comptron*: July 2010

This has been July:

I generally want to vomit, I'm so delighted with it all.

Tron Read These Books in 2010

SWEET SURRENDER - Lori Wilde
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? - Philip K Dick
IDENTITY - Milan Kundera
WORLD WAR Z - Max Brooks
WASP FACTORY - Iain Banks
ENDURING LOVE - Ian McEwan
GOOD OMENS - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
TWO LIVES - William Trevor
OUT OF AFRICA - Isak Dinesen
BUFFALO CREEK DISASTER - Gerald Stern
PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA - Roddy Doyle
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER - Diane Gabaldon
THE DEVIL WEARS PLAID - Teresa Medeiros
CATCHING FIRE - Suzanne Collins
THOREAU (Viking Portable Library)
SIRENS OF TITAN - Kurt Vonnegut
A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR - Jude Deveraux (inane)
LEAP OF FAITH - Danielle Steel (awful)
THE KING OF ELFLAND'S DAUGHTER - Lord Dunsany
TROTSKY: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY - Rick Geary
THE PLAGUE - Albert Camus
HUNGER GAMES - Suzanne Collins
NO ONE BELONGS HERE MORE THAN YOU - Miranda July
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - Cormac McCarthy
OUTLANDER - Diane Gabaldon
PASTWATCH - Orson Scott Card
ALL THE PRETTY HORSES - Cormac McCarthy
FIGHT CLUB - Chuck Palahniuk
TILL DAWN WITH THE DEVIL (Lords of Vice) - Alexandra Hawkins
THE MOMMY MYSTERY (Texas Maternity: Hostages) - Delores Fossen
MAN WALKS INTO A ROOM - Nicole Krauss
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL - Richard Bach
GRAYSON - Lynne Cox
FRAGILE THINGS: SHORT FICTIONS AND WONDERS - Neil Gaiman
DISGRACE - J.M. Coetzee
MOTHER NIGHT - Kurt Vonnegut
CHE: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY - Spain Rodriguez
FAREWELL TO ARMS - Ernest Hemingway
ATONEMENT - Ian McEwan
MY NAME IS RED - Orhan Pamuk
INVISIBLE MAN - Ralph Ellison
KRAKATOA - Simon Winchester
POISONWOOD BIBLE - Barbara Kingsolver
A HIGHLANDER'S HOMECOMING - Melissa Mayhue
CRY, THE BELOVED COUNTRY - Alan Paton
JESUS THE CHRIST - James Talmage
THINGS FALL APART - Chinua Achebe
THE BOOK OF GENESIS, ILLUSTRATED BY R. CRUMB - Moses, et al.
THE HISTORY OF LOVE - Nicole Krauss
THE LITTLE PRINCE (deluxe pop-up book, unabridged text) - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Tron Read These Books in 2009

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES - J. Austen and SG Smith
ALICE IN WONDERLAND - Lewis Carroll
AN ORDINARY MAN - Paul Rusesabagina (Hotel Rwanda autobio)
THE SHADOW OF THE SUN - Ryszard Kapuscinski
A PERSONAL MATTER - Kenzaburo Oe
THE AWAKENING - Kate Chopin
THE WIND-UP BIRD CHRONICLE - Haruki Murakami
WALTZ WITH BASHIR - Ari Folman
IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY - J.M. Coetzee
THE MAGICAL LIFE OF LONG TACK SAM - Ann Marie Fleming
THE THINGS THEY CARRIED - Tim O'Brien
SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE - Kurt Vonnegut
WEST WITH THE NIGHT - Beryl Markham
THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS - Gideon Defoe
MASTER AND MARGARITA - Mikhail Bulgakov
HART'S HOPE - Orson Scott Card
ACROSS THE RAINBOW -Victoria Chancellor
THE GREEK TYCOON'S BLACKMAILED MISTRESS
THOUSAND CRANES - Yasunari Kawabata
HELLBOY: SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION - Mike Mignola
THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD - Mike Mignola
ATOMIC ROBO: THE SHADOW FROM BEYOND TIME
THE CROSSING - Cormac McCarthy
SNOW COUNTRY - Yasunari Kawabata
AS I LAY DYING - William Faulkner
THE SECRET AGENT - Joseph Conrad
CATCHER IN THE RYE - JD Salinger
TRANSNATIONAL SHIA POLITICS - Laurence Louer
THE GRAVEYARD BOOK - Neil Gaiman
THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY - GK Chesterton
L'ALCHEMISTE - Paulo Coehlo
WUTHERING HEIGHTS - Emily Brontë
THE SHELTERING SUN - Paul Bowles
DREAMS OF TRESPASS - Fatima Mernissi
THE SHIA REVIVAL - Vali Nasr
SHI'ITE LEBANON - R. Shaery-Eisenlohr
BLOOD MERIDIAN - Cormack McCarthy (so so so so good)
FIGHTING THE WAR OF IDEAS LIKE A REAL WAR - J. Michael Waller
HIZBU'LLAH: POLITICS & RELIGION - Amal Saad-Ghorayeb
IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER - Italo Calvino (favorite book, favorite author)
DYING TO WIN: THE STRATEGIC LOGIC OF SUICIDE TERRORISM - R. Pape
HEZBOLLAH - Richard Norton
EVE AND THE CHOICE MADE IN EDEN - B. Campbell
INSIDE TERRORISM - Bruce Hoffman
CORALINE - Neil Gaiman
SAILLING AROUND THE ROOM - Billy Collins
THE SECRET GARDEN - Frances Hodgson Burnett
PEACE LIKE A RIVER - Leif Enger
I CAPTURED THE CASTLE - Dodie Smith
MALCOLM X, A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
TILL WE HAVE FACES - C. S. Lewis
PETER PAN - J. M. Barrie
THE KNOWN WORLD - Edward Jones
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE - Virginia Woolf
THE METAMORPHOSIS - Franz Kafka
THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER - Carson McCullers
EINSTEIN'S DREAMS - Alan Lightman
THE GOOSE GIRL - S. Hale
THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING - Milan Kundera
THE HISTORY OF LOVE - Nicole Krauss

comptron*

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

no longer "good society"