Ballycumber
BALLYCUMBER: (n) One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.
-- The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams.
Applied here, ballycumber means one of the any books I read these days besides those recommended by my advisor. Since I tend to sleep anywhere, we can safely omit bed without any loss of generality. We can always add or remove trivial instances to reach the number six, hence it may also be omitted. Liff doesnt have to be taken very seriously anyway.
Current ballycumber
- The Deeper Meaning of Liff, Douglas Adams (of course, why else this page)
- Surely you are joking, Mr Feynman, Richard Feynman
- Popper selections, David Miller (ed.)
Up next
List of books in the queue, in no particular order. No time limits or guarantee that they will be read. These books are available with me and you can borrow them if you wish. Anyone with a good
credit history is welcome.
- works by Douglas Hofstadter
- works by Daniel Dennett
- Basic writings of Nietzsche
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
- Thus spake Zarathustra
- Catch-22
- Atlas Shrugged
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
- How to cut a cake and other mathematical conundrums
- Ideas of the great philosophers
Wish List
What I wish, but dont have with me. Theres a very high probability that I may never read these. If you have them, get in touch, we can strike a deal.
- Alexander Pope
- Neil Gaiman
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
Past Ballycumbers
My advisor and I agree only on one proposition. I usually forget what I read. Following list is made only for bragging purposes and to eliminate any chances of repetitions. Not in any particular order.
- Animal Farm, George Orwell (Eric Blair)
- 1984, George Orwell (Eric Blair)
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- Alice in wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson)
- Stick to drawing comics, Monkey Brain!, Scott Adams
- Slaughterhouse V, Kurt Vonnegut (God, grant me the serenity to accept things i can't change, courage
to change things I can and wisdom always to tell the difference.)
- The curious incident of the dog in the night time, M.Haddon
- Flatand, Edwin A. Abbott
- Flatterland, Ian Stewart
- Grooks - 1, 2 and 3, Piet Hein
- Life of Pi, Yan Martel
- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town, Cory Doctorow
- Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Adam Douglas
- Journey Through Genius, William Dunham (nothing can be more patient
than a theorem lying undiscovered)
- Pi in the Sky, John D. Barrow
- Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy, Douglas Adams
- Restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams
- Life, the Universe and Everything, Douglas Adams
- Mostly harmless, Douglas Adams
- Young Zaphod plays it safe, Douglas Adams
- So Long and thanks for all the fish, Douglas Adams
- An Illustrated Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
- The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
- We the living, Ayn Rand
- Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, Robert Pirsig
- Catch 22, Joseph Heller
- Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
There were more books. Believe me.
last modified on April 16, 2008.