One down, sixty-three and a half million to go

[mousme]

Am hesitating between Eco's The Name of the Rose and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. So many books, so little time...

On my immediate reading list (apart from those two):

Don Quixotte (I keep threatening to read this and never get around to it, a lot like I did with Moby Dick —I wonder if there's a parallel?) -Miguel Cervantes

The God of Small Things -Arundhati Roy

Trionfo della Morte -Gabriele d'Annunzio (must rummage and find my Italian dictionary if I want to have a snowball's chance in Hell of getting through that)

The Cairo Trilogy -Naguib Mahfouz (I hope I spelled that right)

À la recherche du temps perdu -Marcel Proust

The Pastures of Heaven -John Steinbeck

Hoping that reading will keep me this side of sane for a while. Off to bed now.

Comments

[djs-specs.livejournal.com]

À la recherche du temps perdu -Marcel Proust

AAAAAAAAHHH!!! I know that one! It was a joke in the 'Cat License' sketch in MPFC (the one that leads into 'Eric the Half a Bee' song on the album).

Hehehehe... Literary I ain't!

What?

[fearsclave.livejournal.com]

There's very little in there of any practical use whatever. I'll bring you some stuff to read at lunch. The latest Cameron Spence sound fun?

Ooh! Ooh!

[curtana.livejournal.com]

Read the Eco! Though NoTR isn't my favourite of his books, it's still really, really, really good! :)

[ipanicked.livejournal.com]

if you are calling (some word i have never known, arthur I think) of a la recherche du temps perdu a looney, I shall have to ask you to step outside!


hee hee!