Here's a chronological list of what I got around to reading in 2008. As always, it wasn't enough.
1. The Razor’s Edge—W. Somerset Maugham
2. Lost Illusions (Part 1: Two Poets)—Honore de Balzac
3. Memories of My Melancholy Whores—Gabriel Garcia Marquez
4. Travels With Charley—John Steinbeck
5. A Man Without a Country—Kurt Vonnegut
6. The Rum Diary—Hunter S. Thompson
7. Winesburg, Ohio—Sherwood Anderson
8. Factotum—Charles Bukowksi
9. No Country For Old Men—Cormac McCarthy
10. The Dream of a Common Language—Adrienne Rich
11. What is the What—Dave Eggers
12. The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor—Marquez
13. Tao Te Ching—Lao Tzu
14. Chronicles Volume #1—Bob Dylan
15. Lady With Lapdog, and Other Stories—Anton Chekhov
16. The Rum Diary—Thompson (2)
17. The Book of Tea—Kakuzo Okakura
18. Poor Folk—Fyodor Dostoevsky
19. The Maltese Falcon—Dashiell Hammet
20. Children of the Volga—George Bruntz
21. The Dangerous Summer—Ernest Hemingway
22. What Happened—Scott McClellan
23. White Noise—Don Delillo
24. Nexus—Henry Miller
25. Slouching Towards Bethlehem—Joan Didion
26. V for Vendetta—Alan Moore
There were some great books in there. "The Rum Diary" made me roll on the floor with laughter, the Dostoevsky was great, as was the Delillo and the Didion. If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably have to be Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley." It wasn't the most remarkable piece of writing, but I loved the story. I'm on the last pages of James Frey's "Bright Shiny Morning" and I'll carry "The Emotional Brain" by Joseph LeDoux over into 2009. Anybody want to share their list?
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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Indeed, Dostoevsky's first book is a good one. Also read the same book earlier this year. A happy new year of reading!
wow!!
Nice job---
There is only one common book me also read in 2008
- No country for old men
Hahaha
I am really interested in "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"
I read his book, "one hundred years of solitude" only.
So, i searched the contents of "Memories of My Melancholy Whores"
and i knew that it's not published in Korea as korean version.
ㅠㅠ
Even he is very famous in post modernism literarue field, Korean are not interested in publishing his new book. It's really sad!!!!
This list just reinforces my commitment to reading in 2009. Your list downright embarrasses my list. lol. I would however recommend adding "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" by Thomas L. Friedman and "America and the World" by Brzezinski and Scowcroft.
The Razor's Edge is largely responsible for why I went to Asia in the first place. If only I'd known ... ah, who am I kidding. I would have gone anyway.
Looks like you're well in Korea. Hope you stay that way in the New Year.
Nice work on your reading this past year. I am interested in The Emotional Brain by Ledoux for one of my next reads.
I read Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are, also by Joseph Ledoux. It was a great book that was the main reading for my Behavioral Neuroscience class at the University. I also took Psychoneuropharmacology which was very interesting and some of the material coincided with the reading of Synaptic Self.
Anyway, I love this topic and keep me posted on your thoughts on The Emotional Brain and any other books in this category.
Hope you are enjoying Korea. If I make it over there I will look you up.
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