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My books of 2012

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A collection of Business, Fiction, Science and Philosophical diversions that made me ignore my wife this year.

I'm a tad annoyed that you listed so many books. It loses its meaning. Some of the books you listed are gems, but they are midstream in a long boring list.

I want my 15 minutes back.

I don't think the OP was intending to provide a curated list of recommendations, but rather just blog about the list of books he read this year.

Even though I can't be bothered reading the whole list, this post inspires me to resolve that I will read more books in 2013 than I did in 2012.

I'm impressed he read to many books! Makes me wonder what I'm doing with my time :(

Try taking public transport, if you can. An hour on a bus may sound worse than a 30 minute drive, but if you spend it reading you may well enjoy it more.

I'm wondering if we could get a quick script to count how many pages are in the 75 books listed so we can understand how much did he actually read :-D.

Not really a script, but if you use goodreads to track your read books, you can see the number of pages.

Like this: http://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/6314428-eduardo-rocha#...

Sell your TV and make it a conscious choice to not look at a screen past say 7pm.

I've been reading a minimum of one novel a week and from one to three tech/design/cooking/misc/etc books a month over the past 16 years. Sure there are exceptions, for example reading Game of Thrones took me at least two weeks per novel and the third book took me a full month.

Also, get a kindle. I don't read much technical books on it but it's a godsend for novels and not accumulating a bunch of paperbacks. Unless you don't enjoy reading as a pastime, in which case don't waste your time because you can actually burn out reading too much.

You are worried that you spent too much time reading about things you could read? Really?

Sure, I was a bit of a sourpuss. I should have said nothing or said it better.

yes ... if he could highlight the books he can recommend would be a good idea.

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