blocks: <p>I have a ridiculously large pile of books waiting to be read. I thought I'd use this wiki to write up the list of shame, to encourage myself to get on with reading them, and to give you, gentle reader, an idea of what I'm into (and what I'm about to get into). I'll use the wiki to monitor progress as we go along!</p><p>They're in three categories. Here goes&#x2026;</p><h2>Currently Reading (4)</h2><ul><li><i>The Devil's Larder</i> Jim Crace</li><li><i>The Story We Find Ourselves In</i> Brian McLaren</li><li><i>this is your life</i> John O'Farrell</li><li><i>Tell Me A Story</i> Roger Schank</li></ul><h2>Going to Read (21)</h2><ul><li><i>Round Ireland in Low Gear</i> Eric Newby</li><li><i>The Five People You Meet in Heaven</i> Mitch Albom</li><li><i>Hey, Nostradamus!</i> Douglas Coupland</li><li><i>The Blackwater Lightship</i> Colm Toibin</li><li><i>Hell For Leather</i> Robert Winder</li><li><i>Pensees</i> Blaise Pascal</li><li><i>The Two-Pound Tram</i> William Newton</li><li><i>The Christian Response</i> Michel Quoist</li><li><i>Snow Crash</i> Neal Stephenson</li><li><i>Christ and the Kalashnikov</i> Ian Loring</li><li><i>The Heart of the Matter</i> Graham Greene</li><li><i>Steps to an Ecology of Mind</i> Gregory Bateson</li><li><i>A Primate's Memoir</i> Robert Sapolsky</li><li><i>Chronicles I</i> Bob Dylan</li><li><i>Ecclesiogenesis</i> Leonardo Boff</li><li><i>Coloring Outside the Lines</i> Roger Schank</li><li><i>ghosts</i> Adrian Plass</li><li><i>Great Apes</i> Will Self:</li><li><i>Universality</i> Mark Ward</li><li><i>Raising Sparks</i> Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)</li><li><i>The Poems of Rowan Williams</i> Rowan Williams (poetry)</li></ul><h2>Books I started ages ago and then abandoned but will go back to (7)</h2><ul><li><i>Unweaving the Rainbow</i> Richard Dawkins</li><li><i>The Extended Phenotype</i> Richard Dawkins</li><li><i>Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker</i> David Gouwens</li><li><i>The Island of the Day Before</i> Umberto Eco</li><li><i>The New York Trilogy</i> Paul Auster</li><li><i>Complexity and Postmodernism</i> Paul Cilliers</li><li><i>The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee</i> Jared Diamond</li></ul><p>(Page created 14th November 2005)</p><p>And here's the ones I've read that now come off the above lists:</p><h2>Books I have finally finished!</h2><ul><li><i>Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince</i> JK Rowling</li><li><i>Freedom Evolves</i> DanielDennett</li><li><i>The Structure of Scientific Revolutions</i> Thomas Kuhn</li><li><i>The Sunday Philosophy Club</i> Alexander McCall Smith</li></ul>
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text: I have a ridiculously large pile of books waiting to be read. I thought I'd use this wiki to write up the list of shame, to encourage myself to get on with reading them, and to give you, gentle reader, an idea of what I'm into (and what I'm about to get into). I'll use the wiki to monitor progress as we go along!
	
	They're in three categories. Here goes...
	
	== Currently Reading (4) ==
	
	* /The Devil's Larder/ Jim Crace
	* /The Story We Find Ourselves In/ Brian McLaren
	* /this is your life/ John O'Farrell
	* /Tell Me A Story/ Roger Schank
	
	== Going to Read (21) ==
	
	* /Round Ireland in Low Gear/ Eric Newby
	* /The Five People You Meet in Heaven/ Mitch Albom
	* /Hey, Nostradamus!/ Douglas Coupland
	* /The Blackwater Lightship/ Colm Toibin
	* /Hell For Leather/ Robert Winder
	* /Pensees/ Blaise Pascal
	* /The Two-Pound Tram/ William Newton
	* /The Christian Response/ Michel Quoist
	* /Snow Crash/ Neal Stephenson
	* /Christ and the Kalashnikov/ Ian Loring
	* /The Heart of the Matter/ Graham Greene
	* /Steps to an Ecology of Mind/ Gregory Bateson
	* /A Primate's Memoir/ Robert Sapolsky
	* /Chronicles I/ Bob Dylan
	* /Ecclesiogenesis/ Leonardo Boff
	* /Coloring Outside the Lines/ Roger Schank
	* /ghosts/ Adrian Plass
	* /Great Apes/ Will Self:
	* /Universality/ Mark Ward
	* /Raising Sparks/ Michael Symmons Roberts (poetry)
	* /The Poems of Rowan Williams/ Rowan Williams (poetry)
	
	== Books I started ages ago and then abandoned but will go back to (7) ==
	
	* /Unweaving the Rainbow/ Richard Dawkins
	* /The Extended Phenotype/ Richard Dawkins
	* /Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker/ David Gouwens
	* /The Island of the Day Before/ Umberto Eco
	* /The New York Trilogy/ Paul Auster
	* /Complexity and Postmodernism/ Paul Cilliers
	* /The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee/ Jared Diamond
	
	(Page created 14th November 2005)
	
	And here's the ones I've read that now come off the above lists:
	
	== Books I have finally finished! ==
	
	* /Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince/ JK Rowling
	* /Freedom Evolves/ DanielDennett
	* /The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/ Thomas Kuhn
	* /The Sunday Philosophy Club/ Alexander McCall Smith
	
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	<div class="old"><p>&lt; == Going to Read <strong class="changes">(22)</strong> ==</p></div><p>to</p>
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	<div class="old"><p>&lt; * /The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/ Thomas Kuhn</p></div><p><strong>Added: 43a42,44</strong></p>
	<div class="new"><p>&gt; * /Freedom Evolves/ DanielDennett<br />&gt; * /The Structure of Scientific Revolutions/ Thomas Kuhn<br />&gt; * /The Sunday Philosophy Club/ Alexander McCall Smith</p></div>
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