Viktor's Commonplace Book

To Be Read | To Be Played


Games

Walking Simulators

Night in the Woods (2017)

Mucorales (2024)

Mouthwashing (2024)

Hylics jrpg

Hylics

Opposum Country

2:22 AM

Git

Ten Moons

Exit 8

Chillas art

Earthbound

Yume Nikki

LSD - Dream Emulator PS1

OneShot (own)

Hello Charlotte

Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk

Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass

Everhood

.flow

Lisa: the painful

Bloom & Rage (Dontnod LIS 4)

Visage

Madison

Hotel 626

Unlocalized Japanese Games

Tengai Makyou (AKA Far East of Eden) - This is probably one of the biggest JRPGs to never get localized. It released across multiple platforms. Super Famicom, PSP, PS2, Saturn, etc.

Clock Tower


Books

Sci-fi

The Hidden Girl and Other Stories by Ken Liu

Tau Zero by Poul Anderson

Schild's Ladder by Greg Egan

Religions

A Comparative Study of the Jaina Theories of Reality and Knowledge by Y.J. Padmarajiah

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh

The Invention of World Religions by Tomoko Masuzawa

In The Shadow and the Sword by Tom Holland

In Search of the Sublime by MSc. Stephan P. Dinkgreve

Motiba's Tattoos by Mira Kamdar

Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman

Enuma Elish by Timothy J. Stephany

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

The Major Mandaean & Nasoraean Scriptures by Dr. Preston Lewis

The Coptic Version of The New Testament in The Northern Dialect, Otherwise Called Memphitic and Bohairic by George William Horner

Unclobber by Colby Martin

New Old World by Pallavi Aiyar

Esotericism

Ancient Christian Magic: Coptic Texts of Ritual Power by Marvin W. Meyer

Cults

The God Makers by Ed Decker

Computer Science

Oxford Dictionary of Computing 6th Edition

The Singularity is Near (2006) (biology) & The Singularity is Nearer (AI) by Ray Kurzweil

Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext by Belinda Barnet

Hacking: The Art of Explotation by Jon Erickson

The Catherdal & The Baazar by Eric S. Raymond

Big Tech

Cybersecurity

Physics

The World According to Physics by Jim Al-Khalli

Quantum Physics for Poets by Leon M. Lederman

Waves in an Impossible Sea by Matt Strassler

Lagrangian Mechanics for The Non-Physicist by Ville Hirvonen

Classic Electrodynamics by John David Jackson

Math

Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos

Who Is Fourier? A Mathmatical Adventure by Transnational College of Lex, Dr. Yoichiro Nambu

Electrical

Electricity in the Air: Fundementals to Advanced Applications by Mr. Saud Mohammaed Teabe

Philopsophy

The Atomists: Leucippus and Democritus, Fragments by C.C.W. Taylor

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder

Politics

Virtue Hoarders: The Case Agaisnt the Professional Managerial Class by Catherine Liu

Christian Atheism: How to be a real materialist by Slavoj Zizek

Technofedualism: What Killed Capitialism by Yanis Varoufakis

Robert Dallek, Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism

Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s

Michael Dallek's, The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics

Kim Phillips-Fein's, Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan

The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times by Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones

The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World by Gay Talese

Economics

A Fiscal and Monetary History of the United States: 1961-2021 by Alan Blinder

The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

On the Clock by Emily Guendelsberger

Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

Consequences of Capitalism by Noam Chomsky and Marc Waterstone

Now by Yanis Varoufakis

Anti-capitalist mentality by Ludwig Von Mises

Capital and Imperialism by Utsa Patnaik

The Divide by Jason Hickel

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey

Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty

The Theory of Money and Credit - Ludwig von Mises

Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

Capitalism and Freedom - Milton Friedman

The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith

Biographies

Sex, Lies & the Murdoch Succession by Paul Barry

The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch by Michael Wolff

The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire by Keach Hagey

A Passion to Win by Sumner Redstone

The Disaster Artist by Greg Sestero

Herbology

The Complete Book of Ayurvedic Home Remedies by Vasant Lad

Pocket Handbook of Chinese Herbal Medicine: 300 Individual Herbs by Zong Lan Xu

Big Food

Sugar Blues by William Dufty

Fiction Unsorted

Mainstreet by Sinclair Lewis

Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell

Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown

Hachet by Gary Paulsen

The Prestige by Christopher Priest

Paprika by Yasutaka Tsutsui

Horror

Dystopian

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Historical Fiction

Magical Realism

Other Languages

Roosumuri ichi no akachan (Haakawa Kura NV 6) ローズマリーの赤ちゃん (ハヤカワ文庫 NV 6)

Amerikanen Zijn Niet Gek by Charles Groenhuijsen


Manga

Thermae Romae: The Complete Omnibus by Mari Yamazaki

Saint Young Men by Hikaru Nakamura

Mononoke モノノ怪 series