Not really sticking to the list

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.

THE LIST

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

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.

First!

This is my first post here. I don’t like writing where anyone can come read things, so I’ll probably just use this space to keep track of things, mostly books. I always find myself wanting to read books or having them recommended to me only to forget about them and end up blindly choosing whenever I hit a bookstore.

Right now I’m reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.

Someone recommended Gaiman’s Anansi Boys to me, saying I reminded them of one of the characters in it. The first line of the Wiki entry reads: “Anansi Boys is the story of Charles “Fat Charlie” Nancy, a timid Londoner devoid of ambition, whose unenthusiastic wedding preparations are disrupted when he learns of his father’s death in Florida.”

Can’t wait!