Section Intent

This section is really for my own interest book keeping (i.e. keeping track of good books, movies, experiences, etc.) Yes, it is slightly exhibitionist, but this is tame compared to instagram culture and the rest of this era.

Countries Visited
  • 1. US (all 50 states)
  • 2. Canada
  • 3. Mexico
  • 4. Honduras
  • 5. Bahamas
  • 6. Peru
  • 7. Chile
  • 8. Portugal
  • 9. UK (England, Northern Ireland)
  • 10. France
  • 11. Netherlands
  • 12. Belgium
  • 13. Italy
  • 14. Croatia
  • 15. Greece
  • 16. Turkey
  • 17. Vatican City
  • 18. Japan
  • 19. Italy
  • 20. Australia
  • 21. New Zealand
  • 22. French Polynesia
  • 23. Singapore
  • 24. Ireland
  • 25. Germany
  • 26. Hungary
  • 27. Czech Republic
  • 28. Slovakia
  • 29. Slovenia
  • 30. Spain
  • 31. Monaco
  • 32. Switzerland
  • Books
  • 1. War and Peace
  • 2. Anna Karenina
  • 3. A Clockwork Orange
  • 4. Moby Dick
  • 5. Heart of Darkness
  • 6. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
  • 7. Call of the Wild
  • 8. White Fang
  • 9. The Great Gatsby
  • 10. Brave New World
  • 11. Frankenstein
  • 12. Lord of the Flies
  • 13. Farenheit 451
  • 14. The Red Badge of Courage
  • 15. The Time Machine
  • 16. The Hobbit
  • 17. Animal Farm
  • 18. The Scarlet Letter
  • 19. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • 20. Great Expectations
  • 21. 1984
  • 22. A Tale of Two Cities
  • 23. The Lord of the Rings
  • 24. The Da Vinci Code
  • 25. The Adventures of Tom Sawyers
  • 26. The Adventues of Huckleberry Finn
  • 27. Treasure Island
  • 28. The Old Man and the Sea
  • 29. Eldest
  • 30. Number the Stars
  • 31. Robinson Crusoe
  • 32. Gone With the Wind
  • 33. The Kite Runner
  • 34. A Thousand Spendid Suns
  • 35. Pride and Prejudice
  • 36. Catch-22
  • 37. Slaughterhouse-Five
  • 38. Night
  • 39. The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 40. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
  • 41. The Fountainhead
  • 42. Les Miserables
  • 43. Guns, Germs, and Steel
  • 44. Chronicle of a Death Foretold
  • 45. Kiss of the Spider Woman
  • 46. The Trial
  • 47. The Sound and the Fury
  • 48. Our Mutual Friend
  • 49. Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • 50. The Innocents Abroad
  • 51. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  • 52. Darkness at Noon
  • 53. The Namesake
  • 54. Oliver Twist
  • 55. The Tipping Point
  • 56. Billy Budd
  • 57. De Profundis
  • 58. Dracula
  • 59. Sebastopol
  • 60. All Quiet on the Western Front
  • 61. Catcher in the Rye
  • 62. In Light of India
  • 63. Starship Troopers
  • 64. Flowers for Algernon
  • 65. John Adams
  • 66. The Labyrinth of Solitude
  • 67. American Lion
  • 68. Cat's Cradle
  • 69. The Bell Jar
  • 70. The Road
  • 71. Fight Club
  • 72. Rant
  • 73. Around the World in 80 Days
  • 74. Last of the Mohicans
  • 75. To Kill a Mockingbird
  • 76. Jane Eyre
  • 77. Wuthering Heights
  • 78. War of the Worlds
  • 79. Angels and Demons
  • 80. Narratives of the Frederick Douglass
  • 81. Jurassic Park
  • 82. The Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 83. Blink
  • 84. This Side of Paradise
  • 85. Hard Times
  • 86. The Puppet Masters
  • 87. Ethan Frome
  • 88. Dune
  • 89. Portraits of the Whiteman
  • 90. Go Nation
  • 91. Staying Sober in Mexico City
  • 92. Coming of Age in Somoa
  • 93. Glory Road
  • 94. Sphere
  • 95. The Andromeda Strain
  • 96. Ender's Game
  • 97. Foundation
  • 98. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
  • 99. The Red and the Black
  • 100. Atlas Shrugged
  • 101. The Things They Carried
  • 102. Hamlet
  • 103. 100 Years of Solitude
  • 104. The Golden Compass
  • 105. The Amber Spyglass
  • 106. The Subtle Knife
  • 107. A Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy
  • 108. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
  • 109. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • 110. Things Fall Apart
  • 111. Madness and Civilization
  • 112. Black Skin, White Masks
  • 113. The Wars on Asia 1911-1949
  • 114. Arcadia
  • 115. Romeo and Julia
  • 116. The Communist Manifesto
  • 117. The Worldy Philosophers
  • 118. King Lear
  • 119. A Separate Peace
  • 120. Eragon
  • 121. World War Z
  • 122. Harry Potter (All but #2)
  • 123. The Dresden Files (All)
  • 124. Stargirl
  • 125. Hunger Games (All)
  • 126. Twilight (All)
  • 127. The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • 128. Crime and Punishment
  • 129. Of Mice and Men
  • 130. Percy Jackson (All)
  • 131. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • 132. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  • 133. The Stranger
  • 134. A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • 135. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
  • 136. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • 137. Doctor Zhivago
  • 138. The Prince
  • 139. I, Robot
  • 140. The Glass Menagerie
  • 141. Native Son
  • 142. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • 143. Odd Thomas
  • 144. Outliers
  • 145. The Host
  • 146. Because of Winn-Dixie
  • 147. The Meditations
  • 148. Pygmy
  • 149. In the Heart of the Sea
  • 150. Aztec
  • 151. The Leopard and the Fox
  • 152. On History
  • 153. Campell Biology Textbook (read this 4 times through - love this stuff)
  • 154. East of Eden
  • 155. Lolita
  • 156. Godel, Escher, Bach
  • 157. Descartes' Error
  • 158. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
  • 159. Siddhartha
  • 160. Cyber War Will Not Take Place
  • 161. Steve Jobs
  • 162. Elon Musk
  • 163. The Good Earth
  • 164. The Life of the Law
  • 165. Chrysanthemum and the Sword
  • 166. The Chinese Family
  • 167. Democracy in America
  • 168. Japanese Empire
  • 169. My Several Worlds
  • 170. Thinking Fast and Slow
  • 171. Persepolis
  • 172. Life of Pi
  • 173. The Color Purple
  • 174. About Chinese Women
  • 175. Passing
  • 176. Getting to Yes
  • 177. Society of the Spectacle
  • 178. The Godfather
  • 179. SF Fallacy
  • 180. Webhacking 101


  • Favorites


  • Currently Reading:
  • 1. Cybernetics
  • 2. I Am a Strange Loop
  • 3. The Power Broker
  • 4. Manias, Panics, and Crashes
  • 5. The Ecology of Law
  • 6. The Symbolic Species
  • 7. Superintelligence
  • 8. Brain Evolution
  • 9. Makers of Modern Strategy
  • 10. Language, Thought, and Reality
  • Plays
  • 1. Book of Mormon
  • 2. Lion King
  • 3. Spamalot
  • 4. Blue Men Group
  • 5. Camelot (probably shouldn't count)
  • 6. Les Miserables
  • 7. 39 Steps
  • 8. Matilda
  • 9. Macbeth
  • 10. The Phantom of the Opera
  • 11. Mamma Mia!
  • 12. Wicked
  • 13. Cabaret
  • 14. The Sound of Music (Seen in Portugal in Portuguese
  • 15. Matilda the Musical
  • 16. Stomp
  • 17. Singing in the Rain
  • Movies
  • 1. Slumdog Millionaire
  • 2. The Sound of Music
  • 3. Pride and Prejudice
  • 4. 28 Days Later
  • 5. V for Vendetta
  • 6. Meet Joe Black
  • 7. Good Will Hunting
  • 8. The Incredibles
  • 9. Kung Fu Panda
  • 10. Inception
  • 11. The Lord of the Rings (Minus the Hobbits)
  • 12. Kill Bill (Both)
  • 13. Django Unchained
  • 14. Inglorious Bastards
  • 15. Desperado
  • 16. Once Upon a Time in Mexico
  • 17. Fight Club
  • 18. The King's Speech
  • 19. Tangled
  • 20. Batman (All, Nolan)
  • 21. Casablanca
  • 22. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
  • 23. Up
  • 24. Seven
  • 25. Love Actually
  • 26. Notting Hill
  • 27. You've Got Mail
  • 28. Monty Python's Life of Brian
  • 29. The Godfather
  • 30. Pyscho
  • 31. The Departed
  • 32. Ben-Hur
  • 33. American Pyscho
  • 34. Forrest Gump
  • 35. District 9
  • 36. The Blind Side
  • 37. Diamonds are Forever
  • 38. Tropic Thunder
  • 39. Spirited Away
  • 40. Thunderball
  • 41. Gone in 60 Seconds
  • 42. Death at a Funeral
  • 43. Ocean's Eleven (to Thirteen_
  • 44.Sweeney Todd
  • 45. Shaun of the Dead
  • 46. Hot Fuzz
  • 47. Black Swam
  • 48. Chinatown
  • 49. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
  • 50. Pride and Prejudce (BBC)
  • 51. Outbreak
  • 52. The Goonies
  • 53. Little Big Man
  • 54. Patton
  • 55. Zulu
  • 56. Walkabout
  • 57. Mr. & Mrs. Smith
  • 58. Alien (all)
  • 59. Donnie Darko
  • 60. Stand By Me
  • 61. Team America: World Police
  • 62. Midnight in Paris
  • 63. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • 64. The Bridge Over the River Kwai
  • 65. Hellboy (all)
  • 66. The Mission
  • 67. The Island
  • 68. Dead Snow
  • 69. Dead Poets Society
  • 70. The Last Samurai
  • 71. Die Hard
  • 72. My Fair Lady
  • 73. Happy Feet
  • 74. Stranger than Fiction
  • 75. Pitch Black
  • 76. Eat Drink Man Woman
  • 77. What's Up, Tiger Lily?
  • 78. E.T.
  • 79. Sahara
  • 80. Murder on the Orient Express
  • 81. Planet Terror
  • 82. I Am Legend
  • 83. Braveheart
  • 84. Sixteen Candles
  • 85. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
  • 86. A Man for all Seasons
  • 87. Star Trek (all new and old)
  • 88. Star Wars
  • 89. Shrek (all)
  • 90. Toy Story (all)
  • 91. Serenity
  • 92. Men in Black (all)
  • 93. Club Dread
  • 94. Silver Streak
  • 95. Zombieland
  • 96. Dirty Dancing
  • 97. The Gods Must be Crazy
  • 98. The Mummy (all)
  • 99. A Knight's Tale
  • 100. Ten Things I Hate About You
  • 101. Jurassic Park (all)