Random thoughts from a Game Designer

15 books overall; 11 books read in the last year; 1 book read in the last month. That's an average of 2 books each month.

Planned books (1):

  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Current books (3):

  • Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

    Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs by Mark Jason Dominus

  • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

    The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

  • Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

    Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet

Recent books (11):

  • Chinatown: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) by Robert Towne
  • The Gum Thief: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
  • The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin
  • Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
  • Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris
  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) by Frederick P. Brooks
  • Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert
  • Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson
  • The Playful World: How Technology Is Transforming Our Imagination by Mark Pesce
  • Supercrunchers : How Anything Can Be Predicted by Ian Ayres
  • A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood by Art Linson
  • Deep Thought

    Most people don’t realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer. — Jack Handey

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  • On the Bookshelf

    Planned books:

    • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Current books:

    • Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs

      Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs by Mark Jason Dominus

    • The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature

      The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature by Steven Pinker

    • Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama

      Three Uses of the Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama by David Mamet

    Recent books:

    • Chinatown: Screenplay (Faber Reel Classics) by Robert Towne
    • The Gum Thief: A Novel by Douglas Coupland
    • The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 by Charles Darwin
    • Coders at Work by Peter Seibel
    • Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Robert Harris

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