My Bookshelf

Finished or reading:

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov (09/19/04)
• Advice for a Young Investigator by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (PP) (11/04)
• 林语堂 生活的艺术 （The importance of living) (12/18/04, on the trip of Bahamas)
• Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (PP) (01/06/05)
• The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (04/20/05)
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. A description from wikipedia (PP) (02/24/05)
• 林语堂 吾国吾民 (05/05>
• Marco Polo's Travel (07/05)
• The Singularity Is Near : When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

To read:

• Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
• Selected Non-Ficitions by Jorge Luis Borges (PP)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
• The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, link of her Nobel lecture.
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• Invisible cities by Italo Calvino
• The Ants by Bert Hölldoble and Edward O. Wilson:
• Fashionable nonsense: postmodern intellectuals' abuse of science by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont
• Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold
• Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software by Steven Johnson
• Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Network by Mark Buchanan

Audio book:

• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (09/01/04)
• The Memoirs of Geisha by Arthur Golden (Abridged version 09/08/04)
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (10/04)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (01/14/05)
• Gilgamesh (the oldest epic) (04/18/05)
• Inferno by Dante

Movies