Books I’ve Already Read:

I feel as if we can be described somewhat accurately by the activities we involve ourselves in (I believe Cervantes said, “Tell me who you walk with and I’ll tell you who you are.”)  Life is full of choices, and although most are born with boundaries on what they can freely choose to do, I feel that the books that we read are available to all, thanks to libraries.  There can be no excuses of not having money, not having time, not knowing anything good to read.  Those who do not read are simply less experienced in life.  Through books, we gain new subjectivities by travelling to new lands easily.  Our experiences shape who we are, and thus through reading, even if it is escapist pulp that one selects, we are continually learning.  My full list of books that I’ve read (in my adult life) can be seen at ALL CONSUMING (with commentary).  It’s quite a neat site and I encourage everyone to start a similar page.

<<<Summer of 2000, GWU, DC>>>

Vineland.   [Thomas Pynchon]

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.   [Tom Robbins]

Candide.   [Voltaire]

Radio Free Albemuth.   [Philip K. Dick]

Valis.   [Philip K. Dick]

The Journey to the East.   [Herman Hesse]

The Divine Invasion.   [Philip K. Dick]

 

<<<Fall 2000 Semester, GWU, DC>>>

The Transmigration of Timothy Archer.   [Philip K. Dick]

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.   [James Joyce]

 

<<<Spring 2001, Big Cypress National Preserve, FL>>>

The Martian Chronicles.   [Ray Bradbury]

A Scanner Darkly.   [Philip K. Dick]

The Left Hand of Darkness.   [Ursula K. LeGuin]

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?   [Philip K. Dick]

Cat’s Cradle.   [Kurt Vonnegut]

We.   [Yevgeny Zamyatin]

Puttering About in a Small Land.   [Philip K. Dick]

Koolaids:  The Art of War.   [Rabih Alameddine]

Gentleman Junkie: A Biography of William S. Burroughs.   [Graham Caveney]

The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer.   [Carol de Chellis Hill]

The Word for World is Forest.   [Ursula K. LeGuin]

Encounters With the Archdruid.  [John McPhee]

Fahrenheit 451.   [Ray Bradbury]

 

<<<Summer 2001, North Cascades National Park, WA>>>

The Ganymede Takeover.   [Philip K. Dick]

The Northwest Green Book.   [Jonathan King]

The Stranger.  [Albert Camus]

Nova.   [Samuel Delany]

Scientific Conscience.    [Catherine Roberts]

Brave New World.   [Aldous Huxley]

Ubik.  [Philip K. Dick]

Passages About Earth.    [William Irwin Thompson]

Neuromancer.   [William Gibson]

Critical Path.   [R.Buckminster Fuller]

Arcosanti:  Urban Laboratory?  [Paolo Soleri]

 

<<<Spring 2002 Semester, GWU, DC>>>

Complexity.   [M. Mitchell Waldrop]

Conversations with Anthony Giddens.   [Cristopher Pierson]

Ecocritique.   [Timothy W. Luke]

Something New Under the Sun.   [J. R. McNeill]

Macroshift.   [Ervin Laszlo]

 

<<<Summer 2002, DC & NJ>>>

The Monkey Wrench Gang.   [Edward Abbey]

Ecological Democracy.  [Roy Morrison]

Ecotopia.    [Ernest Callenbach]

Cities in Our Future.   [Robert Geddes, ed]

 

<<<Sept 2002 – February 2003, San Diego, CA>>>

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth.   [R. Buckminster Fuller]

The Future of Food  [Brian J. Ford]

The Wild Shore.   [Kim Stanley Robinson]

Opportunities in Biotechnology Careers.   [Sheldon S. Brown]

Education Automation.   [R. Buckminster Fuller]

The Wind from Nowhere.   [J. G. Ballard]

Biotechnology: An Introduction.   [Susan R. Barnum]

The Gold Bug Variations.   [Richard Powers]

Man Plus.  [Frederik Pohl]

The Biotech Century.   [Jeremy Rifkin]

The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society [Norbert Wiener]

Jem. [Frederik Pohl]

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder. [Richard Dawkins]

 

<<<March 2003 – present, San Francisco, CA>>>

Rushing to Paradise. [J.G.Ballard]

The Dreams of Reason: Science and Utopias. [Rene Dubos]

The Martian Time Slip. [Philip K. Dick]

At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity. [Stuart Kauffman]

Red Mars. [Kim Stanley Robinson]

Envisioning Ecotopia. [Kenn Kassman]

Green Mars. [Kim Stanley Robinson]

Golden Gate. [Vikram Seth]

Commune 2000 A.D. [Mack Reynolds]

Grunch of Giants. [R. Buckminster Fuller]

Blue Mars. [Kim Stanley Robinson]