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Old 07.11.2009, 08:51 AM   #1947
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Originally Posted by Lamont Cranston
reading:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
gathering dust unread in the bookcase:
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar, various - I got this for a birthday or christmas a few years ago :\
Don Quixote - Cervantes - got to page 736 of 982 and gave up, it was a slog
Collected Short Stories, vol IV - Philip K. Dick - read some
The Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens - wanted to start on Dickens, picked wrong book
The Great Dune Trilogy - Frank Herbert - read Dune
The Complete Chronicles of Conan - Robert E. Howard - read the first ten short stories
Les Miserabes - Victor Hugo
The Garden Party (and other stories) - Katherine Mansfield - had this in year 11 literature, still haven't read it
Everyman's Library Tales of Mystery and Imagination - Edgar Allan Poe
Red Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson - been putting this off for years
Tierra del Fuego - Jennifer Strauss - same as Garden Party
to read pile:
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Everyman's Library The Maltese Falcon/The Thin Man/Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
Everyman's Library The Dain Curse/The Glass Key/Selected Short Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
American Tabloid - James Ellroy
The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy
I plan on reading those last two when Bloods A Rover is released at the end of September.
I find it very hard to pick out 'modern' literature to read, I never know what to do or source to turn to


are you seriously reading this many books at once?

There is no way I could have more than one or two on the go at once.. between reading a little of each I'd get lost and have to re-read back. Surely it is easier to just finish them before moving on? Or thats just me.. ?
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