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Got enough underway that it's worth starting:
Novels:
1. Matt Gallagher’s Youngblood
2. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
3. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
4. Jennifer Latham’s Scarlet Undercover
5. Onoto Watanna’s Miss Nume of Japan
Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Short Stories:
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
Plays:
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
Non-Fiction:
- Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
1. The Continental Op- Hammett
2. Honky Tonk Samurai- Lansdale
Using this as motivation to read more.
Bringing my Dark Tower discussion in here.
I'm totally going back and reading some other books as DD suggested after I finish Gunslinger.
I want the fullest experience here.
Novels:
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
Short Stories:
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
Plays:
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
Finished.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
Re-reading Salem's Lot now.
So this is what it's like NOT playing video games all the time huh?
Novels
1. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
2. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
3. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dukefrukem
1. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
2. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
3. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
6. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
Updated:
Novels and collections:
1. Matt Gallagher’s Young Blood
2. Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
3. Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
4. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
5. Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
6. Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House
7. Ernest Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
8. Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies
9. Anthony Marra’s The Tsar of Love and Techno
10. Hassan Blasim’s The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq
11. Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars
12. Kelly Link’s Get in Trouble
13. Jennifer Latham’s Scarlet Undercover
14. George Saunders’s In Persuasion Nation
15. Onoto Watanna’s Miss Nume of Japan
Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
AO Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism
Novels:
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
Short Stories:
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Speaking the Language of Desire: The Films of Carl Dreyer (Ray Carney, 1989)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
Novels:
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
- Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
Short Stories:
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
- An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)
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Novels:
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
- Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
- The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)
Short Stories:
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
- An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)
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New Reads for 2016
Novels:
1. Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
2. Yi Sun-mol’s Son of Man
3. Matt Gallagher’s Young Blood
4. Kent Haruf’s Our Souls at Night
5. Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance and Other Writings
6. Celeste Ng’s Everything I Never Told You
7. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
8. Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange
9. Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House
10. Julie Otsuka’s When the Emperor was Divine
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Nonfiction:
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me
Margo Jefferson’s Negroland: A Memoir
AO Scott’s Better Living Through Criticism
Novels:
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
- Passing (Nella Larsen, 1929)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
- Floating Clouds (Fumiko Hayashi, 1951)
- The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)
Short Stories:
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
- The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)
Poetry:
- The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
[]
Novels:
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
- Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
- The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)
[]
Short Stories:
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
- The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)
Poetry:
- The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
[]
Novels:
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
- Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
- The Man With the Getaway Face (Donald Westlake [as Richard Stark], 1963)
[]
Short Stories:
- The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
- The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)
Poetry:
- The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
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1. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
2. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
3. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
4. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
5. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
6. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)[/QUOTE]
Hey, it only took me 6 months to read the Stand.
A little drawn out and long.
Onto Book 3! Book 2 was excellent.
1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
The Rise of the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Homicide by David Simon
Patience by Daniel Clowes
Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
The Blank Wall by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
The Blunderer by Patricia Highsmith
I have trouble comparing non-fiction to comics to fiction. So these are ranked in three separate categories. I've been reading mostly non-fiction and noir this year.
Onto Book 4! Book 3 was ... meh
1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Waste Lands-(1997 Stephen King)
9. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
Novels:
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
- Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
- Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
- Laura (Vera Caspary, 1943)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
[]
Short Stories:
- The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
- The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)
Poetry:
- The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema (Noël Burch, 1979)
- Currents in Japanese Cinema (Tadao Sato, 1982)
- Acting in the Cinema (James Naremore, 1988)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Reframing Japanese Cinema (ed. David Desser and Arthur Nolletti, Jr., 1992)
- Sexual Politics and Narrative Film: Hollywood and Beyond (Robin Wood, 1998)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
- An Invention Without a Future: Essays in Cinema (James Naremore, 2013)
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Book 4 is not good.
1. The Drawing of the Three-(1987 Stephen King)
2. Salem's Lot (1975- Stephen King) (Re-Read)
3. The Gunslinger (1982- Stephen King)
4. The Wheel of Darkness (2007- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
5. The Stand 1978- Stephen King)
6. Brimstone (2004- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
7. Dance of Death (2006- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
8. The Waste Lands-(1997 Stephen King)
9. The Book of the Dead (2005- Douglas Preseton and Lincoln Child)
10. Wizard and Glass-(1997 Stephen King)
I remember book 4 being my favorite, but it's been awhile.
Novels:
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen, 1814)
- Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus—The 1818 Text (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818)
- Hard Times (Charles Dickens, 1854)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866)
- A Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert, 1869)
- Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886)
- What Maisie Knew (Henry James, 1897/1908)
- The Wings of the Dove (Henry James, 1902)
- Red Strangers (Elspeth Huxley, 1939)
- The Dead All Have the Same Skin (Boris Vian [as Vernon Sullivan], 1947)
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Short Stories:
- The Golden Pot and Other Tales (E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1814-22)
- The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Henry James, 1891-1909)
- Collected Stories (Vladimir Nabokov, 1921-2007)
- The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson, 1943-49)
Poetry:
- The Metamorphoses (Ovid, 8)
Plays:
- Birds and Other Plays (Aristophanes, 414-388 BC)
- Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Revenge of Bussy d'Ambois, The Atheist's Tragedy (ed. Katherine Eisaman Maus, 1587-1610)
- Henry IV, Part I (William Shakespeare, c.1596)
- Henry IV, Part II (William Shakespeare, c.1597)
Non-Fiction:
- Acting in the Cinema (James Naremore, 1988)
- Breaking the Glass Armor: Neoformalist Film Analysis (Kristin Thompson, 1988)
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory (Noël Carroll, 1988)
- Patterns of Time: Mizoguchi and the 1930s (Donald Kirihara, 1992)
- Poetics of Cinema (David Bordwell, 2007)
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1. Light in August (1932, William Faulkner)
2. The Confessions of Nat Turner (1967, William Styron)
3. Solaris (1961, Stanisław Lem)
4. The Goldfinch (2013, Donna Tartt)
5. Cat's Cradle (1963, Kurt Vonnegut)
6. Burning Secret (1913, Stefan Zweig)
7. Our Lady of the Assassins (1994, Fernando Vallejo)
8. The Grapes of Wrath (1939, John Steinbeck)
9. Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (1903, Daniel Paul Schreber)
10. Agostino (1944, Alberto Moravia)
11. The Underdogs (1915, Mariano Azuela)
12. The Wasp Factory (1984, Iain Banks)
13. A Wrinkle in Time (1963, Madeleine L'Engle)
14. Demons (1872, Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
15. Ulysses (1922, James Joyce)
16. Planet of the Apes (1963, Pierre Boulle)