A fine balance

freq - a fine balance was the best book ive ever read. i cant say enough good things about it.

William Gass, On Being Blue
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Rainer Maria Rilke, Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
Galway Kinnell, Book of Nightmares
Mark Strand, Hopper
Dick Hebdige, Hiding in the Light
Michel Foucault, This is not a Pipe

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again - David Foster Wallace
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess - Leonard Shlain
Chaos - James Gleick

maxim

The Handbook for the Marines. To learn survival skills in this day and age is a very good thing to do.

Reading "The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature" by Steven Pinker. It's pretty interesting. It discussed how much software is pre-installed in our brains, how much is learned and what that means for various beliefs. Interesting.

-autobiography of a yogi
-in the name of the rose

green eggs & ham !

norwegian wood
-murazaki

power of myth
-joseph campbell

The man who tried to save the world (the story of Fred Cuny)

Perfume by Patrick Suskind

recently...

Moneyball, Michael Lewis

guns germs & steel by jared diamond
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

master and margarita - bulgakov
hunger - hamsun

the monkey wrench gang

florida road kill

simulation and simulacre

palm at the end of the mind

Botany of Desire - Pollan
Supposedly Fun thing I'll Never Do Again - Wallace
The Meadow - Galvin

Vineland - Thomas Pynchon
Skinny Legs and All - Tom Robbins
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The River Why - David James Duncan
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn

tom robbins is awesome...
anyone read fierce invalids home from hot climates?

the sorrows of young werther - goethe

the sorrows of young werther - goethe
a brief history of time - hawking
the vice guide

"rich dad poor dad", to start.

by robert t. kiyosaki

that should spurn a whole list of its own....

A People's History of the United States
Blood Meridian

Books I will read again or will finish before I leave this mortal coil
On the Road-Keroac
Varieties of Religious Experience-William James
Social Studies-Lebowitz
Every single Raymond Chandler and Dashell Hammet novel, short story, etc
Emma-Austin
Cousin Bette-Flaubert
Red and the Black-Stendahl
Remembrance of Things Past-Proust
Art of the Middle Ages-Focillon
The Ambassadors-Henry James
I, the Jury - Mickey Spillane
The entire Phillip K. Dick Ouevre
ditto Jim Thompson

anything by
- stephen king
- laurell k. hamilton
- dahli llama
- and anything else that sparks the imagination and our hidden creativity

one hundred years of solitude . gabriel garcia marquez
guns, germs, and steel . jared diamond
a people's history of the united states . howard zinn
lolita . vladimir nabokov
open veins of latin america: five centuries of the pillage of a continent . eduardo galeano
behold a pale horse . william cooper
the temple of my familiar . alice walker
communist manifesto & the prince

and a childhood favorite ...
fahrenheit 451 . ray bradbury

anything by hunter s thompson or tom wolfe
their books always keep me interested

ANYthing by David Sedaris, especially "Me Talk Pretty One Day" OH! and all books by Anthony Bourdaine - deeee-lish!

nameisinuse- Fierce Invalids is my #1 Tom Robins to date. so good.

seven pillars of wisdom, by t.e. lawrence
magic mountain, by thomas mann

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

i'm surprised no one here has mentioned the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

i think it was mentioned somewhere in the middle...but nevertheless i add it to my list

hitchhyckers guide to the galaxy...

...and even radiohead's lyrics will make sense!

are their lyrics in some way linked to the hitchhiker's series?

paranoid android has some references, and apparently the whole ok robot was co-inspired by the series.

oh my god....i've gotta read that book again

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
One Hundred Years of Solitude by gabriel garcia marquez

Tragically I was an only twin. - the collected works of Peter Cook (the satirist not the Archigram fella)
Hitler: My part in his downfall. - The war memoirs of Spike Milligan
The Professor Branestawm series (illustrated by Heath-Robinson)
The cartoons of Robert Crumb
The Liar and Making History. (novels) by Stephen Fry
Anything by Clive James (Austrailian critic/traveller)