Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Literary Translation: A Practical Guide by Clifford E. Landers
Frances Johnson by Stacey Levine
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Home is the Sailor by Jorge Amado
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas by Machado de Assis
A Death in Brazil by Peter Robb
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By by Simenon
Miami Blues by Charles Willeford
Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
-- Lots of winking and nudging; something about paranoia and reality-construction--themes explored less sophmorically in Witold Grimbowicz's more able, but similarly brittle, Cosmos. Not a terrible book, mind you. I guess it sort-of held my attention. But, had it been longer, I don't think I would have finished it. Sorry, Gravity's Rainbow. (Mason & Dixon, I'll think about it.)
Walking Light by Stephen Dunn (Essays)
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch (Audiobook)
Where Water Comes Together With Other Water: Poems by Raymond Carver
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
-- Excellent -- vintage Hemingway.
Blue Blood by Edward Conlon (Audiobook)
-- Overstuffed, repetitive, dull in long spans, insightful in moments. As a bonus, the writer comes off as a self-important asshole, lacking a larger perspective on police work. In other words, a good representation of life on the NYPD.
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
Summer Storm by Tennessee Williams (play)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (audiobook)
Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (the Lowell Bair translation).
Looking forward to reading her essay and exam-questions in B&N's O Pioneers!
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (audiobook)
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield (Poetry)
As I Lay Dying by William FaulknerTeacher Man by Frank McCourt (Audiobook)
Night by Elie Wiesel (Audiobook)
- Good!
Pound for Pound by F.X. Toole
- Good! Recommended!
Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer
Collected Stories by Tennessee Williams (I enjoyed the couple I read -- it was thick and I didn't expect to get to them all)
A Quiet Life by Kenzaburo Oe
- Have loved many of his other books but this one has a glacial pace and considers, yet again, the exhaustable subject of Oe's retard son, Hikari. I was 30 pages from finishing, but what was the point? A clumsy translation doesn't help.
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Night Gardener by George Pelecanos
- Too thinly written for my taste; more screenplay than novel
October 2, 2007
(List Begun: September 2006)
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