Reading List (Individual Books)
Submitted by rivethead808 on Tue, 06/17/2008 - 07:08
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- In Cold Blood - Truman Capote CC
- Brave New World - Aldous Huxley CC
- Finnegan's Wake - James Joyce CC
- The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath -7-
- Song Of Kali - Dan Simmons CC/WC
- The Hollow Man -Dan Simmons GV/SW
- Drood - Dan Simmons (forthcoming)
- Make Room! Make Room! - Harry Harrison
- The Quiet Earth - Craig Harrison -8-
- Bringing Out The Dead - Joe Connelly CC
- Crumbtown - Joe Connelly CC
- Traumnovelle (Dreamstory) - Arthur Schnitzler
- The Nameless - Ramsey Campbell BC
- The Dumas Club - Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- Lord Of The Flies - William Golding CC
- Some Will Not Die - Algis Budrys (RIP)
- Past Master - R.A. Lafferty
- A Short, Sharp Shock - Kim Stanley Robinson
- Three Deaths Of Jeremy Case - Gene Deweese
- Level 7 - Mordecai Roshwald
- The Long Tomorrow - Leigh Brackett
- Quinzinzinzili - Régis Messac
- The Last Man - Mary Shelley NLV
- A Gift Upon The Shore - M.K. Wren
- Oryx And Crake - Margaret Atwood CC
- This Other Eden - Ben Elton
- Vanishing Point - Michaela Roessner
- The Anubis Gates - Tim Powers
- Three Days To Never - Tim Powers CC/GV
- Millennium - John Varley CC/LV
- Ecotopia - Ernest Callenbach
- Emergence - David R. Palmer
- Brain Wave - Poul Anderson CC/GV
- Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban BC
- Martians, Go Home - Fredric Brown CC (in a collection)
- The Yiddish Policeman's Union - Michael Chabon CC
- The New Moon's Arms - Nalo Hopkinson CC/GV
- Misspent Youth - Peter F Hamilton CC-back-ordered
- The Man Who Awoke - Laurence Manning -7-
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Charles Sheffield LV/SW
- You Do Not Talk About Fight Club - Read Mercer Schuchardt
- Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm SW/BC
- Blind Voices - Tom Reamy NLV
- The Man Who Folded Himself - David Gerrold
- The Book With No Name - "Anonymous"
- The Year Of The Quiet Sun - Wilson Tucker
- A Spectre Is Haunting Texas - Fritz Leiber
- Summer Of The Apocalypse - James Van Pelt
- The Culled - Simon Spurrier
- Philip K Dick High - David Bischoff
- Down To A Sunless Sea - David Graham
- Logan's Run - William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson
- You Shall Know Our Velocity (aka: Sacrament) - Dave Eggers
- The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde CC
- And Chaos Died - Joanna Russ
- Of Men And Monsters - William Tenn
- Lest Darkness Fall - L. Sprague DeCamp
- The Red Men - Matthew de Abaitua
- Altered States - Paddy Chayefsky BC
- Kiteworld - Keith Roberts
- The Fury Out Of Time - Lloyd Biggles Jr.
- To The Vanishing Point - Alan Dean Foster CC
- Parallelities - Alan Dean Foster
- Archangel - Mike Conner SW
- The Great Romance: A Rediscovered Utopian Adventure - anonymous -5-
- Fiskadoro - Denis Johnson CC
- Hotel De Dream - Emma Tennant
- Mission - Patrick Tilley
- Memories - Mike McQuay
- The Ruins - Scott Smith CC
- A Simple Plan - Scott Smith
- Just A Couple Of Days - Tony Vigorito CC/GV
- The Hampdenshire Wonder - J.D. Beresford
- The Collector - John Fowles -7-
- The Magus - John Fowles CC
- Rose Madder - Stephen King -5-
- Dies The Fire (first in series) - S.M. Stirling
Author Comments:
For my main list of authors with bibliogaphies, please see my "Favorite Authors" list. Here is where I will list one-offs of authors who I may not care to read most or everything by, new authors, single important works, true crime, and some non-fiction. Ones that Ive read will be highlighted and have a rating
In Cold Blood is one of the best. Hope you enjoy it when you get around to it.
And, incidentally, it's also the only book I've read from this list.
I thought of another author that I love that you might like. His name is Matt Ruff and he writes some truly brilliant stuff. I just started his new book, Bad Monkeys, and I'm really getting a kick out of it. I was looking for an interview with him about it on the Internet. I found one and in it he mentions Bad Monkeys as being his Philip K. Dick-style novel and I thought since you are into Dick you might enjoy it as well. All of his other stuff is good, as well.
I saw his stuff on your list at first and I looked him up but dismissed him. I might look into him a little further since youve specifically pointed him out. I just checked out two more books though (Remainder by Tom McCarthy and Second Invasion From Mars by the Strugatsky brothers) in addition to the 7 other ones that I have so its gonna be a while LOL.
You ever feel like one book is just holding you back and you feel like youre behind? Overall Im liking Doomsday Book, but it could be about 100 pages shorter. Its extremely redundant. Im on page 263 now and I feel like Ive been reading it for a month
I really do think you'll like Matt Ruff. He has a tremendous writing style and has incredibly creative ideas. He also has a way of turning your preconception about the characters on its ear about 2/3 of the way through the book. I just reached that 2/3's point in Bad Monkeys and now my mind is sort of blown, in a good way. He's also sort of a genre jumper like another favorite author of mine Dan Simmons.
As far as Doomsday Book is concerned when a book becomes a slog for me I usually don't finish it. I don't recall it being particular sloggish but I do know that it's sort of long. Connie Willis does a lot of research especially for her historically-based stuff and I know she probably wants to get as much out of her research as possible. Are you just feeling impatient to find out what happens to the characters?
Its not impatience because Im happy waiting and waiting its just that there is a lot of unnecessary dialogue and descriptions of things and plenty of redundancies. Im sick of the words duffel, digital, and gobstopper at this point. Im on pge 283 now. Im hoping I can finish it tonight. I really want to read The Purple Cloud next...
I'm glad the Tony Vigorito book sounded interesting to you. I think I first heard about him when he was coming up in related searches for Christopher Moore. And then I found out he lives here in Athens, Ohio and went to Ohio University. He also has a new book out called Nine Kinds of Naked.
Nine Kinds of Naked didnt really look that interesting (too bizarre for its own good -- weird for weird's sake), but if I really like ...Days, then I'll definitely give Naked a shot.
Its rather fascinating to look through your wantlist because you seem to find out about a lot of newer stuff that I would never ordinarily get into. It must be neat to be into many authors where you actually have to wait for a new book to come out LOL (most of the authors I follow are long-dead). *I* can really only say that about Palahniuk, Lethem, and Carroll (Jonathan not Lewis). Im not counting authors like Haldeman until Ive read a substantial amount of their stuff first.
Have you found any interesting goodies from my list(s)?