My Christmas List: 2003

Books:

“Bertrand Russell: 1921 – 1970, The Ghost of Madness,” by Ray Monk. 592 pp. Published by Free Press, March 2001. ISBN: 0-743212-15-0

“Autobiography of Bertrand Russell.” Published by Little Brown & Company, January 1968 (a hardcover edition has been reissued and is currently in print).

“Benjamin Franklin: Writings.” 1605 pp. Published by Library of America, September 1987. ISBN: 0-940450-29-1

“James Thurber: Writings and Drawings.” 1004 pp. Published by Library of America, October 1996. ISBN: 1-883011-22-1

“Walt Whitman: Poetry and Prose.” 1380 pp. Published by Library of America, May 1982. ISBN: 0-940450-02-X

“William Faulkner: Novels 1936-1940.” 1117 pp. Published by Library of America, June 1990. ISBN: 0-940450-55-0

“Robert Lowell: Collected Poems.” Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. 1200 pp. Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 2003. ISBN: 0-374126-17-8

“The Executioner’s Song,” by Norman Mailer. 1072 pp. Published by Vintage Books, May 1998. ISBN: 0-375700-81-1

“A Farwell to Arms,” by Ernest Hemingway. 336 pp. Published by Scribner, reprint edition (June 1995) ISBN: 0-684801-46-9

“Nothing Like the Sun,” by Anthony Burgess. 234 pp. Published by W. W. Norton & Company, reissue edition (December 1996). ISBN: 0-393315-07-X

“Appointment in Samarra,” by John O’Hara. 272 pp. Published by Vintage Books, July 8, 2003. ISBN: 0-375719-20-2

“Parallel and Distributed Programming Using C++,” by Cameron Hughes and Tracey Hughes. 600 pp. Published by Addison -Wesley Publishing Company, August 29, 2003. ISBN: 0-131013-76-9

“Applied C++: Techniques for Building Better Software,” by Philip Romanik and Amy Muntz. 352 pp. Published by Addison -Wesley Publishing Company, May 2, 2003. ISBN: 0-321108-94-9

“C++ Network Programming, Volume 2: Systematic Reuse with ACE and Frameworks,” by Douglas C. Schmidt and Stephen D. Huston. 384 pp. Published by Addison -Wesley Publishing Company, October 29, 2002. ISBN: 0-201795-25-6

“Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy,” by Bertrand Russell. 208 pp. Published by Dover Publications, October 1993. ISBN: 0-486277-24-0

“The Thief’s Journal,” by Jean Genet. 268 pp. Published by Grove Press, reissue edition, October 1987. ISBN: 0-802130-14-3

“Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq,” by Tariq Ali. 224 pp. Published by Verso Books, November 2003. ISBN: 1-859845-83-5

“The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.” 3984 pp. Published by Oxford Press, 5th Edition, September 2002. ISBN: 0-198604-57-2

“Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family,” by Thomas Mann. 784 pp. Published by Knopf, October 1994. ISBN: 0-679417-37-0

“Collected Fictions,” by Jorge Luis Borges. 565 pp. Published by Penguin USA, September 1999. ISBN: 0-140286-80-2

“Selected Non-Fictions,” by Jorge Luis Borges. 576 pp. Published by Penguin USA, October 2000. ISBN: 0-140290-11-7

“The Rings of Saturn,” by W. G. Sebald. 296 pp. Published by New Directions Publishing, April 1, 1999. ISBN: 0-811214-13-3

“Infinite Jest,” by David Foster Wallace. 1088 pp. Published by Back Bay Books, February 1997. ISBN: 0-316921-17-3

“Franz Kafka: A Biography,” by Max Brod. Published by DaCapo Press, September 1995. ISBN: 0-306806-70-3

“Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist 1968-1976,” By Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. 758 pp. Published by Simon & Shuster, December 13, 2000. ISBN: 0-684873-15-X

“Kingdom of Fear : Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century,” by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. 384 pp. Published by Simon & Shuster, January 7, 2003. ISBN: 0-684873-23-0

“Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga,” by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. 288 pp. Published by Balantine Books, September 1996. ISBN: 0-345410-08-4

Computer Games:

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World, published by Activision

Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, published by Sierra Entertainment

Miscellaneous (reductio ad absurdum):

A gift certificate to Borders Books.

Apple iPod 10 or 20 gigabyte model MP3 Music Player

A do-it-yourself, at-home liposuction and lobotomy kit.

The inspiration to write the great, universal, human novel.

A complete understanding of the calculus.