edmond lau

My Literary Journey

I plan to do a substantial amount of reading over the summer. For fun, I'm going to keep track of the books that I'm reading and my ratings for those books.

Recently reading...

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
Making Globalization Work by Joseph Stiglitz

September - October 2006

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

July - August 2006

This I Believe: An A to Z of a Life by Carlos Fuentes
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

June 2006

A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

May 2006

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Illustrator), Richard Howard (Translator) [online version]
Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees by Ben Mezrich
The Count of Monte Cristo (abridged) by Alexandre Dumas (unfortunately, I didn't realize my version was abridged until the end )
Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich
Letters From a Skeptic: A Son Wrestles with His Father's Questions about Christianity by Gregory A. Boyd, Edward K. Boyd
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Favorite Books

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (I have an autographed copy signed by the man himself)
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

Copyright © 2006 Edmond Lau