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Sorry, it looks like I am too slow on the draw, as usual. I was answering what my worst habit is.

A: That's easy, cigs. Q: What's the worst job you ever had?

Idun, Don't let Kierkegaard scare you off. I have read Fear and Trembling and The Sickness Unto Death and didn't find them as difficult as I was led to believe they would be. In any event, they are primarily concerned with the difficulty of making the "leap of faith" required for religious...

Charles Bukowski, Poe, T.S. Eliot; prob'ly some others I can't think of . . . oooh, Townes Van Zandt.

It does seem kind of odd cooking up all these little sub-genres, but I guess it makes good fodder for jacket blurbs. In any event, from my own reading experience, I'd have to put Roger Zelazny's Lord of Light, Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age, Haruki Murakami's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the...

I was always kind of fond of pickles and potato chips on white bread. I also really like a good Dagwood with loads of mayo.

Ashlea, If you liked Into Thin Air you might like to check out Endurance by Alfred Lansing, about the failed Shackleton expedition to the Sout Pole.

Jinty, I am not sure that anybody answered your question. I can tell you with certainty that your Readers Digest condensed books are virtually worthless. You might be able to sell them as shelf furniture, but even then you'd be lucky to get $20 for a pick-up truck load. Perhaps you could...

I should also say that I read Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World many years ago. It also contains many of the same thematic elements, though they are used in more clearly definable ways (i.e. the "layers" of reality are more clearly delineated). I recommend it as well.

Wabbit, I will try to answer your question. ( I tried to once already and when I hit the submit reply button found that I had gotten logged out. God is that annoying!) Anyway, I read the book a long time ago (5 years?). But, if I remember rightly, the plot has a lot to do with a guy who is...

Wabbit, Sure I can recommend it. It was a very good book. I just happened to read it at a time when I was very unhappy with my personal life (i.e. dumped again), so my reaction to it was a little skewed. I think it is the kind of book that could be read two or three times without exhausting...

I read it back in my salad days, as they say, and really don't remember if whether or not there was particularly a plot. However, there are some very powerful images in the book. One of my favorites is the little passage about the old reprobate who is finally convinced to repent on his death...

Like most here, I usually fall asleep with my nose in a book. I used to be able to lay down, when I got to feeling drowsy, close the book in question on my index finger just before going under, and wake up still marking my place. But, more in answer to your original question, Joseph Heller's...

Like most here, I couldn't even guess within +/- 20 how many authors I've read, but I would think it would have to be in the hundreds. And, Steve, you needn't feel too bad about keeping a list of the books you've read. I have been keeping a similar list since 1990 for no real reason other than...

I read Invisible Cities a while back. It's another of those books that is hard to characterize, for me. I found that the book created a mood, an emotional landscape, more than it told a story. But, I do recommend it.

I read Wind-Up Bird Chronicles a couple or three years ago. It really isn't that it is magic-realism, if I remember correctly, in the same way that 100 Years is. I seem to remember it being more in the vein of "Twin Peaks" or something. I mean, darker, more introspective, more sexual, in a way...

Ashlea, I hope, since you're in Texas, that you meant real country music (Townes Van Zandt, Bob Wills, etc.) and not that horrid pop-country stuff. But, to each his own. RaVen, If you get the chance, check out Gov't Mule's concert DVD. I think it's called The Deepest End. 3 and 1/2 hours of...

In no particular order: Short History of a Small Place - T.R. Pearson Little, Big - John Crowley The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson The Great Bridge - David McCullough A Fan's Notes - Fred Exley Desolation Angels - Jack Kerouac Loop's Progress - Chuck Rosenthal Experiments with Life and...

Wabbit, You beat me to the punch. I was all set to jump in and tell Raven about 100 Years. Lucky for him you did. As I've said in another post somewhere the insomnia plague, followed by the amnesia plague, is one of best things I have ever read. It is also the source of one of my favorite...

If I remember correctly, my last music purchases were: Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey Mark O'Connor - I can't think of the title, but it's his Django/Grapellie inspired hot swing trio (and they are smokin'). Gov't Mule - Dose