On Taking Sips (of Books)
Since I first got my hands on a Kindle, I've liberally abused the "Sample This Book" feature available in the Kindle Store. In the last two years, I've downloaded and read samples of dozens of books.Here's an incomplete compilation of the samples I've acquired, which are surely all very interesting books worth a full reading... but we are only given so much time, right?If anyone reading has a suggestion for which of these I should follow through to their conclusion, let me know in the comments...
- Punk Rock Dad - Jim Lindberg
- Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
- Bossypants - Tina Fey
- Mental Models - Indi Young
- In The Plex - Steven Levy
- Guitar For Dummies - Jon Chappell
- Understanding Marijuana - Mitch Earleywine
- The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
- What Technology Wants - Kevin Kelly
- Aleph - Paulo Coelho
- Alone Together - Sherry Turkle
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
- The Paris Wife - Paula Mclain
- The Art of Seduction - Robert Greene
- Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter - Tom Bissell
- Beautiful Testing - Adam Goucher
- Freedom - Jonathan Franzen
- Flight To Arras - Antoine De Saint Exupery
- Lost Illusions - Honore de Balzac
- Drown - Junot Diaz
- The Practice of Everyday Life - Michel de Certeau
- Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next - John D. Kasarda
- Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
- FDR - Jean Edward Smith
- Black Coffee Blues - Henry Rollins
- The Afghan Campaign - Steven Pressfield
- Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
- The Four Loves - C.S. Lewis
- Miracles - C.S. Lewis
- The Bicycling Guide - Todd Downs
- Where Good Ideas Come From - Steven Johnson
- After Dark - Haruki Murakami
- From Barcelona - Jeremy Holland
- The Paris Review Interviews - Paris Review
- The Winner Stands Alone - Paulo Coelho
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
- Curious? - Todd Kashdan
- Empire of Illusion - Chris Hedges
- A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
- The Lost Symbol - Dan Brown
- Complete Short Stories - Ernest Hemingway
- From Olympus to Camelot - David Leeming
- Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
- Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
- Media Concentration and Democracy - C. Edwin Baker
- Batman and Philosophy - Mark D. White
- Dragon Rising: An Inside Look at China Today - Jasper Becker