Things No One Cares About But Will be Forced to Read Anyway
So, in case you're curious, or even if you're not, here is my tentative summer reading list, sponsored by BENCORP. brand Xtreme Insole-Scented Deodorant, coming soon to a grocery store very far away from your house. In no particular order:
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (in progress)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (holdover from last summer's reading list)
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (yeah right)
Lots of Short Stories by Many People
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Collector by John Fowles
As is the custom, at the end of the summer I will report on which books I actually read and how they were. As if any of you dunderheads know how to read anyway.
Just kidding.
And just for reference, if any of you are looking for something good to read, these are some of the best books I've read since the last time I did this. Once again, no particular order:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Bear by William Faulkner
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (this one probably takes the prize)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (bad title, good book)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (expected to hate it, instead loved it)
I know I'm forgetting some, but this is a pretty decent cross-section. I've also read some quite bad books this year, due to being in school and all. The contest for worst book is a dead heat between The Undertaker's Widow by Philip Margolin (who came to our class and is a pompous jackass) and Post-Mortem by Patricia Cornwell (who did not come to our class, but whom I can only assume is a bitch). Do not read these books. They are bad for your brain.
The Final Solution by Michael Chabon (in progress)
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
A Burnt-Out Case by Graham Greene
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (holdover from last summer's reading list)
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer (yeah right)
Lots of Short Stories by Many People
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
The Collector by John Fowles
As is the custom, at the end of the summer I will report on which books I actually read and how they were. As if any of you dunderheads know how to read anyway.
Just kidding.
And just for reference, if any of you are looking for something good to read, these are some of the best books I've read since the last time I did this. Once again, no particular order:
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
The Bear by William Faulkner
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene (this one probably takes the prize)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris (bad title, good book)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (expected to hate it, instead loved it)
I know I'm forgetting some, but this is a pretty decent cross-section. I've also read some quite bad books this year, due to being in school and all. The contest for worst book is a dead heat between The Undertaker's Widow by Philip Margolin (who came to our class and is a pompous jackass) and Post-Mortem by Patricia Cornwell (who did not come to our class, but whom I can only assume is a bitch). Do not read these books. They are bad for your brain.