A Little Summer Reading

Maybe I’m being a bit unrealistic. Perhaps I’ll give myself till the winter.

Aldous Huxley: A Biography - Sybille Bedford
Now I Lay Me Down to Eat: Notes and Footnotes on the Lost Art of Living - Bernard Rudofsky
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to “Professor” Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar - David Wondrich, Dale DeGroff
As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text - William Faulkner
Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) - Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy: An Interpretation of the Great Mystics, East and West (P.S.)  - Aldous Huxley
The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America’s Most Imaginative Chefs - Karen Page, Andrew Dornenburg
The Constitution of Liberty - F. A. Hayek
The Housing Boom and Bust: Revised Edition - Thomas Sowell
Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy - John Rawls, Samuel Freeman
Capitalism Without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China - Kellee S. Tsai
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Philosophy: Who Needs It - Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff
Aldous Huxley: A Biography - Nicholas Murray (Not Pictured)
Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance - Noam Chomsky

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Posted by: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) | 06/08/10 | 5:31:52

Do you have all of these books? I want to borrow: The Flavor Bible, Now I Lay Me Down to Eat, The Housing Boom and Bust.

Now since I can just come over the bay bridge, it’ll be easy to borrow books!!!

Posted by: Derek Fidler | 06/08/10 | 9:01:44

Yeah I got them all. I’m almost done with Now I Lay me Down To Eat as well. It’s pretty funny, in a history buff kind of way. It primarily satirizes current day (circa 1980) living and provides a multi-perspective historical approach to specific topics on living, although it neither demands nor promotes any one way over the other.

Posted by: Derek Fidler | 08/28/10 | 11:06:10

Just finished my second book. Chomsky is a geopolitical genius, although I don’t always agree on his economic strategies. Wish I had read this sooner.

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