Book List

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With all my talk of bookshelves and new reading material, I figured I should post a list of what I've currently read/am reading/plan to read.

(So you know, those should be numbers down there, dunno why Blogger decided they would look prettier as flower icons)

1. Samuel "Chip" R. Delany - Nova
   
2. Ursula K. LeGuin - Lathe of Heaven
   
3. Mary Shelly - Frankenstein
   
4. L. Sprague de Camp - Years in the Making (Collected Time Travel Fiction)
5. Brian Stroud - The Bartimaeus Trilogy (The Amulet of Samarkand - The Golem's Eye - Ptolemy's Gate)
   
6. Neil Gaiman - Smoke and Mirrors
7. PD James - The Children of Men
8. Wm. Shakespeare - As You Like It
9. Cornelia Funke - Inkheart
10. L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt - The Mathematics of Magic (Collected Enchanter stories)
11. Samuel "Chip" R. Delany - The Neveryon Series (Tales of Neveryon - Neveryona - Flight from Neveryon - Return to Neveryon)
12. Garth Nix - Across the Wall
13. Susan Cooper - The Dark is Rising Sequence (Over Sea, Under Stone - The Dark is Rising - Greenwitch - The Grey King - Silver on the Tree)

I should also dedicate a list of my "Books in Limbo," ones I'm currently in the middle of but got put aside for others. This are in descending order of how long it's been since I've picked them up, and the reason I put them down.

1. Umberto Eco - Focault's Pendulum (I loved Name of the Rose, but this is nearly impenetrable)
   
2. Raymond E. Feist - Magician (Reads, beat for beat, like some wish-fulfillment fantasy that *I* would write)
   
3. Peter F. Hamilton - Fallen Dragon (As my friend Toes said, dull exposition until the last 1/8th)
   
4. Samuel "Chip" R. Delany - Dhalgren (Neat, but dense and full of mindscrew)
   
5. Tom Stoppard - The Invention of Love (Stoppard's a genius, but I kept getting distracted)
6. Statius - Thebaid (In my defense, I AM over halfway through, but oh, the purple prose!)
7. Clive Cussler - Sahara (Fun, but kinda flat)
   
8. Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Serial writing bloatage ahoy!)
   
9. Xenophon - Anabasis (I have no reason to not still be reading this, except for the influx of new reading material)
   
10. Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (ditto, but this one can get a little boggy)
    
11. Bart D. Ehrman - God's Problem (I can only take so much philosophy at a time, even if I agree with it)

So if y'all are wondering what I'll be doing for the next few weeks, there you go.


Enough, More Later.
- James