In addition to the books I have on my first shot at a summer reading list, I am adding the following:
An Odyssey in Print: Adventures in the Smithsonian Libraries.
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It, Arthur Herman.
I was skeptical of Lane's suggestion until I read "[t]he influence of the Scottish Enlightenment in revolutionary America was magnified enormously by [reprints of Scottish Enlightenment books]" this morning in A History of the Book in America (vol. I) by Amory & Hall.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami, trans. Jay Rubin.
Thanks (again) to Lane for the suggestion. I have also heard only good things!
A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel.
I have a freakish love for books about books.
Academic Legal Writing: Law Review Articles, Student Notes and Seminar Papers, Eugene Volokh.
I am still taking suggestions. I also need to buy a new bookcase. Even now, my bookshelves runneth over (and there are many many shelves). I am an addict. I admit it.
How about Mind Design II? Or, at least, the Mr. P--Mr. P conversations about it:
http://blog.tstern.com/comments.php?id=P589_0_1_0_C
(no, seriously, that's a great book)
Posted by: mr p on May 8, 2003 07:39 PMHow about Mind Design II? Or, at least, the Mr. P--Mr. P conversations about it:
http://blog.tstern.com/comments.php?id=P589_0_1_0_C
(no, seriously, that's a great book)
Posted by: mr p on May 8, 2003 07:40 PMor you can just read my post twice.
Posted by: mr p on May 8, 2003 07:42 PMTheodore Rex is on my list. And the King of Torts, mostly because my mom gave it to me (she never knew what the word meant before I went to law school). I'd also like to read The Bourne Identity, but somehow I don't think I'll have the time for all three.
Posted by: greg on May 9, 2003 01:09 AMCheck out *The Metaphysical Club* by Louis Menand. It's a beautifully written history of American pragmatism, traced primarily through four thinkers (among them Oliver Wendell Holmes). At my law school, legal theory via Holmes seems to have a lot of traction among students--I found this book to provide useful intellectual context for Holmes' jurisprudence, among other things of interest to a law student.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0374199639/002-0201811-1275233?vi=glance
Posted by: nick on May 9, 2003 04:06 AMThe Murakami is terrific-- I love everythng of his that I've read, most recently "Norwegian Wood", which I recomend highly.
Posted by: Bill Altreuter on May 9, 2003 08:59 AMStephen Carter's hefty "The Emperor of Ocean Park" is a great law-related mystery.
"Emperor" = John Grisham + tastier writing + better-developed plot.
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375413634/qid=1052492997/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/104-4937573-9425526?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Posted by: liable on May 9, 2003 11:12 AM