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Books 2006

Readings in 2006
  1. Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad (6/22/06) ***
  2. The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad (7/27/06) ***
  3. Deliverance by James Dickey (6/25/06) ***
  4. Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell (1/2/06) ****
  5. A Short History of Music by Alfred Einstein (in progress)
  6. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (2/25/06) *****
  7. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (7/18/06) ****
  8. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (7/2/06) ****
  9. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster (9/18/06) ****
  10. Aspects of the Novel by E.M. Forster (3/18/06) ****
  11. The Confidential Agent by Graham Greene (7/4/06) ****
  12. The Quiet American by Graham Greene (6/20/06) ****
  13. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (9/30/06) ***
  14. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (2/25/06) ****
  15. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1/16/06) ***
  16. Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels (7/9/06) ***
  17. Hermosa Beach, Images of America by Chris Miller and Jerry Roberts (5/22/06)
  18. Beloved by Toni Morrison (2/4/06) ***
  19. Infinity and the Mind by Rudy Rucker (8/7/06) ***
  20. Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (8/28/06) ****
  21. The Sonnets by Shakespeare (in progress)
  22. The Theban Plays by Sophocles (2/9/06)
  23. The Odyssey of Enlightenment by Berthold Madhukar Thompson (8/25/06) ****
  24. Upanishads by Juan Mascaro (trans.) (2/6/06) *****
  25. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (8/3/06) *****
  26. The History of Mr Polly by H.G. Wells (6/18/06) ***

Reference Books, Guide Books, Text Books

  1. Harmonic Materials in Tonal Music by Greg Steinke (unfinished)

Books on Tapes; The Teaching Company (TTC)

  1. Science Fiction: The Literature of the Technological Imagination by Eric Rabkin (1/24/06)
  2. Shakespeare: The Word and the Action by Peter Saccio (1/26/06)
  3. Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud (1/26/06)
  4. Ancient Near Eastern Mythology by Shalom Goldman (2/8/06)
  5. Bach and the High Baroque by Robert Greenberg (6/21/06)
  6. Economics by Timothy Taylor (7/7/06)
  7. Story of Human Language by John McWhorter (8/2/06)
  8. United States and the Middle East: 1914 to 9/11 by Salim Yaqub (8/14/06)
  9. Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion by Bill Messenger (8/23/06)
  10. Great Masters: Haydn--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (8/31/06)
  11. Great Masters: Mozart--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (9/25/06)
  12. Great Masters: Beethoven--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (10/1/06)
  13. How to Listen to and Understand Great Music by Robert Greenberg (11/2/06)
  14. Great Masters: The Schumanns--Their Lives and Music by Robert Greenberg (11/8/06)
  15. Great Masters: Lizst--His Life and Music by Robert Greenberg (11/13/06)
  16. Chamber Music of Mozart by Robert Greenberg (11/28/06)
  17. Papal Elections by Thomas Noble (12/11/06)

Movies on big screen

  1. The Passenger (1975) - 1/11/06
  2. Brokeback Mountain - 1/13/06
  3. Duma - 1/18/06
  4. Match Point - 1/21/06
  5. King Kong - 2/6/06
  6. Thank You for Smoking - 4/15/06
  7. Inside Man - 4/26/06
  8. Mission: Impossible: III - 5/13/06
  9. Water - 5/26/06
  10. Wordplay - 7/7/06
  11. An Inconvenient Truth - 7/23/06
  12. Little Miss Sunshine - 8/25/06
  13. Black Dahlia (Honolulu) - 9/16/06
  14. The Queen - 10/21/06
  15. Little Children - 10/28/06 ?
  16. The Departed - 11/9/06
  17. Casino Royale - 11/23/06
  18. Borat - 12/15/06