Ponderances, Inanities, and other Nonsense
Books
Books I’m Reading
- Nothing
On Deck
- MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-431): Microsoft SQL Server(TM) 2005 Implementation and Maintenance, by Solid Quality Learning
- Plot & Structure: (Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers From Start to Finish), by James Scott Bell
- Programming WCF Services, by Juval Löwy
Books I’ve Read
| Dan Brown | |
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| The DaVinci Code | |
| Angels and Demons | |
| Deception Point | |
| Digital Fortress | |
| Robert Ludlum | |
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| The Bourne Identity | |
| The Bourne Supremacy | |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | |
| Steve Martin | |
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| Shopgirl | |
| The Pleasure of My Company: A Novel | |
| Pure Drivel | |
| Michael Palin | |
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| Hemmingway’s Chair | |
| Ernest Hemingway | |
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| The Old Man and the Sea | |
| The Sun Also Rises | |
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | |
| Carl Hiaasen | |
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| Basket Case | |
| Lucky You | |
| Sick Puppy | |
| Stormy Weather | |
| Strip Tease | |
| Native Tongue | |
| Double Whammy | |
| Tourist Season | |
| Skin Tight | |
| Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World | |
| Naked Came the Manatee (With Dave Barry, Elmore Leonard, et al.) | |
| Skinny Dip | |
| Hoot | |
| Nature Girl | |
| Gregory McDonald | |
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| Fletch | |
| Fletch Won | |
| David Michaels | |
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| Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell | |
| Stephen King | |
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| On Writing | |
| Joseph J. Ellis | |
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| His Excellency: George Washington | |
| Jon Stewart | |
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| Naked Pictures of Famous People | |
| The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction | |
| Jimmy Buffett | |
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| Where Is Joe Merchant? A Novel Tale | |
| A Salty Piece of Land | I finally got through this book, having had to make a break in my fun-reading for some school texts. I figured this would eventually pick up a bit, and it did. It turned out to be a nice story. ***1/2 |
| Michael Murphy | |
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| Golf In The Kingdom | |
| The Kingdom of Shivas Irons | |
| Joseph Heller | |
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| Catch 22 | |
| Kevin Smith | |
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| Silent Bob Speaks : The Collected Writings of Kevin Smith | |
| Chuck Palahniuk | |
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| Fight Club: A Novel | |
| Invisible Monsters | |
| Choke | |
| Diary: A Novel | |
| Stranger Than Fiction: True Stories | |
| Survivor: A Novel | I liked this novel a lot. Chuck always develops characters extremely well. ***1/2 |
| Chris Baty | |
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| No Plot? No Problem!: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days | |
| Anthony Swofford | |
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| Jarhead | |
| Tim Dorsey | |
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| Hammerhead Ranch Motel | |
| Florida Roadkill | |
| George Carlin | |
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| Brain Droppings | |
| Napalm & Silly Putty | |
| When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? | |
| Redmond O’Hanlon | |
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| Into The Heart of Borneo | |
| No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo | |
| Ronald B. Tobias | |
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| 20 Master Plots: And How to Build Them | |
| Jeff Webb | |
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| MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Web Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET | |
| Matthew A. Stoecker | |
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| MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Windows-Based Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic.NET and Microsoft Visual C#.NET, Second Edition | |
| Vince Flynn | |
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| Memorial Day | |
| Al Gore | |
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| An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | |
| Tom Monteleone | |
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| The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Writing a Novel | |
| Augusten Burroughs | |
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| Running With Scissors: A Memoir | |
| J.D. Salinger | |
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| The Catcher in the Rye | |
| Karen S. Wiesner | |
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| First Draft In 30 Days: A Novel Writer’s System for Building a Complete and Cohesive Manuscript | |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | |
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| Treasure Island | |
| Scott Hatch, JD and Lisa Hatch, MA | |
| GMAT For Dummies | |
| Tony Northrup | |
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| MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Implementing Security for Applications with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Microsoft Visual C# .NET (Pro-Certification) | |
| Archibald Putt | |
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| Putt’s Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age | |
| Robert Kreitner and Angelo Kinicki | |
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| Organizational Behavior | |
| Stice & Stice | |
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| Financial Accounting | |
| Lynne Truss | |
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| Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation | Sticklers Unite! This book is interesting for a couple of reasons: first, it shows how to use punctuation properly; second, it shows the differences in punctuation between the United States and Great Britain. I enjoyed reading this book. ***1/2 |
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