Books

Reading a book is very much like having a conversation with a person. So I select carefully which books to read because I enjoy having good conversations.

This is the list of books I've read. Most recent ones are listed at the top.

• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
• His Current Woman, Jerzy Pilch
• The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
• Whatever, Michel Houellebecq
• The End Of The Affair, Graham Greene
• Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
• A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle
• Syberia, Jacek Pałkiewicz
• On Truth, Harry G. Frankfurt
• On The Edge, Brian Bagnall
• The Second World, Parag Khanna
• Effects of bacterial ACC deaminase on plant growth-promotion, Jennifer Czarny
• The Ghost In The Shell, Masamune Shirow
• On Wings of Eagles, Ken Follett
• All About Stocks, Esmé Faerber
• Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert
• Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
• Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert T. Kiyosaki
• Czarownik Iwanow, Andrzej Pilipiuk
• Kroniki Jakuba Wędrowycza, Andrzej Pilipiuk
• Man Without a Face, Markus Wolf
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
• History Will Absolve Me, Fidel Castro
• Zbrodnia i kara, Fiodor Dostojewski
• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
• Complete Sea Kayak Touring, Jonathan Hanson
• The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins
• Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
• Hackers & Painters, Paul Graham
• On Bullshit, Harry G. Frankfurt
• Enduring Cuba, Zoë Brân
• Reefer Madness, Eric Schlosser
• Podróże z Herodotem, Ryszard Kapuściński
• Passion Play, Felice Dunas
• Stupid White Men, Michael Moore
• Encore Provence, Peter Mayle
• Cesarz, Ryszard Kapuściński
• Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle
• A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
• Przekroczyć próg nadziei, Jan Paweł II
• Long Walk To Freedom, Nelson Mandela
• The Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
• Men Like Gods, H.G. Wells
• The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
• The Eye of the Needle, Ken Follett
• The Emperor's New Mind, Roger Penrose
• Walden; or, Life in the woods, Henry D. Thoreau
• Lud Boży w drodze, ks. Teofil Szendzielarz
• Mistrz i Małgorzata, Michaił Bułhakow
• The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
• The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
• Artist of Life, Bruce Lee
• Orzech!, ks. Aleksander Radecki
• Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer
• Neuromancer, William Gibson
• Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
• The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
• The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
• Technopoly, Neil Postman
• Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland
• Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton
• The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
• Microserfs, Doug Coupland
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• 1984, George Orwell
• The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

While on the topic of literature, I like reading poetry once in a while. Here is a small collection from long time ago (mostly found on rec.arts.poems).

Here is a link to some good fantasy pictures, from the days when I read a lot of this genre.

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