This is a list of one to one exchanges in the Unread Book Project
Stranger in a Strange Land taken for The Diamond Age
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay taken for The Great Unraveling
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men taken for Eleanor Roosevelt
Neuromancer taken for The Pillars of Hercules
I Could Do Anything taken for A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Motherless Brooklyn taken for The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way taken for S/Z
Genome taken for Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction
The Tibetan Book of the Dead taken for The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tarot
XXXXX taken for Dinosaurs Before Dark
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri taken for Stupid White Men
Forget Foucault taken for The Inscrutable Americans
Sunday, November 30, 2008
The Unread Book Collection - Updated August 2009
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (personal collection)
All Gall Is Divided by E. M. Cioran
All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
Alligators, Old Mink and New Money by Alison Houtte and Melissa Houtte
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (exchanged)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God by Jonah Blank
The Art of the Story edited by Daniel Halpern
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
Beauty compiled by John Miller (personal collection)
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Bel-ami by Guy de Maupassant
The Bhagavad-Gita translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (being read)
Biomimicry by Janine M. Benyus
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (exchanged)
The Bully of Bentonville by Anthony Bianco
Bushwhacked by Molly Ivins
Cambodia by Nick Ray
The Cold Moons by Aeron Clement
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tarot by Arlene Tognetti and Lisa Lenard
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Daddies and Daughters by Carmen Renee Berry and Lynn Barrington
Dante edited by Mark Musa (personal collection)
The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Dinosaurs Before Dark by Mary Pope Osborne
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri
Drop City by T.C. Boyle (personal collection)
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way by Ethan Coen (exchanged)
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt (personal collection)
The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks (personal collection)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins (personal collection)
Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger
Fire From the Mountain by Omar Cabezas
Flet: A Novel by Joyelle McSweeney
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard (exchanged)
Fragments for a History of the Human Body edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi
Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud (personal collection)
Genome by Matt Ridley (personal collection, exchanged)
George Bush, Dark Prince of Love by Lydia Millet
Goethe's Faust by Goethe
Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman
Heartbreak House by Bernard Shaw
His Father's Son: The Life of Randolph Churchill by Winston S. Churchill
The Holy Bible placed by the Gideons
Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante
Human Remains by Helen MacDonald
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
I Could Do Anything by Barbara Sher (exchanged)
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Interstate by Stephen Dixon
Introducing American Politics by Patrick Brogan and Chris Garrett
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (personal collection)
The Long Green by William Campbell Gault
Me So Far by Donald Jack
Meta-Capitalism by Grady Means and David Schneider
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine
Molvania by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, and Rob Sitch
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (exchanged)
Must-Win Battles by Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight, and Tracey Keys
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About by Kevin Trudeau
Neuromancer by William Gibson (personal collection, exchanged)
The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (personal collection)
Nude in Tub by G.K. Wuori
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
On the Road with Michael by Mark Bego
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Outwitting Dogs by Terry Ryan and Kirsten Mortensen
To Paint Her Life by Mary Lowenthal Felstiner (personal collection)
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton (personal collection)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Passionate Observer by Jean -Henri Fabre
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
Perfect Weight America by Jordan Rubin
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost
Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction by N. David Mermin
Rachel's Tears by Beth Nimmo and Darrell Scott
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
S: A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
Sahara by Clive Cussler
The Salterton Trilogy by Robertson Davies
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
Slowness by Milan Kundera (personal collection)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (personal collection, exchanged)
Stupid White Men by Michael Moore
S/Z by Roland Barthes
Tao Te Ching translated by Victor H. Mair (personal collection)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (personal collection)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Robert A.F. Thurman (personal collection, exchanged)
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Ulysses by James Joyce
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr (personal collection)
Unequal Treatment by Institute of Medicine
The Vintage Book of Amnesia edited by Jonathan Lethem (personal collection)
The Voyage of the Narwhat by Andrea Barrett
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way of a Pilgrim translated by R.M. French (personal collection)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (personal collection)
We've Got Spirit by James T. McElroy
What Did I Just Say !?! by Denis Donovan, M.D., M.Ed. and Deborah McIntyre, M.A., R.N.
What is a Jew? by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
XXXXX by Dana Buckley (exchanged)
Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G. Boldt
Notes:
-personal collection denotes books from my continually growing collection of unread books
-exchanged denotes books that have left the collection through a trade
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Future Shock
How did you come to acquire this book?
Either I bought it at a garage sale or thrift store, probably the latter and about fifteen years ago. I think the title struck me and the picture of the author on the back. It was so nostalgic.
Why has this book remained unread?
I put it on the shelf with many othesr that had already been waiting their turn. Time passed and I finally tried to sit down with it on a couple occasions. I started and stopped. I think the title says it. When I tried reading it I would thing about the generations before and the always distorted perception of the future and what it's going to be like . The book still interests me and maybe I'll read it someday.
S.P. 10/08
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
The Salterton Trilogy
How did you come to acquire this book?
I bought this book at the used bookstore.
Why has this book remained unread?
I liked this author a long time ago, but I did not remember reading this one. I guess my tastes have changed and I could not get into it. I am not sure if I am getting lazy in my old age.
M.S. 10/08
Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About
How did you come to acquire this book?
Was a gift
Why has this book remained unread?
Strongly put off by the premise of them versus you
A.F. 10/08
His Father's Son: The Life of Randolph Churchill
How did you come to acquire this book?
Accidentally, possibly as a bad joke, via Amazon...
Why has this book remained unread?
It's about Churchill's son, not Winston Churchill!
G.I. 9/08
Ongoing Call for Unread Books
With the close of the Overload exhibition at ATHICA at the beginning of November, I am back in possession of The Unread Book Project. I am pleased to say that the collection has grown significantly while it was on exhibition at ATHICA.
I am always looking for unread books to add to the collection - this is an ongoing project.
Now is the time to rummage through your bookshelves, piles of books next to your bed, in your closet, or in the recycling bin. All I need is one unread book from you to donate to the project. If you so choose, your donated unread book entitles you to an exchange with another unread book in the collection of your choosing.
If you have already participated in The Unread Book Project, then THANK YOU!
If you know anyone that would be interested in taking part in this project, please pass along this blog address and encourage them to be part of this art installation.
See below for details on how to participate:
Guidelines for participating in the Unread Book Project:
1. One donated (1) unread book per participant
"Unread" for these purposes is defined as never read, or started but never finished
2. Answers to the following two (2) questions about the unread book:
A) How did you come to acquire this book?
B) Why has this book remained unread?
Send me an e-mail letting me your interest in participating in this project at unreadbookproject@gmail.com. I'll contact you and figure out the easiest way for you to get your unread book and responses into the project.
Thank you again for taking a peek into this project and thank you to all of you who have participated over the last few years!
Arthur
I am always looking for unread books to add to the collection - this is an ongoing project.
Now is the time to rummage through your bookshelves, piles of books next to your bed, in your closet, or in the recycling bin. All I need is one unread book from you to donate to the project. If you so choose, your donated unread book entitles you to an exchange with another unread book in the collection of your choosing.
If you have already participated in The Unread Book Project, then THANK YOU!
If you know anyone that would be interested in taking part in this project, please pass along this blog address and encourage them to be part of this art installation.
See below for details on how to participate:
Guidelines for participating in the Unread Book Project:
1. One donated (1) unread book per participant
"Unread" for these purposes is defined as never read, or started but never finished
2. Answers to the following two (2) questions about the unread book:
A) How did you come to acquire this book?
B) Why has this book remained unread?
Send me an e-mail letting me your interest in participating in this project at unreadbookproject@gmail.com. I'll contact you and figure out the easiest way for you to get your unread book and responses into the project.
Thank you again for taking a peek into this project and thank you to all of you who have participated over the last few years!
Arthur
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Video and Photographs of The Unread Book Project at ATHICA
For photographs of The Unread Book Project at ATHICA as part of the Overload exhibition:
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There are a handful of photographs by Travis Hunt of the Red and Black which are noted.
For video footage of The Unread Book Project at ATHICA:
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For video footage of an overview of the Overload exhibition at ATHICA:
Click Here!!!
Click Here!!!
There are a handful of photographs by Travis Hunt of the Red and Black which are noted.
For video footage of The Unread Book Project at ATHICA:
Click Here!!!
For video footage of an overview of the Overload exhibition at ATHICA:
Click Here!!!
Friday, July 4, 2008
The Unread Book Project Collection
As of July 4, 2008, this is the current composition of the Unread Book Project:
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (personal collection)
All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (exchanged)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Art of the Story edited by Daniel Halpern
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
Beauty compiled by John Miller (personal collection)
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Bel-ami by Guy de Maupassant
The Bhagavad-Gita translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (being read)
Biomimicry by Janine M. Benyus
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (exchanged)
Cambodia by Nick Ray
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Daddies and Daughters by Carmen Renee Berry and Lynn Barrington
Dante edited by Mark Musa (personal collection)
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Drop City by T.C. Boyle (personal collection)
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way by Ethan Coen
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt (personal collection)
The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks (personal collection)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins (personal collection)
Fire From the Mountain by Omar Cabezas
Flet: A Novel by Joyelle McSweeney
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard
Fragments for a History of the Human Body edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud (personal collection)
Genome by Matt Ridley (personal collection)
George Bush, Dark Prince of Love by Lydia Millet
The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman
The Holy Bible placed by the Gideons
Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante
Human Remains by Helen MacDonald
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
I Could Do Anything by Barbara Sher (exchanged)
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Introducing American Politics by Patrick Brogan and Chris Garrett
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (personal collection)
Me So Far by Donald Jack
Meta-Capitalism by Grady Means and David Schneider
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Must-Win Battles by Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight, and Tracey Keys
Neuromancer by William Gibson (personal collection, exchanged)
The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (personal collection)
Nude in Tub by G.K. Wuori
On the Road with Michael by Mark Bego
Outwitting Dogs by Terry Ryan and Kirsten Mortensen
To Paint Her Life by Mary Lowenthal Felstiner (personal collection)
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton (personal collection)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Passionate Observer by Jean -Henri Fabre
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
S: A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
Slowness by Milan Kundera (personal collection)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (personal collection, exchanged)
Tao Te Ching translated by Victor H. Mair (personal collection)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (personal collection)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Robert A.F. Thurman (personal collection)
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Ulysses by James Joyce
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr (personal collection)
Unequal Treatment by Institute of Medicine
The Vintage Book of Amnesia edited by Jonathan Lethem (personal collection)
The Voyage of the Narwhat by Andrea Barrett
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way of a Pilgrim translated by R.M. French (personal collection)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (personal collection)
We've Got Spirit by James T. McElroy
What Did I Just Say !?! by Denis Donovan, M.D., M.Ed. and Deborah McIntyre, M.A., R.N.
What is a Jew? by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Notes:
-personal collection denotes books from my continually growing collection of unread books
-exchanged denotes books that have left the collection through a trade
The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil (personal collection)
All Too Human by George Stephanopoulos
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon (exchanged)
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
The Art of the Story edited by Daniel Halpern
Ask and It Is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks
Beauty compiled by John Miller (personal collection)
The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Bel-ami by Guy de Maupassant
The Bhagavad-Gita translated by Barbara Stoler Miller (being read)
Biomimicry by Janine M. Benyus
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (exchanged)
Cambodia by Nick Ray
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Daddies and Daughters by Carmen Renee Berry and Lynn Barrington
Dante edited by Mark Musa (personal collection)
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Drop City by T.C. Boyle (personal collection)
The Drunken Driver Has the Right of Way by Ethan Coen
Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 1 by Blanche Wiesen Cook
The Essential Kabbalah by Daniel C. Matt (personal collection)
The Essential Rumi translated by Coleman Barks (personal collection)
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins (personal collection)
Fire From the Mountain by Omar Cabezas
Flet: A Novel by Joyelle McSweeney
Forget Foucault by Jean Baudrillard
Fragments for a History of the Human Body edited by Michel Feher, Ramona Naddaff, and Nadia Tazi
A General Introduction to Psycho-Analysis by Sigmund Freud (personal collection)
Genome by Matt Ridley (personal collection)
George Bush, Dark Prince of Love by Lydia Millet
The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman
The Holy Bible placed by the Gideons
Holy Smoke by G. Cabrera Infante
Human Remains by Helen MacDonald
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
I Could Do Anything by Barbara Sher (exchanged)
An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Introducing American Politics by Patrick Brogan and Chris Garrett
Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas (personal collection)
Me So Far by Donald Jack
Meta-Capitalism by Grady Means and David Schneider
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
The Misunderstood Jew by Amy-Jill Levine
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Must-Win Battles by Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight, and Tracey Keys
Neuromancer by William Gibson (personal collection, exchanged)
The Nobility of Failure by Ivan Morris
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky (personal collection)
Nude in Tub by G.K. Wuori
On the Road with Michael by Mark Bego
Outwitting Dogs by Terry Ryan and Kirsten Mortensen
To Paint Her Life by Mary Lowenthal Felstiner (personal collection)
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton (personal collection)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
The Passionate Observer by Jean -Henri Fabre
A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
The Pillars of Hercules by Paul Theroux
Poker Nation by Andy Bellin
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
The Road Less Travelled by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
S: A Novel About the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
Slowness by Milan Kundera (personal collection)
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (personal collection, exchanged)
Tao Te Ching translated by Victor H. Mair (personal collection)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (personal collection)
The Tibetan Book of the Dead translated by Robert A.F. Thurman (personal collection)
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis
Ulysses by James Joyce
Understanding China by John Bryan Starr (personal collection)
Unequal Treatment by Institute of Medicine
The Vintage Book of Amnesia edited by Jonathan Lethem (personal collection)
The Voyage of the Narwhat by Andrea Barrett
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Way of a Pilgrim translated by R.M. French (personal collection)
Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts (personal collection)
We've Got Spirit by James T. McElroy
What Did I Just Say !?! by Denis Donovan, M.D., M.Ed. and Deborah McIntyre, M.A., R.N.
What is a Jew? by Rabbi Morris N. Kertzer
Wooden Fish Songs by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Notes:
-personal collection denotes books from my continually growing collection of unread books
-exchanged denotes books that have left the collection through a trade
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