Oh I feel so.... typical. Haven't touched my blog in almost a year. Oh well, I have other things to do. But I saw this list by Dick Meyer and I liked his spirit and it got me wanting to get something done with mine. So forget (for now at least) the lengthy biographical and philosophical expositions that keep me from getting it done. Here's my list cold and as previously explained, they are the books that made an impact at the time, not necessarily what I'd list as best. I even have some real reservations about many of them.
1. Shot in the Heart Mikal Gilmore
2. Cormac McCarthy’s Western Novels Cormac McCarthy
3. Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs John Lydon
4. Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
5. Industrial Society And Its Future Theodore Kaczynski
6. The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford
7. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D.H. Lawrence
8. The Untouchable John Banville
9. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
10. The Gilded Gutter Life of Francis Bacon Daniel Farson
11. The Information Martin Amis
12. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell
13. The Waste Land T S Eliot
14. Sculpting in Time Andrey Tarkovsky
15. Narcissus and Goldmund Hermann Hesse
16. The Duty of Genius Ray Monk
17. Beckett and Zen Paul Foster
18. The Human Situation and Zen Buddhism Richard DeMartino
19. The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
20. The Stranger Albert Camus
