I Buy Books Faster Than I Can Read Them

Submitted by poppiezoe on Fri, 09/27/2002 - 11:32
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  1. Personal Injuries - Turow
  2. The Drowning People - Mason
  3. The Martian Chronicles - Bradbury
  4. The Bourne Ultimatum - Ludlum
  5. The Hobbit - Tolhien
  6. The Family Orchard - Eve
  7. Airframe - Crichton
  8. Corelli's Mandolin - DeBernieres
  9. Hanna's Daughters Fredrihsson
  10. O Pioneers!- Cather
  11. Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
  12. Interpreter of Maladies - Lahiri
  13. Emotionally Weird - Atkinson
  14. In This Moutain - Karon
  15. Claudspitter - Blanks
  16. False Memory - Koontz
  17. The Green Mile - King
  18. Dream Country - Rice
  19. On Bear Mountain - Smith
  20. My Antonia - Cather
  21. The Honk and Holler Opening Soon - Letts
  22. The Coalwood Way - Hickman
  23. Coming Home - Pilcher
  24. A Beautiful Mind - Naser
  25. ...And Ladies of the Club - Santmyer
  26. The Saving Graces - Gaffney
  27. Water Witches - Bohjalian
  28. Beloved - Morrison
  29. The Twylight Tower - Harper
  30. The Mammy - O'Carroll
  31. Bleak House - Dickens
  32. Another City, Not My Own - Dunne
  33. BLack Mountain Breakdown - Smith
  34. Out of Nowhere - Mortman
  35. Lolita - Nabokor
  36. Mother of Pearl - Haynes
  37. Violin - Rice
  38. One Hundred Years of Solitude -Marquez
  39. A Day Late and a Dollar Short - McMillan
  40. Jewel - Lott
  41. Winter's Tale - Helprin
  42. The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Rushdie
  43. Behind the Smile - Osmond
  44. The Empress of One - Sullivan
  45. When the Wind Blows - Patterson
  46. Along Came a Spider - Patterson
  47. East of the Mountains - Guilerson
  48. Grave Secrets - Reichs
  49. Dragon Tears - Koontz
  50. Summer Light - Rice
  51. Wicked Forest - Andrews
  52. Possession - Byatt
  53. A Girl Named Zippy - Kimmer
  54. A Theory of Relativity - Mitchard
  55. The Vision of Emma Blau - Heig
  56. Still Waters - Lauck
  57. Gone for Good Coben
  58. Galileo's Daughter - Sobel
  59. Care of teh Sou; - Moore
  60. Wish You Well - Baldacci
  61. The Absnce of Nector - Hepinstall
  62. Envy - Brown
  63. An Instance of the Fingerpost - pears
  64. Standing in the Rainbow - Flagg
  65. Black and Blue - Quindlan
  66. The Laws of the Fathers - Turow
  67. The Shelter of Stones - Auel
  68. The Heartsong of Changing Elk - Welch
  69. A Dangerous Fortune
  70. A Very Long Engagement - Japrisot
  71. The Testment - Gricham
  72. Middlemarch - Eliot
  73. Pandora - Rce
  74. Guenevere - Miles
  75. A Boy in Winter -Chernoff
  76. Code to Zero - Follett
  77. Italian Fever - Martin
  78. Local Girls - Hoffman
  79. Lost in Translation - Mones
  80. Evening Song - Godwin
  81. Bastard Out of Calolina - Allison
  82. The Truest Pleasure - Morgan
  83. Birdsong - Faulks
  84. Moon Tiger - Lively
  85. The Sound of One Hand Clapping - Flanagan
  86. Are You Somesbody - O'Fadain
  87. The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton - Smiley
Author Comments: 

Probably about 2 years worth of reading for me.

kbuxton09/27/2002

You're definitely not the only one. Some of these are in my stack as well.

poppiezoe09/27/2002

I'm addicted to buying books. Just loooove going to the book store and browsing for a couple of hours.
I'm only half done with this list and I want to go right now and buy more.
Holding firm and appling self control,
Poppie

kbuxton09/27/2002

I have no self-control.

poppiezoe09/27/2002

We both have a problem...I've seen your "books i need to read" list

professor05/01/2003

I too am addicted. I have a long long list, but continue to buy more through eBay and Amazon (curse the internet for making it too easy to buy).

From your list the only one I have read is 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' which I found to be a great disappointment, but what do I know - he won the Nobel prize for this book.

kbuxton05/03/2003

What did you find disappointing about it? I really loved the book but it's been enough years since I read it that I don't quite remember why.

professor05/26/2003

From what I recall when I read it, it was very un-dynamic. The real-time dialogue was very limited - it seemed to be descriptive of events that had already passed. It was a bit of a labour to get through it without the dynamism of real-time dialogue and events. Even where there was dialogue between people, it had the feel of dialogue that had taken place in the past.

When I finished it felt like I had really been through a hundred years of solitude (OK, perhaps I exaggerate slightly).