Total Eclipse

The University book-store has been sold to Office Depot, and is now having a “going out of business” sale. The people of Israel saw the sale, that it was good, and all made way to the store.

The place was jam-packed, looking like a clearance sale in Ikea on a holiday or something. Long derailed lines for all cashiers, with an approximate waiting time equivalent to a complete life-cycle of some primitive vertabrae.

However, I am now the proud owner of some new books (to add to the piles of books in read-queue):

• The Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky, cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Labaratory, MIT. I’ve read already about half of it from the library, good stuff.
• The Deeper Meaning of Liff A dictionary of things there aren’t any words for yet – But there ought to be. By Douglas Adams and John Lloyd. I never seem to find The Meaning of Liff, only the second one, but I decided it’s about friggin time I read this, no matter.
• Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem. Now that he’s dead, I think it’s way overdue I read this classic.
• Mind Hacks Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain, by Tom Stafford & Matt Webb. I read a bit of this last time I was in the store, and kinda got hooked. I’m such a sucker for pop science.
• The Blind Watchmaker, by Richard Dawkins. Another classic, redefining evolution, I’ve heard only good things about this book, and I’ve been fascinated with Dawkins’ work for some time now.
• The Private Life of the Brain, by Susan Greenfield, a leading neuroscientist based in the dept of Pharmacology, Oxford. A complete impulse buy, I saw it when I was in line and started paging through it, and just went for it. Now I see she presented that BBC2 series Brain Story I recently downloaded, which was excellent.
• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein. My nemesis and inspiration.
• The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, by Oliver Sacks. Heard so many things about this book in various psych classes, about time I got it.
• Jonathan Livingstone Seagull a story, by Richard Back, photographs by Russel Munson. I have vague childhood memories of reading this.
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. Yeah, I guess I’m going to have to read this too eventually.

So
Now I’m a *happy camper*. Bye-bye, don’t forget to *enjoy the sauce*.

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