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A small small sampling of how far behind I am, though I'll never start these because I already have too many books lying around that I haven't read either. The books are listed in no particular order. There is also, of course, what I have already read.
Nevertheless, I am still up for a recommendation or two. And you could always buy me something. I also finally went through and deleted a bunch of things I'll probably never read.
to buy
- That Apicius book I lost to Fonda
- What Brown Should Have Said, Jack Balkin
- My Life as a Fake, Peter Carey
- The World on a Plate, Joel Denker
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- God, I just realized I hadn't read this. Man, I suck. Better correct this soon.
- Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, Felipe Fernadez-Armesto
- Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time, Peter Galison
- The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox, Stephen Jay Gould
- The Road Since Structure, Thomas Kuhn
- Bringing Down the House, Mezrich
- Hesperides Tree, Nicholas Mosely
- The Second Coming, Walker Percy
- Stiff, Mary Roach
- Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
- Cabinet of Natural Curiosities, Albertus Seba
- The Athenian Murders, Jose Carlos Somoza
- The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture, Rebecca Spang
- At some point, I'll read this.
recommendations i've gotten
- My Little Blue Dress, Bruno Maddox
- Recommended by Dan, whose tastes are probably more similar to mine than anyone else's. He says it's "totally great for the first half, and good for the second, which unfortunately suffers in comparison."
- Music for Torching, A.M. Homes
- Recommended by Justin, who probably knows my tastes better than most people but also cannot help but interject his own (somewhat different but not too different) tastes into his recommendations. He says: "Very interestingly surrealistic. Also has a surprising amount of sex in it." Surreal sounds good, though I dunno about the sex part. But hey, the review on Amazon makes it sound like Happiness, which I really liked.
- Blue Flowers, Raymond Queneau
- Recommended by Aaron, even over Zazie.
- Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil
- Recommended by Casey. Have not obtained it yet. But David has it, so I'll probably borrow it.
- Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko
- Recommended by Bill.
- G., John Berger
- Recommended by Adam F. "A novel of ideas -- and sex!" says he. Exclamation point added by me.
- The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
- Recommended by J.B.S.
out of print stuff
- Of Course, Vitelli!, Alan Griffiths
- Read a review of it by Borges. One of those pranks-turns-real books, with collective myths and stuff. I love this kind of thing. Borges's quote is great, too. "The counter of this book would be cruel and far stranger. It would be the story of a group of conspirators who plot that a certain person does not exist or has never existed." Argh, I don't think it's in print anymore.
- My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood, Stanley Crawford
- Seems out of print now, saw a book review of it by Ben Marcus. Sounds neat.
already bought, but haven't read
- The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
- Hesperides Tree, Nicholas Mosely
