books and books and books
School has started and along with it comes a healthy stack of reading for the next four to five months. Here's a list:
Romance of Tristan by Beroul (finished, good book)
Lais by Marie de France (finished, good book)
Arthurian Romances by Chretien de Troyes (finished, good book)
Don Quixoteby Miguel de Cervantes
Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert L. Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (finished, excellent book)
Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
Cruddy by Lynda Barry (finished, very good book)
The Sharpshooter Blues by Lewis Nordan
The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker (finished, excellent book)
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
plus various excerpts from the Norton Anthology of English Literature Volumes 1 & 2.
Rock and roll. All of this by the end April. And you know I'm gonna do it too!
Submitted by
chaz
at 1/25/2006 3:33:48 PM- you'll have to let me know how the book "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" compares to the play we saw together a few years back.
Submitted by
dad
at 1/27/2006 8:27:29 AM- You should rent the DVD of "Man of La Mancha" with Peter O'Toole and Sophia Loren, a great visual rendition of "Don Quixote".
Oh, man. Cruddy is...wow. And Don Quixote has been on my reading list for the past seven years. I was planning to read it next month. And Haruki Murakami = awesomeness. And Margot Tenenbau borrowed my copy of Cuckoo's Nest...oh, TWELVE YEARS AGO, and I never got it back. Swiper.