I like books. Mostly, I like to read them. Whenever I
finish one, I make some notes and post them here. Below are my
thoughts on some of the books I've read recently.
Update, April 2003: I haven't updated this page in ages and ages, but
today I added a short list of the books I've read in the last 8-10 months, that
I can remember, at least.
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Yann Martel, Life of Pi
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Unfinished Tales
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Book of Lost Tales, vol 1
- Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain
- Joseph Campbell, The Masks of God V 2: Oriental Mythology
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
- John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
- J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King
- Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
- William Gibson, Neuromancer
- Arthur C. Clarke, The Fountains of Paradise
- Terry Goodkind Wizard's First Rule
- Joseph Campbell, The
Masks of God V 1: Primitive Mythology
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The
Silmarillion
- Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
- Carole Tonkinson, ed, Big Sky Mind:
Buddhism and the Beat Generation
- Seamus Heaney, tr, Beowulf
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Love in
the Time of Cholera
- Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius
- John Fowles, The Magus
- Larry Pynn, The Forgotten
Trail
- Dave Bidini, Tropic of
Hockey
- Douglas Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher,
Bach
- Terry Brooks, The Wishsong of
Shannara
- Naomi Klein, No Logo
- Bronwen Wallace, People you'd
trust your Life to
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and
Punishment
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The
Fellowship of the Ring
- Alistair McCleod, No
Great Mischief
- Martin Amis, Time's Arrow
- David Elliot Cohen, One Year Off
- Robert Jordan, Shadow
Rising
Apart from the reviews above, I have a long list of favourites which I
haven't read as recently. In any case, these all get top marks, and
I'd highly recommend them for your reading pleasure:
- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
- Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
- Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage
- Timothy Findley, Pilgrim
- James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- James Joyce, Ulysses
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
- Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
- Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Childrean
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five