Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 6:41 am Posts: 5867 Location: Providence, RI Gender: Male
Ah, whatever; here it is. I plan to read these books by midnight on December 31st, 2010. This is approximately the same number of books I read in 2009.
The Coming Community - Giorgio Agamben Potentialities - Giorgio Agamben What is an Apparatus? - Giorgio Agamben Ghosts - Cesar Aira How I Became a Nun - Cesar Aira The Literary Conference - Cesar Aira The Arcades Project - Walter Benjamin Illuminations - Walter Benjamin Reflections - Walter Benjamin Antwerp - Roberto Bolaño Monsieur Pain - Roberto Bolaño The Return - Roberto Bolaño Everything and Nothing - Borges Collected Fictions - Borges If On A Winter's Night A Traveler - Italo Calvino Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Chabon Yiddish Policeman's Union- Chabon Hopscotch - Julio Cortozar News from the Empire - Fernando del Paso "Palinuro of Mexico" - Del Passo Abnormal - Michel Foucaut The Hermaneutics of the Subject - Michel Foucaut Society Must Be Defended - Michel Foucaut Finnegans Wake - James Joyce Death in Venice - Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy The Road - Cormac McCarthy Senselessness - Moya Pygmy - Chuck Palahniuk Life: A User's Manual - Jacques Perec Sodom and Gommorah - Marcel Proust The Prisoner and the Fugitive - Marcel Proust Finding Time Again - Marcel Proust Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon Brief Interviews with Hideous Men - David Foster Wallace Everything and Nothing - David Foster Wallace Oblivion - David Foster Wallace
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Joined: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:52 pm Posts: 2647 Location: Where gila monsters meet you at the airport
I never know, as there are always new authors I discover and new books from favorite authors that I'm happy to let take precedence. On the plus side, 2010 will be the first year I have the whole year to myself to read (no longer in school).
I don't know too much about planned new titles in 2010, but Bret Easton Ellis' Imperial Bedrooms is coming out in late spring, I think, and I'm looking forward to that.
Some things I either started and had to give up, or have just really been meaning to get to:
The Children's Hospital, Chris Adrian 2666, Roberto Bolano The Secret History, Donna Tartt Netherland, Joseph O'Neill The Graden of Last Days, Andre Dubus III
And I have been meaning to re-read Infinite Jest for quite a while.
Joined: Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:44 am Posts: 3539 Location: England Gender: Female
I definitley need to visit the library more next year. I just have no idea what interests me anymore and I can't hold my concentration for more than five minutes. But I feel like I have thirst for reading, too. It's frustrating!
Joined: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:04 pm Posts: 5300 Location: upstate NY Gender: Male
Here's what I know I want to do: -read 50 books, perhaps including: -Look Homeward Angel by Tom Wolfe (in January) -read whatever Vonnegut I haven't read yet -East of Eden by John Steinbeck -some more Cormac McCarty -some more Don DeLillo (maybe even Underworld) -Rabbit, Run by Updike -something by William Burroughs (Naked Lunch?) -something by Bukowski (Post Office?) -Fahrenheit 451 -get a feel for David Foster Wallace (probably not Infinite Jest) -another Dave Eggers novel besides AHWOSG -Netherland by Joseph O'Neill -Big Sur and maybe some other Kerouac -if I don't get to it by the end of the year, The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen -anything else that catches my eye, of course
invention, i can't recommend feast of the goat enough. one of my all time favorites. it's so good on so many levels.
i never set out with specific reading goals, but there's a bunch of stuff sittin on my shelf that i really want to read. school will definitely keep me too busy throughout 2010 though. if anything, in 2010 i'd like to get through the unabridged gulag archipelago, the 3 volumes of which i got last summer and still have not dared open.
for this month i do hope to finish love in times of cholera (half way through), and maybe fear and loathing in america.
rafa, have you read Conversations in the Cathedral?
i got a copy here on my shelf, but i haven't read it. i actually asked my sister for it because you recommended it when i posted about finishing feast of the goat. i got a bunch of other books in spanish that my sister sent from home, and they're all just waiting there
i got a copy here on my shelf, but i haven't read it. i actually asked my sister for it because you recommended it when i posted about finishing feast of the goat.
I did? Hmmm, totally forgot. Vargas Llosa has gone through a few different styles since Cathedral, so it's much different than how Goat is written. You should also check out Death in the Andes if you haven't. Very strange little book that blends romance with vampire folklore and Sendero Luminoso.
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