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Old 12.28.2008, 07:28 PM   #1
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3001: Final Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
2061: Odyssey Three - Arthur C. Clarke
The Songs Of Distant Earth - Arthur C. Clarke
2010: Odyssey Two - Arthur C. Clarke
The Golden Apples of the Sun - Ray Bradbury
Composing Digital Music for Dummies - Russell Dean Vines
Flappers, Bootleggers, "Typhoid Mary" & The Bomb: an Anecdotal History of the US from 1923-1945 - Barrington Boardman
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
I Sing The Body Electric! - Ray Bradbury
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (re-read)
The Wind's Twelve Quarters - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin
The Lathe of Heaven - Ursula K. Le Guin
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul - Douglas Adams
Mostly Harmless - Douglas Adams
So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish - Douglas Adams
Life, The Universe, and Everything - Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (re-read)
Selected Short Stories - Franz Kafka
Stranger In A Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein
The Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury
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Old 12.28.2008, 07:55 PM   #3
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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.
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Old 12.28.2008, 07:57 PM   #4
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-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.
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Old 12.28.2008, 09:05 PM   #5
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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.
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Old 12.29.2008, 12:26 AM   #6
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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
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Old 12.29.2008, 01:19 AM   #7
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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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Old 12.29.2008, 02:06 AM   #8
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I'm still making my way slowly through Swann's Way.
How is that? I really want to read it, but it's way down on my list. And I think I'd feel incomplete without reading all 6 or whatever volumes, if I didn't just love it.
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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.
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not that much, i'm afraid. and i'm terrible at remembering.
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Old 12.29.2008, 06:37 AM   #12
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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Apparently Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? was very popular this year.
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