Steven Alexander's recent readings

• Pleasure
  • A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (1924), 01-2000 (finally!)
  • Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches, Marvin Harris (1974), 06-1999, 05-2001
  • Verses from 1929 On, Ogden Nash (1959), 09-1999..
  • The Man Who Loved Only Numbers [Paul Erdos], Paul Hoffman (1998), 05-2001
  • The Professor and the Madman [Dr. Wm Minor, Dr. James Murray, The OED], Simon Winchester (1998), 05-2001
  • Felicia the Critic (1981), The Luck of Pokey Bloom (1975), Ellen Conford
  • The Well-Tempered Critic, Northrop Frye (1963) 02-2000
  • The Language of Clothes, Alison Lurie (1981) 06-2000, 05-2001
• Technical pleasure
  • C++: The Core Language, Gregory Satir & Doug Brown (1995), 1996
  • Perl Cookbook, Tom Christiansen & Nathan Torkington (1999), 1999..; Mastering Algorithms with Perl, Jon Orwant et al. (199), 5-2000..
  • The Non-Designer's Web Book, Robin Williams & John Tollett (1998), 1999..
  • Windows 98 (fast and easy),* Diane Koers (1998)
  • Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee (1999) 5-2000
  • Webmaster in a Nutshell, Stephen Spainhour et ano. (1996) 2-1999
  • The Code Book, Simon Singh (1999) 5-2000
• Random hypertext access, passim
  • The Chambers Dictionary (1999)
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed., 1999 reprinting)
  • Oregon Geographic Names, Lewis A. McArthur (5th ed. 1982) 06-2000..

• ".." means I'm substantially into the book and intend to finish.
• *   Read defensively, not for pleasure.

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