1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Paradiso by Dante
5. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
6. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
7. The Master and Margarita-Mikhail BulgakovOriginally Posted by iamnobody
8. A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
Last edited by iamnobody; 04-02-2011 at 10:09 PM.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
1. Magick of the Beast by Osara and Saddie LaMort
2. Sunpath to the Gods by Osara LaMort
3. Sex and Spirit by Clifford Bishop
4. Mysteries and Secrets of Magic by C. J. S. Thompson
5. The Seven Churches by Milos Urban
1. Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
2. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
3. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
4. Paradiso by Dante
5. Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville. (novella/short story)
6. The Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
7. The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
8. The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker
True History of the Kelly Gang / Peter Carey
Le Père Goriot / Honoré de Balzac
July's People / Nadine Gordimer
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Currently reading: YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN and Other Tales (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
"He lives most gaily who knows best how to deceive himself. Ha-ha!"
- CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Finally finished war and peace. what a great book. It also coincided with a couple of programmes on Tolstoy on the BBC. So:
1. War and Peace
1. Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevesky
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy
3. The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
4. Jude the Obscure-Thomas Hardy
5. The Magus-John Fowles
6. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevesky
7. The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov
8. A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
9. The Castaways-Brian Keene
10. Dead Souls-Nikolai Gogol
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Grats, Paul!
What was wrong with The Castaways, iamnobody? I don't say this because I like it or anything (can't recall of ever hearing of it, really), just curious.
My list probably won't be updated for a couple weeks or so, as I'm currently reading Gravity's Rainbow. It makes me dizzy.
Castaways was recommended by someone I work with. It's just awful!
The plot is taken straight from "Survivor", throw in an unknown cannibal tribe, that's the whole story. The author didn't even care enough to explain how these people managed to be unknown all this time and avoided any messy aftermath by having all cast and crew that lived swear to secrecy. Alltogether lazy writing.
Last edited by iamnobody; 04-08-2011 at 11:11 PM.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Did you set your friend straight and explain why it was a horrible book, or were you a wimp like me and just nodded and said, "It wasn't bad," when asked how you liked it?
I told her it was lazy writing and I probably wouldn't read anything else he wrote. I didn't go into all reasons I thought it was bad, mainly because she had already told me how much she loved it. Speaking of really bad book recommendations, if one more person tells me I really should read "Twilight", I really will vomit.
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
Just this week?
1) The Angel of the Opera
2) The Giant Rat of Sumatra
3) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes
4) The Occult Detectives of CJ Henderson
5) The Whitechapel Horrors
6) Shadowfall
Some of us laugh
Some of us cry
Some of us smoke
Some of us lie
But it's all just the way
that we cope with our lives...
11. Les Miserables-Victor Hugo1. Crime and Punishment-Fyodor Dostoevesky
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge-Thomas Hardy
3. The Jungle-Upton Sinclair
4. Jude the Obscure-Thomas Hardy
5. The Magus-John Fowles
6. The Brothers Karamazov-Fyodor Dostoevesky
7. The Master and Margarita-Mikhail Bulgakov
8. A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
9. The Castaways-Brian Keene
10. Dead Souls-Nikolai Gogol
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
4) Libra
5) Vineland
6) Black Elk Speaks
7) On The Night The Hogs Ate Willy
(and other quotations on all things southern)
8) No Neutral Ground
you are my left arm
12. Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.
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