I hate funerals and empty rooms.

Feb 05, 2006 00:18

Well, it was an awful day. First the funeral, then everything went wrong with the flights I booked and last the computer gave it up. whatever.

Well, I want to do the literature part of our website before I go to Edinburgh. That's why I started listing the books I've read so far. I'm going to post them here just to have them listed somewhere.



Books I've read in German which I liked and can still remember.

The Birdcage

Bram Stroker
-Dracula

Mary Shelley
-Frankenstein

Stephen King
- Dark Tower I-III, and about every other book by him
- Pet Sematary, Rose Madder, Salem's Lot, ......

Tolkien
- The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth

Michael Crichton
- Jurassic Park (first German, then English)

Books I've read in English which I liked and can still remember.

Irvine Welsh
- Trainspotting (my first English book, I should have started with something easier)

Ken Kesey
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Elisabeth Wurtzel
- Prosac Nation

Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Virgin Suicides

Ray Bradbury
- Something Wicked this Way Comes
- The Halloween Tree

Don deLilo
- White Noise

John Fowles
- The French Lieutenant's Woman

Virginia Woolf
- Mrs. Dalloway

Michael Crichton
- Timeline

E.A. Poe
- Tales of Mystery and Imagination

Oscar Wilde
- The Picture of Dorian Gray

Stephen King
- Dreamcatcher

Dan Brown
- The Da Vinci Code

Anne Rice
- The complete Vampire Chronicles (but Vittorio the Vampire)
- The Witching Hour (The Lives of the Mayfair Witches I)

2 books about the Manic Street Preachers (Sweet Venom, Everything)
the autobiography of Marilyn Manson (yes, I regret it)
various plays by Shakespeare
an uncountable amount of short stories (for university)

now on to my beloved fantasy

Tolkien
- The Hobbit
- The Lord of the Rings
- Tales from the Perilous Realm

J.K. Rowling
- Harry Potter I-VI

Lisa Smedman
- Venom's Taste (House of Serpents I)

Elaine Cunningham
- Starlight and Shadows I-III
- Songs and Swords I-II

R.A. Salvatore (the one and only)
- The Icewind Dale Trilogy
- Legacy of the Drow
- The Dark Elf Trilogy
- The Cleric Quintet
- Paths of Darkness
- The Crimson Shadow Trilogy
- The War of the Spider Queen I-VI
- The Hunters Blades Trilogy

I may still add books to the list. I don't remember all of them.
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