Fifty Books

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Murderous little world once our objects had gazes. Our lives
Were fragile, the wind
Could dash them away. Here lies the refugee breather
Who drank a bowl of elsewhere.
-- Anne Carson
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Contents

  1. Read
    1. 2015
    2. 2013
    3. 2012
    4. 2011
    5. 2010
    6. 2009
    7. 2008
    8. 2007
    9. 2006
    10. 2005
  2. Didn't Finish

Read

2015

  1. The Thing Around Your Neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

2013

  1. The Iliad
  2. In Search Of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
  3. Swanns Way

lost track

2012

  1. An Object of Beauty - Steve Martin
  2. Harrient The Spy
  3. 1Q84 (bk.1&2&3) - Haruki Murakami
  4. The Classic Point of View - Kenyon Kox
  5. Art And Multitude - Antonio Negri
  6. Archaic Smile - A.E. Stallings
  7. Olives - A.E. Stallings
  8. The Nature of Things - Lucretius + A.E. Stallings
  9. Damage
  10. Les Miserables
  11. William Wordsworth
  12. The Wasteland

2011

  1. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Isgiguro
  2. The Stones of Florence - Mary Mcarty
  3. Destruction of the Father, Reconstruction of the Father - Louise Bourgeois
  4. Holy Fire - Bruce Sterling
  5. Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo
  6. The Eternal City - Kathleen Graber
  7. Symposium, Timmaeus - Plato
  8. A Song of Ice and Fire (A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, A Dance With Dragons) - George RR Martin
  9. Pattern Recognition - William Gibson

2010

  1. Memoirs of Hadrian - Marguerite Yourcenar
  2. Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
  3. Moderato Cantabile - Marguerite Duras
  4. Niet Met Haar Eigen Pen te Pakken (get correct title)
  5. Against The Grain
  6. Nox - Anne Carson
  7. An Oresteia - Anne Carson
  8. Grief Lessons - Anne Carson
  9. l'Art - Rodin/Gsell
  10. Kafka short stories
  11. Meisjes, Motors en Moslims

2009

  1. Four Screenplays By Ingmar Bergman
  2. Smiles of A Summer Evening
  3. The Seventh Seal
  4. Wild Strawberries
  5. Soldier of The Mist by Gene Wolfe
  6. Soldier of Arete by Gene Wolfe
  7. The Books of Blood (various storie vols. 1-6) by Clive Barker
  8. Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovski
  9. The Bang-Bang Club
  10. The Twelve Caesars Suetonius/Robert Graves
  11. The Death of Bunny Muroe by Nick Cave
  12. Oresteia (audiobook)
  13. Waiting for Godot (audiobook)
  14. Twelve Byzentine Rulers (audiobook)
  15. Purgatory, Inferno, Paradise (audiobook)

2008

  1. Dance Dance Dance - Haruki Murakami

2007

  1. The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  2. Men In The Off Hours - Anne Carson
  3. Understanding Comics - Scott Mc Cloud
  4. Perfume The Story Of A Murderer - Patrick Suskind
  5. Fables (1-63) - Bill Willingham
  6. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera
  7. De Metabaronen - Jiminez (8 volume graphic novel)

2006

  1. Lady Chatterleys Lover - D.H. Lawrence
  2. 1984 - George Orwell
  3. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
  4. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  5. The Beauty Of The Husband - Anne Carson
  6. Autobiography Of Red - Anne Carson
  7. Catcher In The Rye - J.D. Salinger
  8. The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
  9. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
  10. After The Quake - Haruki Murakami
  11. Beo Wulf - Seamus Heanly
  12. The Mists Of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley
  13. The Hobbit - Jrr Tolkien
  14. The Sandman - Neil Gaiman
  15. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
  16. Books Of Magic - Neil Gaiman and others
  17. Till We Have Faces - C.S. Lewis
  18. AShortHistoryOfMyth - Karen Armstrong
  19. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
  20. Watchmen - Alan Moore
  21. Hard Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World - Haruki Murakami

2005

  1. American Psycho

Didn't Finish

  1. [::Orlando] - Virginia Woolf - Perhaps it was the edition but, this book was too much of a concptual literary work for me. I was annoyed by all the annotation. And the story which was starting out slowly didn't intruige me enough to keep me reading and I just, put it aside.
  2. [::Coin Locker Babies] - Ryu Murakami - It was a sort of pollution, this story. It drew me in at first, untill i realised the author was not going to stop torturing his characters. And it has that quality that all pulp novels do, that you know exactly what is going to happen next. Long winded and in a hurry he took no time with his characters and one is never comfortable with them. everyone is hurting everyone is hurting. it is not a pleasant book to read an i guess i wasn't in the mood to slog around in the dirt with them.
  3. [::Moby Dick] - Herman Melville - I found it a remarkable book. until Ishmael started going on about whales for 200 pages. I would like very much to finish reading this book one day the most important quote was right at the beginning (Ocean)
  4. [::Haroun and the sea of Stories] - couldn't finish it becauuse i found out it was supposed to be read as political commentary. that was a real turn-off
  5. Spook Country - William Gibson