Member: cshalizi
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About meWeblog: Three-Toed Sloth, http://bactra.org/weblog/
About my libraryThis is (or will be, when I finish adding books) the union of what I own with what I've read since 1994 or so. Some of what I've returned to libraries, sold, given away, etc., is marked as such.
Rating is sporadic and approximate. Roughly: 5 = "personal favorite; you must read this, at least if you're me"; 4 = very good (either for entertainment or instruction). 3.5 = good but not very good. 3 = OK, not painful. 2 = bad. 1 = horrible.
Reviews are links to my website.
Tagging is sporadic, not particularly consistent, and opinionated.
Reading and purchase dates are only sporadically entered. Many are approximate, because I only recorded month or academic year. (Yes, it's probably OCD-spectrum to record the date in the first place.)
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Favorite authorsEric Ambler, Stanislav Andreski, Stanislaw Andrzejewski, V. I. Arnold, W. Ross Ashby, Iain Banks, Jacques Barzun, Greg Bear, John Tyler Bonner, Raymond Boudon, Samuel Bowles, Ernest Bramah, Lois McMaster Bujold, Italo Calvino, William H. Calvin, Andrea Camilleri, L. Sprague de Camp, Karel Čapek, Lauren Henderson, C. J. Cherryh, Arthur C. Clarke, Norman Cohn, Evan S. Connell, Frederick C. Crews, E. E. Cummings, Avram Davidson, Daniel C. Dennett, Joan Didion, Lord Dunsany, Greg Egan, Barbara Ehrenreich, Harlan Ellison, Warren Ellis, Jon Elster, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anne Fadiman, John M. Ford, Anatole France, Neil Gaiman, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ernest Gellner, Andy Goldsworthy, Larry Gonick, Martin H. Greenberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, Robert van Gulik, Ian Hacking, Jane Haddam, J. B. S. Haldane, Sparkle Hayter, P. C. Hodgell, Marshall G. S. Hodgson, Barry Hughart, Robert Hughes, Shirley Jackson, Russell Jacoby, William James, Steven Johnson, James Joll, Diana Wynne Jones, Mark Kac, Wendy Kaminer, Rosemary Kirstein, Philip Kitcher, Leszek Kolakowski, Paul Krugman, Jane Langton, Larry Laudan, Stanisław Lem, John Leonard, Laura Lippman, H. P. Lovecraft, Ken MacLeod, William Leonard Marshall, Patricia A. McKillip, Robin McKinley, William McNeill, P. B. Medawar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Christopher Moore, Franco Moretti, Philip Morrison, Joseph Needham, Friedrich Nietzsche, Patrick O'Brian, Heinz R. Pagels, Robert Pinsky, Katha Pollitt, Karl Popper, William Poundstone, Richard Powers, Terry Pratchett, W. V. Quine, I. A. Richards, Phil Rickman, David Ruelle, Bertrand Russell, Will Shetterly, Herbert A. Simon, Karin Slaughter, John Maynard Smith, Jonathan D. Spence, Dan Sperber, L. Susan Stebbing, Aurel Stein, Bruce Sterling, Peter Straub, Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Yi-Fu Tuan, Catherynne M. Valente, Jack Vance, Paula Volsky, Voltaire, Arthur Waley, Jill Paton Walsh, Norbert Wiener, Walter Jon Williams, William Carlos Williams, Connie Willis, Arthur T. Winfree, Roger Zelazny, Hans Zinsser (Shared favorites)
VenuesFavorites | Visited
Favorite bookstoresAunt Agatha's, Avol's Bookstore, Caliban Bookshop, Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse, Dawn Treader Book Shop, Moe's Books, Nicholas Potter, Bookseller, Shaman Drum, The Other Change of Hobbit, University Press Books
Favorite librariesCarnegie Library of Pittsburgh -- Main (Oakland), Doe Library - University of California, Berkeley, Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library - University of Michigan, International House Library, University of California, Berkeley, University of Wisconsin - Madison - Memorial Library
Other favoritesKiva Han Cafe, Santa Fe Institute
Homepagehttp://bactra.org/
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Real nameCosma Shalizi
LocationShadyside, Pittsburgh, PA
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Member sinceJun 5, 2006
Currently readingThe Steel of Raithskar by Randall Garrett
The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin
Elements of Reason: Cognition, Choice, and the Bounds of Rationality (Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political by Arthur Lupia
A rendezvous in Averoigne : best fantastic tales of Clark Ashton Smith by Clark Ashton Smith
When Formality Works: Authority and Abstraction in Law and Organizations by Arthur L. Stinchcombe
Race and the Invisible Hand: How White Networks Exclude Black Men from Blue-Collar Jobs (George Gund Foundation Book in by Deirdre A. Royster
Dynamic Models in Biology by Stephen P. Ellner
Palimpsest by Catherynne Valente
Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us by Daniel Koretz
Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth Century by Jonathan Sheehan
Mathematical Foundations of Infinite-Dimensional Statistical Models (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics) by Evarist Giné
The Corporation Wars: Dissidence by Ken MacLeod
The Black Rubber Dress (The Sam Jones Mysteries Book 3) by Lauren Henderson
Seed to Harvest: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster by Octavia E. Butler
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
The Graduate School Mess: What Caused It and How We Can Fix It by Leonard Cassuto
The Tiger's Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera
Healer's Touch (Hearts and Thrones Book 4) by Amy Raby
Austral by Paul McAuley
A Random Physicist Takes on Economics by Jason Smith
Austral by Paul McAuley
A Road to Randomness in Physical Systems (Lecture Notes in Statistics Book 71) by Eduardo M.R. A. Engel
Reason and Persuasion: Three Dialogues By Plato: Euthyphro, Meno, Republic Book I by John Holbo
Modeling Aggregate Behaviour & Fluctuations in Economics by Masanao Aoki
The Right Side by Spencer Quinn
The Starfollowers of Coramonde: Coramonde Series, Book 2 by Brian Daley
Empress of Forever: A Novel by Max Gladstone
Prima Facie: A Crime Novella of the Roman Empire by Ruth Downie
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg by Norman Geras
Public Sphere and Experience: Analysis of the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Sphere by Oskar Negt
The Need by Helen Phillips
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
The Rain Wilds Chronicles: Dragon Keeper, Dragon Haven, City of Dragons, and Blood of Dragons by Robin Hobb
Real Analysis: Measure Theory, Integration, and Hilbert Spaces (Princeton Lectures in Analysis Book 3) by Elias M. Stein
Until the End of the World by Sarah Lyons Fleming
Understanding Complexity by Scott E. Page
The Iliad: A New Translation by Caroline Alexander by Homer
A Journal of the Plague Year, written by a citizen who continued all the while in London by Daniel Defoe
Stochastic Epidemic Models with Inference (Mathematical Biosciences Subseries Book 2255) by Tom Britton
Statistical Inference via Convex Optimization (Princeton Series in Applied Mathematics Book 69) by Anatoli Juditsky
Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity: Concepts and Analyses by Pierre R. L. Dutilleul
The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread by Cailin O'Connor
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Stochastic Epidemic Models with Inference (Lecture Notes in Mathematics vol. 2255, Mathematical Biosciences Subseries) by Tom Britton
Decentralized Control of Complex Systems (Dover Books on Electrical Engineering) by Dragoslav D. Siljak
Self Care: A Novel by Leigh Stein
Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes
The Empire of Gold: A Novel: The Daevabad Trilogy, Book 3 by S. A. Chakraborty
Harmonies of Disorder: Norbert Wiener: A Mathematician-Philosopher of Our Time by Leone Montagnini
The Wolf of Oren-Yaro by K. S. Villoso
Darkhouse: Experiment in Terror Series, Book 1 by Karina Halle
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel by Kim Stanley Robinson
Political Junkies: From Talk Radio to Twitter, How Alternative Media Hooked Us on Politics and Broke Our Democracy by Claire Bond Potter
Poems 1962-2012 by Louise Glück
Velocity Weapon (The Protectorate Book 1) by Megan E. O'Keefe
Almost a Scandal (Reckless Brides Book 1) by Elizabeth Essex
The Blood Queen: Omnibus Vol. 1 by Troy Brownfield
American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy
Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration by Michael Schrage
Aftershocks (The Palladium Wars Book 1) by Marko Kloos
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor
Ride the Pink Horse by Dorothy B. Hughes
Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History by Richard Thompson Ford
Inequality: A Contemporary Approach to Race, Class, and Gender by Lisa A. Keister
The Origins of Unfairness: Social Categories and Cultural Evolution by Cailin O'Connor
The Night Sister: A Novel by Jennifer McMahon
The Mist in the Mirror by Susan Hill
Moon's Knight by Lilith Saintcrow
The Last Detective: An Inspector Peter Diamond Investigation by Peter Lovesey
The Weight Of Ink by Rachel Kadish
Metropolitan: The Metropolitan Series, Book 1 by Walter Jon Williams
New Hope for the Dead (Hoke Moseley Detective Series Book 2) by Charles Willeford
Hard Light: The Cass Neary Crime Novels, Book 3 by Elizabeth Hand
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know (The ParentData Series Book 1) by Emily Oster
Evil in Emerald (A Harriet Gordon Mystery Book 3) by A.M. Stuart
What Is a Quantum Field Theory? A First Introduction for Mathematicians by Michel Talagrand
Ancient Puebloan Southwest (Case Studies in Early Societies, Series Number 5) by John Kantner
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