This is the year I started keeping track.
Not as many as I was gunning for, but Infinite Jest managed to swallow about two months out of my year whole...here it is, live in the flesh: my book list for 2007. The top five are bolded.1. The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft - ed. Joshi
2. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
3. Killing Yourself to Live - Chuck Klosterman
4. Carter Beats the Devil - Glen David Gold
5. Love and Rockets – los bros Hernandez (series of fifteen books)
6. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov (didn’t finish…maybe next year)
7. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
8. The Actual – Saul Bellow
9. Mr. Sammler’s Planet – Saul Bellow
10. If on a winter’s night a traveler – Italo Calvino
11. The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
12. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
13. America (The Book) – Jon Stewart et al
14. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – J. K. Rowling
15. Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
16. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince – J. K. Rowling
17. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
18. Stories by Anton Chekhov – trans. Pevear and Volokhonsky
19. Interiorae – Gabriella Giandelli
For 2008, I'm demanding more nonfiction. Bring it on, Dawkins.
Labels: entertainment
posted by Leah @ 2:34 PM
5 Comments:
Do Androids Dream... is one of those rare cases where the movie far, far exceeds the source book in every measure. Blade Runner just totally 0wNz0r the novel. If you haven't seen the new final cut of it, you should.
But reading Infinite Jest but not completing Pale Fire? Tsk tsk tsk.
It was too pedantic a follow-up to reading the entire Love and Rockets series. Timing can be important.
I can't believe I've never seen Blade Runner. That one's going on the queue post-haste.
I request a post about your reactions, if/when you do see it.
My only reading resolution is to start reading the more "sophisticated" Archie comics.
You know, the ones that have intricate plot lines about the whole gang, and aren't just lame slapped together stories about Archie rollerblading with Veronica.
I'm taking my Archie reading up a notch.
the list is a great idea 8) I read "If on a winter's night" this year too! as I was taking breaks from writing a profile of Joanna Newsom and staring at a broken clock. it was perfect. -Kjersti
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