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** For a long time, the only textbook I ever read all the way through. Deservedly popular, excellent throughout. | ** For a long time, the only textbook I ever read all the way through. Deservedly popular, excellent throughout. | ||
** [http://csml.som.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/hindsight.bias.html Here] is a sample of the author's work from a different textbook. | ** [http://csml.som.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/hindsight.bias.html Here] is a sample of the author's work from a different textbook. | ||
| − | * ''[[Permutation City]]'', by [[Wikipedia:Greg Egan|Greg Egan]] | + | * ''[[Wikipedia:Permutation City|Permutation City]]'', by [[Wikipedia:Greg Egan|Greg Egan]] |
| − | * ''[http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/prologue.html Playing to Win | + | * ''[http://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/prologue.html Playing to Win], by [[Wikipedia:David Sirlin|David Sirlin]] |
* ''Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman'', by [[Wikipedia:Richard Feynman|Richard Feynman]] | * ''Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman'', by [[Wikipedia:Richard Feynman|Richard Feynman]] | ||
Revision as of 02:04, 22 November 2013
A (currently unfinished) list of all the books I've read, by category, then in alphabetical order, so I can keep track of them. You may find it useful if you think I have good taste, owing to how it is categorized. You will also find occasional mini-reviews. See also my Reading list.
Contents
Books I want to read again
- How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Le Ton beau de Marot, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter
Books I am fine with never reading again
Those that I have read once
- Influence, by Robert Cialdini
- Felt very smarmy and deceptive. The research was sorely lacking. I only don't regret reading this because so many people reference it, and it was an acceptable introduction to the field. Chapter 3 was good, though.
- Psychology, 7th Edition, by David G. Myers
- For a long time, the only textbook I ever read all the way through. Deservedly popular, excellent throughout.
- Here is a sample of the author's work from a different textbook.
- Permutation City, by Greg Egan
- Playing to Win, by David Sirlin
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, by Richard Feynman
Books I regret reading
- The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
- Faff. It's a book about how great it is to be Josh Waitzkin and about the phenomenology of competition, not a book about how to learn. Read Playing to Win instead.
- The Lucifer Effect, by Philip Zimbardo
