Books for summer
I plan on reading a lot this summer (it's something I can do at work between customers), and I'm coming up with a list of books I want to read. If you've read any of them or plan on reading them, I'd love to discuss them. Also, if you can recommend some more to me, that would be awesome.
- The King in Yellow, by Robert W. Chambers - go go gadget Victorian Gothic fiction!
- Different Kinds of Darkness - a collection of short science fiction stories by David Langford. If anyone loves science fiction and fucked-up-ness in general, I also recommend Introductory Psychology Through Science Fiction, if you can get your hands on it (I think it's out of print). I should find my falling-apart copy, get it rebound, and re-read it as well. And lend it to people.
- Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey by (who else?) Chuck Palahniuk - I've already read this once, but I need to buy it and read it a second time now that I know the ending, to catch all the little clues. Plus I'm totally in love with the main character. I'd so let him give me rabies.
- The Double and The Gambler - I got a book with both of these for my birthday from my sister, and I need to read them in my never-ending quest to read EVERYTHING DOSTOEVSKY WROTE, EVER. I miss Russian lit classes. :(
- Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Just because.
- Something by David Sedaris (I haven't decided what, yet), because he's hilarious. Same for Augusten Burroughs.
- The Gulag Archipelago - My copy is condensed, not the full, unexpurgated version. Thank God, because otherwise I'd never get through it.
- Twilight and following books... everyone needs mindless entertainment
- The Watch... what's it called when there's 4 books in a series? As in, one more than a trilogy. Anyway, it's been awhile since I've read Day Watch, so I need to reread it. I own it in Russian, so I'm going to try to read that copy. It should be doable, since I've already read it in English... right? And anyone who hasn't seen the movies yet definitely needs to.