It’s always dangerous to let me loose in a bookshop. Today I think I went a little over the top. Let me share the list of my acquisitions with you, in the “full disclosure” style of some self-help groups. Perhaps it will help. (But what would success look like?) In no particular order:
- Doom 3 Prima Official Game Guide
- BBC: The Weather by John Lynch (glorious coffee-table book on all aspects of the weather)
- Dancing Barefoot by Wil Wheaton
- Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King (A colleague read about my Dark Tower project and insisted that I should read this one. “Stephen King nails the 60s and Vietnam.”)
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris (mixed reviews, but interesting)
- Cowboy Bebop #1 by Yutaka Nanten and Hajime Yatate (manga)
- What Philosophers Think edited by Julian Baggini and Jeremy Stangroom (Interviews with Searle, Dawkins, Don Cupitt, Mary Midgley, Hilary Putnam and others.)
Hmmm… a depressingly typical collection. I’ve got to start thinking outside the box.