Books I'm trying to read
There's this local bookstore here in the province that sells real cheap books — is Php30 cheap enough for you? Okay, so they're second-hand books, and Booksale prolly sells them for a lot less, but with the prices of brand new books nowadays — and paperbacks at that, not even the nifty (*and* hefty) cloth- or hardbound stuff — I'll take whatever blessing comes my way.
But I digress: so there's the cheap-book store and I rummaged through their stocks, which were in dusty boxes all over the place, and here are my finds:
These now become part of my ever-growing reading list, included in which are O'Reilly's Practical PostgreSQL, the IKEA 2005 Catalogue, and the UP Filipino-English Dictionary (for the localization stuff I'm working on).
But I digress: so there's the cheap-book store and I rummaged through their stocks, which were in dusty boxes all over the place, and here are my finds:
- John LeCarre's The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. Saw a DVD of this on evilBay, starring Alec Guiness, I think.
- The Falcon and the Snowman. Spy-stuff yet again. And a book-to-movie, too.
- White Light by Rudy Rucker. One of his early "Transreality" novels. Trippy, this one.
- A collection of Thomas Mann's stories, including Death in Venice. Heavy stuff: after The Magic Mountain, I dunno if I can take one more Mann. ;) Heh.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. ... :)
These now become part of my ever-growing reading list, included in which are O'Reilly's Practical PostgreSQL, the IKEA 2005 Catalogue, and the UP Filipino-English Dictionary (for the localization stuff I'm working on).
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