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May 8th, 2003
02:25 pm - Books I plan to read before I die. Very interesting list I snagged via kuro5hin/everything.
And before you ask, i've only read about 55 or so.
Blatantly stolen from Everything2
* Adams, Douglas o The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe, and Everything So Long, and thanks for all the fish Mostly Harmless o Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency * Richard Adams o Watership Down * Alighieri, Dante o Inferno * Allende, Isobel o The House of the Spirits * Asimov, Isaac o Foundation o The Bicentennial Man * Atwood, Margaret o A Handmaid's Tale o The Edible Woman o Surfacing * Ayliffe, John Stephen o Blind Man's Bluff * Banks, Iain or Banks, Iain M. o The Bridge o The Wasp Factory o Use of Weapons * Bantok, Nick o Griffin and Sabine * Barth, John o Chimera * Bear, Greg o Blood Music * Bester, Alfred o Tiger! Tiger! * Bey, Hakim o Temporary Autonomous Zone * Block, Francesca Lia o Dangerous Angels - the Weetzie Bat books * Boethius o Consolation of Philosophy * Borges, Jorge Luis o Ficciones (Fictions) o The Cirular Ruins * Bradbury, Ray o Fahrenheit 451 o Dandelion Wine * Bryant, Dorothy o The Kin Of Ata Are Waiting For You * Bulgakov, Mikhail o The Master and Margarita o The Heart of a Dog * Burgess, Anthony o A Clockwork Orange * Burroughs, William S. o Junkie o Naked Lunch o The Ticket That Exploded o Junky's Christmas * Camus, Albert o The Outsider o The Myth of Sisyphus o The Stranger o The Plague * Capote, Truman o In Cold Blood * Card, Orson Scott o Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide o Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus o Songmaster * Carpenter, Edmund Snow o They Became what They Beheld * Carroll, Lewis o Alice In Wonderland o Through the Looking-glass * Carroll, Peter o Liber Null o Psychonaut o Liber Kaos * Casares, Adolfo Bioy * Castaneda, Carlos o The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge A Separate Reality Journey to Ixtlan * Cervantes, Miguel de o Don Quixote * Chase, Truddi o When Rabbit Howls * Chayefsky, Paddy o Altered States * Chuang Chou o The Chuang-Tzu * Clark, Arthur C. o 2001: A Space Oddysey o Childhood's End * Cortázar, Julio o End of the Game and Other Stories o Rayuela (Hopscotch) * Coupland, Douglas o Microserfs * Danielewski, Mark o House of Leaves * Dawkins, Richard o The Selfish Gene * DeLillo, Don * Dick, Philip K. o A Scanner Darkly o The Divine Invasion o VALIS * Dickens, Charles o A Tale of Two Cities * Dostoevsky, Fyodor o Crime and Punishment o Notes from the Underground o The Brothers Karamazov * Eco, Umberto o Foucalt's Pendulum o The Name of the Rose * Efsandiary, F.M. o Upwingers * Egan, Greg o Diaspora o Distress o Permutation City * Eliot, T.S. o The Wasteland * Ellis, Bret Easton o American Psycho * Ellis, Edward Robb o A Nation in Torment * Ende, Michael o The Neverending Story * Euclid o The Elements * Farmer, Philip Jose o To Your Scattered Bodies Go * Faulkner, William o As I Lay Dying * Feinberg, Leslie o Stone Butch Blues * Foucault, Michel o Discipline and Punish * Fowles, John o The Magus * Freud, Sigmund o Civilization and Its Discontents * Gaarder, Jostein o Sophie's World * Gardner, Laurence o The Bloodline of the Holy Grail * Gaiman, Neil o Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett) o Neverwhere o American Gods * Genet, Jean o Miracle of The Rose * Gilman, Charlotte Perkins o Herland * Gibson, William o Burning Chrome o Neuromancer Count Zero Mona Lisa Overdrive o Virtual Light Idoru All Tomorrow's Parties * Gleick, James o Chaos : Making a New Science * Gray, Alasdair o Lanark * Gogol, Nikolai o The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories * Golding, William o Lord of the Flies * Grimwood, Ken o Replay * Gurdjieff, G. I. o Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson * Halperin, James L. o The Truth Machine * Hand, Elizabeth o Waking the Moon o Glimmering o Winterlong Aestival Tide Icarus Descending * Heinlein, Robert A. o Stranger in a Strange Land o The Moon is a Harsh Mistress o Time Enough For Love * Heller, Joseph o Catch 22 * Herbert, Frank o Dune * Hermans, W.F. o Het behouden huis o Nooit meer slapen * Herr, Michael o Dispatches * Hesse, Herman o Steppenwolf o Siddhartha * Hofstadter, Douglas o Godel, Escher Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid o Metamagical Themas * Hugo, Victor o Les Miserables * Huxley, Aldous o Brave new World o The Doors of Perception * Ibsen, Henrik o A Doll's House * Irving, John o A Prayer for Owen Meany * Jotce, Graham o The Tooth Fairy * Joyce, James o Ulysses o Finnegan's Wake * Kafka, Franz o The Penal Colony o The Trial o America o The Castle o Metamorphosis * Kaku, Michio o Hyperspace * Kerouac, Jack o On the Road o Visions of Cody o the Dharma Bums * Kesey, Ken} o One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest * Keyes, J. Gregory o Newton's Cannon A Calculus of Angels Empire of Unreason o The Waterborn The Blackgod * Kidder, Tracy o The Soul of a New Machine * King, Stephen o The Dark Tower series o The Tommyknockers o The Stand * Kingston, Maxine Hong o The Woman Warrior * Knowles, John o A Seperate Peace * Land, Jon o The Jared Kimberlain series * Kosinski, Jerry o The Painted Bird * Lawrence, D. H. o Lady Chatterly's Lover * Leary, Timothy o Politics of Ecstasy and Info-Psychology (aka Exo-Psychology) * Lee, Tanith o The Silver Metal Lover * Lem, Stanislaw o The Cyberiad o Solaris o The Futurological Congress o Eden * Lewis, C.S. o Out of the Silent Planet Perelandra That Hideous Strength * Leyner, Mark o Et Tu, Babe o The Tetherballs of Bouganville * Lilly, John C. o Programming and Metaprogramming in the Human Biocomputer * Llewellyn, Grace o The Teenage Liberation Handbook * Longyear, Barry B. o Sea of Glass * Mailer, Norman o Why Are We In Vietnam? * Mandela, Nelson o Long Walk to Freedom * Marquez, Gabriel Garcia o One Hundred Years of Solitude * Mayle, Peter o Where Did I Come From? * McKenna, Terence o The Archaic Revival o The Invisible Landscape (with Dennis McKenna o True Hallucinations * Miller, Arthur o A Canticle for Leibowitz * Miller, Henry o Plexus * Milton, John o Paradise Lost * More, Thomas o Utopia * Morrison, Tony o The Bluest Eye * Murakami, Haruki o A Wild Sheep Chase o The Wind-up Bird Chronicles * Musashi, Miyamoto o The Book of Five Rings * Musil, Robert o The Man Without Qualities (Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften) * Nabokov, Vladimir o Lolita * Neville, Katherine o The Eight * Nietzsche, Friedrich o The Gay Science * Noon, Jeff o Vurt o Nymphomation * Nørretranders, Tor o The User Illusion * Oates, Joyce Carol o Blonde * O'Brien, Flann o The Third Policeman * O'Brien, Timothy o The Things They Carried * Orwell, George o 1984 o Animal Farm * Paglia, Camille o Sexual Personae * Palahniuk, Chuck o Fight Club o Survivor o Choke o Invisible Monsters * Perec, Georges o A Void * Plath, Sylvia o The Bell Jar * Pirsig, Robert o Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance * Poe, Edgar Allan * Pynchon, Thomas o The Crying of Lot 49 o Gravity's Rainbow * Quinn, Daniel o Ishmael and The Story of B * Rand, Ayn o The Fountainhead * Rhinehart, Luke o The Dice Man o Adventures of Wim o Search for the Dice Man * Rooney, Andy o Not That You Asked * Rosen, Robert o Life Itself * Ross, John o Unintended Consequences * Roy, Arundhati o The Cost of Living o The God of Small Things * Rucker, Rudy o Software, Wetware, and Freeware * Rushkoff, David o The Ecstacy Club * Sacks, Oliver o Seeing Voices * Sagan, Carl o Pale Blue Dot o The Demon-haunted World * Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de o The Little Prince * Salinger, J. D. o The Catcher in the Rye * Saramago, Jose o Blindness * Sartre, Jean-Paul o Nausea * Shakespeare, William o Hamlet * Shelley, Mary o Frankenstein * Shem, Samuel o The House of God o Mount Misery * Shepard, Lucius o Life During Wartime * Simmons, Dan o Hyperion The Fall of Hyperion * St. Augustine o Confessions * Stapledon, Olaf o Starmaker * Stein, Gertrude o How to Write * Stephenson, Neal o Snow Crash o Cryptonomicon o Zodiac o Diamond Age * Süskind, Patrick o Das Parfum * Tan, Amy o The Joy Luck Club * Thich Nhat Hanh o Old Path, White Clouds * Thompson, Hunter S. o Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas * Thurber, James o The 13 Clocks * Tolstoy, Leo o The death of Ivan Ilyich o the Kreuzer sonata * Twain, Mark o Letters from the Earth o The Mysterious Stranger * Ullman, Ellen o Close to the Machine * Various o The Bible * Vian, Boris o I Shall Spit On Your Grave * Vinge, Vernor o A Fire upon the Deep * Vonnegut, Kurt o Breakfast of Champions o Cat's Cradle o Player Piano o Sirens of Titan o Slaughter-house Five * Wallace, David Foster o Infinite Jest * Irvine Welsh o Filth * Walsh, Lawrence E. o Firewall * Watts, Alan o The Book o The Joyous Cosmology o The Wisdom of Insecurity o The Way Of Zen * Wilbur, Ken o Sex, Ecology, Spirituality * Wilde, Oscar o The Picture of Dorian Gray * Wilder, Thornton o The Bridge of San Lois Ray * Wilson, Robert Anton o The Illuminatus! Trilogy (with Robert Shea) o Prometheus Rising o Cosmic Trigger o Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy (note: originally published as three volumes: The Universe Next Door, The Trick Top Hat, and The Homing Pigeons. Thanks to Wobbly Tech) * Wolfe, Gene o Peace * Woolf, Virginia o To the Lighthouse * Wright, Robert * Yogananda, Paramahansa o Autobiography Of A Yogi * Yourcenar, Marguerite o Anna... Soror o Alexis o Memoirs of Hadrian * Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin, Yevgeny o We * Zinn, Howard o A People's History of the United States * Zukav, Gary o Seat Of The Soul
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i've been meaning to pick up some Dostoevsky and Neitzche. i only skimmed the list, but wow. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/4022758/914390) | From: | jon3 |
Date: | May 8th, 2003 06:42 pm (UTC) |
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I'm tempted to try them again, but only so I an understand the pretentious twits who try and drop the names in conversation. ;)
i hear it's very hard reading. translation: i'm way too dumb to comprehend any of it. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/4022758/914390) | From: | jon3 |
Date: | May 8th, 2003 09:32 pm (UTC) |
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bullshit. you'll get it if you stick with it. I'm just too lazy to stick with it usually. As I get older, my tolerance for ponderous writing increases though. Maybe I should try again. and might i add that my favorite work of edgar allen poe is The Cask of Amontillado. ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/4022758/914390) | From: | jon3 |
Date: | May 8th, 2003 06:43 pm (UTC) |
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Thats a good one.
I think Poe is kinda overrated though.
poe was a beautiful freak. have you read catch-22? ![[User Picture]](https://l-userpic.livejournal.com/4022758/914390) | From: | jon3 |
Date: | May 8th, 2003 09:32 pm (UTC) |
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Joseph Heller is awesome. Catch-22 was superb. it was a school reading requirement. i didn't appreciate until i was done. i think the best part of that book was that whole "man is matter" thing. |
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