keeping track again

[openidwouldwork]

- Sharpe's Siege by Bernhard Cornwell

- He Walked Around the Horses by H. Beam Piper

- Werkstatt des Lebens: Durch die Sinne zum Sinn. Ein Werk-, Lehr- und Spielbuch by Otto Schärli

- Entfaltung der Sinne: Ein Erfahrungsfeld zur Bewegung und Besinnung by Hugo Kükelhaus

- Der Prophet by Khalil Gibran

- Kydd by Julian Stockwin

- The Hussar by George Robert Gleig

- Total Immersion (both in English and the German translation *grumbles*)

- Hannibal by Gisbert Haefs

- Reisegeschichten by Ephraim Kishon

- Northanger Abby by Jane Austen

- Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell

- Anathem by Neal Stephenson

- Thieves' World: Aftermath by Robert Asprin

- Heckengeflüster by Rose Blight

- Thieves' World: Uneasy Alliances by Robert Asprin

Now reading Thieves' World: Uneasy Alliances and Bill Bryson's African Diary

You don't want to know about my tbr pile...

Comments

[rosinarowantree.livejournal.com]

You read so much more than I do ... *HUGS* and *ADMIRES*

Would you recommend Anathem?

[openidwouldwork.livejournal.com]

it does pick up Stephenson's recurring themes: programming (both computers and brains), coding, viral information, informational hygiene, human behavioral traits, pattern recognition and this one has a lot of classic mathematical proofs and philosophy thrown in as well. Plus it is a 'Bildungsroman'. I like it very much ;) but I'm not sure you would be as taken with it.

Have you ever read Hesse's 'Glasperlenspiel' (The Glass Bead Game)? Anathem goes in a similar direction.