Sunday, May 04, 2008

books

so, like i said in my last post, i have been packing up some things to send home. i've accumulated a good collection of books since i've been out here, so i thought i would copy my sister and write out the list of everything i've read lately, not counting schoolwork. this is for the last year or so, i think starting near the end of last summer.

Homage to Catalonia- George Orwell
Traders, Guns & Money- Satyajit Das
Waiting for Godot- Samuell Beckett
Rosencrantz & Guilldenstern are Dead- Tom Stoppard
Waiting for the Barbarians- J.M. Coetzee
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman- Richard Feynman
Death in the Afternoon- Ernest Hemingway
Medici Money- Tim Parks
The End of the Affair- Graham Greene
On Love- Alaine de Botton
Long Day's Journey into Night- Eugene O'Neil
Hamlet: Poem Unlimited- Harold Bloom
Twelfth Night- Shakespeare
Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
Holidays on Ice- David Sedaris
Status Anxiety- Alain de Botton
A Moon for the Misbegotten- Eugene O'Neil
The Year of Magical Thinking- Joan Didion
The Dharma Bums- Jack Kerouac
The Turn of the Screw- Henry James
This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Straight from the Gut- Jack Welch
Dubliners- James Joyce
Exile and the Kingdom- Albert Camus
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
The Maltese Falcon- Dashell Hammett
The Annotated Wasteland- T.S. Eliot
The Robert Frost Reader- Robert Frost

also the first two harry potter books fit somewhere in that order.