Reading

The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder	This is an incredible book, much better, in my opinion, than Gaarder's much acclaimed Sophie's World. I've read it several times now. I've even read it in French. It has fantastic stories within stories which interrelate and it all resolves beautifully.. It was interesting to read it again after Gödel, Escher, Bach, since the concepts of tangled hierarchies, stacks and strange loops all apply in some way.
The Solitaire Mystery by Jostein Gaarder	This is an incredible book, much better, in my opinion, than Gaarder's much acclaimed Sophie's World. I've read it several times now. I've even read it in French. It has fantastic stories within stories which interrelate and it all resolves beautifully.. It was interesting to read it again after Gödel, Escher, Bach, since the concepts of tangled hierarchies, stacks and strange loops all apply in some way.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter	Over the course of several years, this book was recommended to me by three friends and another book before I eventually bought it. It's awesome. Full of puns and self-reference, which is no accident; self-reference is one of the main themes. There are enough people singing its praises that I needn't do so here. More...
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter	Over the course of several years, this book was recommended to me by three friends and another book before I eventually bought it. It's awesome. Full of puns and self-reference, which is no accident; self-reference is one of the main themes. There are enough people singing its praises that I needn't do so here. More...
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster	This is meant for children but I enjoyed it immensely... it's chock full of puns, and idioms taken literally.
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster	This is meant for children but I enjoyed it immensely... it's chock full of puns, and idioms taken literally.
Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang, by Jonathan Allday	I'd read plenty about particle physics before, but I think it was only after reading that book that I really felt like I understood it. That really got me interested again. It presents all the particles and their interactions very clearly, with some very humourous footnotes. In fact, it got me so interested that I ended up applying for, and getting, a fellowship at CERN. I wrote to Jonathan Allday to thank him and he was nice enough to send me some of a new book he's working on. I just checked Amazon and noticed there's a new book by him coming out soon, called Quantum Reality, so I assume that's it. I'll have to order it. More...
Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang, by Jonathan Allday	I'd read plenty about particle physics before, but I think it was only after reading that book that I really felt like I understood it. That really got me interested again. It presents all the particles and their interactions very clearly, with some very humourous footnotes. In fact, it got me so interested that I ended up applying for, and getting, a fellowship at CERN. I wrote to Jonathan Allday to thank him and he was nice enough to send me some of a new book he's working on. I just checked Amazon and noticed there's a new book by him coming out soon, called Quantum Reality, so I assume that's it. I'll have to order it. More...

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