I'm chronically preemptive: I don't even wait to be "tagged" to fill out some of these.

Okay, you've done this with albums, now try books. Think of 15 books that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the books that you can ( Read more... )

I couldn't wait. I'm a bad human being.

• Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star ($0.96)
• Don DeLillo's Valparaiso: A Play ($0.12)
• Will Self's Cock and Bull ($0.02)
• William Gibson's Spook Country ($1.55)

Also sitting in my cart for future purchases are DeLillo's Americana and The Names, Pynchon's Against the Day, Burroughs's Cities of the Red Night, a book of plays ( Read more... )