Books

I've been reading like a maniac lately, so I've extended my booklist. As of 7-23-05, it was...
q Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
q Cosmos – Carl Sagan
q More Evidence That Demands a Verdict – Josh Mcdowell
q Every Man’s Talmud – Cohan
q How to Read Slowly – James W. Sire
q Gilead – Marilynne Robinson
q The Da Vinci Code
q Pensées – Blaise Pascal
q The Nine Tailors – Dorothy Sayers
q Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling
q The Stranger – Albert Camus
q The Open Boat – Stephen Crane
q Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
q Till We Have Faces – C. S. Lewis
q The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
q The Fall – Albert Camus
q The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
q The Man Who Was Thursday – G. K. Chesterton
q Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
q Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
q Lord of the Flies – William Gerald Golding
q The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
q Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
q The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
q Animal Farm – George Orwell
q Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
q Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
q ??? - Robert Frost
q The Wasteland - T. S. Eliot

Interesting about the q's, oh well. I knocked a couple off this list for a time, "Evidence that Demands a Verdict", and "How to Read Slowly", because they weren't the kind of books I would like to read in my present mood. Today I updated it with a few more books...

q The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
q Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
q The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
q Walden – Henry David Thoreau
q Main Street - Sinclair Lewis
q The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
q The Call of the Wild - Jack London
q The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
q Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
q A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemmingway
q For Whom the Bells Toll – Ernest Hemmingway
q This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
q The Dharma Bums – Jack Kerouac
q The Trial – Franz Kafka
q The Castle – Franz Kafka
q The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
q The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
q Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
q The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
q Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
q Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott
q Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
q Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
q Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
q The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
q The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
q Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
q Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
q Dracula – Brom Stoker
q The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
q Emma – Jane Austen
q Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
q Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
q Le Morte D’Arthur – Sir Thomas Malory
q The Prince – Niccolo Machiavelli
q Pinnochio – Carlo Collodi
q Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
q Silas Marner – George Eliot
q Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
q The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
q The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
q The Aeneid – Virgil
q The Island of Doctor Moreau – H. G. Wells
q A Season in Hell – Arthur Rimbaud
q Of Human Bondage – Somerset Maugham
q The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
q The Killer Angels – Michael Shaara
q The Prince and the Pauper – Samual Clemens
q The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky

I have read about eight of the ones on the first list and will be commenting more about them later. Right now I need to fix something for my brother.