Quartet: Four Masterpieces of Great Fiction

by W. Somerset Maugham

A cheesy package (tired of reading masterpieces of regular fiction?) for some interesting stories. I read exactly enough of R.C. Sherriff's screenplays to know that they were terrible. Namely, the final scenes, in which Maugham's secret intention for all the endings to be happy was finally realized.

Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

So many proverbs! Imagine how awesome it would be if you talked like that. Also, colonialism WTF.

The Master and Margarita

by Mikhail Bulgakov

Super cool. Try to find the translation I have: It is translated very directly from the original, which makes every sentence sound upside-down and backwards.

Scourge: the once and future threat of smallpox

by Jonathan B. Tucker

Interesting, and much less frightening than you would think.

Reflex

by Steven Gould

Reading shitty books when you're supposed to be doing other things is about the least destructive type of self-destructive behaviour I've hit on yet.

Jumper

by Steve Gould

Samuel L. Jackson is not in this book. If the only thing the book has in common with the movie is that the guy can teleport, I think they could have called the movie any of a billion different names.

The Prince of the Marshes

by Rory Stewart

Finished Today.
I guess even the people who made some right decisions couldn't get things to work out in Iraq. Not in 1-2 years, anyway.