs need to learn the fundamentals of to do list management, calendar management, and life-goal management just like anyone else. However, our normal career path usually doesn't lend itself to learn these things. Our mentors are technical peers, often on email lists, and often in different parts of the world. There are fewer opportunities to learn by watching, as a supervisor often learns from a director. + +_Agreed. I've continually found myself in a position of "nobody understands what I do"_ + +--- + +> One "database" for time management information (use one organizer). + +_This is much more difficult than originally thought. Especially for a Linux admin in a Windows world. Lots of Open-Source, web-based solutions._ + +--- + +> Don't take it personally, but your brain isn't as good at recalling things as a piece of paper or a computer. Don't use your brain to track tasks or appointments. Use your organizer, a request-tracking database, a Wiki, or anything other than your brain. + +> Take a break. Breathe. Nobody's last words were ever "I wish I had spent more time at the office." Relax—it's only 1s and 0s. + +--- + +> How many times have you realized the solution to a problem while explaining it to someone else? Life is full of those moments when you tell someone, "So there's this problem, see? If I...." Suddenly you realize the answer, and there is no need to continue talking. It happens all the time. + +_Rubber Duck Programming_ + +--- + +> Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy + +_Available in Libby_ + +--- + +> It is not what happens to us that causes stress, it is how we react to what happens to us. + +--- + +> The Cycle is, as Goldilocks would say, "just right." It utilizes a device (either PDA or PAA) that you can carry everywhere with the bonus benefit of keeping everything in one place. +The benefit of keeping everything in one place. + +--- + +> The big secret is to write down your goals. When they are in your head, they aren't as fleshed out as you think they are. They are nebulous. They can't be evaluated, shared with others, or worked on. +> The process of writing them down forces you to make them concrete. It's also a lot easier to prioritize a list that is written down. + +_I am in this picture, and I don't like it._ + +--- + +> don't rely on your brain. An organizer is the right tool for recording dates; your brain isn't. + +--- + +> The Cycle is the evolution of a system that has worked for me for over 10 years. It's relatively lightweight, yet it includes all the pieces a system administrator needs. + +_Don't delete this bookmark. This is where the good stuff starts_ + +--- + +> I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I remembered who was telling me this. +> --Emo Philips + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Too Much and Never Enough - How .md b/Title Too Much and Never Enough - How .md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bfa3ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Too Much and Never Enough - How .md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Too Much and Never Enough - How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man + +## Author: Mary L Trump + +**Started Reading**: 2020-07-14 + +**Finished Reading**: 2020-07-15 + +Well, I'm almost 1/4 through the book on the day I got it, so I'd better log it here. +UPDATE: I finished the book in just over 24 hours. What a piece of shit Donald Trump is. Had I any reservations about that before, they are completely dismissed. I hope like hell everyone reads this book. What a dick. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Under the Dome.md b/Title Under the Dome.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0279add --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Under the Dome.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +# Title: Under the Dome + +## Author: Stephen King + +**Started Reading**: 2018-06-13 + +**Finished Reading**: 2018-06-22 + +Just picked book at random and am 5 chapters in. May as well count it as a book I'm going to read. Pretty good so far - another story that was made into a miniseries - but I think I'll wait on that until I'm finished. +DONE: Stephen King really has a thing with aliens and monsters. This was a really good story, though. An adult "Lord of the Flies" that only worked because they were trapped. This took a long time to get through, but it was worth it. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title We Sold Our Souls.md b/Title We Sold Our Souls.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15e1ec7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title We Sold Our Souls.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +# Title: We Sold Our Souls + +## Author: Grady Hendrix + +**Started Reading**: 2019-09-27 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-09-30 + +Found by searching Libby for "Halloween". Looks like a novel version of a "Shock Rock" story. Pretty interesting so far. +UPDATE: It was a great Shock Rock story written out long-form as a novel! I'll be looking into more things Grady's written! + +## Tracklist + +I found this on GoodReads and I figured I'd better include it here. The background soundtrack for reading this book. + +**[We Sold Our Souls](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37715859-we-sold-our-souls) Tracklist** + +* True as Steel - Warlock +* Welcome to Hell - Venom +* Powerslave - Iron Maiden +* Reign in Blood - Slayer +* Under the Blade - Twisted Sister +* Appetite for Destruction - Guns and Roses +* Destroyer - Kiss +* Awaken the Guardian - Fates Warning +* Holy Diver - Dio +* From Enslavement to Obliteration - Napalm Death +* Countdown to Extinction - Megadeth +* High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard +* Theatre of Pain - Motley Crue +* Fighting the World - Manowar +* Destroy Erase Improve - Meshuggah +* Let's Rumble - Love/Hate +* Sleep's Holy Mountain - Sleep +* Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister +* Don't Break the Oath - Mercyful Fate +* With Oden on Our Side - amon amarth +* Twilight of the Gods - Bathory +* Master of Puppets - Metallica +* Into Glory Ride - Manowar +* Little Sparrow - Dolly Parton +* Toxicity - System of a Down +* In the Nightside Eclipse - Emperor +* Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne +* Devil is Fine - Zeal & Ardor +* You Can't Stop Rock and Roll - Twisted Sister +* Troglodyte - Jimmy Castor Bunch +* For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title When You Are Engulfed in Flames .md b/Title When You Are Engulfed in Flames .md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0db220c --- /dev/null +++ b/Title When You Are Engulfed in Flames .md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +# Title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames (audiobook) + +## Author: David Sedaris + +**Started Reading**: 2019-11-15 + +**Finished Reading**: 2019-11-22 + +via Libby audiobook + +Like Robert Fulghum (or Jean Sheppard) with swearing. Another audiobook. Still funny. I've only ever listened to David read his books. Now I may never read one. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md b/Title Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0a0f9fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Where Wizards Stay Up Late.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Title: Where Wizards Stay Up Late + +## Author: Katie Hafner, Matthew Lyon + +**Started Reading**: 2017-07-09 + +**Finished Reading**: DNF + +Wanted to read this one for a while. Seems like a Hacker's (Heroes of the Computer Revolution) - type book. So far so good. + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/Title Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma.md b/Title Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5619597 --- /dev/null +++ b/Title Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Ma.md @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +# Title: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + +## Author: Robert Pirsig + +**Started Reading**: unknown + +**Finished Reading**: unknown + +## Highlights + +A repair shop filled with youngsters listening to music. +> "The shop was a different scene from the ones I remembered. The mechanics, who had once all seemed like ancient veterans, now looked like children. A radio was going full blast and they were clowning around and talking and seemed not to notice me. When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets." +> Tappets? I should have known then what was coming. +> Two weeks later I paid their bill for 140 dollars, rode the cycle carefully at varying low speeds to wear it in and then after one thousand miles opened it up. At about seventy-five it seized again and freed at thirty, the same as before." + +Fixing John's motorcycle handlebars with a piece of beer can "shimstock" +> "As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can!" + +DeWeese's Light Switch +> "He had the illusion the trouble was in the wire near the bulb because immediately upon toggling the switch the light went out. If the trouble had been in the switch, he felt, there would have been a lapse of time before the trouble showed up in the bulb. Phaedrus did not argue with this, but went across the street to the hardware store, bought a switch and in a few minutes had it installed. It worked immediately, of course, leaving DeWeese puzzled and frustrated. +> "How did you know the trouble was in the switch?" he asked. +> "Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch." +> "Well - couldn't it jiggle the wire?" +> "No." +> Phaedrus' cocksure attitude angered DeWeese and he started to argue. +> "How do you know all that?" he said. +> "It's obvious." +> "Well then, why didn't I see it?" +> "You have to have some familiarity." +> "Then it's not obvious, is it?" + +Gradeless University +> "it dealt with the specific career of an imaginary student who more or less typified what was found in the classroom, a student completely conditioned to work for a grade rather than for the knowledge the grade was supposed to represent" + +## Links + +* [Robert Pirsig's PROGRAM slips](https://zettelkasten.de/posts/pirsig-lila/) + +Tags: + booknotes \ No newline at end of file