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cartilage

Rudimentary reading list attempt.

Dec 12, 2008 02:07

In recent years I've become a poor reader. I read avariciously as a child and through my studies, but while I still *think* of myself as a reader, in fact it feels like a notable event if I ever finish a book these days ( Read more... )

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autonomic December 13 2008, 04:44:04 UTC

Numbers 11 and 23 are the same. None of our books matched. I'll try to type up my list and send it to you. I'm not even sure where I heard about most of the books on my list and there are way, way more on there than I could ever read in a year. Unless, of course, I quit my job and devoted all my free time to reading. Hmm, that sounds nice.

cartilage December 13 2008, 08:19:42 UTC

I was thinking about that - about work being in the way and everything - and decided that I think I actually have more control over my time than I did when I was a kid. But I might prove wrong.

I could make a much longer list if I wasn't trying to keep it to 26...

I'll fix the 11 and 23 thing, thanks for pointing that out.

If typing out the whole list is a bit much type out the first 26.

autonomic December 14 2008, 02:52:53 UTC

1. Blood and Guts in High School by Kathy Acker ( ... )

cartilage December 14 2008, 10:18:53 UTC

Some of yours are only not on my list because I've read them : )

2. Money by Martin Amis
4. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks
5. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
24. Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

2 is okay but 4, 5 and 24 are all absolute must-reads. Good choices.

26. Lost Girls by Alan Moore

would be on my Christmas list if it weren't an inappropriate thing to suggest your parents seek out for you.

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