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_posts/2010-07-01-book-list.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ depending how you look at it.
 <b><i>20,000 Leauges Under the Sea </i></b>by Jules Verne ****<br>
 <b><i>Journey to the Center of the Earth </i></b>by Jules Verne ***** </b>(My&nbsp; fav. 
 book. Very Exciting!)<br>
-<b><i>The Chronicles of Narnia </b></i>by C.S. Lewis ***** </b>(I read 6/7 books. <i>
+<b><i>The Chronicles of Narnia </i>by C.S. Lewis ***** </b>(I read 6/7 books. <i>
 Voyage of the Dawn Trader </i>was my fav.)<br>
 <b><i>The Hobbit </i>by J.R.R Tolkien </b>(400pgs) *****<br>
 <b><i>Lord of the Rings Trilogy </i>by J.R.R. Tolkien </b>****<br>
@@ -61,9 +61,6 @@ Holmes..beause of length, suspense, and scary parts)<b><br>
 (Fantasy, about society without pain or emotions)<b><br>
 <i>To Kill a Mockingbird </i>by Harper Lee *****<br>
 </b>
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-<br>
-</font>
 <b><font size="5">Summer of 2000 </font> <br>
 (from a reading report I submitted. I wrote brief plot summaries of each for 
 credit.)<br>
@@ -106,9 +103,8 @@ A Brief History of Time </i>by Stephen Hawking<br>
 I got to pg. 400 I switched to the condensed version and finished it up in 25 
 pages, instead of an additional 250)<b><br>
 <i>I, Robot </i>by Isaac Asimov<br>
-<br>
-<font size="5">2004 (10th - 11th grade)</font><br>
-<i>The Time Machine </i>by H.G. Wells <br>
+<font size="5"><b>2004 (10th - 11th grade)</b></font>
+<i><b>The Time Machine </i>by H.G. Wells <br>
 <i>The DeVinci Code </i>by Dan Brown<br>
 <i>Jane Eyre </i>by Charlotte Bronte </b>(HS English)<b><br>
 <i>A Farewell to Arms </i>by Earnest Hemmingway </b>(boring)<br>
@@ -132,7 +128,7 @@ pages, instead of an additional 250)<b><br>
 </b>*****<br>
 <b><i>Digital Fortress </i>by Dan Brown </b>*****<br>
 <b><i>Neuromancer </i>by William Gibson<br>
-<i>The Physics of Star Trek </i></b></p>
+<i>The Physics of Star Trek </i>by Lawrence M. Krauss</b></p>
 <p align="left"><b><font size="6">Books I Read in 2006 </font><font size="4"><br>
 <i>The Things They Carried</i> </font> </b><font size="4">by Tim O'Brian<b> </b>
 (HS English)<br>
@@ -242,28 +238,28 @@ simultaneously be subjected to both the abstract intellectual mindset and the
 lurid all-to-human within us. Neuromancer achieves this, mixing intellectual 
 ideas such as Artificial Intelligence, the Matrix, personal identity and bodily 
 modification with crime, drugs and sex. Take, for instance, this description of 
-drug use interjected into the narrative:<h4>
+drug use interjected into the narrative:
 <i><span style="font-weight: 400">&quot;The drug hit him like an express train, a white-hot column of light mounting his spine from the region of his prostate, illuminating the sutures
 of his skull with x-rays of short-circuited sexual energy. His teeth sang in
 their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear
 as ethanol. His bones, beneath the hazy envelope of flesh, were chromed and
 polished, the joints lubricated with a film of silicone. Sandstorms raged
 across the scoured floor of his skull, generating waves of high thin static
-that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding. . .&quot;</span></h4>
+that broke behind his eyes, spheres of purest crystal, expanding. . .&quot;</span>
 
 &nbsp;Neuromancer  </i> 
 presents a stark outlook -- not explicitly dystopian, but showing the ways 
 ways technology can be exploited.. These include illegal hacking, recreational 
 and functional drug use, virtual prostitution and unusual forms of bodily modification. It 
 showed the more chaotic possibilities of technology where it is exploited beyond 
 its idealistic use.&nbsp;Again, let us hear a description from the master 
-himself:<h4>
+himself:
 <span style="font-weight: 400">&quot;Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher with one finger permanently on the fast-forward button. Stop hustling and you sank without a trace, but move a little too
 swiftly and you'd break the fragile surface tension of the black market; either way, you were gone, with nothing left of you but some vague memory in the mind of a fixture like Ratz, though heart or lungs or kidneys
 might survive in the service of some stranger with New Yen for the clinic tanks.
 Biz here was a constant subliminal hum, and death the accepted
 punishment for laziness, carelessness, lack of grace, 
-the failure to heed the demands of an intricate protocol.&quot;</span></h4>
+the failure to heed the demands of an intricate protocol.&quot;</span>
 <p> &nbsp;&nbsp; It is hard to emphasize how radical this was when it first appeared 
 in 1984. Up until then, science fiction had been dominated by the positive 
 aspects of technology such as space travel and robots, with a few dystopian 
@@ -327,7 +323,7 @@ with artistic detail
 with grand 
 philosophical issues, such as the nature of AI, personal identity and the way we 
 interact with technology. <br>
-</font><font size="4"><br>
+<font size="4"><br>
 <i><b>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? </b></i>by Phillip K. Dick<br>
 </font><font size="3">-- I found this to be a very worthwhile read. It explains 
 some aspects of <i>Blade Runner </i>that are not apparent -- for instance why 
@@ -516,10 +512,10 @@ brain is guessing what random electrical fluctuations are in the brain.</font>
 <b><i>Tender is the Night </i></b>by F. Scott Fitzgerald<br>
 <b><i>Moby-Dick </i></b>by Hermann Melville<br>
 <br>
-</font><b>
+</font>
 <span style="font-style: normal">
-<font size="6">Books I started reading but haven't finished:</font><font size="4"><br></font> 
-</span> </b>
+<font size="6">Books I started reading but haven't finished:</font><br>
+</span> 
 <i><font size="4"><b>Godel, Escher, Bach </b></font></i>
   <span style="font-style: normal">by Douglas Hofstadter <br>
   </span>
@@ -545,8 +541,8 @@ brain is guessing what random electrical fluctuations are in the brain.</font>
 <br>
 
 <span style="font-style: normal">
-  <font size="6">Books I started reading but haven't finished:</font><font size="4"><br></font> 
-  </span> </b>
+  <font size="6">Books I want to read:</font><font size="4"><br></font> 
+  </span> 
 
 </font></span></b><font size="4"><i><b>Tess of the d'Urbervilles </b>
 </i><span style="font-style: normal">by Thomas Hardy</span><b><br>
@@ -562,13 +558,12 @@ brain is guessing what random electrical fluctuations are in the brain.</font>
   </font></b><font size="4"><b><i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Time</i><span style="font-style: normal"> </span> </b><span style="font-style: normal">by Mark Haddon (?)<br>
   </span>
   <b><i>Anna Karenna</i><span style="font-style: normal"> </span> </b>
-  <span style="font-style: normal">by Leo Tolstoy<b> </b>(?)<br>
-</span></font></font><b><i>Fountains of Paradise</i> </b>
+  <span style="font-style: normal">by Leo Tolstoy<b> </b><br></span></font>
+  <b><i>Fountains of Paradise</i> </b>
   <span style="font-style: normal">by Arthur C. Clarke<br>
   </span><i><b>A Fire Upon the Deep</b></i><span style="font-style: normal"> by Victor Vinge 
-  (?)</span></font><span style="font-style: normal"><b><br>
+  </span><span style="font-style: normal"><b><br>
 Something by Haru Murakami <br>
-
 </b></span><b><font size="4">The Diamond Age<span style="font-style: normal"> 
 (and other books) </span>
   </font> </b><span style="font-style: normal"><font size="4">by 
@@ -582,7 +577,7 @@ Something by Haru Murakami <br>
   </font> </b><span style="font-style: normal"><font size="4">by H.D. 
   Thoreau <br>
 </font> </span><b><font size="4">The Art of Intrusion </font>
-  </b><span style="font-style: normal"><font size="4">by Kevin MItnick</font></span></font></p>
+  </b><span style="font-style: normal"><font size="4">by Kevin Mitnick</font></span></p>
 
 
 
@@ -604,7 +599,7 @@ Something by Haru Murakami <br>
   </b>
   </span> </font><b>
   <font size="4"> Inward Bound </font> </b><font size="4">by Abraham Pais<br>
-  <b>Sophie's World</b><br>
+  <b>Sophie's World</b> by Jostein Gaarder<br>
   </font><b><font size="4">The Problems of Philosophy </font> </b>
   <font size="4"><span style="font-style: normal">
   by Bertrand Russell<br>
@@ -614,4 +609,3 @@ Something by Haru Murakami <br>
   </span>
 <b>The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics </b><span style="font-style: normal">
   by Edna E. Cramer (very long..)</span>
-<p align="center"><font size="2" color="#C0C0C0">© Dan Elton </font></p>