{"id":1905,"date":"2012-01-09T13:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2012-01-09T13:54:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T11:54:06","slug":"books-ive-read-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/09\/books-ive-read-in-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I&#8217;ve read in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I&#8217;d do this again. I read 27 books last year, almost exclusively on my Kindle. Below is a list, in order of finish date (latest first). I highlighted five favorites and provided a bit of commentary.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost<\/li>\n<li>Lady of Mazes, Karl Schroeder<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Well-Played Game, Bernie DeKoven<\/strong><sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1905\" id=\"identifier_1_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"For its heartwarming humanism and great marriage of form and message. Most fun book about fun.\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>Critical Play, Mary Flanagan<\/li>\n<li>The Scar, China Mieville<\/li>\n<li>Lord of the Flies, William Golding<\/li>\n<li>American Gods, Neil Gaiman    <\/li>\n<li>Rework, David Heinemeier Hansson, Jason Fried<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Road, Cormac McCarthy<\/strong><sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_1905\" id=\"identifier_2_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Beautiful, lyrical portrayal of the end of the world that hits you like a sledgehammer.\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The transmigration of Timothy Archer, Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li>The Divine Invasion, Philip K. Dick<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vermilion Sands, J. G. Ballard<\/strong><sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_1905\" id=\"identifier_3_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Unparalleled in the originality and believability of its envisioned future. No-one has a feel for near-future fashion and leisure like Ballard.\">3<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The Broom Of The System, David Foster Wallace<\/li>\n<li>Number9Dream, David Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>Carter Beats the Devil, Glen David Gold<\/li>\n<li>Last Call, Tim Powers<\/li>\n<li>Thoughts on Interaction Design, Jon Kolko<\/li>\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n<li>The great Gatsby, Francis Scott Fitzgerald<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unit Operations, Ian Bogost<\/strong><sup><a href=\"#footnote_4_1905\" id=\"identifier_4_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Tough but rewarding read that provides a solid framework for thinking about the aesthetics of all things procedural.\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison<\/li>\n<li>The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin<\/li>\n<li>Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard<\/li>\n<li>The Player of Games, Iain M. Banks<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick<\/strong><sup><a href=\"#footnote_5_1905\" id=\"identifier_5_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Essential PKD, deep meditation on what it means to be human wrapped in a scifi detective plot.\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n<li>The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, Matt Ridley<\/li>\n<\/ul><ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1905\" class=\"footnote\">For its heartwarming humanism and great marriage of form and message. Most fun book about fun.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_1_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_1905\" class=\"footnote\">Beautiful, lyrical portrayal of the end of the world that hits you like a sledgehammer.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_2_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_1905\" class=\"footnote\">Unparalleled in the originality and believability of its envisioned future. No-one has a feel for near-future fashion and leisure like Ballard.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_3_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_4_1905\" class=\"footnote\">Tough but rewarding read that provides a solid framework for thinking about the aesthetics of all things procedural.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_4_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_5_1905\" class=\"footnote\">Essential PKD, deep meditation on what it means to be human wrapped in a scifi detective plot.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_5_1905\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I&#8217;d do this again. I read 27 books last year, almost exclusively on my Kindle. Below is a list, in order of finish date (latest first). I highlighted five favorites and provided a bit of commentary. How to Do Things with Videogames, Ian Bogost Lady of Mazes, Karl Schroeder The Well-Played Game, Bernie DeKoven1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/09\/books-ive-read-in-2011\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books I&#8217;ve read in 2011<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}