Books completed in July of 2013:
"Foam of the Daze" (Boris Vian) 7/16/13
"Death Poems" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/16/13
"Counting With Calico" (Phyllis Limbacher Tildes) 7/16/13 *
"Answer to Job" (C.G. Jung) 7/21/13
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7/22/13 *
"The Dream Police" (Dennis Cooper) 7/22/13
"The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" (Ramsey Campbell) 7/28/13
"A Clash of Kings" (George R.R. Martin) 7/31/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
48. "Foam of the Daze" (Boris Vian) 7/16/13
49. "Death Poems" (Thomas Ligotti) 7/16/13
50. "Counting With Calico" (Phyllis Limbacher Tildes) 7/16/13 *
51. "Answer to Job" (C.G. Jung) 7/21/13
52. "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" (H.P. Lovecraft) 7/22/13 *
53. "The Dream Police" (Dennis Cooper) 7/22/13
54. "The Last Revelation of Gla'aki" (Ramsey Campbell) 7/28/13
55. "A Clash of Kings" (George R.R. Martin) 7/31/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Dubliners" (James Joyce)
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Thursday, July 25, 2013
Update on writing projects
It's been awhile since I updated this blog with news of my writing projects: odd, as I've gotten quite a bit of writing done this year.
First off, there is a chance that at some point in the future (either late this year or sometime next year) an enhanced and remixed version of my first novel, Confusion, might be published. More details to come as that unfolds.
I'm still hard at work typing out my Trinity fantasy trilogy. Book 1 is mostly complete (though much editing and rewriting remains to be done), and I'm almost halfway through typing out Book 2. I would like to finish typing out Book 2 this year, then do Book 3 next year.
Work is almost nearing completion on my second short story collection, which I intend to be my final collection of horror/weird fiction/supernatural stories. I hope to finish it this year, and maybe seek out a publisher for it next year. It is much shorter than Grimoire, my first collection, and will probably consist of 8 stories or so, 7 of which are mostly complete. The names of some of the stories I have planned for this collection include (in no order): "The Aphotic Zone," "The Demons in the Fresco," "The Yellow Notebook," "The Snow Globes of Patient O.T.," "Iridophobia," "The Fire Sermon," and "Dyad." I don't have a name for the 8th and last story yet. I'm still undecided as to what name to give to this collection, but some potential titles I'm playing around with include The Revolting Science of God, Strange and Unproductive Thinking, Sabaziorum, & Opus Contra Naturam.
First off, there is a chance that at some point in the future (either late this year or sometime next year) an enhanced and remixed version of my first novel, Confusion, might be published. More details to come as that unfolds.
I'm still hard at work typing out my Trinity fantasy trilogy. Book 1 is mostly complete (though much editing and rewriting remains to be done), and I'm almost halfway through typing out Book 2. I would like to finish typing out Book 2 this year, then do Book 3 next year.
Work is almost nearing completion on my second short story collection, which I intend to be my final collection of horror/weird fiction/supernatural stories. I hope to finish it this year, and maybe seek out a publisher for it next year. It is much shorter than Grimoire, my first collection, and will probably consist of 8 stories or so, 7 of which are mostly complete. The names of some of the stories I have planned for this collection include (in no order): "The Aphotic Zone," "The Demons in the Fresco," "The Yellow Notebook," "The Snow Globes of Patient O.T.," "Iridophobia," "The Fire Sermon," and "Dyad." I don't have a name for the 8th and last story yet. I'm still undecided as to what name to give to this collection, but some potential titles I'm playing around with include The Revolting Science of God, Strange and Unproductive Thinking, Sabaziorum, & Opus Contra Naturam.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: June
Books completed in June of 2013:
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
"Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
"A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
"Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
"Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
"The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
"Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
"A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
"Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
"Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
"The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
42. "Other Voices, Other Rooms" (Truman Capote) 6/3/13
43. "Cocaine Nights" (J.G. Ballard) 6/11/13
44. "A Game of Thrones" (George R.R. Martin) 6/19/13
45. "Demian" (Herman Hesse) 6/23/13
46. "Victory" (Joseph Conrad) 6/25/13
47. "The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons of the Dead" (Stephan A. Hoeller) 6/28/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Friday, May 31, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: May
Books Completed in May 2013:
"Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
"Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
"The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
"Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
"Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
"The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
"Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
"The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
"The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
"Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" Truman Capote (at page 126)
"Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
"Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
"The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
"Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
"Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
"The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
"Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
"The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
"The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
"Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
31. "Four Quartets" (T.S. Eliot) 5/1/13
32. "Illuminations" (Arthur Rimbaud, Ashbery translation) 5/4/13
33. "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) 5/7/13
34. "The Wasteland and Other Poems" (T.S. Eliot) 5/8/13
35. "Psychology & Alchemy" (C.G. Jung) 5/9/13
36. "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (Carson McCullers) 5/9/13
37. "The Vatard Sisters" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/16/13
38. "Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust" (Nathanael West) 5/16/13
39. "The Member of the Wedding" (Carson McCullers) 5/21/13
40. "The Trial" (Franz Kafka) 5/28/13
41. "Parisian Sketches" (J.K. Huysmans) 5/31/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" Truman Capote (at page 126)
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Illuminated Shadows typed draft complete
This afternoon I finished typing out The Illuminated Shadows, volume 1 of my Trinity fantasy trilogy. The next step will be editing it and creating a third and final draft, which I hope to accomplish this July. More details to follow.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: April
Books completed in April of 2013:
"Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
"Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
"My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
"The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
"Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
"Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
"No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
"The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
"The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
"Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) at pg. 44
"Psychology and Alchemy" (Carl Jung) at pg. 166
"Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
"Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
"My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
"The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
"Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
"Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
"No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
"The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
"The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
"Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
21. "Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) 4/2/13
22. "Bright Lights, Big City" (Jay McInerney) 4/5/13
23. "My Only One" (Tom Champagne) 4/5/13
24. "The Gun is Loaded" (Lydia Lunch) 4/8/13
25. "Moju: The Blind Beast" (Edogawa Rampo) 4/11/13
26. "Kappa" (Ryunosuke Akutagawa) 4/13/13
27. "No Longer Human" (Osamu Dazai) 4/19/13
28. "The Woman in the Dunes" (Kobo Abe) 4/19/13
29. "The Sound of Waves" (Yukio Mishima) 4/20/13
30. "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" (James McCourt) 4/25/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (Carson McCullers) at pg. 44
"Psychology and Alchemy" (Carl Jung) at pg. 166
Sunday, March 31, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: March
Books completed in March of 2013:
"Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
"The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
"The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
"The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
"Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
"The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
"Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
"Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
"Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) currently at page 104
"Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
"The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
"The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
"The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
"Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
"The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
"Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
"Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
"Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
12. "Ancient Images" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/3/13
13. "The Brothers Karamazov" (Fyodor Dostoevsky) 3/6/13
14. "The White Album" (Joan Didion) 3/9/13
15. "The Catholic Imagination" (Andrew Greeley) 3/15/13
16. "Cat's Cradle" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/20/13
17. "The Broom of the System" (David Foster Wallace) 3/26/13
18. "Midnight Sun" (Ramsey Campbell) 3/28/13
19. "Slaughterhouse-Five" (Kurt Vonnegut) 3/29/13
20. "Naughty Cherie!" (Joyce Carol Oates) 3/30/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"Dark Reflections" (Samuel R. Delany) currently at page 104
Friday, March 29, 2013
My Fifty Favorite Novels
It's taken me nearly 5 and a half years, but I now finally find myself comfortable creating a top 50 novels of all-time list. When compiling this list, I tried to limit myself to only one entry per author, but in some cases it was unavoidable that an author might appear on it more than once. Along with novels, I also considered short novels to be proper candidates for the list (hence the appearance of Lovecraft's "At The Mountains of Madness"). Also, in the name of impartiality, and with the exception of Dennis Cooper, no books written by my friends appear on this list, though I can certainly think of many novels written by people I know that could appear on this list had I gone down that route. No doubt this list will change as the years go by and I read new books. In any event, here then is my top 50 favorite novels, arranged in the order of author's last name:
My Top 50 Novels
2. Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
3. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
4. The Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)
5. Midnight Sun (Ramsey Campbell)
6. The Plague (Albert Camus)
7. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)
8. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
9. The George Miles Cycle (Dennis Cooper) *
10. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
11. Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
12. Valis (Philip K. Dick)
13. Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
14. The Man Who Fought Alone (Stephen R. Donaldson)
15. The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) **
16. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
17. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
18. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
19. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
20. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
21. Omensetter’s Luck (William H. Gass)
22. Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
23. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
24. The White Plague (Frank Herbert)
25. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
26. Against Nature (J.K. Huysmans)
27. LÃ -Bas (J.K. Huysmans)
28. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
29. The Ceremonies (T.E.D. Klein)
30. Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont)
31. Briefing For a Descent Into Hell (Doris Lessing)
32. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
33. The Hill of Dreams (Arthur Machen)
34.The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
35. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
36. Mawrdew Czgowchwz (James McCourt)
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
38. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (Steven Millhauser)
39. Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
40. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
41. Nineteen Eighty Three (David Peace)
42. The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
43. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
44. Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
45. Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
46. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
47. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
48. In Youth is Pleasure (Denton Welch)
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
50. The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
Honorable Mentions:
Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
Drawing Blood (Poppy Z. Brite)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Moravagine (Blaise Cendras)
God Jr. (Dennis Cooper)
Dark Reflections (Samuel R. Delany)
Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Miracle of the Rose (Jean Genet)
Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)
En Route (J. K. Huysmans)
IT (Stephen King)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Carson McCullers)
Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
Nineteen Eighty (David Peace)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
The Mind Parasites (Colin Wilson)
Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust (Nathanel West)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
addendum:
*= technically five books, but I've decided to lump them in as one here. If I had to pick a favorite from the George Miles Cycle, it would most probably be Guide.
**= again, technically a five book series, but seeing as how Donaldson considered it to be one giant work split into five parts for publication purposes, I here consider it as one book. If I had to choose one of the five, it would be This Day All Gods Die.
My Top 50 Novels
2. Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
3. Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs)
4. The Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)
5. Midnight Sun (Ramsey Campbell)
6. The Plague (Albert Camus)
7. Other Voices, Other Rooms (Truman Capote)
8. The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Angela Carter)
9. The George Miles Cycle (Dennis Cooper) *
10. No Longer Human (Osamu Dazai)
11. Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
12. Valis (Philip K. Dick)
13. Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
14. The Man Who Fought Alone (Stephen R. Donaldson)
15. The Gap Cycle (Stephen R. Donaldson) **
16. The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
17. The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
18. American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
19. The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
20. The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
21. Omensetter’s Luck (William H. Gass)
22. Our Lady of the Flowers (Jean Genet)
23. Neuromancer (William Gibson)
24. The White Plague (Frank Herbert)
25. Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)
26. Against Nature (J.K. Huysmans)
27. LÃ -Bas (J.K. Huysmans)
28. The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
29. The Ceremonies (T.E.D. Klein)
30. Maldoror (Comte de Lautréamont)
31. Briefing For a Descent Into Hell (Doris Lessing)
32. At the Mountains of Madness (H.P. Lovecraft)
33. The Hill of Dreams (Arthur Machen)
34.The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
35. Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West (Cormac McCarthy)
36. Mawrdew Czgowchwz (James McCourt)
37. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
38. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943-1954, by Jeffrey Cartwright (Steven Millhauser)
39. Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
40. Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
41. Nineteen Eighty Three (David Peace)
42. The Illuminatus! Trilogy (Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson)
43. Gravity’s Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
44. Against the Day (Thomas Pynchon)
45. Star Maker (Olaf Stapledon)
46. Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
47. Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
48. In Youth is Pleasure (Denton Welch)
49. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
50. The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
Honorable Mentions:
Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks) Story of the Eye (Georges Bataille)
Drawing Blood (Poppy Z. Brite)
The Fall (Albert Camus)
The Hearing Trumpet (Leonora Carrington)
Moravagine (Blaise Cendras)
God Jr. (Dennis Cooper)
Dark Reflections (Samuel R. Delany)
Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
The Rules of Attraction (Bret Easton Ellis)
Glamorama (Bret Easton Ellis)
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Miracle of the Rose (Jean Genet)
Hannibal Rising (Thomas Harris)
En Route (J. K. Huysmans)
IT (Stephen King)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (Carson McCullers)
Perdido Street Station (China Mieville)
My Work is Not Yet Done (Thomas Ligotti)
Nineteen Eighty (David Peace)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Mason & Dixon (Thomas Pynchon)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
The Witching Hour (Anne Rice)
Nausea (Jean-Paul Sartre)
The Street of Crocodiles (Bruno Schulz)
Battle Royale (Koushun Takami)
The Mind Parasites (Colin Wilson)
Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust (Nathanel West)
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Orlando (Virginia Woolf)
addendum:
*= technically five books, but I've decided to lump them in as one here. If I had to pick a favorite from the George Miles Cycle, it would most probably be Guide.
**= again, technically a five book series, but seeing as how Donaldson considered it to be one giant work split into five parts for publication purposes, I here consider it as one book. If I had to choose one of the five, it would be This Day All Gods Die.
Friday, March 1, 2013
2013 Reading List Monthly Update: February
Books completed in February of 2013:
"Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
"Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
"The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"The Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky (at page 515 of 702)
"Ancient Images" Ramsey Campbell (at page 126 of 266)
"Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
"Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
"The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
2013 Reading List total:
1. "Omensetter's Luck" (William H. Gass) 1/5/13
2. "My Crazy Beautiful Life" (Ke$ha) 1/6/13
3. "Nightwood" (Djuna Barnes) 1/10/13
4. "A Lady of a Certain Rage" (AJ McKenna) 1/11/13
5. "Struck by Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal" (Chris Colfer) 1/12/13
6. "Infinite Jest" (David Foster Wallace) 1/22/13
7. "Snow Country" (Yasunari Kawabata) 1/26/13
8. "Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" (Oscar Wilde) 2/1/13
9. "Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace" (D.T. Max) 2/2/13
10. "The Crying of Lot 49" (Thomas Pynchon) 2/18/13 *
11. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" (Joan Didion) 2/27/13
*= book I have read at least once in the past
Currently Reading:
"The Brothers Karamazov" Fyodor Dostoevsky (at page 515 of 702)
"Ancient Images" Ramsey Campbell (at page 126 of 266)
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