My list is growing and I’ll never catch it
September 24, 2007
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – James J. O’Neill
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
The Worm Ourobouros – Eric Rücker Eddison
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Dada: Art and Anti-Art – Hans Richter
The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo
The Steampunk Trilogy – Paul Di Filipo
City of Saints & Madmen – Jeff Vandermeer
The Assistant – Robert Walser
La possibilité d’une île – Michel Houellebecq
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis & David Lodge
Leave It to Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse
Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table – James R. Gaines
Meet Me in the Moon Room – Ray Vukcevich
Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
The Book of Dave – will self
Original Wisdom – Robert Wolff
Buddhist Philosophy: A Historical Analysis – David J. Kalupahana
Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior – by Chogyam Trungpa
An Island to Oneself – Tom Neale
updated x 2
September 18, 2007
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – James J. O’Neill
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
The Worm Ourobouros – Eric Rücker Eddison
Les Chants de Maldoror - Comte de Lautréamont
Dada: Art and Anti-Art – Hans Richter
The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo
The Steampunk Trilogy – Paul Di Filipo
City of Saints & Madmen – Jeff Vandermeer
The Assistant – Robert Walser
La possibilité d’une île – Michel Houellebecq
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis & David Lodge
Leave It to Psmith - P.G. Wodehouse
Wit’s End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table – James R. Gaines
Not really sticking to the list
September 17, 2007
I finished Neuromancer a week or so ago. I haven’t been to the bookstore recently and I lost House of Leaves so I’ve been making do with things I find around the house. Right now that includes Catch-22, which I read in high school but didn’t really care about because I was reading it for a class, and Leave it to the Toff.
Apparently “The Toff” is a huge series of books by John Creasey about a “gentleman hero” that is schlocky James Bond type stuff. I kind of want to collect the entire series, I’ll see what I can dig up at used bookstores, etc.
I’ve looked around for some of the books on the list and can’t find them in regular bookstores. I don’t like ordering things online, so maybe I’ll head over to John K. King books. If you haven’t been there and are from Detroit or its environs, you should go. If you aren’t from Detroit, you should come here and make me take you.
UPDATING THE LIST: SCI-FI/FANTASY O-RAMA
September 17, 2007
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – James J. O’Neill
Perdido Street Station – China Miéville
The Worm Ourobouros – Eric Rücker Eddison
THE LIST
September 7, 2007
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla – James J. O’Neill
THE LIST
September 5, 2007
alright, i’m going to start my list of books to read here (in order)
If you have any suggestions, let me know so I can add them:
Anansi Boys – Neil Gaiman
The World Without Us – Alan Weisman
Still Updating, I guess
September 5, 2007
I finished American Gods over the weekend. I don’t know how I feel about Neil Gaiman’s stuff. The whole “modern world with a dose of magic/gods” seems to be getting old. Still, I have a hard time putting the books down because they’re pretty easy reading.
To contrast, I’m still plugging through House of Leaves. I like it and think I’ve finally hit the “hook” where I won’t be able to stop reading it; I’d probably be reading now if I hadn’t left it at the other house.
I have Neuromancer with me, so I’ll start that before I go to bed.
Despite what I said about Gaiman’s oeuvres, I’m still pumped about the Anansi Boys book.
