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Notes From Iraq: Reading |
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Gregory Morris, 12/5/10 2:22:38 am |
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Working this much leaves little time for reading, but I do my best to squeeze in at least an hour every evening. An hour a day isn't enough time to power through piles of books like I can at home, but it is enough time to build a small stack*.
Since I finished up the (e)books I brought with me, I started looking for new content, and found this somewhat comprehensive list of top Sci-fi books.
Of course, a lot of these books are parts of a series, and I can't start a series without finishing it. For instance, I just read Dune (yeah, I know, I can't believe it took me this long to read it) and now I have to read all of the Frank Herbert books, plus maybe some of the follow-on Dune Universe books. That means the list of the "Top 100" novels actually gives me a few hundred to read.
The good news is I've only read about a quarter of the books on that list. The bad news is that the Amazon Kindle store has a very limited selection of some top Sci-Fi authors (such as Heinlein.) That isn't a huge problem for me though, because there are some books I prefer to have in dead-tree format, and I'll buy them when I return to civilization.
* - and by stack, I mean used space in my Kindle's memory. |
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