Books! Books! Aklat! (Finished in 2009)

Again for posterity, Im writing down the books i finished reading in 2009

1. Snowball (Buffett Biography)

--over-written

2. White Tiger

--great! Unique.

3. A Most Wanted Man

--best by LeCarre among the ones ive read (our game, constant garnener, tailor of panama)

4. Outliers

--very good. Gladwell deserves the success. He made a niche category in nonfiction on his own. Made me buy what the dog saw.

5. The world is what it is

--the best biography of a writer that ive read!

6. Digital Photography Book vol 3

--easily the best in the series. Eveyr new photographer should buy vol 2 and

3 (skip vol 1)

7. Hot Shoe Diaries

--anyone who get their hands on two external flash should buy this book.

8. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol 2

--great drawings, great adventure story. Alan moore is the undoubted master

9. Gerilya

--Mahusay!

10. The Book of Genesis by Crumb

--landmark in comics. fantastic. makes you check the bible at home to confirm if there are really scenes like that. and indeed they're there!

11. The Lost Symbol

--3 out of 5 stars

 12. The Adobe Photoshop CS4 Book for Digital Photographers

--really useable!

13. Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

--a masterpiece

Read not cover to cover: (principally, because they are collections)

14. Disquiet Please

--not so "humorous," but great essays nonetheless

15. Better by Gawande

--fascinating 

16. Obamanos

--essays that should be studied at school. 

17. Twisted 8

--Zafra is one of our able writers

18. Library of America: Raymond Carver Stories

--also should be studied at schools. 


19. Christmas at the New Yorker
--great writing, trademark New Yorker. Worth the price!


20. Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual

And so Im averaging at least one book a month. Not bad!