100 Book Goal For 2013

January5

Year 2013
*137 books!

January 2013

1. 2. 3. 4. Protect and Defend, Act of Treason, Extreme Measures, and Pursuit of Honor.- The last 3 in the long long series by Vince Flynn about an off the books CIA agent, best thriller/military writer since Clancy. Highly recommended, I read all of them in a week they were so good.

5. Raising The Bar: Integrity and Passion in Life and Business: The Story of Clif Bar Inc. – Not great but ok, just not enough in it to make it interesting. Cool guy though.

6. The Sun Also Rises – My first Ernest Hemingway, what a haunting book. I love the style.

7. 8. Tricked and Trapped – Books 4 and 5 in the Iron Druid Chronicles, hilarious books that make me laugh out loud. Good plot and really well thought out world where ever god from Jesus to Morrigan to the olympians are alive and interacting.

9. Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Suceed – By Michael Eisner, a great book although I think the best part is the first 3 to 4 chapters. After that it gets a little weak. I wish there was a little more analysis but not bad for a short read.

10. Turkey – Culture Smart – A good read for a broad overview of one of my favorite countries. And the first one I visited on my own in college.

11. Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking – Fantastic guide to the best kind of marketing you can do. Lots of great ways to get started etc etc, highly recommended!

12. The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – Read about the author in the book Blink and some others, very interesting studies and book was pretty useful. One of those that can help just about any type of relationship you have.

13. Resurrection – A breath of fresh air and a good sci fi book that also brings in Egyptology. Basically about the search for some technology aliens left 5,000+ years ago and a war in a far off galaxy where both sides need that information. One needs it to survive, and one needs to stop them from getting it in order to win. Good story, well wrapped up.

14. Ender’s Game – It’s been a few years since I read this brilliant book, reread it as hoping the movie is coming out in a year. Highly recommend read for anyone.

15. The Complete Insider’s Guide to Romania – Awesome book and hilarious, learned a lot. Highly recommended if you are interested in Romania.

16. Term Limits – By Vince Flynn. This is separate than the ~12-14 book series I read earlier this year but quite good. Highly recommended if you are looking for a military thriller, best writer since Clancy.

17. Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com – Ok book but I wanted more case studies and real world examples. There was too much focus on enterprise and high level sales, I wanted to see more small business to medium business usage + cheaper products.

18. The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street – Fantastic book by John Talbott. Just one more nail in the coffin on why Wall Street sucks.

19. Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System – A must read if you want to know more about the shit going on in that world. Regulation needs to happen soon before it creates an even bigger crisis. Some really great stories about the people involved, great read!

February

20. Tea and Bee’s Milk: Our Year in a Turkish Village – Ok book about living in Turkey for a year. Not a very good travel story, more just a day to day account. Not recommended if you were looking for some stories.

21. Bossypants by Tina Fey. Hilarious laugh out loud funny. Choked on my drink several times at the cafe while reading.

22. Shadow of the Giant. By the author of Ender’s game which is better, but this is still quite good. Good writing style and about the other people involved in that story… (Ender’s Game is one of the best scifi books out there).

23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. I’m rereading the massive Wheel Of Time Series. One of the best fantasy series out there. The last one was finally made, and can’t wait to read it. Unfortunately they made the stupid decision to not release the ebook version of book 14 for months ater the paper version. Annoying! The Eye Of The World, The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising, The Fires Of HeavenLord of Chaos, Crown of Swords.

30. 31. The Path of Daggers, Winter’s Heart

March

32. 33. 34. Crossroads of Twilight , Knife of Dreams, The Gathering Storm, The Towers of Midnight.

35. Memory of Light. After rereading the previous 13 books in this amazing series I had to buy the 14th book in dead tree format because of some stupid old person decision by his widow (annoying but a rather mundane 1st world prob). Anyway apart from no ebook version for months, this book was fantastic. It’s hard to end such a long series, by the time you finish you feel like you are loosing friends. Either by them dieing or just by not being able to read more about them. Sad but happy is the best way to sum it up. Read these over the years since college, hard to say goodbye.

36. Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book. Sure his political comments this last year have destroyed his reputation and made him look like a fool, plus his outsourcing might have been a fad, plus he seems like a total dick. But anyway, the book is actually pretty good and has some good advice.

37. The Windup Girl – A solid science fiction book about a future where the oceans have risen, nature has risen against engineered food and whole lot more. All based in Bangkok. Great read! The pacing and characters were a bit off for me but a really interesting look at the future.

April
*Slow month, March and April have just been crazy with work + Joel visited for a few weeks so we did a road trip on GO road, Tasmania, + work. Slowest book months in a while, bit burned out too as read a lot first few months.

38. The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History – A bit dry but still a great read about the chaos a volcano erupting caused in the 1800s. A mini ice age, famine, etc. Crazy how one event can alter the course of nations and people in such a huge way and they don’t even know it.

39. You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, and 46 Other Ways You’re Deluding Yourself – A fascinating book and a must read! One of those books I’m going to read a few more times in the future to let it sink in. Well written and one of the best books about the mind I’ve read in a while, read it!

May

40. Escape from Camp 14: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom inthe West – An amazing book and a must read for learning about North Korea and the hell hole it is. Tear wrenching story about a guy escaping from a political camp, the only person to have done so. Crazy crazy shit.

41. The Age of the Platform: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google Have Redefined Business – I was disappointed in this one as I was expecting more details for people building platforms, instead it was just this broad overview of existing big players. Blah, good book but meant for newbs…

42. Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hesller. Peter is one of my favorite authors and this was a collection of short reports he did about coming back to the states from living in China and other topics. Fantastic as always but not my first pick for the first book you pick up by him.

43. Antarktos Rising – Cool book but kinda crazy, author is going to be pretty sweet one day I think but just didn’t mesh well in the first book. Going to wait a while to try another of his.

44. This is Cannabis – A book my brother got me for Christmas on the history of it + historically. Interesting read and first paper book I’ve read in a while.

45. How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization – A really unique perception of the changes globalization have brought and a good read, esp for soccer fans. Especially the transition of clubs from being supported by the blue collar class to now only the rich rich rich being able to afford tickets. Something is happening in the world over the last 35 years in that regard and I’m not sure where its going to take us.

46. The Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier: Guardian by Jack Campbell. A long running sci fi series I love, big space battles and all that :).

47. A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market. By Jim Rogers who is pretty famous at this point and a decent read if you are interested in his views + some perspectives on Chinese growth. Older book but still a good read.

48. Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield – By Jeremy Schahill, read his first book as its good too. This book is just stunning and a read on the emergence of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld tactics that have weakened this nation in many ways and strengthened in others. This country changed tracks at some point and there is a fight going on for what we stand for that continues. Dives into drone policy as well. Just a book full of jaw dropping holy shit moments, followed by did we actually do that… A must read for people who want to see a big picture of what is going on behind the scenes through the last 12 years.

49. Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China – One of the best books I’ve read on China and really a punch in the gut to remind people to stop freaking out. Everyone in the USA needs to take a deep breath and remember that every country is full of problems, China isn’t going to suddenly surprise us and solve all of them. Every country has 99 problems and just like Japan in the 80s we overblow the concern.

50. The daylight War: Book 3 of the Demon Cycle – Fantastic book 3 of the warded man series, highly recommended and can’t wait for the next one. Peter Brett is fantastic!

51. Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face–and What to Do About It – A very well written book that had some strategies and case studies on how to best approach not getting stuck in Denial. Very important as its hard when you run 24/7 in an industry and mindset to break out of that and review the business/sector from a new perspective. As you never want to get trapped in a specific position when everyone else can see change coming.

52. Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger – A weird but fun book about a couple learning about the Tassie tiger. Good read if you are interested in this interesting creature, is it alive still or truly extinct? …

53. Wool Omnibus 1 through 5 – Amazing story and I highly recommend it. Some good sci fi and excellent writing about people living in Silos… Read it!!! Going to buy everything this author writes.

54. How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do It – Super short read, with a few interesting items about his lift, but overall pretty meh on details. I’d love to see him write a full write up on his run.

55. Buyout: The Insider’s Guide to Buying Your Own Company – One of the best business books I’ve read in a while, more for the financial models and financial overview + case studies. I’m going to read this one a few times as I learned a ton. Very very useful and a must read.

56. The Rithmatist – I will say it simply. Brandon Sanderson is a genius!!!! I’ve read every book he writes and they are fucking all amazing. I seriously considered trying to take out life insurance on him as I really want him to survive till 110 so he can keep turning out books after book of unique and genius ideas. Love love love love this guy and you must read anything he creates!

June

57. The Secret History of Vampires: Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes. I love myth and stories and this was a great way to learn about some of the historic fictions that built up the concept of vampires. Great read and more scholarly than I was expecting!

58. Books 6, 7, and 8 of the silo series. I’m not liking where they are headed so checking here. Counting them as 1 book as it’s 3 mini books.

59. 60. 61. 62. All 4 books of the Molly Fyde series. Good reads but kinda got old by the end, but had to finish them and figure out where it was going. Aimed a bit more at a younger audience but a fun read overall.

63. The Hurricane, a story about a hurricane hitting a town and the result. A well written book but a bit mundane, great writer though. Seriously this book is mostly about what happens when you don’t get a phone signal and instead have to talk face to face and chain saw trees :).

64. Eating the Big Fish: How Challenger Brands Can Compete Against Brand Leaders – A great book and one that I need to revisit in the coming years to see how the teachings evolve based on where our company is at. Good read.

65. 66. 67. The first 3 books of the Cassandra Clare Series. Those being City of Bones, City of Ashes, and City of Glass. I’m super super interested in fallen angels and the myths behind them from biblical times, spent time on this in school as well. Good books but by book 3 just couldn’t read anymore, some cliche parts and just not clicking with the author.

68. Survival Investing: How to Prosper Amid Thieving Banks and Corrupt Governments – by the always famous John Talbott. Great read and one I recommend, a bit depressing on the whole setup… But good to know you can’t trust wall street / banks at this point.

July

69.The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune – An amazing fantastic book, not only for the man but also the business of duty free :). One of the best business bios I’ve read in quite a while. And love what he did.

70. Random.

71. Love with a Chance of Drowning – Best travel book this year and a MUST READ as it’s hilarious and awesome. Basically girl meets boy, girl is deathly afraid of water, boy has a boat and wants to go around the world in it, girl comes. Must read!

72. Neptune’s Brood by one of my favorite authors Charles Stross. Good book, way out there sci fi with a lot of cool thoughts on bit coins, currency and finance markets when dealing with long distances, etc :)

73.
The Mongoliad: Book One
– A little slow to start but seems good, I’m going to try a few more… This takes place right after the Mongol invasions of Europe and a plot to kill the kahn.

74. Travels with Willie: Adventure Cyclist – Great series of short stories from someone who does 1 month to 5 month cycling trips accross countries. A great read and something I’m thinking about doing.

75. baguettes and bicycles: a cycling adventure across France – Decent fun/short read about biking through france.

76. The Mongoliad: Book 2 – Great book about the rose knights trying to kill the kahn to stop the mongolian invasion of europe, epic in nature. A bit slow at times with a lot of people and places going on, but liking it more and more.

August

77. The Mongoliad: Book 3 – A great finish to a series that started pretty slow, combined the books are a great piece of histrical fiction with just enough myth & a touch of magic. I just listened to Dan Carlin’s history of the Mongols so it was a perfect mash up to hear that world imagined :). Good series.

78. The Balkan Odyssey: Travels around the former Yugoslavia…oh, and Albania too! – Meh, kinda boring, not a recommended travel book.

79. A Voyage For Madmen – A fantastic book about the worlds first solo race around the world. A MUST read as well written and super interesting.

In 1968, nine sailors set off on the most daring race ever held: to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe nonstop. It was a feat that had never been accomplished and one that would forever change the face of sailing. Ten months later, only one of the nine men would cross the finish line and earn fame, wealth, and glory. For the others, the reward was madness, failure, and death.

80. Divergent – A fantastic sci fi book about a world where everyone is divided into 5 types and each has a role in society. Well written and going to try book 2.

81. Maiden Voyage – A book about an 18 year old girl sailing around the world, and to start her dad basically just dumps her in a boat with no training. Awesome read and sailing around the world is sounding really channeling and fun. It took her 2 years although she stopped a lot along the way and this book is a good travelogue too.

82. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter–And How to Make the Most of Them Now – My brother recommended this one, per our many debates on life :), great read!

83. The Cuckoo’s Calling – Pretty good mystery book by JK, worth a read if you like the genre. Otherwise skip it. Good twist ending and solid characters.

84. Dust Silo Saga – A great ending to a long running book series. Good wrap up but still feel like there are giant plot holes.

85. Insurgent – Book 2 in the series, not bad, kinda basic but still interesting. Movie is coming out as this is similar to the hungar game series.

86. Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else – A really well researched book and quite an interesting read. I’m super interested in the growing class inequality in the world/USA, especially with what I see happening tech wise and the lack of options for a lot of people who used to be in the middle class…

87. Executive Toughness: The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance : The Mental-Training Program to Increase Your Leadership Performance – A good book but also a lot of bullshit. Worth a read and some of the exercises are useful. Probably need to come back to it again in a year or so.

September

88. Youtility: Why Smart Marketing Is about Help Not Hype – A very good read for a small business, all about how to market yourself by helping others.

89. Wild – A good read about a young woman hiking the PCT. Good read! (Oprah agrees)

90. Easy Go is a really early novel by Michael Crichton, super simple and has his trademark ending where it feels like he just said “fuck you book” and makes something up to end it in 2 pages out of no where. Seriously. I had to reread the ending 4 times to see if anything was there, but nope, typical.

91. Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure by Barbara Savagae. One of the best travel books I’ve read in a long long time. Barbara and her husband biked around the world back in the 70s and super well written and super interesting. The parts about Egypt really resonated :). I loved this book and it made me laugh out loud several times. One of the best travel/biking reads and highly recommended. The ending is sad though, as you learn that Barbara died soon after turning in the manuscript in a bike accident :(.

92. Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum. This book was published in 1900 and is the first person to sail around the world by himself. Great story, a tad hard to read but really really interesting to see all the descriptions from 100+ years ago.

93. Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents – Great book about some long long bike rides in some crazy places. The author decides to go to the lowest 6 places in the world instead of the biggest summits. Great read and loved the style. He has these little mind bites almost, fun read.

94. Investing in Apartment Buildings : Create a Reliable Stream of Income and Build Long-Term Wealth – Very well written book and was suprisinginly informative. Really good read and intro to this world.

95. Sell Now!: The End of the Housing Bubble. By the very famous Talbott, like all his books a good eye opener to the shit going on at wall street. And why buying a house isn’t always a good deal.

96. The Mote in God’s Eye – Great sci fi book Joel recommended. Great fun read! Kinda like a mystery inside a philisophical question wrapped up in a sci fi world.

97. Breaking Seas: An overweight, middle-aged computer nerd buys his first boat, quits his job, and sails off to adventure. Ok read but sad as he failed in a large part. He also seems to have some psch problems.

98. Across Islands and Oceans – One of the best books I’ve read this year, about a kid with a broken boat who sailed the world and walked over most islands he came accross. Such a great read and really really cool guy!

99. Steelheart by the writer-god Brandon Sanderson. How the hell does this guy turn out awesome unique innovative book after book after book. This one is a fantastic story about the rise of epics, aka people with special powers, and a group trying to fight back. Great read and I love how all his stories involve these power systems. I’m also hoping the sequels follow as quick, currently waiting on 3 sequels to his books…

October

100. Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics – By Talbott. Good read and been catching up on a few other books by Talbott.

101. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work – A very interested book and one I would recommend. Some good strategies that are really solid if you can make them part of your daily pattern.

102. 103. Pandora’s Star and Judas Unchained, a little slow to get into but once you are these make up a massive crazy awesome space epic. I highly recommend you read the amazon description as its hard to try to write a description. Some of the best space sci-fi I’ve read in a long time, and a lot of ethical philosophy type stuff in it.

104. Dirty Martini – I like a good detective book every once in a while, although the genre is pretty hit or miss. This was a good one and looking forward to buying more in the series! Def if you are looking for a decent detective read for the beach grab this one. Plot on this one is poisen.

105. Inferno by Dan Brown. What utter bullshit, I knew I shouldn’t have read this as his other books suck too. I feel sad for people who don’t know how many better writers are out there in this genre. Book sucked, stupid twist at end that makes no sense like all his books.

106. The Circle by Dave Eggers. A scary as hell view of the future where the Circle, aka Google, is rising up and there is less and less privacy. Disturbing to read and the next 100 years are going to have some interesting challenges, unless we all die from global warming.

107. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work – An excellent read that I highly recommend for anyone at a company with a remote team. Some good insight into how WordPress is run, although I wish there was more. And some interested notes on their transition to a different management structure. Been a really useful read for us. Having seen some Matt bombs in person at conferences it is hilarious to read about them happening internally too :).

108. 109. 110. 111. 112. Fablehaven the Complete Series – All 5 books. Book 1 was not great, it was like a really long tortuous introduction, but after I made it through that the rest are great reads and really fun. And the author gets better in the later ones. Highly recommended to anyone who wants a good adventure read. I think I had aswesome adventure dreams about nibbs and farries for a few days because of this one. The author is very good, but he is not JK as compared to her characters his are a bit flat until you really get 3 books in. I think this series is aimed at a younger audience though so not a big deal.

113. Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works – I’ve been working on this one slowly for about 3 months and it is one of the best business books I’ve ever read. Some of the chapters are a bit more aimed at really big companies, but the rest is a gold mine. This one is probably going to make best of year and I recommend this to anyone who wants to improve how they think about their business and future moves. Quick descript:

outlines the strategic approach Lafley, in close partnership with strategic adviser Roger Martin, used to double P&G’s sales, quadruple its profits, and increase its market value by more than $100 billion when Lafley was first CEO (he led the company from 2000 to 2009). The book shows leaders in any type of organization how to guide everyday actions with larger strategic goals built around the clear, essential elements that determine business success—where to play and how to win.

Lafley and Martin have created a set of five essential strategic choices that, when addressed in an integrated way, will move you ahead of your competitors. They are: (1) What is our winning aspiration? (2) Where will we play? (3) How will we win? (4) What capabilities must we have in place to win? and (5) What management systems are required to support our choices? The result is a playbook for winning.

The stories of how P&G repeatedly won by applying this method to iconic brands such as Olay, Bounty, Gillette, Swiffer, and Febreze clearly illustrate how deciding on a strategic approach—and then making the right choices to support it—makes the difference between just playing the game and actually winning.

Playing to Win outlines a proven method that has worked for some of today’s most celebrated brands and products. Let this book serve as your new guide to winning, as well.

114. Resolved: 13 Resolutions For Life. An interesting read about some of the USA’s founders and their resolutions and ways they defined their lives. If you can ignore the bullshit right wing crap in a few chapters its a good read with some valuable take aways about leadership.

115. Along the Templar Trail: Seven Million Steps for Peace. Avoid as this is a boring book about some guy complaining non stop and then getting preachy and expecting people to care about his desire for world peace and how walking long distances is going to achieve that. I was hoping it might be an interesting travelogue… but was disappointed. If you want world peace go make it, you going on tv in foreign countries because you are rich enough to walk for a long distance isn’t really doing much IMO.

116. Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S Thompson. This guy is awesome and a great read. Been trying to read a few more of his book and Tony recommended this one.

117. Censored.

November

118. Allegiant – This is the last book in the Divergent series, it was a good ending but a really confusing hard start to the book. I liked the books but I’m not sure I would recommend them too strongly. I’m curious how the movie works out…

119. EntreLeadership: 20 Years of Practical Business Wisdom from the Trenches – By Dave Ramsey. I’ve listened to the EntreLeadership podcast over and over and finally sat down and read this book. Amazing amazing book and a must read for any business owner. Really great advice you can pick through, some things I disagree on, but overall fantastic stuff. Go grab the podcast as well as it has way more details/ideas too.

120. 121. Whiskey Sour and Shot of Tequila, both great hardcore detective books. Simple fun reads and there are a ton of these. Good main character.

122. High-Tech, High-Touch Customer Service: Inspire Timeless Loyalty in the Demanding New World of Social Commerce – One of the best books I’ve read on customer service and I even recommended this one to a lot of people I work with. I’m going to try to read it every few years to see how it changes as we grow too. One of the better business books I’ve read this year. (I read it a few years back as well and you get new ideas and thoughts as you reread at later stages of biz-development).

123. The Time Traveler’s Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century – Amazing amazing book I recommend, it really picks you up and puts you in the 14th century. Well written, interesting, and just the right blend of history and stories. I wish they had a series of these for a lot of different eras.

124. Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture – Amazing story about the two Johns and their rise to gaming power. I grew up a little after this period and remember my mind being blown playing wolf 3d, then doom, then doom over serial cable network. Awesome book and great read for gamers.

125. Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In – Also up there for one of the best business books I’ve read this year, solid steps to frame the way you negotiate in an ethical positive way. I need to reread this every 1 to 2 years and the most important part is practice practice practice. As anyone can read this book but learning it so it is effortless is hard, but also absolutely key to getting things done.

126. My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One Night Stands – A hilarious book that had me laughing out loud. By Chelsea Handler.

127. The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism – One of the most AMAZING BOOKS IVE EVER READ. Not for the style but rather the mind blowing revelations and perspective it brings on this world and Autism. THIS IS A MUST READ. So good, thank you daily show for the rec! This lets you feel what it is like to be Autistic, and is written by a 13 year old boy with Autism. Amazing.

128. The Balkans: A Short History – Such an interesting area, I read part of this during my travels there and the rest after. A bit dry as a book but good info.

129. Ready Player One – A really interesting view of the future combined with a story of a struggle for control of a massive virtual reality that most people spend time in. Very entertaining / thought provoking.

130. 131. Censored, and Censored.

132. Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man – After a late night interesting discussion with my stepdad and mom I ended up buying this one. Really tough and interesting read. I think there are a lot of problems out there for men trying to define what manhood is at this day in age, and with some of the chaos happening in capitalism and market, and in general over the last hundred years. I picked up a few books to read more about that + some of the answers and thoughts around what being a man means now. Definitely some parts of this book made me set it down and really think. Hard stuff.

133. Remote: Office Not Required – A good general overview for companies not doing it, but not much here if you are working remote. Good propaganda by 37 signals though :)

134. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine – This is one interesting and challenging book. I loved it and going to reread it, lots of things in here cause you to stop and think, or just write for a long time as you digest the thoughts in just a few paragraphs. Highly recommended.

135. Quintessence – An interesting scifi/religious book about the search for a compound of alchemy. Well written and a good story. I just bought the sequel and his first book which won a sci fi award.

136. Quintessence Sky – Sequel to the previous book, a decent ending and out there. I enjoyed it though and a pretty good writer.

137. Terminal Mind – A really interesting futuristic scifi book about people doing mods to their bodies, politics, trying to get a human mind onto the net, and some crazy shit. I liked it but it was a bit rough around the edges.

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