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Jean-Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness For 4$ in excellent condition, man was I excited.

Hah, if you ever somehow happen to see him, tell him that some random guy from an internet forum (me) loves Shoeless Joe even though he can't stand baseball. "And don't forget," my father would say, as if he expected me at any moment to up and leave to seek my fortune in the wide world...

19th Century Russian Lit is pretty bad for having casts of thousands. I think it's great irregardless and well worth the countless lists and charts I have to make to keep track of the story :P

God, I had to read that last month for a Post Modern literature class. It was the most painful thing to read since Wuthering Heights when I was 16.

Nice. Yesterday, JD Salinger - The Catcher & The Rye Joy Kogawa - Obasan Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince Saint Augustine - Confessions Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - August 1914

I'm reading two at the moment. "My father said he saw him years later playing in a tenth-rate commercial league in a textile town in Carolina, wearing shoes and an assumed name." ~W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe and "I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake...

gets recommended or physically thrown at friends often.

Last week, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Cannery Row by John Steinbeck The Lost Salt Gift of Blood by Alistair Mcleod Narziss and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokov

The Metamorphosis & Other Stories - Franz Kafka The Master & Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov God & The State - Mikhail Bakunin Arrogance - Joanna Scott

The Misfits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee Lucky Jim - Kingsley Amis slow month.

My favorite for a shocking poem Seven Old Men by Charles Baudelaire O swarming city, city full of dreams, Where in a full day the spectre walks and speaks; Mighty colossus, in your narrow veins My story flows as flows the rising sap. One morn, disputing with my tired soul...

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut The Face of Another - Kobo Abe The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire Nausea - Jean Paul Sartre Jujitsu for Christ - Jack Butler Arrogance - Barbara Scott Twilight of the Idols & The Anti-Christ - Friedrich Nietzsche The Koran Gertrude - Hermann...

Wow, a lot of good books, and I imagine I'll have fun reading whatever is chosen. I have to nominated The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin, by Vladimir Voinovich.

The Ramones - Pinhead

A Biography of Freud The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Poor Mark Twain never seems to catch a break :(. Thats a surprisingly diverse list though, though the main themes seems to be books that portray America as anything less than infallible, and anything that threatens the veil of ignorance that the reproductive process is placed within... that list...

Having just watched a Zatoichi movie, definitely blind. Favorite historical figure?

I'm sure we all have a lot of local authors who may not be big outside of their town, province, state, or country, so why not share about them and their works? Leo Mckay Jr. - A writer from my hometown who isn't exactly prolific (one book of short stories and one novel as of yet), but makes...

Mine is kind of over-elaborate (obsessive-compulsive). Whenever I have a few extra bucks kicking around, I'll go to a used bookstore, usually to their literature section. Browsing the top shelf, I'll pick out the three books that interest me the most, then hold on to the one that is cheapest. If...