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List Every Book You've Read This Year
Or don't. What do I care?
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I can't remember what I read throughout the year, but since the end of the summer:
J. D. Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were watching God William Faulkner - As I Lay Dying Anita Loos - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Thomas Pynchon - The Crying of Lot 49 Philip Roth - Goodbye Colombus James Baldwin - Go Tell It on the Mountain Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar Kate Chopin - The Awakening Don DeLillo - White Noise Dostoevsky - The Gambler Maybe a couple more. Also a shitload of poetry, but I'm not sure I actually read any entire collections. But a lot by Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, Eliot, Pound, and Rimbaud. Before that--probably this year, but I'm not sure: Mark Danielewski - House of Leaves William Gibson - Count Zero Douglas Coupland - JPod Gregory Riley - The River of God Mike Caro - Poker Tells Phil Hellmuth - Texas Hold'em something or other Steven King - It (only half, cause it was shit) And the ongoing project of Ulysses, which has taken over a year and is still not finished. |
-lynch on lynch
-confessions of a crap artist by phillip k dick -atrocity exhibition and crash by j.g. ballard -behind the yellow tape.. can't remember who wrote this, but it was some chick who's a cop talking about crazy shit she saw. -the wild boys by william s burroughs -waitress by peter sotos -the tibetan book of the dead -personal dept. by dylan sparrow (highly reccomended! "An illustrated story exploring the metaphysical connections between remedial labor and social isolation. In this disorienting tale of forced homosociality, the delusions of a modern-day automaton bring to light the perils of the mundane.") -satan burger and baby jesus butt plug by carlton mellick -and am currently reading how bluegrass music destroyed my life by john fahey the best thing I probably read was mindfield, which was a bunch of poems by gregory corso. |
Ulysses-James Joyce
Florida Roadkill-Tim Dorsey Lives of the Caesars-Suetonius Agricola-Tacitus Germany-Tacitus The Golden Ass-Apuleius Meditations-Marcus Aurelius Brave New World-Aldous Huxley Dracula-Bram Stoker Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck The Hound of the Baskervilles-Arthur Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet-Arthur Conan Doyle The Sign of Four-Arthur Conan Doyle The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes-Arthur Conan Doyle The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes-Arthur Conan Doyle The Return of Sherlock Holmes-Arthur Conan Doyle The Valley of Fear-Arthur Conan Doyle His Last Bow-Arthur Conan Doyle Ulysses being a bitch-mother to read and all the Sherlock Holmes stuff have made this a lean year for variety. I might read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas before the year is out. |
Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground Othello - Shakespeare The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay Tandia - Bryce Courtenay |
Oh gosh...
Crime and Punishment A Doll's House Gilgamesh Hamlet The Stranger Poisonwood Bible All the Pretty Horses Siddhartha The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Answered Prayers Other Voices, Other Rooms The Picture of Dorian Gray The Bell Jar The Sound and the Fury Long Day's Journey into Night Women as Lovers Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf Frankenstein The Jungle The Metamorphosis Oedipus Rex Lolita The Naked and The Dead The Great Gatsby The Chronicles of Narnia Hardball Beyond Good and Evil A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Huckleberry Finn Ethan Frome I'm still making my way slowly through Swann's Way. And there are a few more that I can't remember... |
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I actually think it is pretty good. Dense and time consuming, but it is good. I don't know about it feeling incomplete though. All of the volumes are able to be read independently though it is all told through one narrative...or supposed to be...I think.
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Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance Haruki Murakami - Sheep Hunt Haruki Murakami - Afterdark Haruki Murakami - Underground Roberto Saviano - Gomorra Philip K. Dick - Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) yeah, it was pretty much a Murakami year for me. |
not that much, i'm afraid. and i'm terrible at remembering.
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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick On The Road by Jack Kerouac Crash by JG Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard Collection of Allen Ginsberg poems Collection of T.S. Eliot poems there's more but I can't remember |
Adrian Tomine - Shortcomings
Yoko Ogawa - The Diving Pool Hitomi Kanehara - Autofiction Taichi Yamada - I Haven't Dreamed Of Flying For A While Erland Loe - Naive Super Yasunari Kawabata - Old Capital Peter Adolphsen - Machine Sandor Marai - The Rebels Georges Perec - W or The Memory Of Childhood W.F Hermans - Darkroom Of Damocles Joshua Ferris - Then We Came To The End Tetsuo Miura - Shame In The Blood Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach Bao Ninh - Sorrow Of War Yasutaka Tsutsui - Hell Thomas Bernhard - Yes Boris Vian - Froth On The Daydream Ian McEwan - First Love,Last Rites Andrew Miller - One Morning Like A Bird Koji Suzuki - Ring Raymond Carver - Elephant and other stories Jay Rubin - Haruki Murakami and the music of words Might finish 'The Assistant' by Robert Walser by end of the year,forthcoming reads-Andre Breton, 'Hear The Wind Sing' by Murakami.I think my fav was the Perec and the Carver,if you like Murakami pretty sure you'll like Carver.Also dipped into some art books. |
goodbye 20th century
renegade (mark e smith) crashed and burned (tommy burns.. failed irish f1 driver) touching froma distance- (ian curtis thingy done by his wife..its terrible) |
puta, who can remember all, i don't, but i'll try what comes to mind. i worked too much and read too little anyway.
faulkner - as i lay dying susan sontag - speeches and essays susan sontag - styles of radical will some ex-cocacola president - 10 commandments of business failure mahfouz - karnak cafe philip roth - exit ghost quickbooks 2008 manual (ha) zettl's video basics 5 alan dugan - complete poems cormac mccarthy - blood meridian (failed) shit i have lying around the house that i reread at random and doesn't count this has been for me a year of comic books so i'll add: preacher (all 9? volumes) fables (im up to vol 9) watchmen (dull, derivative, whatever) maggie the mechanic (collected from love & rockets) new year's resolution: definitely read more books |
this is a good chunk of this year's reading
most important: Jim Marrs – The Rise of the Fourth Reich in the USA most surprisingly excellent and enjoyable - David McCullough – 1776 Andrew Vacchs – Terminal C.J. Stevens – Buried Treasure of Maine Charles Willeford - Made in Miami Charlie Huston – Half the Blood of Brooklyn Christopher Reich – Rules of Deception Colin Woodard – The Republic of Pirates Dan De Quille – The Big Bonanza Daniel Silva – The Moscow Rules David Balducci – The Whole Truth David Brokey- Stalkers and Shooters: A history of snipers David Browne – Sonic Youth David McCullough – 1776 Don Winslow – A Cool Breeze on the Underground Don Winslow – California Fire and Ice Don Winslow – The Dawn Patrol Don Winslow – The Trail to Buddha’s Mirror Ed McBain – The Heckler George Rush - Confessions of an Ex-Secret Service Agent Hermann Hesse – Klingor's Last Summer Howard Frank Mosher – Marie Blythe Howard Frank Mosher – On Kingdom Mountain Jack Sargeant (ed) – Death Cults Jason Starr – The Follower Joe Haldeman – The Forever Peace Joe Haldeman – The Forever War John Twelve Hawks – The Dark Rover Ken Bruen – Cross Ken Bruen – Once Were Cops Ken Bruen and Jason Starr – The Max Lawrence Block – Burglars Can’t Be Choosers Michael Connelly – Brass Verdict Mink Mole & Dr Adder – Alligator Alley Nelson DeMille – Charm School, Lions Game, Plum Island Osha Neumann – Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers Paul Virilio – City of Panic Philip K Dick – Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K Dick – Humpty Dumpty in Oakland Philip K Dick – Voices From the Street Richard Morgan - 13 Rudy Rucker – Postsingularity Thomas Perry – Vanishing Act, Fidelity, Blood Money, Dance for the Dead Tim Dorsey – Hurricane Punch Wells Drury – An Editor on the Comstock Lode a bunch of Hard Case Crime books a half dozen Louis L’Amour novels |
Apparently Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was very popular this year.
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I was just thinking that.
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