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Melvin Jules Bukiet, on books:

And there you have several miracles, first among them the wonder of a three-dimensional volume where black squiggles on white paper create worlds.

(from Glenn Vanderburg's Quotes Collection.)

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The following are mini-reviews of books I read in
1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008.

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Abelson, Hal; Sussman, Jerry; and Sussman, Julie Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Adams, Douglas The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide

Adams, Herbert The Chief Witness

Adams, Herbert The Judas Kiss

Ainsworth, William Harrison Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

Alder, Ken The Measure Of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error that Transformed the World

Aldridge, Susan The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering

Alighieri, Dante The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation

Anstey, F. The Curse of the Catafalques

Anthony, Wilder When Super-Apes Plot

Armstrong, Karen The Battle for God

Armstrong, Karen A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Armstrong, Karen In the Beginning: A New Interpretation of Genesis

Armstrong, Karen Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

Austen, Jane Emma

Austen, Jane Mansfield Park

Austen, Jane Pride and Prejudice

Austen, Jane Sense and Sensbility

Aytoun, W. E. How We Got Up the Glenmutchkin Railway

Baer, Lee Getting Control: Overcoming Your Obsessions and Compulsions

Baer, Lee The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts

Baker, Dean The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer

Ball, Eustace Hale The Voice on the Wire

Ballantyne, R. M. The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands

Ballantyne, Tony Recursion

Bedford-Jones, H. (James O'Brien) Saint Michael's Gold

Beeching, Paul Q. Awkward Reverence: Reading the New Testament Today

Bishop, Martin J., ed. Guide to Human Genome Computing (Second Edition)

Black, Lewis Nothing's Sacred

Borg, Marcus J. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith

Boyer, Robert H. and Zahorski, Kenneth H., eds. Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy

Böszörményi, László; Gutknecht, Jürg; and Pomberger, Gustav; eds. The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity

Brebner, Percy James The Brown Mask

Brodie, Leo Starting Forth

Brontë, Anne Agnes Grey

Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre

Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights

Brown, William; Malveau, Raphael; McCormick III, Hays; and Mowbray, Thomas AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis

Bruder, Mary Newton Much Ado About a Lot: How to Mind Your Manners in Print and in Person

Bugliosi, Vincent The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President

Bulka, Dov and Mayhew, David Efficient C++ : Performance Programming Techniques

Bullen, Frank T. The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales

Burnett, Frances Hodgson T. Tembarom

Byatt, A. S., ed. The Oxford Book of English Short Stories

Carter, Nicholas The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories

Casti, John L. Would-Be Worlds: How Simulation is Changing the Frontiers of Science

Cather, Willa Death Comes for the Archbishop

Cavilli-Sforza, Luigi Luca Genes, Peoples, and Languages

Chadwick, Henry The Early Church

Chambers, Robert W. The Tracer of Lost Persons

Cholmondeley, Mary Diana Tempest

Chesterton, G. K. The Penguin Complete Father Brown

Christie, Agatha Endless Night

Claiborne, Robert Saying What You Mean: A Commonsense Guide to American Usage

Clifford, Mary Louise and Clifford, J. Candace Women Who Kept the Lights: An Illustrated History of Female Lighthouse Keepers

Collingwood, Harry Overdue: The Story of a Missing Ship

Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

Coles, Robert The Moral Intelligence of Children

Coote, John O., ed. The Norton Book of the Sea

Corballis, Michael C. The Lopsided Ape: Evolution of the Generative Mind

Cox, Michael and Gilbert, R. A., eds. Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology

Craik, Dinah Mulock Christian's Mistake

Craik, Dinah Mulock John Halifax, Gentleman

Craik, Dinah Mulock The Laurel Bush

Craik, Dinah Mulock A Life for a Life

Craik, Dinah Mulock Mistress and Maid

Craik, Dinah Mulock A Noble Life

Crawford, F. Marion Doctor Claudius: A True Story

Crawford, F. Marion The Upper Berth

Crichton, Michael The Lost World

Crofts, Freeman Will The Pit Prop Syndicate

Crossan, John Dominic The Essential Jesus: Original Sayings and Earliest Images

Curtis, C. Michael, ed. God: Stories

Curtis, Richard; Elton, Ben; and Lloyd, John Blackadder: The Whole Damn Dynasty

Curwood, James Oliver The Golden Snare

Dana, Richard Henry Two Years Before the Mast

Danby, Mary, ed. 65 Great Murder Mysteries

Davis, Michael and Clark, Hunter R. Thurgood Marshall: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench

Defoe, Daniel Moll Flanders

DeMarco, Tom and Lister, Timothy Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

De Mille, James Cord and Creese

De Mille, James A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder

Dennett, Daniel C. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life

Dennett, Daniel C. Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness

Dewdney, A. K. 200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy

Diamond, Steven OCD: A Survival Guide for a Life Among Secrets

Dickens, Charles Bleak House

Dickens, Charles David Copperfield

Dickens, Charles Great Expectations

Didion, Joan Political Fictions

Doctorow, Cory Eastern Standard Tribe

Dolnick, Edward Madness on the Couch: Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis

Donald, David Herbert Lincoln

Downey, James Communion of Dreams

Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie

Dreyfus, Suelette Underground

Dutta, Krishna and Robinson, Andrew Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man

Dwyer, James Francis The White Waterfall

Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

Eliot, George Adam Bede

Eliot, George Daniel Deronda

Eliot, George Felix Holt, The Radical

Eliot, George The Impressions of Theophrastus Such

Eliot, George Middlemarch

Eliot, George The Mill on the Floss

Eliot, George Scenes of Clerical Life

Eliot, George Silas Marner

Ellis, John M. Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities

Ellis, Joseph J. American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

Engle, Jerret, ed. The Wisdom of George Eliot

Essinger, James Jacquard's Web

Eusebius Church History

Fagan, Brian Time Detectives: How Archeologists Use Technology to Recapture the Past

Falkner, John Meade The Lost Stradivarius

Falkner, John Meade Moonfleet

Flaubert, Gustave Madame Bovary

Fletcher, Joseph S. Dead Men's Money

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Middle of Things

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Middle Temple Murder

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Orange-Yellow Diamond

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Paradise Mystery

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation

Fletcher, Joseph S. Scarhaven Keep

Fletcher, Joseph S. The Talleyrand Maxim

Flint, Homer Eon and Hall, Austin The Blind Spot

Forster, E. M. Howards End

Forster, E. M. A Passage to India

Forster, E. M. A Room With a View

Forster, E. M. Where Angels Fear to Tread

Fox, Michael J. Lucky Man: A Memoir

Franken, Al Lies And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right

Franken, Al Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations

Frederick, John Riders of the Silences

Freeman, R. Austin Dr. Thorndyke Short Story Omnibus

French, Joseph Lewis, ed. Great Sea Stories

Futrelle, Jacques The Diamond Master

Futrelle, Jacques Elusive Isabel

Gabriel, Richard P. Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community

Gallagher, Dan The Pleistocene Redemption

Gause, Donald C. and Weinberg, Gerald M. Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design

Glanville, Ernest In Search of the Okapi

Goldsmith, Oliver The Vicar of Wakefield

Gomes, Peter J. The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart

Gould, Stephen Jay Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin

Gould, Stephen Jay Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes

Gould, Stephen Jay The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Gould, Stephen Jay Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown

Green, Anna Katharine The Woman in the Alcove

Greene, Hugh, ed. The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Gulik, Robert Van, trans. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Chinese Detective Novel

Gurney, Alan Compass: A Story of Exploration and Innovation

Haggard, H. Rider Ayesha: The Return of She

Haggard, H. Rider Doctor Therne

Haggard, H. Rider King Solomon's Mines

Haggard, H. Rider Montezuma's Daughter

Haggard, H. Rider She

Haggard, H. Rider Stella Fregelius

Hains, T. Jenkins Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

Hall, James Norman The Far Land

Hall, Stephen S. Mapping the Next Millennium: How Computer-Driven Cartography is Revolutionizing the Face of Science

Hanshew, Thomas W. and Hanshew, Mary E. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame

Hardy, Thomas Jude the Obscure

Hardy, Thomas Life's Little Ironies

Hardy, Thomas Return of the Native

Hardy, Thomas Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Hardy, Thomas The Woodlanders

Harvey, Miles The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

Hawes, Charles Boardman The Mutineers

Hawkes, Jacquetta, ed. The World of the Past (2 Volumes)

Hillerman, Tony and Herbert, Rosemary, eds. The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories

Hilton, James Lost Horizon

Hope, Anthony The Prisoner of Zenda

Hugo, Victor The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

Hutcheson, John Conroy The Ghost Ship: A Mystery of the Sea

Innes, Hammond The Wreck of the Mary Deare

Innes, Michael The Paper Thunderbolt

Isham, Frederic Stewart Half A Chance

Jacobs, W. W. Lady of the Barge and Others

Jacobs, W. W. Salthaven

James, Henry The Turn of the Screw

James, Henry Washington Square

Janvier, Thomas A. In the Sargasso Sea

Jepson, Edgar The Loudwater Mystery

Jones, Martin The Molecule Hunt: Archaeology and the Search for Ancient DNA

Kafka, Franz Metamorphosis

Kaplan, Michael and Kaplan, Ellen Chances Are ... Adventures in Probability

Kernighan, Brian W. and Pike, Rob The Practice of Programming

Kester, Vaughan The Just and the Unjust

Kester, Vaughan The Prodigal Judge

Kinsley, Michael Big Babies: On Presidents, Politics, and National Crazes

Knuth, Donald E. Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About

Kramer, Peter D. Against Depression

Kreisler, Fritz Four Weeks in the Trenches

Lamb, Charles and Lamb, Mary Tales from Shakespeare

Lang, Andrew, ed. The Crimson Fairy Book

Lang, Andrew The Mark of Cain

Lawson, Thomas W. Friday, the Thirteenth

Lethem, Jonathan Motherless Brooklyn

Lewis, Sinclair It Can't Happen Here

Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Ludlow, Fitz Hugh The Phial of Dread and Other Stories

MacDonald, George The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairy Tales and Stories for the Childlike, Volume I

MacDonald, George The Gifts of the Child Christ: Fairy Tales and Stories for the Childlike, Volume II

McNamara, Robert In Retrospect

McPhee, John The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed

Macrone, Michael Eureka!: 81 Key Ideas Explained

Malamud, Bernard A Malamud Reader

Marquis, Don The Cruise of the Jasper B.

Marriott, Christine A. Demons of the Mind: A Memoir of an Obsessive-Compulsive

Martel, Yann Life of Pi

Meyers, Scott Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Second Edition)

Miller, Alice Duer The Burglar and the Blizzard: A Christmas Story

Miller, Mark Crispin The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder

Mondimore, Frank Mark, M.D. Depression, The Mood Disease (Third Edition)

Montgomery, Lucy Maud Anne of Green Gables

Moore, Frederick Ferdinand The Devil's Admiral

Moore, Michael Dude, Where's My Country?

Morley, Christopher Parnassus on Wheels

Mortimer, John Rumpole Misbehaves

Mortimer, John Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

Mortimer, John The Trials of Rumpole

Nabokov, Vladimir Pnin

Naylor, H. R. The Mystery of Monastery Farm

Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter

Nuland, Sherwin B. The Wisdom of the Body

Oberman, Heiko A. Luther: Man Between God and the Devil

Oppenheim, E. Phillips The Great Impersonation

Oppenheim, E. Phillips Peter Ruff and the Double Four

Osborn, Ian Tormenting Thoughts and Secret Rituals: The Hidden Epidemic of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Owens, Lily, ed. The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

Packard, Frank L. The Miracle Man

Packard, Frank L. The White Moll

Pagels, Elaine Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas

Parrish, Randall The Strange Case of Cavendish

Parrish, Randall Wolves of the Sea

Paulos, John Allen A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market

Pelc, Stephen Programming Forth

Penrose, Roger The Emperor's New Mind

Pipher, Mary The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families

Pitt, William Rivers and Ritter, Scott War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You To Know

Poe, Edgar Allan Narrative of A. Gordon Pym

Porter, Eleanor H. Pollyanna

Post, Melville Davisson The Sleuth of St. James's Square

Post, Melville Davisson Uncle Abner, Master of Mysteries

Postgate, John Microbes and Man

Powell, Colin An American Journey

Queux, William Le The Four Faces

Read, Opie The Colossus

Redinger, Ruby V. George Eliot: The Emergent Self

Roberts, Theodore Goodridge The Harbor Master

Rose, Marshall T. The Simple Book: An Introduction to Internet Management, 2nd Edition

Rowen, Hobart Self-Inflicted Wounds: From LBJ's Guns and Butter to Reagan's Voodoo Economics

Ruh, William A.; Herron, Thomas; and Klinker, Paul IIOP Complete: Understanding CORBA and Middleware Interoperability

Sagan, Carl The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Sanders, E. P. The Historical Figure of Jesus

Sapolsky, Robert M. Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals

Savage, Richard The Midnight Passenger

Schwartz, Jeffrey M. Brain Lock

Scott, Leroy Children of the Whirlwind

Serviss, Garrett P. The Second Deluge

Severy, Melvin Linwood The Darrow Enigma

Sheehan, Thomas The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity

Shermer, Michael Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Shiel, M. P. The Purple Cloud

Shorter, Edward and Healy, David Shock Therapy: A History of Electroconvulsive Treatment in Mental Illness

Shryock, Richard H. Medicine and Society in America: 1660-1860

Silver, Robert B., ed. Hidden Histories of Science

Singer, Isaac Bashevis The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

Sobel, Dava Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Spong, John Shelby Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible With Jewish Eyes

Springer, Norman The Blood Ship

Steele, Chester K. The Diamond Cross Mystery

Steele, Chester K. The Mansion of Mystery

Takeuchi, Akikazu Parallel Logic Programming

Taylor, Ina A Woman of Contradictions: The Life of George Eliot

Tracy, Louis The Captain of the Kansas

Tracy, Louis The Stowmarket Mystery

Tracy, Louis The Wings of the Morning

Train, Arthur Cheney By Advice of Counsel

Train, Arthur Cheney Tutt and Mr. Tutt

Trott, Peter "Programming Languages: Past, Present, and Future"

Tuchman, Barbara W. The First Salute

Ullman, Jeffrey D. Elements of ML Programming, 2nd Edition

Updike, John The Music School

Urban, Linwood A Short History of Christian Thought

Various Stories by English Authors: Africa

Various Stories by English Authors: The Sea

Vermeij, Geerat J. Privileged Hands: A Scientific Life

Vermes, Geza The Changing Faces of Jesus

Walcott, Earle Ashley Blindfolded

Wallis, Jim God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It

Walton, Amy Catherine Deck Saved at Sea: A Lighthouse Story

Warden, Florence The Wharf by the Docks

Wilde, Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilensky, Amy S. Passing for Normal: A Memoir of Compulsion

Wills, Christopher Exons, Introns, and Talking Genes

Wills, Garry Why I Am a Catholic

Wilson, A. N. God's Funeral

Wodehouse, P. G. A Damsel in Distress

Wodehouse, P. G. Indiscretions of Archie

Wodehouse, P. G. The Intrusion of Jimmy

Wodehouse, P. G. Love Among the Chickens

Wodehouse, P. G. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

Wodehouse, P. G. The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories

Wodehouse, P. G. My Man Jeeves

Wodehouse, P. G. P. G. Wodehouse: Five Complete Novels

Wodehouse, P. G. Piccadilly Jim

Wodehouse, P. G. Psmith, Journalist

Wodehouse, P. G. Right Ho, Jeeves

Wodehouse, P. G. Something New

Wolfe, Thomas Look Homeward, Angel

Wood, RH The Captains

Woolf, Virginia The Voyage Out

Yates, Dornford Berry and Co.

Yates, Dornford The Brother of Daphne

Zola, Émile The Flood