Rob's Reading Rainbow

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

What I've Read Thus Far

Here are the books I have read, with the most recently finished ones coming first-

Narcissus and Goldmund - Hermann Hesse*
A Feast For Crows - George R.R. Martin
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
Shogun - James Clavell
The Prophet - Kahlil Gibran
Summerland - Michael Chabon
Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck*
Hocus Pocus - Kurt Vonnegut
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
The Meaning of It All - Richard Feynman*
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Plague - Albert Camus
Beneath the Wheel - Hermann Hesse
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer
Magister Ludi: The Glass Bead Game - Hermann Hesse
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Confessions of a Mask - Yukio Mishima
Bangkok 8 - John Burdett
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse*
The Razor's Edge - W. Somerset Maugham*

The books with the (*) are those which is was reading for a second, third, or like 30th (Siddhartha) time.

I'll write a little about the ones I really liked another day.

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

So, I've been doing a fair amount of reading. I figured perhaps others have read the same books and we can talk about them, or they can give me advice on other books I might like. If I get a chance, I'll write what I thought about them too.
Rock out.