2007 Book List Mission
09/12/06 13:40 Filed in: Books
Starting
this May I set out to read 12 more books in the remainder of the
year. Happily, I have surpassed that total - here is the list with
a hard and fast review out of 10:
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche 8.5/10
More Die of Heartbreak - Bellow 7.5/10
If You Want to Write - Ueland 9/10
Pale Fire - Nabokov 8/10
Turning the Mind into an Ally - Mipham 7/10
The Illiad - Homer 7/10
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey 8/10
Kokoro - Soseki - Review 5/10
An Inconvenient Truth - Gore - Review 9.5/10
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Brison - Review 8.5/10
The Cossacks - Tolstoy 7/10
The Three Musketeers - Dumas 7.5/10
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - le Carre 8.5/10
The Well Fed Writer - Bowerman 8/10
Before May I know I read at least these three:
Getting Things Done - Allen 9/10
Freedom and Death - Kazantzakis 8/10
Valis - Dick 7/10
My Goal for Next Year is 24 Novels/Books and 3 Volumes of Poetry - here is a tentative list:
The Collected Short Stories - Dahl (already about half done)
The Odyssey - A Modern Sequel - Kazantzakis (just started, pretty awesome, heavy Nietzschean influence, very long)
Getting Things Done (2nd read)
7 Habits of Highly Effective People (2nd)
If You Want to Write (2nd)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (ugh, I have to read an Oprah book)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy - yay postapocalyptic fiction!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson - I am breaking down and finally reading it.
Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond
Remembering the Kanji 1 - this is a textbook with all 2000 main use Kanji - I intend to learn them all.
The Magus - Fowles
The Old Capital - Kawabata
I am a Cat - Soseki
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
20th Century Poetry and Poetics - ed Geddes
Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Wow! That's a lot. But wait, you say, there are only 14 books there. That's where you come in: I will read whatever people suggest! Now is your chance to bless or inflict a book upon me! I'd like to read some new authors, so I am open to your suggestions.
Leave a post in the comments! One to two books per person. (I hope I actually have 5 readers...)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche 8.5/10
More Die of Heartbreak - Bellow 7.5/10
If You Want to Write - Ueland 9/10
Pale Fire - Nabokov 8/10
Turning the Mind into an Ally - Mipham 7/10
The Illiad - Homer 7/10
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Covey 8/10
Kokoro - Soseki - Review 5/10
An Inconvenient Truth - Gore - Review 9.5/10
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Brison - Review 8.5/10
The Cossacks - Tolstoy 7/10
The Three Musketeers - Dumas 7.5/10
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - le Carre 8.5/10
The Well Fed Writer - Bowerman 8/10
Before May I know I read at least these three:
Getting Things Done - Allen 9/10
Freedom and Death - Kazantzakis 8/10
Valis - Dick 7/10
My Goal for Next Year is 24 Novels/Books and 3 Volumes of Poetry - here is a tentative list:
The Collected Short Stories - Dahl (already about half done)
The Odyssey - A Modern Sequel - Kazantzakis (just started, pretty awesome, heavy Nietzschean influence, very long)
Getting Things Done (2nd read)
7 Habits of Highly Effective People (2nd)
If You Want to Write (2nd)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (ugh, I have to read an Oprah book)
The Road - Cormac McCarthy - yay postapocalyptic fiction!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Thompson - I am breaking down and finally reading it.
Guns, Germs and Steel - Diamond
Remembering the Kanji 1 - this is a textbook with all 2000 main use Kanji - I intend to learn them all.
The Magus - Fowles
The Old Capital - Kawabata
I am a Cat - Soseki
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
20th Century Poetry and Poetics - ed Geddes
Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Wow! That's a lot. But wait, you say, there are only 14 books there. That's where you come in: I will read whatever people suggest! Now is your chance to bless or inflict a book upon me! I'd like to read some new authors, so I am open to your suggestions.
Leave a post in the comments! One to two books per person. (I hope I actually have 5 readers...)
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