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1999 Summer Reading List
Books I have read this year
Michael Dean
Future Shock by Alvin Tofler
1970 bestseller told us then everything that is happening now, and how to not be destroyed by it.
Darla 24 Handbook
Technical manual for my new digital soundcard and how to use it.
The Sovereign Individual James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Computer encryption technology will eliminate taxation and governments and here’s how to benefit from it.
The Age of Spiritual Machines Ray Kurzweil
Technology will make the world an amazing place and the author is helping to create a lot of it.
The Road Ahead Bill Gates
Technology is nifty and the author will sell you the future at a tidy profit.
Jones Inn Stephen Elliott
Sex! Drugs! Orphanages! Surprisingly eloquent beer-swilling guy from Chicago describes the lean mean streets in poetic prose for the common man. So real, you can smell the spoon burning. . . .
Zen Guitar Phil Sudo
A martial arts-practicing Japanese American Hawaiian rock guitarist gently teaches that music is non-competitive and he helps you feel this and know it.
The Artists’ Way Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan
Foxy older recovering alcoholic lady teaches us how to give up the artistic blocks we inherited as kids.
Official Adobe PhotoShop 5.0 Studio Techniques Ben Willmore
Computers are really neat and here’s how to use them to make cool pictures.
The Runaway Jury John Grisham
Ex-lawyer writes entertaining fiction that tells us how evil corporations are and how you might screw ‘em really hard.
6 Weeks to Get Out the Fat American Heart Association
Get rid of that belly you got playing with all this nifty new technology.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town Charles Bukowski
Fiction? "Then I screwed her. Then I threw up. Then she kicked me out of her house. I left feeling that life is beautiful," or something like that.
The Ice Opinion Ice-T
Surprisingly eloquent rapper explains the inner workings of the black community for white privileged losers like me.
How To Talk Dirty and Influence People Lenny Bruce
Surprisingly eloquent dope fiend shock comic explains the inner workings of his twisted mind as an analogy for the problems of the world.
The Chicago Manual of Style by some college folk.
Stuffy academics explain to me when I should say "who" and when I should say "whom."
Whargoul David Brockie
Singer in Gwar writes compelling military fiction about a time-traveling murderer with a heart of gold. Not yet published, but I read it four times as part of a editing job I did for Brockie.