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I heard a radio report the other day that explained that parents were getting irritated at Pizza Hut's Book It campaign, because it rewarded kids for reading with food. I never thought of it that way, that reading, one of the world's most intellectually stimulating activities, was being intrinsically linked from a very young age to consumerism.
Go figure.
I can honestly say that Book It didn't really enhance my love of reading. I mean, sure, I participated and got the free pizzas. But I consumed books all through my youth at a rate that even outpaced my consumption of food. If you've seen my younger pictures, I was a bowling ball... so that says something.
Anyway, I was working over my MySpace profile (simplifying, perhaps targeting for eventual removal) when I came across the fact that I had read like three million books in the past 18 months, and each of them were listed. Though I'm doing away with that version of the list, I'm posting it here for sake of posterity:
Favorites:
Welcome to the Monkey House- Kurt Vonnegut
America: The Book- Jon Stewart
Travels with Charley- John Steinbeck
No One Writes to The Colonel - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
High Fidelity- Nick Hornby
Current:
At Risk- Piers Blaikie
The Foucault Reader- Michel Foucault
News Narratives and News Framing : Constructing Political Reality- Karen S. Johnson-Cartee
The Archaeology of Knowledge- Michel Foucault
The Environment as Hazard- White, Kates, Burton
The Construction of Social Reality- John Searle
The People's Geography- James Tyner (advance)
Pandora's Hope- Bruno Latour
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature- Steven Pinker
Relatively Recent:
Chuck Klosterman IV- Chuck Klosterman
The Rich Heritage of Quakerism- Walter Williams
Misquoting Jesus- Bart Ehrman
Quaker Profiles & Practices- William Kashatus
Unmasking the Idols- Douglas Gwyn
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk- Legs McNeil
Man's Search for Meaning- Victor Frankl
Blowback- Chalmers Johnson
Travels with Charley- John Steinbeck
Discipline & Punish- Michel Foucault
High Fidelity (reread)- Nick Hornby
Killing Yourself to Live- Chuck Klosterman
Climate Change- William J. Burroughs
Natural Hazards and Disasters- Donald Hyndman
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace- Gore Vidal
Climate Change- A. Barrie Pittock
Using Social Theory- Pryke et al.
Qualitative Methods in Human Geography- Iain Hay
Discourse- Sara Mills
Fitzgerald- William Bunge
Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs- Chuck Klosterman
Uneven Development- Neil Smith
The People's History of the United States- Howard Zinn
Lies My Teacher Told Me- James W. Loewen
The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space- Don Mitchell
No God But God- Reza Aslan
Rules for Radicals- Saul Alinsky
Social Justice and the City- David Harvey
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life- Jon Lee Anderson
Talking Right- Geoffrey Nunberg
How Few Remain- Harry Turtledove
Team of Rivals- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Putting Children in Their Place- Stuart Aitken
1776- David McCullough
Hegemony or Survival- Noam Chomsky
The Geography of War and Peace- Colin Flint
Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism- Susan Cutter
Iraq, Terror and the Philippines' Will to War- James Tyner
On Bullshit- Harry G. Frankfurt
Orientalism- Edward Said
Deterring Democracy- Noam Chomsky
The New Imperialism- David Harvey
The Motorcycle Diaries- Che Guevara
The Business of War (advance copy)- James Tyner
In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
A Man Without A Country- Kurt Vonnegut
The Endgame of Globalization- Neil Smith
The World is Flat- Thomas Friedman
Globalization and Its Discontents- Joseph Stiglitz
The Mystery of Capital- Hernando de Soto
Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut
A Brief History of Neoliberalism- David Harvey
Blood and Oil- Michael Klare
The Girlfriend's Guide to Hockey- Teena Spencer
Welcome to the Monkey House- Kurt Vonnegut
Fargo Rock City- Chuck Klosterman
The Sorrows of Empire- Chalmers Johnson
It's quite a list, really. Does that make me egocentric?
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on March 14, 2007 11:25 PM | Permalink
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