Books and Things

Recently, I've been making a serious attempt to lessen my dependence on computers, videogames, and television for entertainment and replacing it with books.  I spent several weekends this summer pouring over lots of books of various subjects, including math, physics, history, and theology.  I even read a couple novels.  Right now, my current adventure is to complete Atlas Shrugged, but I don't think I can stomach it right now.  I'm deep into it, but I am so sick of every single character and the absurdity of the plot and Rand's necessity to repeat herself so many times that I may need to set it aside for a while.  I think a distraction into Gödel, Escher, Bach may be needed.  I've wanted to read this book for a long time after several good reviews by friends and teachers.  The start of the semester lowers my reading time, but I'll work on it.

I've been updating my Amazon wish list, because you can never have too many items on there.  The better the recommendations I get, the more interesting tidbits I find.  Tonight's adventure was adding all of the math books I could find, especially those dealing with the philosophy of infinity.  Biographies of mathematicians are great, too.  Depending on my interest in Gödel after GEB, I may want to get Incompleteness, a biography of the man who came up with the most important proof in the history of logic while it drove him mad.