Hobbies

Jazz Guitar

  • Emily by Johnny Mandel (recorded 25 Feb 2003)

Classical Guitar (recorded June-July 1985)

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Arrangement of Emily is by Dean Musser.
Frank expresses appreciation to wonderful guitar teachers he's had over the years: Dean Musser (Charlottesville, Va; jazz), Frank Stallings (Durham, NC; classical), Marvin McCombs (Birmingham, Al; jazz)

Reading

Some of My Favorite Novels

  1. The Discovery of Heaven by Harry Mulisch
  2. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
  4. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553208845/ref=pd_bbs_null_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse (Dec05)
  5. Straight Man by Richard Russo
  6. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140077022/qid=1135657813/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 White Noise by Don DeLillo (Dec05)
  7. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
  8. The Assault by Harry Mulisch
  9. Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
  10. Niccolo Rising by Dorothy Dunnett
  11. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345452003/qid=1126793643/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
  12. http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=xj13KqqC3i&isbn=037575931X&itm=1 Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (Feb06)
  13. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014100018X/qid=1135658282/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9884959-9233428?s=books&v=glance&n=283155 Chocolat by Joanne Harris (Dec05)
  14. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

Some of My Favorite Non-Fiction

  1. How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life by Thomas Gilovich
  2. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker
  3. Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
  4. The Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making by Scott Plous
  5. Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
  6. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
  7. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465054803/ref=pd_sxp_f/104-1452008-8584762?v=glance&s=books A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market by John Allen Paulos
  8. Risk by John Adams (the geographer, not the president)
  9. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743223136/qid=1126793537/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/104-8415192-5566369?v=glance&s=books John Adams by David McCullough

To Read List

  1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1559702362/qid=1122143836/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/104-7918214-9941556?v=glance&s=books The Travnik Chronicle (also called the Bosnian Chronicle) by Ivo Andric (Yugoslav Nobel prize winner; recommended by Janez Stare of Slovenia)

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