The lovely Sinead wrote a post a while back about the books in her inbox:
http://www.sineadcochrane.com/2008/06/16/book-inbox/
I was suitably inspired to do the same and then totally forgot of course until I was reminded about it while staring at my bookshelf this evening 🙂 So, on the principal of better late than never, I’m going to put them all together and make a start.
My problem is that I am always adding to the pile faster than I can take away. I tell myself that I have 20 books to read but there’s always that one I see that I absolutely have to have 🙂
So, currently in the “to be read” pile for periods varying from one week to five years are:
Ben Dolnick – Zoology
JRR Tolkein – Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
E.H. Gombrich – The Story Of Art
James Frey – A Million Little Pieces
Various – Seven Hundred Penguins
Joseph Stiglitz – Globalisation And Its Discontents
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five
Albert Speer – Inside The Third Reich
Quentin Crisp – The Naked Civil Servant
Toni Morrison – Sula
Raviv Chandrasekaran – Imperial Life In the Emerald City
Michael Chabon – The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
David Mitchell – Black Swan Green
Carl Sagan – Cosmos
Scarlett Thomas – The End Of Mr Y
Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles
Will Ferguson – Hokkaido Highway Blues
Noel Coward – The Complete Stories
Mark Brandon Read – Chopper
Jean Cocteau – Les Enfants Terribles
Christopher Buckely – Thank You For Smoking
J.P. Donleavy – The Ginger Man
Charlie Brooker – Screen Burn
Morecambe & Wise – Eric And Ernie
George Kearns & Patrick Maguire – The A To Z Of All Old Dublin Cinemas
Francis Wheen – How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered The World
Charlie Chaplin – My Autobiography
Jeffrey Sachs – The End Of Poverty
Robert H. Frank – The Economic Naturalist
George Monbiot – Bring On The Apocalypse
Jonathan Lethem – The Fortress Of Solitude
Mikhail Bulgakov – The Master And Margarita
Magnus Mills – The Restraint Of Beasts
Flann O’Brien – The Third Policeman
Wow that was theraputic… 34 books. Right. Best get started so.
Fancy making your own list?
🙂
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my own list includes Jeffrey Sachs The End of Poverty. Ive read the first two chapters, and although part of it seem technical, most of it seems fairly easy (for me) to understand – its not as intimidating as I thought it would be.
I say start with Lord of the Rings! (or rent the extended DVD 🙂
I’ll come back later and add my own list (or blog it on my blog – or both. dinner doth currently call)
I truly agree with consciousness awakening part of the post.!
People rating poverty as poor from their hearts is the first step towards any revolution to be taking place..
The Millennium Development goals of the UN..works this principle..!
They want people to think..question themselves and then come forward to their bit in the cause..!
It has being doing enormous efforts on these lines….
This year UN will be shifting its focus on India, with Stand Up and Take action event and getting many hands together to fulfill the 8 goals…
Be updated….with the latest happeningss..
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Black Swan Green’s a great book, as is the rest of Mitchell’s stuff. The Third Policeman and Slaughterhouse Five are excellent too.
Here’s a photo of my To Read pile I took a few days ago:
http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p17/pauloregan/pile.jpg
Rick! That’s huge!
You’re going to have to stop yourself from buying more books until you’ve read all of these. I’ve started a list of books that I’m only going to buy once I’ve emptied my Book Inbox.
I’m nearly finished the Shatner autobiography though, it’s wonderful. Despite being drenched with ego, it’s honest, charming and funny too.
Good luck with the reading!
Francis Wheen I was very disappointed with. The Chopper book (hes now written about eight of ’em) reads like Twenty Major with guns. In prison.
Flann O Brien? can’t go wrong.
Albert Speers book is funny in a you make me sick way. Ve didn’t know vat was going on, and ven i found out I vas disgusted. Clever man who put his skills to some awful use. Anyone know of a good Rudolph Hess book out there?
Donna, seen the DVDs and that would defeat the purpose surely!!! 😉
Paul I’ve read almost everything Arthur Clarke wrote and can highly recommend them all.
Sinéad, why thank you 🙂 I interviewed him once (after the Ben Folds album) and he was very much in that mould…
Baz commented. Feck. I didn’t know he even read here. Is the world about to end? 🙂
The Ben Folds album is a real treasure, really hope Shatner makes another one. If you ever interview him again, I’ll sell my soul to you if I can come too! Did you get a photo with him? I’d definitely like to see THAT.
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