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All time: The Sting
"You know me. I'm the same as you. It's two in the morning and I don't know nobody."
Based on true: The Miracle Worker
"The dining room's a wreck, but her napkin is folded."
Sci-fi: Gattaca
"You want to know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back."
Black & White: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
"Can you smell the mendacity Rick?"

At This Time: Little Sleep's-Head Sprouting Hair in the Moonlight
One of Kalway Kinnell's "out of the park" free verse miracles. This is just the most amazing poem. You should read it because I am simply unable to express to you with words, what's so great about this guy's poetry.
Of All Time: September 1, 1939
Yes, that's the name. One of the verses from this poem is on my front page. I know it's become a fashionable poem as of late, but it's been on the front page of this site since before 911.

At this time: Galway Kinnell
Frost once said that writing free verse is like playing tennis without a net. Well, Galway Kinnel is the most amazing free verse writer I have ever read. Sometimes, this guy just hits them so far out of the park it, well, if I could explain it then I'd be a great poet... I probably wouldn't mix someone else's tennis metaphor with a baseball metaphor either. :-)
Of All Time: W.H. Auden
Some people read poetry to escape reality. I read to find it. W.H. Auden makes me understand this about myself.

Non-Fiction
- At This Time: The Neuron - Cell and Molecular Biology
  Levitan, Kaczmarek - ISBN 0-19-507071-2
  My favorite hobby over the years has been tinkering with artificial neural networks. This book is about a lot of what we currently know about real neurons and the mechanisms they use to learn and organize themselves into networks.
- Of All Time: In Search of Schrodinger's Cat: Quantum Physics and Reality
  This book explores the strange, almost mystical behavior that goes on at the quantum level of the universe. Niels Bohr probably put it most succinctly when he said "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it". This book is dedicated to helping laymen like me understand it, and thus, understand just how strange the universe around us really is. Take the time to really understand the double slit experiment, you will not be disapointed.
Fiction:
Don't get much reading time for good fiction these days. Don't get me wrong here, I really enjoy reading technical journals and learning new things. But itt is soooo much more fun to read fiction than technical journals that whatever I'm reading right now instantly becomes my favorite fiction. Right now that's The Rainmaker by John Grisham.
- Sci-fi: any good suggestions?