Hey ho~

[kageisuke]

It's back! A Dinosaur Story! My Booklist!

More things scratched off now, but still a long ways to do. You guys can add more to it if you want, if you forgot something the last time around.

THE LIST

• Alex Cross novels [Along Came a Spider]
• The Lovely Bones by Sebold
• Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
• The Green Mile by Stephen King How depressing. ;__; But good!
• Talking With Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
• The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss
• The Surgeon by Gerritsen
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
• American Psycho by Brett Easton-Ellis Lol he never got caught XD?!
• Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Tom Robbins
• Skinny Legs and All, Tom Robbins
• Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut I... read it but don't remember anything
• Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• The World According to Garp, John Irving
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller I did not like this book. I couldn't even get to page 100.
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (The Whole Series), Douglas Adams Pfft. The Flowers~
• Journey to the End of the Night, Celine
• Ham on Rye, Charles Bukowski
• Women, Charles Bukowski
• Lolita, Nabokov
• The Trial, Franz Kafka
• The Stranger, Camus
• The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
• Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
• The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• Victoria Nelson books by Tanya Huff
• American Gods by Neil Gaiman Mmmm. It was tasty~
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terri Pratchett I need to buy this, to reread later
• Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
• Lost Souls by Poppy Z Brite
• A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
• Chick lit for the Intelligentsia
• The Red Tent: A Novel by Anita Diamant
• Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver
• Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende
• The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
• Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
• The Road: Cormac McCarthy
• Watership Down
• Infoquake by David Louis Edelman
• Multireal by David Louis Edelman
• The Traveler by John Two Hawks
• A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
• Acheron by Sherrylin Kenyon
• The Passage by Justin Cronin
• Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

Fooo, I haven't read very much... >_> From the list anyway. I've read the entirety of the Anita Blake series, and just finished Winter Prey by John Sandford, and don't remember what's next in that series. I actually read it in one day, since I got ma hair did that day, so was sitting in a chair for hours. :| [Read all day 9:30am-7:30, pausing for a 45m-1h lunch] I think I'll go back in time for the Red Badge of Courage. I read that in elementary school. I'll add Watership Down to the list, too. I read that in elementary school.

And books on tape anyone wants to recommend? My trip to Boston is going to be loooong, so I might as well use the time to 'read' versus playing music I've heard over and over and over for forever. Along Came A Spire and Red Badge of Courage. \o Almost perfectly matches how many hours I'll be driving.

Comments

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

I think all of the Alex Cross mysteries are on tape? It was James Patterson's best series imho. And his best character before he started spewing out crap. They made a movies out of a couple of them, one was 'Kiss the Girls' but they had Morgan Freeman play Cross. Should've been someone much younger.

I think you'd like them.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I didn't think the Alex Cross novels were by James Patterson... >_> I don't really read him because his style seems really simplistic compared to Sandford, who I like more...

BUT I'll give them a shot anyway since it's on my list and it's on tape 8D Off to the library I go ~~~~~~~~~~\o\

[abandonreality.livejournal.com]

The Alex Cross novels are his best imho, because its before he got lazy and got so simplistic. They're his oldest series. Now, with his others, he doesn't even DO all the writing any more, he writes with someone else. I got so bored with the Women's Murder Series. /yaaaawn.

But the early Alex Cross ones, much much better. The first couple remind me of Thomas Harris a little. I don't know why he got lazy. I guess because he knew he could publish his laundry list and still sell books. =|

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Oh? Well, that's good. \o I have the first, Along Came a Spider. The second one, Kiss the Girls? They didn't HAVE on CD. They had it on TAPE. WTF. I don't have a cassette player DX though I wish I did. :| Then I'd use my MP3 player instead of CDs.

[nayanroo.livejournal.com]

I find your lack of Infoquake and Multireal by David Louis Edelman disturbing, for they are awesome sci-fi books.

Also, highly rec The Traveler by John Two Hawks. I forget what the sequel is called. It's good though.

I've been reading a lot of Star Wars crapola lately though...

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

*tacks those on there*

I still haven't seen Star Wars in it's entirety. *shrugs and makes a movie list*

[nayanroo.livejournal.com]

Glad to see you liked American Gods, it's my favorite Gaiman novel.

I've been on a Star Wars kick lately, no real explanation for it. Watched like four of them while I was studying for finals.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

Yes, I did! I like theology/mythology and all of those things.

Like my vampire kick. No rhyme nor reason.

[nayanroo.livejournal.com]

Don't know if I suggested A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (a defrocked Catholic priest, I believe). You might be into it then. It's kind of dry but very thought-provoking.

[kageisuke.livejournal.com]

I think I put all my suggestions up as I got them... I think, so that one is new. *adds it*