and, go.: quest for 10,000

quest for 10,000

5 months.

10, 000 pages.

Watch me read myself into oblivion this summer.

Quest for 10,000

~~50 Facts That Should Change the World~~ ~~by Jessica Williams~~ ~~(294 pages)~~

~~Kitchen Confidential~~ ~~by Anthony Bourdain~~ ~~(352 pages)~~

Heat by Bill Buford (336 pages)

~~Food, Inc~~ ~~by Participant Media & Karl Weber~~ ~~(336 pages)~~

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan (256 pages)

~~The Omnivore's Dilemma~~ ~~by Michael Pollan~~ ~~(464 pages)~~

Twinkie Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger (304 pages)

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith (320 pages)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith (352 pages)

The Night is a Mouth by Lisa Foad (180 pages)

Why Your World is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller by Jeff Rubin (304 pages)

The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins (480 pages)

Your Call is Important to Us by Laura Penny (288 pages)CURRENTLYREADING

Not a Conspiracy Theory by Donald Gutstein (320 pages)

Black Mass by John Gray (256 pages)

What is America? by Ronald Wright (384 pages)

Now or Never by Tim Flannery (192 pages)

Bad Money by Kevin Phillips (352 pages)

A Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs (400 pages)

The Strain by Chuck Hogan & Guillermo Del Toro (496 pages)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (352 pages)

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (841 pages)

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"It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of DOLLARS. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU...WILL...ATONE!

"Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those *are* the nations of the world today. What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state, Karl Marx?! They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel."