Books I really enjoyed reading.
Caution: list not updated since 2000.
Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer
Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, Al Franken
Skin Tight and Tourist Season, Carl Hiassen
Liar's Poker, Michael Lewis
Bombadiers, Po Bronson
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
New Rules for the New Economy, Kevin Kelly
Future Perfect and Blur, Stan Davis
Investment Biker, Jim Rodgers
On Great Service, Leonard Berry
Operating Instructions, Anne Lamott
Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte
Thank You for Smoking, Christopher Buckley
Bogle on Mutual Funds, John Bogle
A Piece of the Action, How the Middle Class Became the Money Class, Joseph Nociera
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Tom Wolfe
Iberia and Hawaii, James Michener
Or I'll Dress You in Mourning, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett
Fluff
A Dangerous Liaison, Baroness Sheri de Borchgrave
I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres
Hell's Angels, Hunter Thompson
and mysteries by Julie Smith, Susan Dunlap, Sue Grafton, Carl Hiaassen, some Elmore Leonard
Caution: List not updated since at least 2000.
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"So many books, so little time...."
Jay's favorite never-ending sentence:
"Muriel read on [from TV Guide]: 'Daddy Promised Us Salami and Eggs, the Cunning Pragmatist' -- a guy who's out one day innocently having a chicken chimichanga all by himself at a restaurant politely excused himself from the table and goes to the men's room and someone sidles up to him at the urinal and injects him in the right buttock with a powerful designer drug that leaves him cataleptic but fully sentient and sells him for $100,000 to the Museum of Natural History where he's dressed as a Netsilik Eskimo and imprisoned in a glass-encased exhibit with a paraffin Netsilik woman and six paraffin huskies who are harnessed to a low-rider sled with hydraulic runners and a scrimshaw steering wheel and to ensure that he does not waste away, he's given intravenous nutrients every night by a horrible man with rotten teeth who reeks of cheap schnapps, and his son and his daughter-in-law do absolutely nothing to notify either the police or the media, which confirms his original suspicion that they are accessories to his abduction and partook of a portion of the $100,000, and the greedy amoral bastards have the temerity to bring his sweet grandson Douglas to the museum to gawk and gesticulate at him -- starring Brian Keith, Buddy Ebsen, Nipsey Russell, and Lesley Ann Warren."
from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
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