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.
Here are some of the books I've read, most recent ones are listed at the
top.
- Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
- Designing Embedded Hardware, John Catsoulis
- The Art of Asking Your Boss For a Raise, Georges Perec
- Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana
- Wiedźmin I: Ostatnie życzenie, Andrzej Sapkowski
- Version Control with Git, Joe Loeliger, Matthew McCullough
- Embedded Linux Primer, Christopher Hallinan
- Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
- The New Paradigm for Financial Markets, George Soros
- Hold Me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson
- Nieznośna lekkość bytu, Milan Kundera
- I Am a Cat, Sōseki Natsume
- Confessions of a Public Speaker, Scott Berkun
- Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
- Longitude, Dava Sobel
- Rework, Jason Fried
- Man's Search For Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
- Fifty Shades of Grey, EL James
- Solaris, Stanisław Lem
- Sex Slaves, Louise Brown
- The Rough Guide to First-Time Asia, Lesley Reader, Lucy Ridout
- Habibi, Craig Thompson
- Psie serce, Michaił Bułhakow
- World History, Philip Parker
- The Art and Craft of Coffee, Kevin Sinnott
- The Novice, Thich Nhat Hanh
- Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Bryan O'Sullivan
- 12 x śmierć, Michał Pauli
- Let's Ride, Sonny Barger
- Adventure Motorcycling Handbook, Chris Scott
- A Thousand Peaceful Cities, Jerzy Pilch
- 10 Years on 2 Wheels, Helge Pedersen
- Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh
- Mastering HD Video with Your DSLR, Helmut Kraus, Uwe Steinmueller
- W rajskiej dolinie wśród zielska, Jacek Hugo-Bader
- The Rough Guide to First-Time Around the World, Doug Lansky
- Przebudzenie, Anthony de Mello
- Leaving the Planet by Space Elevator, Bradley C. Edwards Ph.D., Philip Ragan
- Kodak Guide To Digital Photography, Rob Sheppard
- Lost Japan, Alex Kerr
- 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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