The 15 Most Influential Books I Read in 2009 | Invisible Inkling. Wait! Before you read any further! If you like this post, don’t miss my most recent book list: The Best Books I Read in 2010! OK, resume. Last year was a big reading year for me, primarily because without college I have so much more time to read books that really boggle my brains. What I like about constantly having a book going is the way the world around you changes depending on what your reading. A book about aliens will make your everyday interactions with existence alien-related. Or black hole related. There are some books that I read last year, however, that have stayed in my brain and still color my perception, even though I closed them a while ago. 15.
I read this book in one sitting on an 18 hour bus ride. 14. Cory Doctorow is a big fan of the cyber-punk genre. 13. I picked up this book because I am an intense fan of Nicole Krauss’s husband Jonathen Safron Foer, who wrote one of my all time favorite novels Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. 12. 11. 10. Eric Larson 8. 7. 6. If Cartoon Characters Were In College.
Epic Rap Battle! Books that will induce a. Here is the list of books that will officially induce mindfucks, sorted alphabetically by author. Those authors in bold have been recommended by one or more people as being generally mindfucking - any books listed under their names are particularly odd. You're welcome to /msg me to make an addition to this list. And finally, although he's way down at the bottom, my personal recommendation is definitely Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, as it turns the ultimate mindfuck: inverting the world-view of our entire culture, and it is non-fiction. 40 Fantastic Time-Wasting Web Sites - PCWorld. Warning: Reading this story may be hazardous to your productivity. The Web sites within may divert you from the dull tasks in need of your attention and may cause you to goof off for hours instead. Oh, who are we kidding? You weren't going to get any work done today, anyway.
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