wanted: opinions and focus
I am cutting myself off. Until I go through the books on my bookshelf and/or kindle that I have not read, I am not allowed to buy anymore non-school related books. I came to this realization/self-imposed ultimatum today when I finished A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers and then remembered that I bought the book from the Barnes and Nobles in Union Square when I was a freshman in college, either just before or just after I read the first three books of the Twilight series. That means it took me over 2 years to set aside the time to read this book. That's not okay.
If you have a minute, let me know which ones you've read. Maybe I can read some sooner rather than later, or can sell some at the Strand and save myself some time.
Books that I own that I have not yet read (at least the ones that I have on my shelf in NYC):
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Porno by Irvine Welsh
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Butt by Will Self
My Name is Will by Jess Winfield
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
The Tales of Beetle the Bard by JK Rowling
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Animal Farm by George Orwell
How We Are Human by Dave Eggers
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
The Sons by Franz Kafta
The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Bel Ami (in franch) by Guy de Maupassant
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Strings Attached by Nick Nolan (why do I even have this?)
The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Books that I started but have not yet finished:
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Paradise Lost by John MiltonBang Crunch by Neil Smith
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Moby (suck my) Dick by Herman Melville
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Flight from Neveryon by Samuel Delaney
Passing by Nella Larssen
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown
If you have a minute, let me know which ones you've read. Maybe I can read some sooner rather than later, or can sell some at the Strand and save myself some time.
Books that I own that I have not yet read (at least the ones that I have on my shelf in NYC):
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Porno by Irvine Welsh
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Butt by Will Self
My Name is Will by Jess Winfield
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safron Foer
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates
The Tales of Beetle the Bard by JK Rowling
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Animal Farm by George Orwell
How We Are Human by Dave Eggers
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
The Sons by Franz Kafta
The Bedwetter by Sarah Silverman
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
Bel Ami (in franch) by Guy de Maupassant
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Strings Attached by Nick Nolan (why do I even have this?)
The Imperfectionists: A Novel by Tom Rachman
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Books that I started but have not yet finished:
Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner
Paradise Lost by John MiltonBang Crunch by Neil Smith
Amerika by Franz Kafka
Moby (suck my) Dick by Herman Melville
Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk
Flight from Neveryon by Samuel Delaney
Passing by Nella Larssen
Edgar Huntly by Charles Brockden Brown