Brain Food

You can tell a lot about someone by what they read. What you put into your brain determines what it does. Here's what I'm putting in now, and what I've put in most recently.

Note well, please, that I am not offering my opinion, positive or negative, about any book or CD listed here. This isn't a list of recommendations, just a list of what I've been reading and listing to.

Words (Books, Spoken Word Recordings)

• How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
• Retire Young, Retire Rich by Robert Kiyosaki
• On Negotiating by Mark McCormack
• Crossing Over by John Edward
• Star Wars: Episode 1, The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks
• Blackwood Farm by Anne Rice
• One Last Time by John Edward
• Witches' Brew by Terry Brooks
• Wizard at Large by Terry Brooks
• The Tangle Box by Terry Brooks
• The Black Unicorn by Terry Brooks
• Magic Kingdom for Sale - Sold! by Terry Brooks
• A Girl's Gotta Do What a Girl's Gotta Do by Kathleen Baty
• Time for a Change by Richard Bandler
• The Subtle Knife by Phillip Pullman
• Wither's Rain by John Passarella
• Ethics for the New Millenium by H. H. the Dalai Lama
• Turtles All the Way Down by John Grinder and Judith Delozier
• Morgawr by Terry Brooks
• The History of God by Karen Armstrong
• Sen and the Art of Stand-Up Comedy by Jay Sankey
• Antrax by Terry Brooks
• The Still, Small voice by Echo Bodine
• Ilse Witch by Terry Brooks
• Lake Wobegone, Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
• The Talismans of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Elf Queen of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• Start with No by Jim Camp
• The Druid of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Scions of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• From a Buick 8 by Stephen King
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Language in Thought and Action by S.I. Hayakawa and Alan R. Hayakawa
• Painless Algebra by Lynette Long, Ph.D.
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson
• Sun Tzu and the Art of Modern Warfare by Mark McNeilly
• The First King of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way by Bill Bryson
• The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• The Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• Blood and Gold by Anne Rice
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
• The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
• Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
• The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman
• The Art of Happiness by H.H. the Dalai Lama
• A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
• Angel fire East by Terry Brooks
• Neanderthal by John Darnton
• Dune: House Corrino by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
• Good Life, Good Death by Nawang Gehlek Rimpoche
• Running With The Demon by Terry Brooks
• The Book of Lost Tales, Vol. II by J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Book of Lost Tales, Vol. I by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Goodbye, Descarte by Keith Devlin
• Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice
• Pandora by Anne Rice
• Ed's Fruits and Vegetables by Tom Bodett
• Metaphors and Paradoxes by Cloé Madanis
• How to Run a Successful Meeting in Half the Time by Milo Frank
• A Cry for Character by Dary Matera
• Dubliners by James Joyce
• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Brains that Work a Little Bit Differently by Allen D. Bragdon and David Gamon, Ph.D.
• Monsters and Magical Sticks by Steven Heller, Ph.D. and Terry Steele
• Hypnosis and the Buisness of Belief Systems by Dave Dobson
• The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
• 101 Secrets of Highly Effective Speakers by Caryl Rae Krannich
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds
• Cycle of the Werewolf by Stephen King
• Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
• Return From Heaven by Carol Bowman
• The Dune Encyclopedia by Willis McNelly
• Taltos by Ann Rice
• How to Deal with Difficult People by Dr. Rick Kirschner and Dr. Rick Brinkman
• Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Peoplemaking by Virginia Satir
• Billy Budd, Foretopman by Herman Melville
• Dune: House Harkonnen by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Myths of the Family by James Hillman
• Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton
• Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
• Plutarch's Life of Cicero by Plutarch
• The Other Side: The True Story of the Boy Who Sees Ghosts by Denice Jones Note: this is one the instance on this list where I will offer my opinion on a book. This book is absolutely dreadful and should never have been published as a "True Story" if at all. After having read this book, I felt used. Avoid!
• Plutarch's Life of Antony by Plutarch
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
• Plutarch's Life of Theseus by Plutarch
• Plutarch's Life of Romulus by Plutarch
• Dune: House Atreides by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkein
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The End of the Road by Tom Bodett
• The Last Decent Parking Place in North America by Tom Bodett
• Those Grand Occasions at the End of the Road by Tom Bodett
• Old Fools and Young Hearts by Tom Bodett
• The Better Part of the End of the Road by Tom Bodett
• Growing Up, Growing Old, and Going Fishing at the End of the Road by Tom Bodett
• Exploded by Tom Bodett
• 1999 Trainer Training by Rex Steven Sikes
• Understanding and Triggering Motivation by Shelle Rose Charvet
• Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert K. Ressler
• DHE 2000 by Richard Bandler and John LaValle
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Most of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Provocative Therapy by Frank Farrelly
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
• The Long, Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
• Prairie Home Companion 25th Anniversary Collection by Garrison Keillor
• The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Stephen Pinker
• Don't Shoot the Dog! by Karen Pryor
• The Book of Guys by Garrison Keillor
• Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshake
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
• The Miracle of Language by Richard Lederer
• The Gunslinger by Stephen King
• The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
• Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• The Rants by Dennis Miller
• Ranting Again by Dennis Miller
• Talking Back to Prozac by Peter Breggin, M.D.
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J. R. R. Tolkein
• Peaking Out by Al Seibert
• The Survivor Personality by Al Seibert
• Wither by J. G. Passarella
• The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon, by Stephen King
• The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse translated by Jack Zipes
• You Are All Diseased by George Carlin

Websites I Visit Frequently

• Hobbes Main Directory
• Hobbes Incoming Directory
• Hobbes New Files Directory
• OS/2 e-Zine! The on-line OS/2 magazine
• eBay Online Auctions
• Best Book Buys book search engine
• Google Search, my current favorite search engine
• What's playing at my local movie theater, Peoples Plaza Cinemas 17
• PriceWatch^TM is where to find the best prices on computer hardware.
• How's the Weather where I am?