{"id":212,"date":"2011-01-07T23:26:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T12:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christopherowen.id.au\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2019-09-11T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T21:34:48","slug":"better-off-read-than-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/better-off-read-than-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Better off read than dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone\u2014I hope the new year finds all of my friends well and ready to make this year the most extraordinary ever.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the arbitrary nature of where we decide to mark a date on a calendar and call it the start of the new year, I do tend to take the opportunity to make certain promises to myself. You might call them resolutions, but my resolve can be a little bit more ephemeral than that. Last year I decided that I should read more. Now by no means have I earned the modifier &#8220;prolific&#8221; in my reading, but last year I did read significantly more than usual. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/4703223-christopher-owen\">Follow me on Good Reads<\/a> to keep up with me this year where I will be trying to read even more! As an interesting aside, about three quarters of the books on my reading list were read on a Kindle. I guess that means it works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>My 2010 Reading List<\/h2>\n<h3>New books<\/h3>\n<dl class=\"books\">\n<dt>Anthem<\/dt>\n<dd>Ayn Rand<\/dd>\n<dt>1984<\/dt>\n<dd>George Orwell<\/dd>\n<dt>The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future<\/dt>\n<dd>Mark Bauerlein<\/dd>\n<dt>Surface Detail<\/dt>\n<dd>Iain M. Banks<\/dd>\n<dt>Snow Crash<\/dt>\n<dd>Neal Stephenson<\/dd>\n<dt>Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Sharia Law<\/dt>\n<dd>Nonie Darwish<\/dd>\n<dt>God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything<\/dt>\n<dd>Christopher Hitchens<\/dd>\n<dt>Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything<\/dt>\n<dd>Steven D. Levitt<\/dd>\n<dt>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/dt>\n<dd>Stieg Larsson<\/dd>\n<dt>The Girl With Who Played With Fire<\/dt>\n<dd>Stieg Larsson<\/dd>\n<dt>One Very Big Picture<\/dt>\n<dd>Sydney Hickman<\/dd>\n<dt>A User&#8217;s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty<\/dt>\n<dd>Dave Goldberg<\/dd>\n<dt>Coders At Work<\/dt>\n<dd>Peter Seibel<\/dd>\n<dt>Being Geek<\/dt>\n<dd>Michael Lopp<\/dd>\n<dt>Value-able<\/dt>\n<dd>Roger Montgomery<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Audio books<\/h3>\n<dl class=\"books\">\n<dt>Ender&#8217;s Game<\/dt>\n<dd>Orson Scott Card<\/dd>\n<dt>For Whom The Bell Tolls<\/dt>\n<dd>Ernest Hemingway<\/dd>\n<dt>1776<\/dt>\n<dd>David McCullough<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Re-read<\/h3>\n<dl class=\"books\">\n<dt>Hyperion<\/dt>\n<dd>Dan Simmons<\/dd>\n<dt>The Fall of Hyperion<\/dt>\n<dd>Dan Simmons<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Abandoned<\/h3>\n<dl class=\"books\">\n<dt>The City &amp; the City (50%)<\/dt>\n<dd>China Mi\u00e9ville<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I decided that I should read more. Now by no means have I earned the modifier &#8220;prolific&#8221; in my reading, but last year I did read significantly more than usual. Here is what I read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[36,65],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-2","category-personal","tag-books-3","tag-reading-list"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christopherowen.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}