So I've got, waiting to be read:
Samuel Beckett - Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnameable (one volume) Jorge Borges - Collected Fictions and The Book of Fantasy (ed) M. John Harrison - Things That Never Happen DF Lewis - Only Connect Michael Moorcock - Tales from the End of Time Alan Moore - Voice of the Fire Milorad Pavic - Landscape Painted With Tea Olaf Stapledon - The Last and First Men and The Star Makers (in one volume) Various - The Custom-House of Desire Various - Libraries of the Future
Two of these, Landscape Painted With Tea and Only Connect, I've had since November. I'm not really worried about reading Only Connect, but it irks me that I haven't finished Landscape Painted with Tea yet, since it's such a damn good book. Books (actually mostly graphic novels and comics, which don't count) that I've ordered from the internet in a mania last week are:
Warren Ellis - Planetary: The Fourth Man and The Authority: Relentless Rhys Hughes - The New History of Universal Infamy Alan Moore - Tom Strong #14 and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol. 2 #5 Various - The Journal of Pulse-Pounding Narratives Vol. 1 #1
These should all arrive this week, barring rip-offs.
I'm ~50 pages into most books in the first list; 30 pages into Beckett, 120 into Pavic (the end of Book 1, which is why he's been on hold for a month). My main concern is with getting all or most of these out of the way in time for APE and to a lesser extent Pantheacon, two places where I know I will want to spend money on books. I hope to have all of them, with the exceptions of Voice of the Fire and the Beckett, done by Pantheacon. I probably won't be able to finish Collected Fictions by then either, but since that's a collection of something like 8 actual books, I'm not worried about it. I've finished the first book in it, The Universal History of Infamy, which is the most important because it's what the Rhys Hughes book, The New Universal History of Infamy, is based on, and I want to get the references.
The used bookstore in my hometown has a first edition of The Universal History of Infamy, in excellent condition, for $50. I want it.
So next I'll read The Book of Fantasy, which is a collection of very short stories, most no more than a page, selected by Borges, Silvia Ocampo, and Alfredo Bioy Caesares. Then I'll finish Last and First Men, then Tales From The End Of Time. That's all the ones I've made a dent in so far.
Then, I'm really looking forward to Things That Never Happen. The New Universal History of Infamy will be here by then, so I'll probably read those two at the same time. Any comics which arrive will be promptly read in the space of an hour, probably while eating. The food's been good lately. After all of that, I'm going after Libraries of the Future, a thin book of thick essays from Yale University Press. At this point, The Custom-House of Desire. Then I won't feel as though I'm being crushed by the weight of my own imprudence. I think I can handle all this reading in three weeks, and maybe more; it would be a bonus to finish The Star Makers or some more Borges.
At Pantheacon I'll be reading Voice of the Fire because I think it's appropriate. I hope to finish it there, because my sister is going to be visiting me at school during the following week, and APE is the next weekend, after which I'll have a lot of comics to read. I just hope I have time for homework!
Two of these, Landscape Painted With Tea and Only Connect, I've had since November. I'm not really worried about reading Only Connect, but it irks me that I haven't finished Landscape Painted with Tea yet, since it's such a damn good book. Books (actually mostly graphic novels and comics, which don't count) that I've ordered from the internet in a mania last week are:
These should all arrive this week, barring rip-offs.
I'm ~50 pages into most books in the first list; 30 pages into Beckett, 120 into Pavic (the end of Book 1, which is why he's been on hold for a month). My main concern is with getting all or most of these out of the way in time for APE and to a lesser extent Pantheacon, two places where I know I will want to spend money on books. I hope to have all of them, with the exceptions of Voice of the Fire and the Beckett, done by Pantheacon. I probably won't be able to finish Collected Fictions by then either, but since that's a collection of something like 8 actual books, I'm not worried about it. I've finished the first book in it, The Universal History of Infamy, which is the most important because it's what the Rhys Hughes book, The New Universal History of Infamy, is based on, and I want to get the references.
The used bookstore in my hometown has a first edition of The Universal History of Infamy, in excellent condition, for $50. I want it.
So next I'll read The Book of Fantasy, which is a collection of very short stories, most no more than a page, selected by Borges, Silvia Ocampo, and Alfredo Bioy Caesares. Then I'll finish Last and First Men, then Tales From The End Of Time. That's all the ones I've made a dent in so far.
Then, I'm really looking forward to Things That Never Happen. The New Universal History of Infamy will be here by then, so I'll probably read those two at the same time. Any comics which arrive will be promptly read in the space of an hour, probably while eating. The food's been good lately. After all of that, I'm going after Libraries of the Future, a thin book of thick essays from Yale University Press. At this point, The Custom-House of Desire. Then I won't feel as though I'm being crushed by the weight of my own imprudence. I think I can handle all this reading in three weeks, and maybe more; it would be a bonus to finish The Star Makers or some more Borges.
At Pantheacon I'll be reading Voice of the Fire because I think it's appropriate. I hope to finish it there, because my sister is going to be visiting me at school during the following week, and APE is the next weekend, after which I'll have a lot of comics to read. I just hope I have time for homework!
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