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.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Life of pi is a good book. It proclaims that it will make you believe in god; did it?

Drop me a line sometime.

-Strand
bystrand@gmail.com

PS- I would keep up with you better if you had "facebook". But that was before your time.

2:55 PM  
Blogger Rob said...

it did not make me believe any more or any less in god than before i read it. but i agree with you, it was a good book. i enjoyed it the whole way through, and the ending was a nice surprise. my favorite part of the book was his description of how fugly a hyena is.

12:29 AM  

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