Mark's Reading List


I've been hung up on the Romantics and Victorians for a while, but recently I have delved into some newer writings like the absurdity of the Hitchhiker's series by Douglas Adams, or the freakishness of Stephen King's The Shining. Some assorted other things I have read or would like to read are (in no particular order):

Some Things I've Enjoyed Reading

Some Things I'd Like to Read
A ton of Shakespeare.
A lot of E. A. Poe.
Ditto, Lewis Carroll.
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea.
Dracula, Bram Stoker.
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
The Stranger, Albert Camus.
Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut.
The Martian Chronicles and assorted other Bradbury.
1984, George Orwell.
Sections of John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Sections of William Wordsworth's The Prelude.
Select tales of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
Out of this Furnace, Thomas Bell.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
U2 At the End of the World, Bill Flanagan.
I also enjoy reading dictionaries, encyclopedias, and album liner notes.
And a few other things I can't remember right now.
Good Omens by Gaiman and Pratchett
The Invisible Man
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Count of Monte Cristo
A Clockwork Orange
The Bell Jar
Farenheit 451
Animal Farm
Naked Lunch
Brave New World
And a few others I can't remember right now.

If you can think of anything I might enjoy reading, based on the above lists, feel free to send me mail.
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