I try to think logically and the result of that is most people think I'm a satirist. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychonaut, futurologist, libertarian and magician (1932-2007) Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than...
Jessica, Paige and I are going to try to read the 100 Top Selling Classics. I'm going to shoot for having it done a year from now. But we'll see how that works out. I've already read a couple [yay high school!] so we'll see how it goes. The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck The Crucible Arthur Miller...
As I suspected, my reading trends for the past month or so have definitely leaned toward the novel and avoided the critical works. Below are the books read so far this summer. I include no reviews or synopses: Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee The Buddha of Suburbia by...
The Novel 100 is one man's ranking of the 100 greatest novels ever written. I'm a sucker for a list. I love to mark progress by checking stuff off. Given my poor memory, lists are the only way I can remember to do anything. I liked this list so much, I went out and bought the book. The author,...
BOOKS BOUGHT: McSweeney's #27--Dave Eggers (editor) The Bostonians--Henry James The Baron in the Trees--Italo Calvino Invisible Cities--Italo Calvino Civilwarland in Bad Decline--George Saunders When You Are Engulfed in Flames--David Sedaris Swann's Way--Marcel Proust Slapstick--Kurt Vonnegut God...
From this post, a list of what are considered the 100 best novels, and a question as to how many of them people have read. I don't often go for lists, and I agree that it's hard to decide what constitutes "greatest." But I thought I'd give it a try nonetheless. I actually own a lot of the ones I...
Here are my selections from the list - the bolds ones being the ones I have read and the italicised ones being the ones I've never heard of. I think I have done quite poorly so have highlighted in red the ones that I do own in the hopes of getting my score up. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote...
In response to Jonathan's message about the 100 best books, below are the ones I've read (those in italics are ones I don't know: Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel...
Jonathan posted about The Novel 100 - the hundred best novels of all time, at least according to the book by Daniel Burt. Obviously there will be disagreements - what, Gone With the Wind but no To Kill a Mockingbird? - but there are a lot of books here that would probably be on anyone's list. I'm...
In response to Jonathan's post about The Novel 100, here's how I measure up. Bold titles are ones I've read (a somewhat-respectable 30 of 100). Some of these came from my (now defunct) resolution to read 1 classic for every 3-4 "other" novels I've chosen to read, but most of them came from required...
Full details here Looks like I have read 37 of them. Rank Title Year Author 1 Don Quixote 1605, 1630 Miguel de Cervantes 2 War and Peace 1869 Leo Tolstoy 3 Ulysses 1922 James Joyce 4 In Search of Lost Time 1913-27 Marcel Proust 5 The Brothers Karamazov 1880 Feodor Dostoevsky 6 Moby-Dick 1851 Herman...
"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" by ukaunz 2000s Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro Saturday – Ian McEwan On Beauty – Zadie Smith Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson The Sea – John Banville The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble The Plot Against America –...
so I thought I'd cross-post an entry from my main blog here. Of course, it's about books. ____ My newest favourite blog is The Caribbean Review’s blog The Antilles. I’ve read very little of the journal’s offerings but The Antilles is proving to be one of the few blogs at which every single...
This was my first Pynchon book. I have always heard lots of great things about this author, so I was eager to read it. Now, I just don't know what to say about it. A story about covert postmen? They were organized and stealthy...like a cross between organized crime and martial arts experts. Maybe...
In no other year since the close of the ‘90s has dance music made such a powerful comeback. The year 2007 has (in many ways) paralleled 1997 by combining indie rock and electronica. Back then, the pioneers were The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Republica, Underworld, Atari Teenage Riot, Sneaker...
BOOKS BOUGHT: McSweeney's #25--Dave Eggers (editor) Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, etc.--Ted Thompson (editor) Silence of the Grave--Arnaldur Indriðason Voices--Arnaldur Indriðason The Bridge of San Luis Rey--Thornton Wilder BOOKS RECEIVED FOR CHRISTMAS: Tree of Smoke--Denis Johnson Pictures...
LETTER FROM AMERICA, THE SORCERERS’ SLOG #1 The Sorcerers do not blog, we slog. We are America’s Official Secret. In keeping with our newly founded transatlantic media empire (Sorcerers’ lab in California, burgeoning record company in England) our ongoing letters, dripping with slog are...
Over 1000 pages, baby. Could have been about 400 pages shorter, as much as I like reading obscure discussions about math and the aether. However, I disagree with NYT critic Michiko Kakutani's criticism that the characters aren't worth caring about, that they're one dimensional and serve only as...
Show us your favorite writer. I'll take Thomas Pynchon's three best novels (V., Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon) over the three best novels of any other author. Of course, he also wrote Against the Day, but I'm willing to overlook that if you are.
Book: Show us a book you started reading but never finished. Here are three books that I've picked up on multiple occasions, and will finally finish them...someday: Thomas Pynchon- Gravity's Rainbow Don DeLillo- Underworld David Foster Wallace- Infinite Jest I used to have absolutely no problem...
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