Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Christmas Books!

I was asked to list the books I got for Christmas so I'm going to list the books I got for Christmas now.

The Reading list is full, it's going to take me a while to read them all. I refuse to tear through any of them this time around. Slow and savouring, that's the ticket.

Books

Everest:
John Krakauer - Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt - The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
Beck Weathers - Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
Broughton Coburn and David Breashears - Everest : Mountain Without Mercy
Sir Edmund and Peter Hillary - Ascent: Two Lives Explored : The Autobiographies of Sir Edmund and Peter Hillary

John Krakauer - Into the Wild (not Everest but it's about a 20-something who sold all his stuff, took off into the wild of Alaska and was found dead, apparently real close to shelter)

Ayn Rand:
Ayn Rank - The Ayn Rand Reader
Ayn Rand - The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z (Ayn Rand Library)
Ayn Rand - The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought (The Ayn Rand Library, Vol V)
Ayn Rand - The Romantic Manifesto
Ayn Rand - Philosophy: Who Needs it?
Ayn Rand - For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand - The Virtue of Selfishness

Novels:
Dean Koontz - Brother Odd
Dean Koontz - The Husband
Stephen King - Lisey's Story
John Sandford - Dead Watch

Now don't go bitching at me because you think I'm some raving Randian objectivist. I enjoy the role of altruist but I find Rand fascinating and Hell, I did name the new computer John Galt.

DVDs tomorrow.

1. I’M SO JEALOUS!!! I love Ayn Rand myself, purely for the pleasure of the story.  And YOU GOT THE DEAN & STEPHEN & JOHN books I wanted (except for The Husband, I already have that one and it is awesome!!) I can’t wait to get my hands on Brother Odd...I do love that Odd Thomas. I just used a gift card to order 3 new Lee Childs (JACK REACHER is my new love interest, lol).

   You must have left Santa some of those “special” brownies… *teehee*

   aka_monty  on  12/29  at  09:08 PM
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