Member: persky

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Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Sarah Bird, Orson Scott Card, Bradley Denton, Diane Duane, William Goldman, Steven Gould, Gregory Mcdonald, Daniel Pinkwater (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresComic Relief of Berkeley, Dark Carnival, Moe's Books, Stacey's Bookstore, The Other Change of Hobbit, Walden Pond Books

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Member sinceSep 3, 2006

Currently readingSock by Penn Jillette
The Once and Future King by T. H. White
Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor
Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Effective STL: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of the Standard Template Library by Scott Meyers
Proxies by Laura J. Mixon
Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
A first course in stochastic processes by Samuel Karlin
Half hours by J. M. Barrie
Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear
Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track by Richard P. Feynman
Magic Street by Orson Scott Card
The Book of Night with Moon by Diane Duane
Mr Tompkins in Paperback by George Gamow
West of Eden by Harry Harrison
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 by Sylvia Nasar
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien
Year's Best Fantasy 4 by David Hartwell
Pawn to Infinity by Fred Saberhagen
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Volume 3: Quantum Mechanics (Feynman Lectures on Physics) by Richard P. Feynman
The Feynman Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Volume 2: Mainly Electomagnetism and Matter (Feynman Lectures on P by Richard P. Feynman
Lectures on Physics: Commemorative Issue, Volume 1 (Feynman Lectures on Physics) by Richard P. Feynman
Matrix Computations (Johns Hopkins Studies in Mathematical Sciences)(3rd Edition) by Gene H. Golub
Numerical methods that work by Forman S. Acton
On Writing by Stephen King
Comics & Sequential Art by Will Eisner
Scene and Structure (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Jack M. Bickham
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David Bodanis
QED and the Men Who Made It by Silvan S. Schweber
Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P. A. M. Dirac
Beginnings, Middles, and Ends (Elements of Fiction Writing) by Nancy Kress
Wizards at War by Diane Duane
The book of Fritz Leiber (Vol. I and Vol. II) by Fritz Leiber
Swords and deviltry by Fritz Leiber
The Yiddish policemen's union : a novel by Michael Chabon
When Harlie was one by David Gerrold
The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad by Minister Faust
From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust
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