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Finished 9/6. Early, famous population control manifesto. Defends the environment on economic grounds and with human-centric arguments, which anyone who has read my senior thesis knows is a line of attack that I find very appealing. Look, I love nature more than you, but societies are run by people using numbers and arguments like "Spotted Owls are irreplaceable and intriniscally valuable in and of themselves" don't cut the mustard. Hardin's approach is convincing, easy to read, not terribly dated even 35 years later, and the periodic Spaceship Beagle fictionalized-trip-to-Alpha-Centauri accounts that he tosses in are a good time. Highly recommended, especially if you're 1) a birkenstock sierra club neo-hippie who is hurting the cause, or 2) a moderate, corporate middle managmengent type, Bush values voter who is interested in having a world for her grandchildren to live in.

Finished 9/6. On Defective Yeti list. Four dystopian short stories and a novella. I particularly liked the novella and the first short story. All the stories are a little samey stylistically. Dialogue often a little lacking. Characterization solid. Reads real fast. There are worse ways to spend your time, like watching Date My Mom.

Books Ranked Thus Far*
1. The Time Traveller's Wife, Niffenegger
2. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Clarke
3. The Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn
4. The Elementary Particles, Houellebecq
5. House of Leaves, Danielewski
6. Brideshead Revisted, Waugh
7. Blue Blood, Conlon
8. Gringos, Portis
9. the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Haddon
10. The Hunt For Red October, Clancy (Umpteenth reading, could easily be higher)
11. Little Children, Perotta
12. Oracle Night, Auster
13. Into Thin Air, Krakauer
14. CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Saunders
15. Oryx and Crake, Atwood
16. Fermata, Baker
17. A Random Walk Down Wall Street, Malkiel
18. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Spark
19. Pattern Recognition, Gibson
20. Sphere, Crichton (fourth reading...could be five to ten spots higher if this were the first time)
21. The Book on Bush, Alterman and Brooks
22. Savage Love, Savage
23. Design For The Real World, Papanek (technically unfinished)
24. Sports Guy, Pierce

*Rankings to Appear Every Third Book

Finished 8/28, in one sitting. My mom bought this book randomly at the UVA bookstore when she was bringing my brother back to school. It's a different sort of book, written from the perspective of an autistic (funny story, when I first started to type that word I typed "acoustic" Ha.) child. A quick read, obviously. Worth the time, and it won't tax your brainpower. On a lighter note, what if autism is our word for when human frailties of emotion and error are accidentally genetically removed?

(Bracing for flamewar from my girlfriend)

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