Herein lies a collection of dubious opinions on books:

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - 11 Jun 2011

Death by Black Hole - 06 Feb 2010

Coders at Work - 22 Dec 2009

Out of Their Minds - 04 Dec 2009

100 Essential Things You Didn’t Know You didn’t know - 08 Nov 2009

The Housekeeper and the Professor - 23 Sep 2009

The Logic of Life - 21 Sep 2009

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - 08 May 2009

The Labyrinth of Time - 05 Feb 2009

Kitchen - 24 Jan 2009

The Audacity of Hope - 21 Jan 2009

Letters to a Young Mathematician - 17 Jan 2009

The Rest is Noise - 16 Jan 2009

Effective Java (2nd Edition) - 12 Dec 2008

I Am a Strange Loop - 09 Nov 2008

A History of the World in 10½ Chapters - 08 Nov 2008

House of Meetings (3) - 24 May 2008

The God Delusion (3) - 01 Apr 2008

Beautiful Code (3) - 24 Jan 2008

Unknown Quantity (3) - 16 Nov 2007

Collapse (4) - 15 Sep 2007

The Road (3) - 06 Jun 2007

Excession (3) - 23 Mar 2007

The Timeless Way of Building (3) - 30 Jan 2007

The American West (3) - 02 Jan 2007

Blood Meridian (3) - 09 Dec 2006

Java Puzzlers (3) - 05 Nov 2006

Holy Fire (3) - 01 Oct 2006

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (3) - 14 Aug 2006

Lamb (3) - 05 Jul 2006

Rainbows End (3) - 12 Jun 2006

Shopgirl (3) - 04 Jun 2006

Blink (3) - 31 May 2006

Gates of Fire (3) - 29 Mar 2006

The Blank Slate (4) - 05 Mar 2006

Game Design Theory and Practice (2) - 29 Dec 2005

Freakonomics (3) - 24 Dec 2005

Influence (3) - 15 Dec 2005

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (3) - 21 Nov 2005

The Woman in the Dunes (3) - 18 Nov 2005

Teranesia (2) - 15 Nov 2005

The Forever War (2) - 12 Nov 2005

Letters to a Young Poet (3) - 11 Nov 2005

Roughing It (3) - 30 Oct 2005

The Birth of the Mind (3) - 29 Sep 2005

How to Win Friends and Influence People (3) - 23 Sep 2005

Mutants (3) - 15 Sep 2005

Grand Central Winter (3) - 05 Sep 2005

The Best Software Writing I (2) - 16 Aug 2005

Innocents Abroad (3) - 09 Aug 2005

Conquest of Happiness (2) - 02 Jul 2005

The Prince and the Pauper (3) - 18 Jun 2005

The Story of My Life (3) - 12 Jun 2005

Kafka on the Shore (3) - 07 Jun 2005

Everything is Illuminated (3) - 07 May 2005

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (2) - 03 May 2005

The Ancestor’s Tale (3) - 24 Apr 2005

The Old Patagonia Express (3) - 19 Mar 2005

Falling Leaves (2) - 13 Jan 2005

A Stranger in a Strange Land (3) - 04 Jan 2005

The Great Unraveling (3) - 31 Dec 2004

A Theory of Fun (2) - 27 Dec 2004

Creativity (2) - 25 Dec 2004

Light (2) - 10 Nov 2004

Visual Intelligence (3) - 18 Oct 2004

Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box (3) - 30 Sep 2004

Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (3) - 08 Sep 2004

The Society of Mind (3) - 05 Aug 2004

The Age of Reason – Jean-Paul Sartre (3) - 08 Jul 2004

Words and Rules – Steven Pinker (3) - 11 Jun 2004

Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote (3) - 27 May 2004

Guns, Germs and Steel – Jared Diamond (4) - 16 May 2004

Jitterbug Perfume – Tom Robbins (3) - 23 Apr 2004

Core Technologies & Algorithms in Game Programming – Daniel Sanchez-Crespo Dalmau (2) - 20 Apr 2004

The Peace War – Vernor Vinge (2) - 09 Apr 2004

Nihongo Notes 4 – Osamu Mizutani (3) - 25 Mar 2004

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote (3) - 03 Mar 2004

Nihongo Notes 3 – Osamu Mizutani (3) - 01 Mar 2004

A Personal Matter – Kenzaburo Oë (3) - 23 Feb 2004

Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald (3) - 09 Feb 2004

Eugine Onegin – Alexander Pushkin (4) - 15 Jan 2004

After the Quake – Haruki Murakami (3) - 31 Dec 2003

Nihongo Notes 2 – Osamu Mizutani (3) - 29 Dec 2003

Le Ton beau de Marot – Douglas Hofstadter (3) - 26 Dec 2003

Read Japanese Today – Len Walsh (3) - 04 Dec 2003

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love – Raymond Carver (4) - 11 Nov 2003

The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway (4) - 08 Nov 2003

Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger (4) - 18 Oct 2003

Making Sense of Japanese – Jay Rubin (3) - 12 Oct 2003

Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami (3) - 09 Oct 2003

Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words – Jay Rubin (3) - 28 Sep 2003

Altered Carbon – Richard K. Morgan (3) - 21 Sep 2003

Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America – Jane Powers (3) - 15 Sep 2003

The Elephant Vanishes – Haruki Murakami (3) - 12 Sep 2003

Wabi Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers – Leonard Koren (3) - 06 Sep 2003

Linux Server Hacks – Rob Flickenger (2) - 12 Aug 2003

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami (3) - 04 Jul 2003

Google Hacks – Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest (2) - 20 Jun 2003

Secret Rendezvous – Kobo Abe (3) - 07 Jun 2003

Flatterland – Ian Stewart (3) - 25 May 2003

Life of Pi – Yann Martel (3) - 14 May 2003

South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami (4) - 15 Apr 2003

Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami (3) - 29 Mar 2003

Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami (4) - 16 Mar 2003

The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster (4) - 16 Feb 2003

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom – Cory Doctorow (3) - 02 Feb 2003

A Wild Sheep Chase – Haruki Murakami (4) - 29 Jan 2003

Roadside Picnic – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (3) - 12 Dec 2002

Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur S. Golden (3) - 19 Oct 2002

Girlfriend 44 – Mark Barrowcliffe (3) - 08 Sep 2002

Shockwave Rider – John Brunner (3) - 29 Aug 2002

The Ethical Slut – Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (3) - 10 Aug 2002

Engines of Creation – C. Eric Drexler (3) - 02 Aug 2002

Quarantine – Greg Egan (3) - 13 Jul 2002

True Names – Vernor Vinge, etc. (3) - 08 Jul 2002

Flowers For Algernon – Daniel Keyes (3) - 04 Jul 2002

River Town – Peter Hessler (3) - 01 Jul 2002

The Stars My Destination – Alfred Bester (3) - 23 Jun 2002

The Diamond Age – Neal Stephenson (3) - 15 Jun 2002

The Game Players of Titan – Philip K. Dick (3) - 08 Jun 2002

Go To – Steve Lohr (3) - 22 May 2002

Permutation City – Greg Egan (3) - 03 May 2002

Ender’s Shadow – Orson Scott Card (3) - 28 Jan 2002

Six Not So Easy Pieces – Richard Feynman (3) - 23 Jan 2002

Naked – David Sedaris (3) - 19 Jan 2002

Relativity – Albert Einstein (2) - 12 Jan 2002

Innumeracy – John Allen Paulos (2) - 06 Jan 2002

Something Like an Autobiography – Akira Kurosawa (3) - 23 Dec 2001

Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand (3) - 13 Dec 2001

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove – Christopher Moore (3) - 15 Sep 2001

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (3) - 14 Aug 2001

A Deepness in the Sky – Vernor Vinge (2) - 21 Jul 2001

The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell (3) - 16 Jul 2001

Last Chance To See – Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine (3) - 18 Jun 2001

Feynman Lectures on Computation – Richard P. Feynman (3) - 11 Jun 2001

Flatland – Edwin A. Abbot (3) - 05 Jun 2001

Ecstasy Club – Douglas Rushkoff (2) - 25 May 2001

A Book of Five Rings – Miyamoto Musashi (3) - 14 May 2001

The Man In The High Castle – Philip K. Dick (3) - 08 May 2001

The Dancing Wu Li Masters – Gary Zukav (1) - 02 May 2001

Dhalgren – Samuel R. Delany (2) - 30 Apr 2001

Arcadia – Tom Stoppard (3) - 05 Apr 2001

A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving (4) - 31 Jan 2001

The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon (3) - 24 Jan 2001

The Classic Tradition of Haiku – Faubion Bowers (3) - 21 Jan 2001

The Accidental Theorist – Paul Krugman (3) - 15 Jan 2001

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe (3) - 10 Jan 2001

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald (3) - 05 Jan 2001

Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad (3) - 03 Jan 2001

Finnegan’s Wake – James Joyce (N/A) - 02 Jan 2001

The Evolution of Useful Things – Henry Petroski (N/A) - 01 Jan 2001

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick (3) - 28 Dec 2000

Free Play – Stephen Nachmanovitch (3) - 26 Dec 2000

Like Shaking Hands with God – Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer (3) - 15 Dec 2000

Practical Java – Peter Haggar (3) - 08 Dec 2000

The Elements of Style – Strunk and White (4) - 03 Dec 2000

The Inner Game of Tennis – W. Timothy Gallwey (4) - 01 Dec 2000

Tuva or Bust! – Ralph Leighton (3) - 25 Oct 2000

Journey through Genius – Willian Dunham (3) - 14 Oct 2000

Diaspora – Greg Egan (4) - 20 Sep 2000

Second Foundation – Isaac Asimov (2) - 13 Sep 2000

Foundation and Empire – Isaac Asimov (2) - 02 Sep 2000

Foundation – Isaac Asimov (2) - 22 Aug 2000

Reinventing Comics – Scott McCloud (3) - 11 Aug 2000

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress – Robert Heinlein (3) - 03 Aug 2000

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin – Benjamin Franklin (3) - 24 Jul 2000

A Fire Upon the Deep – Vernor Vinge (3) - 07 Jul 2000

Money – Martin Amis (3) - 19 Jun 2000

Othello – William Shakespeare (3) - 15 May 2000

The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac (3) - 29 Apr 2000

Takes of Ordinary Madness – Charles Bukowski (3) - 17 Apr 2000

The Design of Everyday Things – Donald A. Norman (3) - 03 Mar 2000

The Fabulous Riverboat – Phillip Jose Farmer (2) - 25 Nov 1999

To Your Scattered Bodies Go – Phillip Jose Farmer (3) - 06 Sep 1999